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Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
The southern part of the Baltic Sea island of Öland is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Humans have lived here for about five thousand years and adapted to the natural conditions on the island. As a result, the landscape is unique and there is ample evidence of continuous human settlement from prehistoric times to the present day.
Val d'Orcia
The landscape of the Val d'Orcia is part of Siena's agricultural hinterland, and when it was incorporated into the city-state's territory in the 14th and 15th centuries, it was redrawn and developed to reflect an idealized model of good governance and to create a pleasing picture. The unique aesthetic of the landscape, with flat chalk plains rising up to almost conical hills topped by fortifications, inspired many artists. Their images became models of the beauty of a well-managed agricultural landscape during the Renaissance. The inscriptions cover: agricultural and pastoral landscapes reflecting innovative land management systems; towns and villages; farmhouses; the Roman Via Francigena and its associated monasteries, inns, shrines, bridges, etc.
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia
It is an outstanding example of a sustainable and productive cultural landscape, unique in its own right, representing a tradition that is a striking symbol of coffee-growing regions around the world - covering six agricultural landscapes, including 18 urban centres in the foothills of the western Andes and the central cordillera in the country. It reflects a centuries-old tradition of growing coffee in small plots in high forest, and how farmers have adapted to difficult mountain conditions. The urban areas are mainly located on relatively flat hilltops above sloping coffee fields, and their architecture is Antioquian colonial style with Spanish influences. Building materials were, and in some areas still are, corn cobs and pleated rattan for walls, with clay tiles for roofs.
Simien National Park
Over the years, the Ethiopian highlands have undergone massive erosion, creating one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, with jagged peaks, deep valleys and cliffs rising to 1,500 metres. The park is home to some of the most rare animals, such as gelada baboons, Simien foxes and the Walia ibex (a type of goat found nowhere else in the world).
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
Tokaj’s cultural landscape vividly illustrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low hills and river valleys. An intricate network of vineyards, farms, villages and towns, as well as a deep network of historic wine cellars, showcases all aspects of the production of the famous Tokaj wine, whose quality and management have been strictly regulated for nearly three centuries.
The English Lake District
The English Lake District is a mountainous area in northwest England, with valleys shaped by Ice Age glaciers and subsequently by agro-pastoral land use systems, characterised by fields surrounded by walls. The combination of nature and human activity has created a harmonious landscape with mountains reflected in the lakes. Mansions, gardens and parks were deliberately built to enhance the beauty of the landscape. From the 18th century, the Picturesque Movement and later the Romantic Movement greatly admired this landscape, celebrating it in paintings, drawings and writings. It also inspired awareness of the importance of beautiful landscapes and led to early efforts to preserve them.
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.
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
This 559.9-hectare landscape park, straddling the Neisse River and the Polish-German border, was built between 1815 and 1844 by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Blending seamlessly with the surrounding farmland landscape, the park pioneered a new approach to landscape design that influenced the development of landscape architecture in Europe and the United States. Designed as a "botanical painting," it does not attempt to evoke a classical landscape, a paradise, or some lost perfection, but rather uses local plants to enhance the inherent qualities of the existing landscape. This integrated landscape extends into the town of Muskau, where green corridors form urban parks and demarcate boundaries for development areas. The town thus becomes a designed component of a utopian landscape. The site also features a reconstructed castle, bridges, and a botanical garden.
Skogskyrkogården
This Stockholm cemetery was built between 1917 and 1920 by two young architects, Asplund and Lewerentz, on the site of an old gravel pit surrounded by pine trees. The design blends vegetation and architectural elements, using the irregularities of the site to create a landscape that is well adapted to its function and has had a lasting impact in many countries around the world.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape
Located in the metalliferous zone of the Apuseni Mountains in western Romania, Monte Rosia hosts the most important, extensive and technologically diverse underground Roman gold mining area known from the time of inscriptional records. As Albernus Major, it was the site of large-scale gold mining during the Roman Empire. Over a period of 166 years, starting in 106 AD, the Romans extracted approximately 500 tonnes of gold from the site, developing highly engineered works, tunnels of different types totalling 7 kilometres and multiple waterwheels at four underground high-grade ore sources. Waxed wooden writing tablets provide detailed legal, socio-economic, demographic and linguistic information on Roman mining activities, not only at Albernus Major but also in the wider province of Dacia. The site demonstrates a fusion of imported Roman mining techniques with locally developed ones, unknown elsewhere at such an early date. Mining was also carried out at the site from the Middle Ages to the modern era, albeit on a smaller scale. Late-stage extractive works surround and cross Roman galleries. The entire complex is set in an agro-pastoral landscape and largely reflects the community structure that supported the mines from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
Located in the west of Rio de Janeiro, the gardens are the result of a successful project that took more than 40 years to create by landscape architect and artist Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), who used local plants and drew on modernist ideas to create a "living work of art" and a "landscape laboratory". The gardens, which were created in 1949, have the main characteristics that define Burle Marx's landscape gardens and have influenced the development of modern gardens internationally. The gardens are characterized by sinuous forms, lush mass plantings, architectural plant arrangements, strong color contrasts, the use of tropical plants, and the integration of traditional folk culture elements. By the late 1960s, the gardens had the most representative collection of Brazilian plants, as well as other rare tropical species. In the site, 3,500 tropical and subtropical plants grow in harmony with the region's native vegetation, especially mangroves, restingas (a unique coastal tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest), and Atlantic forests. Sítio Roberto Burle Marx demonstrates the process of the concept of ecological forms, including social cooperation, which is the basis for environmental and cultural protection. It is the first modern tropical garden to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox
Founded in 1540 on the banks of the Magdalena River, Mompos played an important role in the Spanish colonization of northern South America. From the 16th to the 19th century, the city developed along the river, with the main street acting as a levee. The historic center preserves the harmony of the urban landscape. Most of the buildings are still used for their original purpose, providing a glimpse into the Spanish colonial city.
Modernist Kaunas: Optimistic Architecture 1919-1939
The site bears witness to the rapid urbanization of Kaunas, from a regional city to a modern metropolis, and its temporary role as the capital of Lithuania between World War I and World War II. Its urban landscape transformation is based on the original layout of the town, with the community as the driving unit. The quality of modern Kaunas is reflected in the spatial layout of the new town and the green district, as well as in the public buildings, urban spaces and residences built during the interwar period. The latter are the expression of the modern movement in the field of urban architecture, showing a variety of styles.
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
The Roman city of Aquincum and the Gothic Buda Castle are among the historic sites preserved here, which have had a significant impact on the architecture of various periods. It is one of the world's outstanding urban landscapes, showcasing the glorious period in the history of the Hungarian capital.
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
Founded by the Portuguese on the Rio de la Plata in 1680, the city was strategically important in their fight against Spanish colonizers. After a century of struggle, it was finally taken by its founders. The well-preserved cityscape shows the successful integration of Portuguese and Spanish. Portuguese, Spanish and post-colonial styles.
Belfries of Belgium and France
In 2005, 23 belfries in northern France and the Belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were inscribed on the World Heritage List, as an extension of the 32 Belfry of Belgium that were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. These belfries were built between the 11th and 17th centuries, combining Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectural styles. They are an important symbol of civil liberties won. While towns in Italy, Germany and the UK mainly chose to build town halls, parts of northwestern Europe focused more on building belfries. Compared to the donjon (a symbol of the lord) and the belfry (a symbol of the church), the belfry was the third tower in the urban landscape, symbolizing the power of the municipal officials. Over the centuries, they gradually became a symbol of the influence and wealth of the town.
Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
The Beemster Polder was created in the early 17th century as a prime example of land reclamation in the Netherlands. It preserves an orderly landscape of fields, roads, canals, dikes and settlements laid out according to both classical and Renaissance planning principles.
Altar of the Land and Grain
The Sheji Altar is located in the southwest of the Forbidden City, close to the central axis and symmetrical with the Imperial Ancestral Temple. The building complex is a rectangular building complex that is slightly longer from north to south, and is surrounded by two inner and outer walls to form a ring-shaped courtyard. The inner altar is a ritual and sacrificial space, surrounded by a square inner wall in the center, with a door on each of the four sides of the inner altar wall and the inner wall, and the altar in the center. The God Storehouse and God Kitchen are located in the southwest corner of the inner altar, and the slaughter pavilion building complex is located outside the west wall. 612 ancient trees are planted in the outer altar, creating a quiet atmosphere of the royal altar. In addition, the outer altar area also creates a garden landscape with a strong Chinese traditional interest. There are two rockery in the west, and a free-form pond in the southwest. There are waterside pavilions, Tanghuawu and other buildings around the pond. The Sheji Altar is the most complete ceremonial building complex for the royal sacrifice to Taishe and Taiji in ancient China. The outer altar, inner altar, and inner triple altar walls create a sacred sacrificial atmosphere with rich levels of change. The inner altar is the core of the sacrificial space. From south to north, along the central axis of the inner altar, there are Nantanmen, Nanxingmen, Shejitan altar, Beilingxingmen, Baidian, Jimen, Beitanmen and other buildings. After entering the inner altar, you can see the inner wall. The center of the inner wall is the Shejitan altar. The north of the inner wall is the Baidian. Jimen is located directly north of the Baidian and is slightly lower than the Baidian. Beitanmen was the entrance to the ritual sacrificial route during the Ming and Qing dynasties, so it is taller than the South Gate. Shejitan was a place for worshiping She (land) and (grains) during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The significance of worshiping Sheji and Ji is not limited to the worship of land and grains themselves, but it shows the importance of the country's territory, and has the extended meaning of praying for the country's solid foundation, prosperity, and integrity of the territory. The worship of Sheji emphasizes the influence of land and grains on the country and society, thus closely linking the national and social order with the relationship between people and land. Shetan became a park in modern times. It is the earliest royal temple in Beijing to be transformed into an urban park, and it is still open to the public as a park. The Altar of Land and Grain was first built in the 18th year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty (1420). Initially, there was only an altar in the inner altar. In the Ming Dynasty, the slaughter pavilion, the god's storehouse and god's kitchen, the worship hall and the gate were successively built. The resulting structure has been preserved to this day. Only the main buildings were repaired in the Qing Dynasty. On October 10, 1914, the Altar of Land and Grain was opened to the public as the Central Park. It was the first royal temple in Beijing to be transformed into an urban park, and witnessed the process of the publicization of the central axis of Beijing. In 1928, the Central Park was renamed Zhongshan Park and is still open to the public today.
Ancient Pagoda Park
Guta Park is located in Wangsiying District in the southeast of Chaoyang District, Beijing, covering an area of 55.7 hectares. Because there is a Ming Dynasty Ten-Direction Buddha Pagoda (a municipal cultural relic) built in 1538 in the park, it is named Guta Park. There are 4 main scenic spots in the park, namely: West Gate District, Central Lake District, Mountain Garden District and Guta District. Among them, the Central Lake District is the main scenic spot, named Colorful Spring Garden, with Huawang Terrace, Begonia Square, Pavilion and Corridor Combination, Pingquan Cascading Water and other landscapes, which organically combines the ecological environment characteristics of the Guta suburbs with the landscape characteristics of the urban park, and is fully equipped with environmental protection public service facilities. More than 200 varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers of various colors are planted in the park, with about 220,000 plants.
Shijiazhuang Botanical Garden
Shijiazhuang Botanical Garden is a park with the theme of plant landscape appreciation. It is a suburban green ecological leisure base integrating popular science research, leisure and entertainment. It covers an area of 167.1 hectares, including 38.7 hectares of water surface and 102 hectares of green land. It brings together 1,136 species of plants and hundreds of thousands of plants (more than 600 species in the open field), with trees, shrubs and grasses, greening, beautification and fragrance, becoming a place where plants from the north and south gather, and is known as the "Green Plant Kingdom". Shijiazhuang Botanical Garden is generally divided into four parts: plant exhibition area, scenic spot browsing and entertainment area, research and experimental area, and life management area. In terms of design, it draws on domestic and foreign gardening and landscaping techniques. The whole garden overlaps high and low and follows the terrain of the mountain. The botanical garden is divided into two parts: indoor exhibition hall and outdoor exhibition area. The indoor exhibition area is divided into three exhibition halls, boutique bonsai exhibition hall, comprehensive exhibition hall, and school exhibition hall. It mainly displays excellent works from all over the country. The outdoor exhibition area consists of three scenic spots, mainly displaying large piles planted on land. In addition, there are also a tea house, a coffee shop, a pottery bar, a flower arrangement art gallery, a strange stone museum, etc.
Yeling Park
The design style of the park is: taking the cultural heritage of ancient Ye as the main line, highlighting the well-known historical events that took place in the ancient Ye, such as Ximen Bao's governance of Ye, the Eight Scenic Spots of Linzhang, and Jian'an Literature, and adhering to the combination of ancient culture and modern culture, and the combination of humanistic landscape and plant landscape, to build an urban comprehensive park with local characteristics. In the construction of the park, we always adhere to high starting point, high standards and high quality, entrust a qualified design unit to carry out the overall renovation design of the park, and select Handan Zangzhen Garden Horticulture Engineering Co., Ltd. for construction through bidding. During the construction process, we strictly follow the standards of creating a boutique park, strictly control quality, strictly manage, and carefully construct. The renovation project started in September 2009 and was completed and reopened in June 2010.
Qiaoyuan Park, Hedong District, Tianjin
Qiaoyuan Park is located in the southeast corner of the Weiguo Road Interchange, the key point of Hedong in Tianjin, and the gateway to the city landscape. It opens out in a fan shape to the northwest and covers an area of 22 hectares. It was originally an abandoned shooting range and a low-lying saline-alkali land. Qiaoyuan was designed according to local conditions. It used the original target mountain and several fish ponds to build an artificial wetland park. It has the first-level greening standard of urban gardens. It is a national 3A-level tourist attraction and the largest artificial ecological wetland park in the six districts of Tianjin. The park covers an area of 400 mu, of which the ecological water area is nearly 200 mu. The floor area ratio is less than 0.04, which has incomparable ecological advantages. 14 high and low wetland bubbles are dotted in between, and more than 100 kinds of plants are planted, including 20 aquatic plants, 43 trees and shrubs, and 40 perennial plants. There are 16 flat bridges and arch bridges connecting the waters in the park. It is the park with the most bridges in Tianjin. In addition to the bridges connecting the waters, there is also a trail trestle crossing it. All bridges in the park are made of wood, showing the concept of returning to nature in the ecological park. The Creative Bridge Park aims to create an ecological and creative park with "ecological fashion as its feature and leisure tourism as its core". At the 2009 World Architecture Festival held in Barcelona, Spain, it won the "Global Best Landscape Award", which is the first time that a Chinese urban park has won this honor. In 2010, it won the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Comprehensive Design Honor Award.
Guoyu Hot Spring Resort Town
national AAAA-level tourist attraction, a gold-leaf-level green tourist hotel, a designated unit for national tourism and leisure in Shijiazhuang, and one of the top ten characteristic theme hotels in China in 2013. Guoyu Hot Spring is located 22 kilometers east of the center of Shijiazhuang (museum), close to National Highway 307. Relying on the pure hot spring resources at a depth of 3,254 meters, it has built a hot spring resort town integrating hot springs, catering, conferences, accommodation and entertainment. Guoyu Hot Spring is located in the suburbs of the city, with convenient transportation. It is close to National Highway 307 and connected to Huai'an Road, Yuhua Road and Heping Road. It is only a 30-minute drive to the city center (museum). Being far away from the city, it naturally has the characteristics of a detached and leisurely pastoral life, while the Hui-style garden-style landscape with blue tiles and white walls gives it a simple and poetic literary style. Here, it is quiet but not secluded, suitable for both movement and stillness. Guoyu Hot Spring officially opened in September 2010, with the ultimate goal of creating a "national hot spring resort", aiming to inherit the Chinese health civilization, promote green hot spring culture, and rely on the rising corporate strength to carry out more profit-sharing and people-benefiting activities, so that more people can enjoy the care and nourishment of the hundred million year old spring. The town has more than 50 special hot spring pools and matching hot spring experience projects and service projects, such as medical stone, geothermal zone, mineral sand bath, hot spring swimming pool and children's water facilities, fish therapy, professional health massage (Huaxia Liangzi), etc. The central area of the town is the Guoyu Hot Spring Holiday Hotel built according to five-star standards, with a total of 247 guest rooms, including comfort rooms, business rooms, executive rooms, special Japanese rooms, (duplex) private hot spring rooms, and presidential suites. 32 high-end private rooms and a unique large buffet restaurant can accommodate 1,000 people dining at the same time; Cantonese cuisine, Hunan cuisine, and official cuisine are healthy and delicious; multi-functional halls of different sizes, large, medium and small meeting rooms (meeting halls) and high-end conference rooms have a full range of large-scale conference and holiday reception functions.