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Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
The Aranjuez Cultural Landscape is a complex of relationships: nature and human activity, winding waterways and geometric landscape design, rural and urban, forest landscape and the refined harmony of palace architecture. Over three hundred years, the royal development and care of this landscape has seen the evolution of humanism and political centralization, with features such as French Baroque gardens in the 18th century, to the urban lifestyle that developed during the Enlightenment with the domestication of plants and the science of animal husbandry.
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an outstanding example of landscape design and planning during the 18th century Enlightenment. Its diverse components – outstanding buildings, English-style landscape parks and gardens, and extensive tracts of carefully transformed agricultural land – fulfill aesthetic, educational and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
Porte-de-Marne is a port city in southwestern France, Bordeaux, classified as an inhabited historic city, an outstanding urban and architectural complex built during the Age of Enlightenment, whose value survived until the first half of the 20th century, with more protected buildings than any other French city except Paris. It is also known for its historical role in the exchange of cultural values for more than 2,000 years, especially since the 12th century, due to commercial links with England and the Low Countries. The urban planning and architectural complex since the early 18th century make the city an outstanding example of innovative classical and neoclassical trends and give it an extraordinary urban and architectural unity and coherence. Its urban morphology represents the success of philosophers who wanted to make the city a melting pot of humanism, universalism and culture.
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
The museum as a social phenomenon has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. Built between 1824 and 1930, the five museums on Berlin's Museum Island are the realisation of a vision and demonstrate the evolution of the approach to museum design in the 20th century. The design of each museum establishes an organic relationship with the artworks in its collection. The importance of the museum's collections - tracing the development of civilization through the ages - is enhanced by the urban and architectural qualities of the buildings.
Town of Bamberg
From the 10th century onwards, the town became an important link with the Slavic peoples, especially those in Poland and Pomerania. From the 12th century onwards, Bamberg reached its peak, with its architecture having a profound influence on northern Germany and Hungary. At the end of the 18th century, Bamberg became the centre of the Enlightenment in southern Germany, with famous philosophers and writers such as Hegel and Hoffmann living here.
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex
The magnificent complex of Caserta was built by Charles III of Bourbon in the mid-18th century to rival Versailles and the Royal Palace of Madrid. The complex is unique in that it combines a grand palace, parks and gardens with natural woodland, a hunting lodge and a silk factory. It is a vivid expression of the Enlightenment in material form, integrated into the natural environment rather than imposed on it.
From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt
The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Construction began in 1775 during the reign of Louis XVI and was the first major achievement of industrial architecture, embodying the progressive ideals of the Enlightenment. This massive semi-circular complex was intended to allow for a rational, hierarchical organization of work and, subsequently, the creation of an ideal city, a project that was never realized.