List of World Heritage Sites in Europe

Information about List of World Heritage Sites in Europe

This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe.

Sites marked with an asterisk (*) are also included on the List of World Heritage Sites in danger. |


Transboundary sites

Sites per country

Albania

Andorra

Armenia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Flemish Beguinages [ref. [1]1998
Grand Place / Grote Markt, Brussels1998
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)1998
Belfries of Belgium and France, including the former Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia, since 2005 a transboundary property shared with France. Besides civic belfries, or buildings such as city halls that rather obviously may serve a similar purpose, the list includes: Cathedral of Our Lady [Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal], Antwerp; St. Rumbolds Tower, Mechelen; St. Leonard Church, Zoutleeuw — all three in Flanders, Belgium1999, 2005
Historic Centre of Bruges2000
Major Town Houses of Victor Horta in Brussels (Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta)2000
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes, Mons2000
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai2000
Plantin-Moretus House–Workshops–Museum Complex2000

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar2005
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad2007

Bulgaria

Croatia

Historic Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian1979
Old City of Dubrovnik1979, 1998
Plitvice Lakes National Park1979
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč1997
Historic City of Trogir1997
Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik2000

Cyprus

Choirokoitia1998
Paphos1980
Painted Churches in the Troodos Region(1985, 2001)

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

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Greece

Temple of Apollo at Bassae1986
Acropolis, Athens1987
Archaeological Site of Delphi1987
Archaeological Site of Epidaurus1988
Medieval City of Rhodes1988
Meteora1988
Mount Athos1988
Palaeochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki1988
Archaeological Site of Olympia1989
Mystras1989
Island of Delos1990
Monasteries of Daphni, Monastery of Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios1990
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos1992
Archaeological Site of Vergina1996
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns1999
Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos1999
Old Town of Corfu.2007

Holy See

Hungary

Iceland

Republic of Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Republic of Macedonia

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

The Netherlands

Note: this list includes a site in the Netherlands Antilles

Norway

Poland

For more details on this topic, see World Heritage Sites in Poland.

Portugal

Romania

Russian Federation (European Russia)

See also List of World Heritage Sites in Asian Russia

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

  • Škocjan Caves (1986)

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Main article: List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom


Note: this list includes sites in the British overseas territories

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO flag
Org type: Specialized Agency
Acronyms: UNESCO
Head: Director General of UNESCO
Koïchiro Matsuura
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Status: Active

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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO
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Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea,
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These are thirty sites which the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided to include on a list of World Heritage Sites in danger; this list also shows the year in which the World Heritage committee added the site to this list.
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State Party  Belgium and  France
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iv
Reference 943
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1999  (23rd Session)

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Bell Tower is an office tower in Edmonton, Canada. It stands at 130 metres (426 feet) or 31 stories tall and was completed in 1982. Tenants include Bell Canada, Bishop & McKenzie LLP, & Great-West Life Assurance.
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Anthem
De Vlaamse Leeuw
(The Flemish Lion)

Location of Belgian Flanders in Europe

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Wallonia (French: Wallonie, German: Wallonien, Walloon: Walonreye, Dutch: Wallonië
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Bell Tower is an office tower in Edmonton, Canada. It stands at 130 metres (426 feet) or 31 stories tall and was completed in 1982. Tenants include Bell Canada, Bishop & McKenzie LLP, & Great-West Life Assurance.
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Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, or the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, was started in 1351 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans.
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St. Rumbolds Cathedral is the archbishopric cathedral of Mechelen in Belgium.

St. Rumbolds Tower

The flat-topped silhouette of the cathedral's tower is easily recognizable and dominates the surroundings.
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Flemish Region (Vlaams Gewest or Vlaanderen in Dutch), a contemporary meaning of 'Flanders', is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium – alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Aggtelek (sometimes misspelled Agtelek; literally means Old Plot in Hungarian) is a village in the county of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary with vast stalactite caverns, some of them of great height.
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The Slovak Karst (Slovak: Slovenskı kras) is one of the mountain ranges of the Slovenské rudohorie Mountains in the Carpathians in southern Slovakia. It consists of a complex of huge karst plains and plateaus.
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Coordinates Coordinates:
Lake type steppe lake
Primary sources precipitation, Wulka

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State Party  Lithuania and
 Russia
Type Cultural
Criteria v
Reference 994
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 2000  (24th Session)
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The Limes Germanicus (Latin for Germanic frontier) was a remarkable line of frontier (limes) forts that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Raetia, and divided the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes, from the years 83
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Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of modern-day England. It was the second of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being Gask Ridge and the last the Antonine Wall.
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State Party  Finland and  Sweden
Type Natural
Criteria viii
Reference 898
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 2000  (24th Session)

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State Party  Finland and  Sweden
Type Natural
Criteria viii
Reference 898
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 2000  (24th Session)

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Comune di Roma

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Nickname: "The Eternal City"
Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR)   (Latin)
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Anthem
Inno e Marcia Pontificale   (Italian)
Hymn and Pontifical March
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State Party  Italy and Holy See
Type Cultural
Criteria i, ii, iii, iv, vi
Reference 91
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1980  (4th Session)
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Anthem
Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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Origin Jizera Mountains
Mouth Oder
Basin countries Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Length 252 km

Basin area 4,297 km² The Lusatian Neisse (Czech: Lužická Nisa
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Pyrenees
Spanish: Pirineos



Countries | Spain,France,Andorra

Geology
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Pyrenees
Spanish: Pirineos



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