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.

Hungary

17th century

Naval Port of Karlskrona

Karlskrona is an outstanding example of European naval town planning from the late 17th century. The original plan and many of the buildings have been preserved intact, and some facilities show its subsequent development to the present day.

Sweden

17th century

Himeji-jo

Himeji Castle is the best-preserved example of early 17th-century Japanese castle architecture, consisting of 83 buildings with a highly developed defense system and sophisticated protective devices dating back to the early shogunate period. It is a masterpiece of wooden architecture that combines practicality and beauty, with white plastered earth walls unifying the elegant appearance and a subtle relationship between the building volumes and multi-layered roofs.

Japan

17th century

Røros Mining Town and the Circumference

The mining town of Røros and the surrounding area are associated with copper mining, which began in the 17th century and was worked for 333 years until 1977. The site includes the town and its industrial rural cultural landscape, the smelter Femundshytta and its associated areas, and winter transport routes. Røros was destroyed by Swedish troops in 1679 and has since been completely rebuilt, with around 2,000 one- and two-storey wooden houses and a smelter. Many of the buildings retain their black wooden façades, giving the town a medieval appearance. The site is surrounded by a buffer zone that coincides with the privileged zone (periphery) granted to mining companies by the Danish-Norwegian Crown (1646), demonstrating a lasting culture based on copper mining that was established and flourished in a remote, climatically harsh region.

Norway

17th century

City of Safranbolu

From the 13th century until the advent of railways in the early 20th century, Safranbolu was an important caravan station on the main trade route between the East and the West. The Old Mosque, Old Baths and Suleyman Pasha Academy were built in 1322. During its heyday in the 17th century, Safranbolu's architecture influenced urban development across much of the Ottoman Empire.

turkey

17th century

Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun

The most striking feature of the landscape is the Great Pit of Falun, which shows copper mining activity in the area since at least the 13th century. The 17th-century planned town of Falun, with its many fine historic buildings and the remains of industry and life in the many settlements spread over a wide area of the Dalarna region, vividly illustrates what was for centuries one of the world's most important mining regions.

Sweden

17th century

San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba

Commercial and political competition in the Caribbean in the 17th century led to the construction of a series of large fortifications on rocky promontories to protect the vital port of Santiago. This complex of forts, magazines, bastions, and batteries is the most complete and best-preserved example of Spanish American military architecture, based on Italian and Renaissance design principles.

Cuba

17th century

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.

Netherlands

17th century

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.

Sweden

17th century

Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

The historic city of Yaroslavl, located at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl rivers, about 250 km northeast of Moscow, has developed into an important commercial center since the 11th century. Yaroslavl is famous for its many 17th-century churches and is an outstanding example of the urban planning reforms that Catherine II ordered for the whole of Russia in 1763. Yaroslavl has preserved some important historical buildings and has been renovated in the neoclassical style according to the radial city master plan. Yaroslavl also retains elements of the 16th-century Spassky Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in the Upper Volga region, which was built on the site of a pagan temple at the end of the 12th century but was rebuilt over time.

Russian Federation

17th century church

Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli

The system of Via Nuovo and Rolli Palaces in the historic centre of Genoa dates back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, when the Republic of Genoa was at the peak of its financial and seafaring power. The site is the first urban development in Europe allocated by public authorities within a unified framework and linked to a specific system of “public accommodation” in private houses, as decreed by the Senate in 1576. The site includes a group of Renaissance and Baroque palaces along the so-called “Via Nuovo” (New Street). The Rolli Palaces offer a variety of different solutions, of universal value in terms of their adaptation to the particular characteristics of the site and the requirements of a specific social and economic organization. They also offer an example of an original network of public-private houses used to host state visits.

Italy

Early 17th century

Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht

The historic urban complex of Amsterdam's canal district was a project for a new "port city" built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It included a network of canals to the west and south of the historic old town and the medieval port surrounding the old town, while relocating the city's defensive border, the Singel, inland. It was a long-term plan that involved extending the city by draining marshland, using a system of canals in concentric arcs, and filling in the spaces in between. These spaces allowed the development of a homogeneous urban complex with gabled houses and numerous monuments. This urban extension was the largest and most homogeneous of its time. It was a model for large-scale town planning and was a reference worldwide until the 19th century.

Netherlands

Seventeenth century

Historic Centre of São Luís

This historic city was founded by the French in the late 17th century, occupied by the Dutch and then ruled by the Portuguese. Its core area has completely preserved its original rectangular street layout. Due to the economic stagnation in the early 20th century, a large number of fine historical buildings have been preserved, making it an outstanding example of an Iberian colonial town.

Brazil

Late 17th century

La Grand-Place, Brussels

The Grand Place in Brussels is a collection of public and private buildings of a highly coherent style, built mainly at the end of the 17th century. The architecture vividly reflects the social and cultural life of this important political and commercial centre at the time.

Belgium

Late 17th century