World Heritage Trail

SARC 5500 Special Topics Course
Course Presentation & Reception
Pavilion IX, Academical Village
12.09.25
10:45AM–12:45PM
Map with trail routes
Detailed map from the World Heritage Trail project proposal by Olivier Benghiat (MArch '26) and Cullen Whelen (MArch '26), showing the primary route between the University of Virginia and Monticello with iconic markers, alternative paths, exchange points, and critical junctures. 

World Heritage Trail 
Course Presentation & Reception
Tues, Dec 9, 10:45AM
Pavilion IX

This presentation features student work from World Heritage Trail, a special topics course led by Lyle Solla-Yates in partnership with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Through site visits, archival research, and conversations with community partners, the class explored how to reconnect Monticello and UVA’s Academical Village—together a UNESCO World Heritage Site—through new approaches to history, mobility, and public interpretation. Students will share proposals that imagine a future trail linking these culturally significant landscapes.

With support from a UVA Community-Engaged and Service-Learning Course Grant. 

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