World Heritage in the Carpathians

The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
These include 660 cultural, 166 natural and 25 mixed properties in 184 States Parties.
In Carpathian Mountains and in their immediate vicinity there are over 20 properties.

• The Criteria for Selection
• Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment - HU
• Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue - HU
• Old Village of Hollókö and its Surroundings - HU
• Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta - HU
• Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape - HU
• Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst - HU/SK
• Banská Štiavnica - SK
• Vlkolínec - SK
• Spišský Hrad and its Associated Cultural Monuments - SK
• Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve - SK
• Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) - PL
• Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park - PL
• Cracow's Historic Centre - PL
• Wieliczka Salt Mine - PL
• Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland - PL
• L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centre - UA
• Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians - SK/UA
• Wooden Churches of Maramureş - RO
• Churches of Moldavia - RO
• Historic Centre of Sighişoara - RO
• Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania - RO
• Monastery of Horezu - RO
• Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains - RO

• Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
  • County of Györ-Moson-Sopron
  • Date of inscription: 1996
  • Criteria: C (iv) (vi)
  • Identification No. 758
  The first Benedictine monks settled here in 996. They went on to convert the Hungarians, to found the country's first school and, in 1055, to write the first document in Hungarian. From the time of its founding, this monastic community has promoted culture throughout central Europe. Its 1,000-year history can be seen in the succession of architectural styles of the monastic buildings (the oldest dating from 1224), which still today house a school and the monastic community.
  
  
• Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1987, extension: 2002
  • Criteria: C (ii) (iv)
  • Identification No. 400
  This site has the remains of monuments such as the Roman city of Aquincum and the Gothic castle of Buda, which have had a considerable influence on the architecture of various periods. It is one of the world's outstanding urban landscapes and illustrates the great periods in the history of the Hungarian capital.
  

  ID No.        Name Locations 400-001 Budapest, the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle Quarter   Budapest 400-002 Andrássy Avenue and the Underground Budapest

  
  
• Old Village of Hollókö and its Surroundings
  • County of Nógrád
  • Date of inscription: 1987
  • Criteria: C (v)
  • Identification No. 401
  Hollókö is an outstanding example of a deliberately preserved traditional settlement. This village, which developed mainly during the 17th and 18th centuries, is a living example of rural life before the agricultural revolution of the 20th century.
  
  
• Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
  • Counties of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves, Hajdú-Bihar
     and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok
  • Date of inscription: 1999
  • Criteria: C (iv) (v)
  • Identification No. 474
  The cultural landscape of the Hortobágy Puszta consists of a vast area of plains and wetlands in eastern Hungary. Traditional forms of land use, such as the grazing of domestic animals, have been present in this pastoral society for more than two millennia.
  
  
• Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
  • County of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 2002
  • Criteria: C (iii) (v)
  • Identification No. 1063
  The cultural landscape of Tokaj graphically demonstrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low hills and river valleys. The intricate pattern of vineyards, farms, villages and small towns, with their historic networks of deep wine cellars, illustrates every facet of the production of the famous Tokaj wines, the quality and management of which have been strictly regulated for nearly three centuries.
  

  ID No.           Name Location Area (ha) 1063-001 Tokaj Wine Region settlements of Tokaj, Tarcal, Bodrogkeresztúr, Mád, Tállya 13,425.00 1063-002 Ungvári Wine Cellar   Sátoraljaújhely 4.00 1063-003 Rákóczi Wine Cellar Sárospatak 0.80 1063-004 Köporosi Cellars Hercegkút 1.70 1063-005 Gomboshegyi Cellars Hercegkút 2.00 1063-006 Oremus Cellars Tolcsva 0.90 1063-007 Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars Tolcsva 0.60

• Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
  • County of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (HU) / Districts of
     Rožňava and Spišska Nová Ves, Region of Košice (SK)
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1995, extension: 2000
  • Criteria: N (i)
  • Identification No. 725
  The variety of formations and the fact that they are concentrated in a restricted area means that the 712 caves currently identified make up a typical temperate-zone karstic system. Because they display an extremely rare combination of tropical and glacial climatic effects, they make it possible to study geological history over tens of millions of years.
  

  ID No.         Name Locations 725-001 Baradla-Domica Cave System Aggtelek-Jósvafő Settlement 725-002 Béke-barlang Cave Aggtelek-Jósvafő Settlement 725-003 Kossuth-barlang Cave Jósvafő (village) 725-004 Meteor-barlang Cave Village of Bódvaszilas 725-005 Rákóczi 1.sz. barlang Cave Bodvarákó (village) 725-006 Rákóczi 2.sz,.barlang Cave settlement Bodvarákó 725-007 Rejtek-szomboly Chasm settlement Szögliget 725-008 Szabadság-barlang Cave Égerszög village 725-009 Vass Imre-barlang Cave Jósvafő Settlement 725-010 Vecsem-bükki-szomboly Chasm Bódvaszilas 725-011 Baradla-Domica Cave System Kečovo, Rožňava district 725-012 Diviačia Chasm Plešivec, Rožňava district 725-013 Drienovska Cave Drienovec, Košice-country district 725-014 Gombasecká Cave-Silicka ľadnica Ice Cave System Slavec, Rožňava district 725-015 Hrušovska Cave Hrušov, Rožňava district 725-016 Jasovska Cave Jasov, Košice-country district 725-017 Krásnohorská Cave Krásnohorská Dlhá Lúka, Rožňava district 725-018 Ochtinská aragonitová Cave Ochtiná, Rožňava district 725-019 Obrovská Chasm Jablonov nad Turňou 725-020 System of the Skalistý potok Cave-Kunia Chasm Háj 725-021 Snežná diera Cave Bôrka 725-022 Zvonivá diera Chasm Plešivec 725-023 Dobšinská Ice Cave Spišska Nová Ves, Poprad, Rožňava

• Banská Štiavnica
  • Town and District of Banská Štiavnica,
     Region of Banská Bystrica
  • Date of inscription: 1993
  • Criteria: C (iv) (v)
  • Identification No. 618
  Over the centuries, the town of Banská Štiavnica was visited by many outstanding engineers and scientists, many of whom contributed to its fame. The old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past.
  
  
• Vlkolínec
  • Ružomberok District,
     Žilina Region
  • Date of inscription: 1993
  • Criteria: C (iv) (v)
  • Identification No. 622
  Vlkolínec, situated in the centre of Slovakia, is a remarkably intact settlement of 45 buildings with the traditional features of a central European village. It is the region's most complete group of these kinds of traditional log houses, often found in mountainous areas.
  
  
• Spišský Hrad and its Associated Cultural Monuments
  • Town of Spišské Podhradie, Levoča District,
     Prešov Region
  • Date of inscription: 1993
  • Criteria: C (iv)
  • Identification No. 620
  Spišský Hrad has one of the largest ensembles of 13th- and 14th-century military, political and religious vbuildings in eastern Europe, and its Romanesque and Gothic architecture has remained remarkably intact.
  
  
• Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
  • Town and District of Bardejov,
     Prešov Region
  • Date of inscription: 2000
  • Criteria: C (iii) (iv)
  • Identification No. 973
  Bardejov is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this region. Among other remarkable features, it also contains a small Jewish quarter around a fine 18th-century synagogue.

• Auschwitz Birkenau
  German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
  • Oświęcim County,
     Lesser Poland (Małopolska) Voivodship
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1979
  • Criteria: C (vi)
  • Identification No. 31
  The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.
  

  ID No.         Name 31-001 Auschwitz 31-002 Birkenau

  
  
• Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
  • Lesser Poland (Małopolska) Voivodship
  • Date of inscription: 1999
  • Criteria: C (ii) (iv)
  • Identification No. 905
  Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a breathtaking cultural landscape of great spiritual significance. Its natural setting – in which a series of symbolic places of worship relating to the Passion of Jesus Christ and the life of the Virgin Mary was laid out at the beginning of the 17th century – has remained virtually unchanged. It is still today a place of pilgrimage.
  
  
• Cracow's Historic Centre
  • City and County of Cracow,
     Lesser Poland (Małopolska) Voivodship
  • Date of inscription: 1978
  • Criteria: C (iv)
  • Identification No. 29
  The historic centre of Cracow, the former capital of Poland, is situated at the foot of the Royal Wawel Castle. The 13th-century merchants' town has Europe's largest market square and numerous historical houses, palaces and churches with their magnificent interiors. Further evidence of the town's fascinating history is provided by the remnants of the 14th-century fortifications and the medieval site of Kazimierz with its ancient synagogues in the southern part of town, Jagellonian University and the Gothic cathedral where the kings of Poland were buried.
  
  
• Wieliczka Salt Mine
  • City and County of Wieliczka,
     Lesser Poland (Małopolska) Voivodship
  • Date of inscription: 1978
  • Criteria: C (iv)
  • Identification No. 32
  This deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka-Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. Spread over nine levels, it has 300 km of galleries with works of art, altars, and statues sculpted in the salt, making a fascinating pilgrimage into the past of a major industrial undertaking.
  
  
• Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
  • Gorlice, Nowy Targ, and Bochnia counties, Lesser
     Poland (Małopolska) Voivodship; Brzozów County,
     Subcarpathian (Podkarpackie) Voivodship
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 2003
  • Criteria: C (iii) (iv)
  • Identification No. 1053
  The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an alternative to the stone structures erected in urban centres.
  

  ID No.            Name Location Date Area (ha) 1053-001 Church of the Archangel Michael Binarowa c. 1500 1.80 1053-002 Church of All Saints Blizne mid 15th c 2.20 1053-003 Church of the Archangel Michael Dębno 2nd half 15th c 0.14 1053-004 Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Archangel Michael Haczów mid 15th c 1.30 1053-005 Church of St Leonard Lipnica Murowana late 15th c 1.10 1053-006 Church of St Philip and St James the Apostles Sękowa 1516 1.72

• L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
  • Halychyna, L'viv Oblast'
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1998
  • Criteria: C (ii) (v)
  • Identification No. 865
  The city of L'viv, founded in the late Middle Ages, was a flourishing administrative, religious and commercial centre for several centuries. The medieval urban topography has been preserved virtually intact (in particular, there is evidence of the different ethnic communities who lived there), along with many fine Baroque and later buildings.
  

  ID No.         Name 865-001 Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche, Seredmistia 865-002 Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Church

• Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
  • Region of Prešov (SK) / Transcarpathian (UE)
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 2007
  • Criteria: N (ix)
  • Identification No. 1133
  The Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian constitute a transnational serial property of ten separate components along a 185 km axis from the Rakhiv Mountains and the Chornohirskyi Range in Ukraine, west along the Polonynian Ridge, to the Bukovské Vrchy and Vihorlat Mountains in Slovakia. The ten sites represent an outstanding example of undisturbed, complex temperate forests and exhibit the most complete and comprehensive ecological patterns and processes of pure stands of European beech across a variety of environmental conditions. They contain an invaluable genetic reservoir of beech and many species associated with, and dependent on, these forest habitats. They also represent an outstanding example of the re-colonization and development of terrestrial ecosystems and communities after the last ice age, a process which is still ongoing.
  

  ID No.            Name & Location Area (ha) 1133-001 Chornohora Transcarpathian Core zone: 2476.8 Buffer zone: 12925 1133-002 Havešová Primeval Forest      Transcarpathian Core zone: 171.3 Buffer zone: 63.99 1133-003 Kuziy-Trybushany Prešov Core zone: 1369.6 Buffer zone: 3163.4 1133-004 Maramarosh Transcarpathian Core zone: 2243.6 Buffer zone: 6230.4 1133-005 Rožok Prešov Core zone: 67.1 Buffer zone: 41.4 1133-006 Stužnica - Bukovské Vrchy Prešov Core zone: 2950 Buffer zone: 11300 1133-007 Stuzhytsia - Uzhok Transcarpathian, Core zone: 2532 Buffer zone: 3615 1133-008 Svydovets Transcarpathian Core zone: 3030.5 Buffer zone: 5639.5 1133-009 Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh Transcarpathian, Core zone: 11860 Buffer zone: 3301 1133-010 Vihorlat Prešov Core zone: 2578 Buffer zone: 2413

• Wooden Churches of Maramureş
  • Districts of Bârsana, Budeşti, Deseşti, Ieud, Şişeşti,
     Poienile Izei, Târgu-Lăpuş; Maramureş County,
     Region of Transylvania.
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1999
  • Criteria: C (iv)
  • Identification No. 904
  These eight churches are outstanding examples of a range of architectural solutions from different periods and areas. They show the variety of designs and craftsmanship adopted in these narrow, high, timber constructions with their characteristic tall, slim clock towers at the western end of the building, either single- or double-roofed and covered by shingles. As such, they are a particular vernacular expression of the cultural landscape of this mountainous area of northern Romania.
  

  Church Date District Village The Church of the Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple 1720 Bârsana Bârsana The Church of Saint Nicholas 1643 Budeşti Budeşti The Church of the Holy Paraskeva 1770 Deseşti Deseşti The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin mid 18th c   Ieud Ieud The Church of the Holy Archangels 1796-8 Şişeşti Plopiş The Church of the Holy Parasceve 1604 Poienile Izei Poienile Izei The Church of the Holy Archangels 1663 Târgu-Lăpuş Rogoz The Church of the Holy Archangels 1767 Şişeşti Şurdeşti

  
  
• Churches of Moldavia
  • County of Suceava, Region of Moldavia
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1993
  • Criteria: C (i) (iv)
  • Identification No. 598
  With their painted exterior walls, decorated with 15th- and 16th-century frescoes that are considered masterpieces of Byzantine art, these seven churches in northern Moldavia are unique in Europe. Far from being merely wall decorations, the paintings represent complete cycles of religious murals on all facades. Their outstanding composition, elegant outline and harmonious colours blend perfectly with the surrounding landscape.
  

  ID No.         Date    Name Village 598-001 1503 Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist, Arbore Abore 598-002 1530 Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of the former Monastery of Humor Humor 598-003 1532 Church of the Annunciation of the Monastery of Moldoviţa Moldoviţa 598-004 1487 Church of the Holy Rood, Pătrăuţi Pătrăuţi 598-005 1531 Church of St Nicholas and the Catholicon of the Monastery of Probota Probota 598-006 1522 Church of St George, Suceava Suceava 598-007 1487 Church of St George of the former Voroneţ Monastery Voroneţ

  
  
• Historic Centre of Sighişoara
  • Mureş County,
     Region of Transylvania
  • Date of inscription: 1999
  • Criteria: C (iii) (v)
  • Identification No. 902
  Founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the Saxons of Transylvania, Sighişoara is a fine example of a small, fortified medieval town which played an important strategic and commercial role on the fringes of central Europe for several centuries.
  
  
• Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania
  • Counties of Alba, Braşov, Harghita, Mureş, Sibiu,
     Region of Transylvania
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1993 ("Biertan and its Fortified Church"),
     extension: 1999
  • Criteria: C (iv)
  • Identification No. 596
  These Transylvanian villages with their fortified churches provide a vivid picture of the cultural landscape of southern Transylvania. The seven villages inscribed, founded by the Transylvanian Saxons, are characterized by a specific land-use system, settlement pattern and organization of the family farmstead that have been preserved since the late Middle Ages. They are dominated by their fortified churches, which illustrate building styles from the 13th to the 16th century.
  

  ID No.         Village District Department 596-001 Biertan Biertan Sibiu 596-002 Prejmer Prejmer Braşov 596-003 Viscri Buneşti Braşov 596-004 Dârjiu Dârjiu Harghita 596-005 Saschiz Saschiz Mureş 596-006 Câlnic Câlnic Alba 596-007 Valea Viilor   Valea Viilor   Sibiu

  
  
• Monastery of Horezu
  • Vâlcea County,
     Region of Wallachia
  • Date of inscription: 1993
  • Criteria: C (ii)
  • Identification No. 597
  Founded in 1690 by Prince Constantine Brancovan, the monastery of Horezu, in Wallachia, is a masterpiece of the 'Brancovan' style. It is known for its architectural purity and balance, the richness of its sculptural detail, the treatment of its religious compositions, its votive portraits and its painted decorative works. The school of mural and icon painting established at the monastery in the 18th century was famous throughout the Balkan region.
  
  
• Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains
  • Counties of Alba and Hunedoara,
     Region of Transylvania
  • Multiple locations
  • Date of inscription: 1999
  • Criteria: C (ii) (iii) (iv)
  • Identification No. 906
  Built in the 1st centuries B.C. and A.D. under Dacian rule, these fortresses show an unusual fusion of military and religious architectural techniques and concepts from the classical world and the late European Iron Age. The six defensive works, the nucleus of the Dacian Kingdom, were conquered by the Romans at the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; their extensive and well-preserved remains stand in spectacular natural surroundings and give a dramatic picture of a vigorous and innovative civilization.
  

  ID No.         Fortress Village Commune Department 906-001 Sarmizegetusa Grădiştea de Munte Orăştioara de Sus Hunedoara 906-002 Costeşti-Cetaţuie Costeşti Orăştioara de Sus Hunedoara 906-003 Costeşti-Blidaru Costeşti Orăştioara Hunedoara 906-004 Luncani-Piatra Roşie Luncani Boşorod Hunedoara 906-005 Băniţa Băniţa Petroşani Municipality Hunedoara 906-006 Căpâlna Căpâlna Săsciori Alba