The Lake District has become the first UK national park to become a Unesco World Heritage site, taking its place alongside globally recognised landmarks such as the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and Machu Picchu.
Home to Lake Windermere and Scafell Pike, England's highest peak, the Lake District is the 31st site in the UK and its overseas territory to be recognised by the UN's cultural committee, the BBC reports.
The Unesco committee singled out the 885sq/mi region of Cumbria for its significance to artists during the Romantic movement, as well as its unique landscape. According to the site's listing on Unesco's registry, the "combined work of nature and human activity has produced a harmonious landscape in which the mountains are mirrored in the lakes".
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