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