UNESCO Heritage
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1992)
The city was built on the original foundations following a devastating fire at the end of the 14th century. A number of the renaissance and baroque townhouses remain to this day strengthened by a protective system of ponds. The gothic castle was rebuilt in the renaissance style at the end of the 16th century.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1992)
The castle complex with its unique baroque theatre, the meander in the River Vltava, the city arms with its five-leaved rose, medieval streets and stone townhouses. This is Český Krumlov – a cosmopolitan city with a unique atmosphere.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1992)
Each part of the capital city of the Czech Lands – the Lesser Town, the Castle District, the Old and New Towns, was developed from the 10th century onwards. As well as Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St. Vitus and Charles Bridge, many churches and palaces were also constructed which together form a magnificent architectural, artistic and spiritual ensemble.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1994)
The pilgrimage church, dedicated to St. John of Nepomuk, was built in the early 1820s. It is the finest work of the architect Jan Blažej Santini and is the most original example of the so-called baroque gothic style. It was built on a five-pointed star plan and is surrounded by a cemetery and cloisters.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1995)
Ever since the end of the 13th century the history of Kutná Hora has been inseparably linked to the mining of silver ore. The historical centre is an architectural jewel of European importance, and the late gothic Church of St. Barbora and the Cathedral of Our Lady in Sedlec, rebuilt in the baroque gothic style, create a notional entrance gateway to the royal mining city.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1996)
Between the 17th and 20th centuries the ruling Dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains into one huge park, where the baroque and neo-gothic architecture of their chateaux are married with smaller buildings and a landscape that was fashioned according to the English principles of landscape architecture.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1998)
Holašovice is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Central European village. A number of high-quality village buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries in a style known as „South Bohemian Folk Baroque“ have been preserved on a ground plan that dates from the middle ages.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1998)
The castle was built on earlier foundations in the 17th century and represents a uniquely-preserved Central European baroque princely residence. Its neighbouring gardens include the Podzamecká garden under the castle in a natural English-style landscape and the early baroque Flower Gardens.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 1999)
The renaissance castle from the second half of the 16th century is an excellent example of an arcade castle based on an Italianate style. Despite reconstruction of the interior at the end of the 18th century, outwardly it has retained an almost unadulterated renaissance appearance, including the unique sgrafitto facades and gables. A number of commercial buildings and a garden have also been preserved.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2000)
This memorial column, erected in the early years of the 18th century, is the most outstanding example of a type of monument specific to central Europe. In the characteristic regional style known as ‘Olomouc Baroque’ and rising to a height of 35 m, it is decorated with many fine religious sculptures, the work of the distinguished Moravian artist Ondřej Zahner.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2002)
The Tugendhat Villa, built in 1929 - 1930 in Brno, is one of the most important examples of the functionalist style in the European period of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Using a steel frame without load-bearing walls allowed the architect to create the new and informal concept of an open and variable space that is linked with its natural surroundings.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2003)
The ensemble of the Jewish Quarter and the Basilica is a unique example of the close co-existence of Christian and Jewish culture from the Middle Ages until the 20th century. The Basilica of St. Procopius. Originally built as part of the Benedictine monastery in the early 13th century, it was influenced by Western European ideas in its construction.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2019)
The cultural landscape includes not only the stud farm, but the surrounding pastures, including artificially built water canals and tree-lined alleys lined. The landscape is an excellent combination of the work of nature and man in preserved pre-industrial form and represents a significant phenomenon of human civilization, which for centuries has been a specialised breeding of ceremonial, representative horses. For centuries the stud farm used to breed so-called Old Kladruby roan, which is a globally unique form of Baroque horse, which does not exist in any other stud farm.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2019)
Thanks to more than 800 years of almost continuous mining and processing of ores, a unique mining landscape was created in the Ore Mountains with unique montane monuments both above and below ground and with a dense network of mining towns. It illustrates the enormous impact that mining and ore processing on both sides of the mountains has had on the development of mining and metallurgy around the world, namely the contribution of world-class inventions and innovations in mining and metallurgical technologies. On the Czech side, these are the mining landscapes of Jáchymov, Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná, Krupka, Mědník and the Red Tower of Death.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2021)
The three spa towns of Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně and Františkovy Lázně are among the 11 most important spa towns in the world. They are unique both in terms of monuments and balneology. Spa houses, spa pavilions, drinking halls and colonnades are complemented by casinos, theatres and other cultural facilities, all integrated into a landscape with mineral springs, parks, gardens, promenades and sports grounds.
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2021)
The area is remarkable for its mixed and beech forests on steep slopes with unique geomorphology. The huge boulders and difficult terrain have made logging impossible, so the beech forests can boast a natural evolution without human intervention. The oldest trees here are 350 years old, and a significant part of the beeches are 100 years old.
Žatec and the landscape of Žatec hops
(on UNESCO List entered in year 2023)
The monument consists of a landscape with hop farms and the villages of Trnovany and Stekník, including the castle of the same name, and the historic centre of Žatec with its 19th century industrial quarter, where the greatest concentration of buildings connected with hop processing and trade is found. The landscape includes buildings used for drying, packing, certifying and storing hops, as well as parts of the historic transport network of roads, railways, the Ohře River and other watercourses. The site is testimony to a tradition of over 700 years that continues to this day.
