UNESCO World Heritage for Czech Republic

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 12 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Czech Republic to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available). Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Czech Republic below.


1992 - Historic Centre of Telc
1992 - Historic Centre of Prague
1992 - Historic Centre of Ceský Krumlov
1994 - Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
1995 - Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
1996 - Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
1998 - Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
1998 - Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
1999 - Litomyšl Castle
2000 - Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
2001 - Tugendhat Villa in Brno
2003 - Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Trebíc


Historic Centre of Prague


Intangible Cultural Heritage

Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Czech Republic are shown below - click on the links for more details.


Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

2008 - Slovácko Verbunk, recruit dances
2010 - Shrovetide door-to-door processions and masks in the villages of the Hlinecko area
2011 - Ride of the Kings in the south-east of the Czech Republic
2012 - Falconry, a living human heritage