UNESCO World Heritage for Estonia

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 2 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Estonia 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 Estonia below.


1997 - Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
2005 - Struve Geodetic Arc


Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn


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 Estonia are shown below - click on the links for more details.


Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

2008 - Kihnu cultural space
2008 - Baltic song and dance celebrations
2009 - Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing tradition