IIASA
ERD Home Page
Introduction
Tables & Charts
Maps
Web Links
Bibliography
 
Updated: April 23, 2002

 
Data: Environment
World Heritage Landscapes and Natural Environments
Extraction from the World Heritage List (natural and mixed world heritage sites)
AUSTRIA
1997 Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape
2000 The Wachau Cultural Landscape
BELGIUM
2000 The Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
BULGARIA
1983 Srebarna Nature Reserve 
1983 Pirin National Park
CROATIA
1979, 2000 Plitvice Lakes National Park
CYPRUS
1998 Choirokoitia 
CZECH REPUBLIC
1996 Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
1998 Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
1998 Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
FINLAND

1999 Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
FORMER YOUGOSLAV REP. OF MACEDONIA

1979 Ohrid Region, including its cultural and historic aspects, and its natural environment
FRANCE
1983 Cape Girolata, Cape Porto, Scandola Natural Reserve and the Piana Calanches in      Corsica
1999 Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
FRANCE/SPAIN
1997 Pyrénées - Mount Perdu
GERMANY
1995 Messel Pit Fossil site
2000 The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
GREECE

1988 Meteora
HUNGARY

1999 Hortobágy National Park
HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA

1995, 2000 Caves of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
IRELAND

1996 Skellig Michael
ITALY

1997 Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua 
1997 Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) 
1998 Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
2000 Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
LITHUNIA/RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2000 Curonian Spit
NETHERLANDS

1997 Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
POLAND

1999 Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist architectural and park landscape complex and pilgrimage park
PORTUGAL

1995 Cultural Landscape of Sintra
1999 Laurisilva of Madeira
ROMANIA

1991 Danube Delta 
SLOVENIA

1988 Skocjan Caves
SPAIN

1985 Altamira Cave
1986 Garajonay National Park
1994 Dońana National Park
1997 Las Médulas 
1999 Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
2000 The Palmeral of Elche
SWEDEN

1996 The Laponian Area
2000 The High Coast
2000 The Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
UNITED KINGDOM

1986 Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast
1986 Studley Royal Park, including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
1986 Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
1986 St. Kilda 
1988 Henderson Island
1995 Gough Island Wildlife Reserve
YUGOSLAVIA

1980 Durmitor National Park 

Source:

 UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France, wh-info@unesco.org

Note:

 This is a list of unique landscapes and natural environments in Europe. It was extracted from the World Heritage List, that was established under terms of The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted in November 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO. Please also see "The World Heritage List: at http://www.unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm
Some rural areas of outstanding beauty, unique geomorphology, or great diversity of plant and animal species have become part of our cultural heritage, such as the Isle of Ibiza, the Wachau in Austria, or the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia. Poets have written books about them, painters have visited them to get inspiration, scientists have studied their fauna and flora - and above all - tourists have invaded them by the millions for pleasure and recreation.