Wachau Cultural Landscape
A World Heritage Site in Austria, inscribed in 2000 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Austria
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 2000
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (ii)(iv)
- Property area
- approx. 185 km² (18,462 ha)
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 48.3644, 15.4342
- UNESCO ID
- 970
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Paysage culturel de la Wachau
- Spanish
- Paisaje cultural de la Wachau
- Chinese
- 瓦豪文化景观
Other World Heritage Sites in Austria
- Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (2007)
- City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg (1999)
- Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape (2001)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment) (2021)
- Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape (1997)
- Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (1996)
- Historic Centre of Vienna (2001)
- Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn (1996)
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps (2011)
- Semmering Railway (1998)
- The Great Spa Towns of Europe (2021)
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