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Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal is a magnificent construction of the early 19th century, covering the Rideau and Cataraqui Rivers, stretching 202 kilometers from Ottawa south to the port of Kingston on Lake Ontario. It was built primarily for strategic military purposes, as Britain and the United States competed for control of the region. The canal was one of the first canals designed for steam-powered ships and also featured a series of fortifications. It is the best-preserved still-water canal in North America, demonstrating the large-scale application of this European technology. It is the only canal from the early 19th century North American canal-building era to remain on its original route, with much of its structure intact.
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
The area around Blaenavon is evidence of South Wales' pre-eminence as a major iron and coal producer in the world during the 19th century. All the necessary elements are still visible - coal and ore mines, quarries, the original railway system, furnaces, workers' homes and the social infrastructure of their communities.
Boyana Church
Boyana Church is located in the suburbs of Sofia and consists of three buildings. The eastern church was built in the 10th century and was expanded in the early 13th century by Sebastiano Kratos Kaloyan, who ordered the construction of a second two-story building next to it. The frescoes in the second church were painted in 1259 and are one of the most important collections of medieval paintings. The third church was built in the early 19th century and completes the entire church complex. The site is one of the most complete and best-preserved monuments of medieval art in Eastern Europe.
Residential area of Schwerin
Most of the Schwerin residential area was built in the first half of the 19th century in the then capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in what is now northeastern Germany. The residential area consists of 38 parts, including the Grand Duke's residence and estate, cultural and religious buildings, and the Pfaffenteich landscape lake. The parks, canals, ponds, lakes and public spaces meet all the needs of the capital of the principality in terms of administration, defense, service infrastructure, transportation, culture and political influence. These buildings form a unique architectural complex that reflects the historical context of the spirit of the time and showcases the neo-Renaissance, neo-Baroque and neo-classical art styles influenced by the Italian Renaissance.
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
The seven timber houses on this site in eastern Sweden represent the culmination of a timber-framed building tradition in the region that dates back to the Middle Ages. They reflect the prosperity of independent farmers in the 19th century, who used their wealth to build spacious new homes with elaborately decorated outbuildings or suites for festivals. The paintings represent a fusion of folk art with styles favoured by the landowning class at the time, including Baroque and Rococo. Decorated by painters, both known and unknown itinerant artists, these listed houses represent the final flowering of a long cultural tradition.
Völklingen Ironworks
The ironworks, covering approximately six hectares, is a landmark of the city of Völklingen. Although production has recently ceased, it is the only integrated ironworks built and equipped in the 19th and 20th centuries that has been preserved intact in Western Europe and North America.
Levuka Historical Port Town
The town, with its low-slung buildings nestled among coconut and mango trees along the beach, was Fiji's first colonial capital, ceded to Britain in 1874. It developed from the early 19th century as a centre of commercial activity for Americans and Europeans, who built warehouses, shops, port facilities, residences, and religious, educational and social institutions around villages of indigenous South Pacific islanders. It is a rare example of a late colonial port town whose development was influenced by the indigenous community, which consistently outnumbered European settlers. As such, the town is an outstanding example of a late 19th century Pacific port settlement, reflecting the integration of local architectural traditions by the supreme naval power, resulting in a unique landscape.
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
The Verla Groundwood and Board Mill and its associated residential complex is an outstanding and well-preserved example of a small rural industrial settlement associated with pulp, paper and board production that flourished in northern Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Very few such settlements still survive today.
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.
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.
Ancient City of Ping Yao
Pingyao is a well-preserved traditional Han Chinese city that was founded in the 14th century. Its urban structure shows the evolution of ancient Chinese architectural style and town planning over five centuries. Particularly interesting are the magnificent buildings associated with the city of Pingyao. Pingyao was a major center for banking throughout China in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
The four sites of the site form a strip 170 km long and 3-15 km wide across Belgium from east to west and are the best preserved 19th and 20th century coal mining sites in the country. It features examples of early utopian architecture from the European Industrial Age, a highly integrated industrial and urban complex, notably the Grand-Horneau coal mine and workers' city designed by Bruno Renard in the first half of the 19th century. Bois-du-Luc includes many buildings built between 1838 and 1909, as well as one of the oldest coal mines in Europe, dating back to the late 17th century. While there are hundreds of coal mines in Wallonia, most have lost their infrastructure, while the four components of the site have retained a high degree of integrity.
Crespi d'Adda
Crespi d'Adda in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, is an outstanding example of the "company towns" built by enlightened industrialists in Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries to meet the needs of their workers. The site remains well preserved and partly used for industrial purposes, although changing economic and social conditions now threaten its survival.
Island of Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis was founded as a colony by French colonists in the 17th century and began to be urbanized in the mid-19th century. It was the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957 and played an important cultural and economic role in the whole of West Africa. Saint-Louis is located on a small island at the mouth of the Senegal River. Its regular town planning, dock system and typical colonial architecture give it a unique appearance and characteristics.
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
The remains of 19th-century coffee plantations in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra are unique evidence of a pioneering form of agriculture in a difficult terrain. They provide a wealth of information on the economic, social and technological history of the Caribbean and Latin America region.
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
Angra, located on one of the islands of the Azores, was a port of call from the 15th century until the advent of steam engines in the 19th century. The 400-year-old fortifications of São Sebastian and São João Baptista are unique examples of military architecture. Angra was damaged in the 1980 earthquake and is currently under restoration.
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.
Golestan Palace
The ornate Golestan Palace is a masterpiece of the Qajar dynasty, reflecting a successful fusion of early Persian craftsmanship and architecture with Western influences. One of the oldest complexes in Tehran, this walled palace became the seat of government for the Qajar family, who came to power in 1779 and established Tehran as Iran's capital. Built around a garden with pools and green areas, the palace's most distinctive decorations and rich ornamentation date from the 19th century. It became a center of Qajar art and architecture, an outstanding example of it, and remains a source of inspiration for Iranian artists and architects to this day. It represents a new style that combines elements of traditional Persian art and crafts with 18th-century architecture and technology.
Odessa Historic Center
The historic centre of Odessa, part of the Black Sea port city developed on the site of Khazimbe, is a densely built area planned according to classicist guidelines and characterized by buildings of two to four storeys and wide vertical streets lined with trees. The historic architecture reflects the city's rapid economic development in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The site includes theatres, bridges, monuments, religious buildings, schools, private palaces and tenement houses, clubs, hotels, banks, shopping centres, warehouses, the stock exchange and other public and administrative buildings designed by architects and engineers, mostly from Italy but also from other nationalities. Eclecticism is the main feature of the historic city centre architecture. The site bears witness to the city's highly diverse ethnic and religious communities and is an outstanding example of cross-cultural exchange and the development of a multicultural, multiethnic Eastern European city in the 19th century.
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.
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers
These Haitian monuments were built in the early 19th century, when Haiti declared its independence. The buildings of Sanssouci Palace, Ramirez, and especially the Citadel, are universal symbols of freedom and were the first monuments built by freed black slaves.
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
The Cabañas Hospices was built in the early 19th century to provide care and shelter for the vulnerable, including orphans, the elderly, the disabled and the chronically ill. This striking complex was unique at the time, combining a variety of distinctive designs specifically tailored to the needs of its occupants. It is also known for its harmonious relationship between open and built spaces, its simplicity of design and scale. In the early 20th century, the church was decorated with a series of exquisite murals, now considered masterpieces of Mexican art. They are the work of José Clemente Orozco, one of the greatest Mexican muralists of the time.
Rila Monastery
Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century by Saint John of Rila, a hermit canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church. His ascetic residence and tomb were sanctified and transformed into a monastic complex that played an important role in the spiritual and social life of medieval Bulgaria. The complex was destroyed by fire in the early 19th century and rebuilt between 1834 and 1862. The monument is a typical example of the Bulgarian Renaissance (18th-19th centuries) and symbolizes the awakening of Slavic cultural identity after centuries of occupation.
Wartburg Castle
Blending in with the surrounding forest, Wartburg Castle is in many ways the "ideal castle". Although it retains some original parts from the feudal period, the form it acquired during its reconstruction in the 19th century gives a good idea of what this fortress might have looked like at a time when the military and feudal power of the German Empire was at its height. It was during his exile in the Wartburg that Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German.
Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
The colonial city of Valparaíso is an example of late 19th century urban and architectural development in Latin America. With its natural amphitheatre-like setting, the city is characterized by a vernacular urban structure adapted to the hillsides, which are dotted with a variety of church spires. This contrasts with the geometric layout adopted on the plains. The city has well preserved interesting early industrial infrastructure, such as the numerous "elevators" on the steep hillsides.
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
The four hydraulic boat lifts on this short stretch of the historic Canal du Centre are industrial monuments of the highest quality. Together with the canal itself and its associated buildings, they form a typical example of a well-preserved late 19th-century industrial landscape. Of the eight hydraulic boat lifts built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the four on the Canal du Centre are the only ones in the world still in original working condition.