UNESCO: Europe

Listed in alphabetical order by country. If the name is in red, I don’t have that card. If the name is in black and italicized, then I do have that card. A lot of these sites are in more than one country. Where possible, I’d love to get a card from each country that a particular site is in.

Albania

  • Butrint
  • Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra

Andorra

  • Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

Armenia

  • Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
  • Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
  • Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley

Austria

  • Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
  • Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
  • Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape
  • Semmering Railway
  • City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg
  • Wachau Cultural Landscape
  • Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
  • Historic Centre of Vienna
  • Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps

Azerbaijin

  • Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace and Maiden Tower
  • Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Belarus

  • Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest
  • Mir Castle Complex
  • Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh
  • Struve Geodetic Arc

Belgium

  • Flemish Béguinages
  • La Grand-Place, Brussels
  • The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault)
  • Belfries of Belgium and France
  • Historic Centre of Brugge
  • Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
  • Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
  • Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
  • Stoclet House
  • Major Mining Sites of Wallonia

Bosnia and Herzogovina

  • Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
  • Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad

Bulgaria

  • Boyana Church
  • Madara Rider
  • Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
  • Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
  • Ancient City of Nessebar
  • Pirin National Park
  • Rila Monastery
  • Srebarna Nature Reserve
  • Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

Croatia

  • Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
  • Old City of Dubrovnik (thank you, pierresurleciel)
  • Plitvice Lakes National Park
  • Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč
  • Historic City of Trogir
  • The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (thank you, ddonkey)
  • Stari Grad Plain

Cyprus

  • Paphos
  • Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
  • Choirokoitia

Czech Republic

  • Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
  • Historic Centre of Prague
  • Historic Centre of Telč
  • Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
  • Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
  • Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
  • Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
  • Litomyšl Castle
  • Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
  • Tugendhat Villa in Brno
  • Jewish Quarter and St Procopius’ Basilica in Třebíč

Denmark

  • Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
  • Roskilde Cathedral
  • Kronborg Castle

Estonia

  • Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
  • Struve Geodetic Arc (I have Tartu Observatory, thanks to ossuusso!)

Finland

  • Fortress of Suomenlinna
  • Old Rauma
  • Petäjävesi Old Church
  • Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
  • Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
  • High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
  • Struve Geodetic Arc

France

  • Chartres Cathedral
  • Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
  • Palace and Park of Versailles
  • Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
  • Vézelay, Church and Hill
  • Amiens Cathedral
  • Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
  • Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
  • Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
  • Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the “Triumphal Arch” of Orange
  • From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt
  • Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
  • Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve
  • Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d’Alliance in Nancy (thanks, vykortsfantast!)
  • Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct), thank you vykortsfantast!
  • Strasbourg – Grande île
  • Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine (thanks, vykortsfantast)
  • Bourges Cathedral
  • Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
  • Canal du Midi
  • Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
  • Pyrénées – Mont Perdu
  • Historic Site of Lyons (thanks Jean Michel from walltype!)
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  • Belfries of Belgium and France
  • Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
  • The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
  • Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
  • Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
  • Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
  • Fortifications of Vauban
  • Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems
  • Episcopal City of Albi
  • Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
  • Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
  • The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
  • Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin

Georgia

  • Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
  • Historical Monuments of Mtskheta
  • Upper Svaneti

Germany

  • Aachen Cathedral
  • Speyer Cathedral
  • Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
  • Pilgrimage Church of Wies
  • Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
  • St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim (looking for a single-view of St. Mary’s)
  • Roman Monuments (I have the Roman Bath, would welcome other monuments), Cathedral of St Peter (thank you, LittlePuffin) and Church of Our Lady in Trier
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  • Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  • Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
  • Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
  • Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System
  • Maulbronn Monastery Complex
  • Town of Bamberg
  • Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg
  • Völklingen Ironworks
  • Messel Pit Fossil Site
  • Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
  • Cologne Cathedral
  • Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
  • Classical Weimar
  • Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
  • Wartburg Castle
  • Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
  • Monastic Island of Reichenau
  • Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
  • Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
  • Upper Middle Rhine Valley (thank you, LittlePuffin)
  • Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
  • Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
  • Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
  • Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
  • Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
  • The Wadden Sea
  • Fagus Factory in Alfeld
  • Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
  • Margravial Opera House Bayreuth

Greece

  • Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
  • Acropolis, Athens
  • Archaeological Site of Delphi
  • Medieval City of Rhodes
  • Meteora
  • Mount Athos
  • Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
  • Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus
  • Archaeological Site of Mystras
  • Archaeological Site of Olympia
  • Delos
  • Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
  • Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
  • Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)
  • Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
  • Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John
  • Old Town of Corfu

Holy See

  • Historic Center of Rome, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
  • Vatican City

Hungary

  • Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
  • Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings
  • Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
  • Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
  • Hortobágy National Park – the Puszta
  • Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)
  • Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
  • Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape

Iceland

  • Þingvellir National Park
  • Surtsey

Ireland

  • Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
  • Skellig Michael

Italy

  • Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  • Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (thank you hotaru!)
  • Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
  • Historic Centre of Florence
  • Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
  • Venice and its Lagoon
  • Historic Centre of San Gimignano
  • The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
  • City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
  • Crespi d’Adda
  • Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
  • Historic Centre of Naples
  • Historic Centre of Siena
  • Castel del Monte
  • Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
  • Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
  • The Trulli of Alberobello
  • 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex
  • Archaeological Area of Agrigento
  • Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
  • Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
  • Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
  • Costiera Amalfitana
  • Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
  • Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (thank you dibierre55 for the card of the Palazzo Madama!)
  • Su Nuraxi di Barumini
  • Villa Romana del Casale
  • Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
  • Historic Centre of Urbino
  • Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
  • Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
  • City of Verona
  • Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
  • Villa d’Este, Tivoli
  • Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
  • Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
  • Monte San Giorgio
  • Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
  • Val d’Orcia
  • Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
  • Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta
  • Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
  • The Dolomites
  • Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.)
  • Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps

Latvia

  • Historic Centre of Riga
  • Struve Geodetic Arc

Lithuania

  • Vilnius Historic Centre
  • Curonian Spit
  • Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)
  • Struve Geodetic Arc

Luxembourg

  • City of Luxembourg, its Old Quarters and Fortifications

Macedonia

  • Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region (thanks, anagahan, for the card of Saint Panteleimon monastery!)

Malta

  • City of Valletta
  • Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
  • Megalithic Temples of Malta (thank you, ddonkey!)

Moldova

  • Struve Geodetic Arc

Montenegro

  • Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor
  • Durmitor National Park

Netherlands

  • Schokland and Surroundings
  • Defence Line of Amsterdam
  • Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
  • Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout (thank you, Chantal)
  • Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
  • Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
  • Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
  • The Wadden Sea
  • Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht

Norway

  • Bryggen
  • Urnes Stave Church
  • Røros Mining Town and the Circumference
  • Rock Art of Alta
  • Vegaøyan — The Vega Archipelago
  • Struve Geodetic Arc
  • West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord (thank you, Norway_girl!)

Poland

  • Cracow’s Historic Centre
  • Wieliczka Salt Mine
  • Auschwitz Birkenau (thank you, aghoul)
  • Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest
  • Historic Centre of Warsaw
  • Old City of Zamość
  • Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
  • Medieval Town of Toruń
  • Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
  • Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica
  • Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
  • Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
  • Centennial Hall in Wrocław

Portugal

  • Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
  • Convent of Christ in Tomar
  • Monastery of Batalha (thank you, SusanaPortugal!)
  • Monastery of the Hieronymites (thank you, isacle) and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
  • Historic Centre of Évora
  • Monastery of Alcobaça
  • Cultural Landscape of Sintra
  • Historic Centre of Oporto
  • Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
  • Laurisilva of Madeira
  • Alto Douro Wine Region
  • Historic Centre of Guimarães
  • Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture
  • Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications

Romania

  • Danube Delta
  • Churches of Moldavia
  • Monastery of Horezu
  • Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania
  • Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains
  • Historic Centre of Sighişoara
  • Wooden Churches of Maramureş

Russia

  • Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
  • Kizhi Pogost (thank you, miezilein and greta007)
  • Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (thanks, mad_madchen!)
  • Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands
  • Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings
  • White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
  • Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad
  • Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
  • Virgin Komi Forests
  • Lake Baikal (thank you, kind Postcrosser!)
  • Volcanoes of Kamchatka
  • Golden Mountains of Altai (thank you, greta007)
  • Western Caucasus
  • Curonian Spit
  • Ensemble of the Ferrapontov Monastery (thanks, Snelly!)
  • Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
  • Central Sikhote-Alin
  • Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent
  • Uvs Nuur Basin
  • Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent
  • Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve
  • Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
  • Struve Geodetic Arc
  • Putorana Plateau
  • Lena Pillars Nature Park

San Marino

  • San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano

Serbia

  • Stari Ras and Sopoćani
  • Studenica Monastery
  • Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
  • Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius

Slovakia

  • Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity
  • Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments
  • Vlkolínec
  • Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
  • Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
  • Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
  • Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area

Slovenia

  • Škocjan Caves
  • Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
  • Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija

Spain

  • Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
  • Burgos Cathedral (thank you, famalubel!)
  • Historic Centre of Cordoba
  • Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid (thank you famalubel!)
  • Works of Antoni Gaudí (thanks famalubel!)
  • Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
  • Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias
  • Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
  • Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct
  • Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)
  • Garajonay National Park
  • Historic City of Toledo
  • Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
  • Old Town of Cáceres
  • Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
  • Old City of Salamanca
  • Poblet Monastery
  • Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida
  • Route of Santiago de Compostela
  • Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
  • Doñana National Park
  • Historic Walled Town of Cuenca
  • La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
  • Las Médulas
  • Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona
  • Pyrénées – Mont Perdu
  • San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries
  • Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
  • Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
  • University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares
  • Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
  • San Cristóbal de La Laguna
  • Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco
  • Archaeological Site of Atapuerca (thank you famalubel)
  • Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí
  • Palmeral of Elche
  • Roman Walls of Lugo
  • Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
  • Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza
  • Vizcaya Bridge
  • Teide National Park
  • Tower of Hercules, thank you belessita
  • Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana
  • Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija

Sweden

  • Royal Domain of Drottningholm, thank you vykortsfantas!
  • Birka and Hovgården
  • Engelsberg Ironworks, thank you merjade!
  • Rock Carvings in Tanum
  • Skogskyrkogården
  • Hanseatic Town of Visby
  • Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå
  • Laponian Area
  • Naval Port of Karlskrona
  • Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
  • High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
  • Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
  • Varberg Radio Station
  • Struve Geodetic Arc
  • Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

Switzerland

  • Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair
  • Convent of St Gall
  • Old City of Berne
  • Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona
  • Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
  • Monte San Giorgio
  • Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
  • Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
  • Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
  • La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
  • Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps

Turkey

  • Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
  • Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
  • Historic Areas of Istanbul (thanks to Murat for the card of the Sultanahmet Mosque!)
  • Hattusha: the Hittite Capital
  • Nemrut Dağ
  • Hierapolis-Pamukkale
  • Xanthos-Letoon
  • City of Safranbolu
  • Archaeological Site of Troy
  • Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
  • Çatalhöyük: Neolithic site in Central Anatolia Region, near Konya

Ukraine

  • Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
  • L’viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
  • Struve Geodetic Arc
  • Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
  • Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (thank you, gapusik!)

United Kingdom

  • Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
  • Durham Castle and Cathedral (thank you Brian, for two cards of the castle and cathedral!)
  • Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast
  • Ironbridge Gorge
  • St Kilda
  • Stonehenge (thanks, Ellen!), Avebury and Associated Sites
  • Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
  • Blenheim Palace
  • City of Bath
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  • Westminster Palace (thanks, Ellen!), Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church
  • Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church
  • Henderson Island
  • Tower of London
  • Gough and Inaccessible Islands
  • Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
  • Maritime Greenwich
  • Heart of Neolithic Orkney
  • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
  • Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
  • Derwent Valley Mills
  • Dorset and East Devon Coast
  • New Lanark
  • Saltaire (thank you, gran7)
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
  • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal

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