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Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina
Like a jewel in the necklace of the stark Rockies, the colonial village of Diamantina recalls the exploits of 18th-century diamond prospectors and bears witness to the triumph of human cultural and artistic endeavor over the environment.
New Lanark
New Lanark is an 18th-century village in beautiful Scotland where philanthropist and utopian idealist Robert Owen created a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The magnificent cotton mill buildings, spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and stately educational institutions and schools still bear witness to Owen's humanism.
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
Located in the state of Minas Gerais, south of Belo Horizonte, this sanctuary was built in the second half of the 18th century. It consists of a church with a richly decorated interior in Italianate Rococo style, an outdoor staircase decorated with statues of prophets, and seven chapels depicting the Stations of the Cross, where polychrome sculptures by Alejadinho are highly original, moving and expressive masterpieces of Baroque art.
Historic City of Ayutthaya
Founded around 1350, Ayutthaya was the second Siamese capital after Sukhothai. It was destroyed by the Burmese in the 18th century. The remains of Ayutthaya, featuring stupas and huge temples, are reminders of its former glory.
Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
Essaouira is an excellent example of a late 18th century fortified town, built according to contemporary European military architectural principles in a North African context. Since its founding, Essaouira has been an important international trading seaport, connecting Morocco and its Saharan hinterland with Europe and the rest of the world.
Historic Centre of Lima
Despite severe damage from earthquakes, the "City of Kings" remained the capital and most important city of the Spanish dominions in South America until the mid-18th century. Many of its buildings, such as the Convent of San Francisco (the sculptures are the result of collaboration between local artisans and those from the Old World.
Asante Traditional Buildings
Located northeast of Kumasi, these structures are the last remnants of the great Ashanti civilization, which reached its peak in the 18th century. Because the houses are built of mud, wood and straw, they are vulnerable to the erosion of time and weather.
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
This magnificent Baroque palace, surrounded by beautiful gardens and one of the largest and most beautiful in Germany, was built under the patronage of Bishops Lothar Franz and Friedrich Karl von Schönborn. It was constructed and decorated in the 18th century by an international team of architects, painters (including Tiepolo), sculptors and plasterers, led by Balthasar Neumann.
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
The five Franciscan missions of Sierra Gorda were built in the final stages of the conversion of the Mexican interior to Christianity in the mid-18th century and became an important reference for the continued evangelization of California, Arizona, and Texas. The ornately decorated facades of the churches are of particular significance because they are examples of the creative efforts of missionaries and Indians. The rural settlements that developed around the missions have retained their vernacular character.
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
Set in an idyllic garden landscape, Augustusburg (the grand residence of the Archbishop of Cologne) and Falkenlust Hunting Lodge (a small country building) are the earliest examples of 18th-century German Rococo architecture.
Engelsberg Ironworks
Sweden produced high-quality iron and became a leader in the field in the 17th and 18th centuries. The site is the best-preserved and most complete example of a Swedish ironworks of its kind.
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
This pilgrimage church dedicated to Saint John of Nepomuk is located in Zelena Hora, not far from Ždar nad Sázava in Moravia. It was built in the early 18th century with a star-shaped plan, making it one of the most unusual works of the 18th century. The great architect Jan Blazej Santini, whose highly creative style was somewhere between neo-Gothic and Baroque, designed it.
Derwent Valley Mills
The Derwent Valley in central England features a series of 18th and 19th century cotton mills and an industrial landscape of high historical and technological interest. The modern mill originated at Cromford Mill, where Richard Arkwright’s invention was first put into industrial production. The workers’ housing associated with this and other mills remains intact, reflecting the socio-economic development of the area.
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.
Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications
Founded by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Galle reached its peak in the 18th century before the arrival of the British. Galle is the finest example of a fortified city built by Europeans in South and Southeast Asia, reflecting a fusion of European architectural styles and South Asian traditions.
Historic Town of Ouro Preto
Ouro Preto (Black Gold) was founded in the late 17th century and was the centre of the 18th century gold rush and Brazil's Golden Age. As the gold mines dried up in the 19th century, the city's influence waned, but many of its churches, bridges and fountains remain, testament to its past prosperity and the talent of the Baroque sculptor Aleijadinho.
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Jantar Mantar in Jaipur is an astronomical observatory built in the early 18th century. It includes a group of about 20 major fixed instruments. They are examples of masonry of known instruments, but in many cases they have their own specific features. Designed for naked-eye observation of astronomical positions, these observatories embody several architectural and instrumental innovations. This is the most important, comprehensive and best preserved of India's historical observatories. It is a reflection of astronomical skills and cosmological concepts, a court building of a learned prince at the end of the Mughal dynasty.
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings
Holoko is an outstanding example of a carefully preserved traditional settlement. Developed mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries, the village is a vivid example of rural life before the agricultural revolution of the 20th century.
Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta
Thatta was the capital of three dynasties and later ruled by the Mughal emperors of Delhi. From the 14th to the 18th century, Thatta was continuously renovated. The ruins of the city and its cemeteries show the unique civilization of Sindh.
City of Bath
Founded by the Romans as a spa, Bath became an important centre for the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under the reign of George III, Bath developed into an elegant town with neoclassical Palladian architecture and Roman baths.
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.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Bardejov is a small but well-preserved, well-structured medieval fortified town that is typical of the urbanization in the region. Among other striking features, Bardejov contains a small Jewish quarter, which is organized around a fine 18th-century synagogue.
São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão
Located in the town of São Cristóvão, the Plaza de São Francisco is a quadrangular open space surrounded by a large number of early buildings such as the Church and Convent of São Francisco, the Church and the Sanctuary of the Holy Mercy, the Provincial Palace and related houses from different historical periods that surround the square. This magnificent complex, together with the surrounding 18th and 19th century houses, forms an urban landscape that reflects the history of the town since its founding. The Franciscan complex is an example of the typical architecture of the religious order that developed in the North-East of Brazil.
Fortress of Suomenlinna
Built by the Swedes in the second half of the 18th century on a group of islands at the entrance to Helsinki harbour, the fortress is a particularly interesting example of European military architecture of the time.
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland since the 15th century. It has two distinct quarters: the Old Town, dominated by its medieval fortress, and the New Town, whose development from the 18th century onwards had a profound influence on European urban planning. These two historic and contrasting quarters coexist harmoniously, each with many important buildings, and it is these two quarters that give the city its unique character.
Holašovice Historic Village
Holasovice is a traditional Central European village that has been preserved extremely well and in great integrity. It has a number of outstanding vernacular buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, in a style known as "South Bohemian folk baroque", which retain their medieval floor plan.
Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
The old colonial city of Querétaro is unique in that it has retained the geometric street plan of the Spanish conquistadors, side by side with the winding alleys of the Indian settlements. The Otomi, Tarasco, Chichimeca and Spanish lived peacefully in this town, which is famous for its many ornate Baroque civil and religious monuments from its golden age in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue
In addition to their artistic significance, these missions recall the Jesuit Christianization of the Rio de la Plata valley in the 17th and 18th centuries and the social and economic initiatives that accompanied it.
Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo
These Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast are outstanding examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, part of a system of defenses built by the Spanish crown to protect transatlantic trade.
Classical Weimar
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Thuringian town of Weimar experienced a cultural boom, attracting many writers and scholars, most notably Goethe and Schiller. The high quality of the many buildings and parks in the surrounding area reflects this development.
Hwaseong Fortress
In the late 18th century, King Jeongjo of Joseon moved his father's mausoleum to Suwon and built a fortified fortification around it, arranged according to the instructions of an influential military architect of the time who combined the latest developments in the field from both the East and the West. These massive walls, stretching nearly 6 kilometers, are still well preserved today; they have four gates and are equipped with bastions, turrets and other facilities.
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
Built in the early 18th century, the column is the finest example of a monumental type that is unique to Central Europe. Built in typical Olomouc Baroque style, it is 35 metres high and decorated with many exquisite religious sculptures, the work of the outstanding Moravian artist Ondrej Zahner.
Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás
Goiás bears witness to the occupation and colonization of the lands of central Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries. The urban layout is a model of the organic development of a mining town, adapted to local conditions. Despite its modest size, the public and private buildings form a harmonious whole thanks to the consistent use of local materials and indigenous techniques.