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The town was built after a great fire at the end of the 14th century. The remains of the late Gothic fortification with gates have been preserved here. The Zacharias Square from Hradec is lined with a group of Gothic and Renaissance burgher houses with arcades. The houses have Renaissance, Baroque and Classicist gables. In Telč, on the site of the original Gothic castle, you can find a Renaissance chateau from the end of the 15th century with a large Renaissance garden and an English park. Other important monuments: the area of the former Jesuit boarding school with the Church of the Name of Jesus, the late Gothic Church of the Holy Spirit, the parish church of St. James from the 14th century, rebuilt in the 15th and 19th centuries, the Marian column and two Baroque fountains on the square.
More information: https://www.telc.eu/
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The pilgrimage church dedicated to St. John of Nepomuk was built in the years 1719-1722. It is the crowning work of the architect Santini and the most original example of the so-called Baroque Gothic. It is built in the shape of a five-pointed star and surrounded by a cemetery and cloisters with chapels for pilgrim prayers. The ground plan around the church is derived from a circle in which a decagon is inscribed. Five chapels with a triangular ground plan and five chapels with an oval ground plan alternate around this perimeter.
More information: https://www.zelena-hora.cz/en
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The princes of Liechtenstein transformed their estates between the 17th and 20th centuries into one large park full of surprises. This area in the style of English parks, with an area of 180 km2, ranks among the largest landscaped landscapes in Europe. You will find Baroque architecture, neo-Gothic castle architecture and small buildings built in a romantic spirit (Greenhouse, Hunting Lodge, Minaret, Apollon Temple, Pond Chateau, New Court, Border Chateau, Church of the Three Graces, Janohrad, Obelisk, Rendes-vous). Valtice is the heart of the Moravian wine-growing region with many wine cellars.
More information: https://www.lednice.cz/
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A city in the middle of gardens planted with rare plants from all over the world so that they bloom all year round against the background of conifers. Kroměříž Castle, built on old foundations in the 18th century, served as the summer residence of the Olomouc bishops. This exceptional example of a Central European Baroque castle residence is also known for its picture gallery, which houses one of the most expensive paintings in the Czech Republic - the large-scale canvas Apollo Punishes Marsyas by Titian. There are also paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck and Lucas Cranach the Elder. The adjacent Podzámocká Garden is landscaped as an English park. The Early Baroque Flower Garden from the 17th century was originally located behind the city walls.
More information: https://www.kvetnazahrada-kromeriz.cz/en
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An important example of an arcaded castle, which is based on Italian inspiration, is the Renaissance castle in Litomyšl from 1568. The castle was seriously damaged by fire in 1775. Despite the structural modifications carried out to the interior, it has retained its appearance from the Renaissance period, including the unique sgraffito decoration of the facades and gables. Several farm buildings and the castle garden have also been preserved. The great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana was born in the castle brewery in 1824, and a traditional music festival (Smetana's Litomyšl) is now named after him.
More information: https://www.zamek-litomysl.cz/en
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The column, erected in the 18th century, reaches a height of 35m. This unique work of architecture is characterized as "Olomouc Baroque". The column is decorated with numerous sculptures, this group of Baroque sculptures is the largest in Central Europe. Václav Rendera and the outstanding sculptor Ondřej Zahner were at the birth of this significant work.
More information: http://www.olomouc-tourism.cz/
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Villa Tugendhat at Černopolna Street No. 45 was designed by the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1928 as the last major work in Europe before he moved to the USA. The owners of the Brno textile factory, the Tugendhat family, lived in it for 8 years, and then had to flee from the Nazis. The villa cost as much as thirty ordinary family houses in its time. In the original spatial design of the interior, the world-famous architect worked with large areas, austerity, huge glass spaces that can be retracted into the floor, so that the beautiful garden was as if part of the interior. The five-meter onyx wall and the semicircular wall made of Makassar ebony are unmissable. The villa offers a magnificent view of the Gothic Cathedral of Peter and Paul in the center of Brno, which is the second largest city in the Czech Republic.
More information: https://www.tugendhat.eu/
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Examples of the coexistence of Jewish and Christian culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. There is the Romanesque-Gothic Basilica of St. Procopius, built in the mid-13th century, and the Jewish ghetto with exceptional architectural, artistic and urban value, documenting the cultural traditions of Jewish communities in Central Europe. The Jewish ghetto includes the Jewish Quarter, where there are more than 120 houses and an extensive cemetery with 11,000 graves and 3,000 stone tombstones.
More information: https://www.trebic.cz/
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This reservation is one of the largest in the world. There are 1322 monuments here. Prague offers an overview of all architectural styles. It consists of the parts of Malá Strana, Hradčany, Old and New Town, Prague Castle. In addition to St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge, you will find many churches and palaces here.
More information: https://prague.eu/en/
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The city lies on the banks of the Vltava River around the originally Gothic castle. Despite other buildings from other periods, it, together with the castle and chateau complex, remains a unique example of a medieval city in Central Europe. Its architectural wealth has remained untouched for more than five centuries. The reservation includes around 300 Gothic and Renaissance buildings. The castle theatre is a world-class unique attraction, which has been preserved with its original Baroque costumes, scenery and stage equipment. A significant monument is the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral.
More information: https://www.ckrumlov.cz/cz/unesco_pamatka/
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The historic core of Kutná Hora with the late Gothic Church of St. Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady in Sedlec represents a uniquely preserved medieval urban structure with a number of preserved Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque houses. Other important monuments include: the Italian Court, the late Gothic burgher's Stone House, the Gothic Church of St. Barbara, the Church of St. James, the Jesuit boarding school or the Voršiliek Monastery.
More information: https://www.kutnahora.cz/?lang=2
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The village of Holašovice is an example of the best-preserved South Bohemian folk architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries. The core of the village is the square, around which there is a set of 17 original peasant settlements with characteristic ceremonial walls, arched entrances and richly decorated gables in the South Bohemian Baroque style. In the mid-19th century, rural builders were inspired by the architecture of Baroque churches. However, the village is a reflection of a much older medieval tradition. The first written mention dates back to 1263.
More information: https://www.holasovice.eu/en
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Thanks to more than 800 years of almost continuous mining and processing of ores, a unique mining landscape has emerged in the Ore Mountains with unique mountain monuments above and below ground and with a dense network of mining towns. This confirms the enormous influence that the mining and processing of ores on both sides of the mountain range had on the development of mining and metallurgy around the world, which brought about world-famous inventions and innovations in the field of mining and metallurgical technologies. On the Czech side, these are the mining landscapes of Jáchymov, Abertamy - God Gift - Horní Blatná, Krupka, Mědník and Red Tower of death.
More information: https://www.montanregion-erzgebirge.de/en.html
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The cultural landscape includes not only the stud farm, but also the surrounding pastures, including artificially constructed water channels and direct communications lined with alleys. The landscape is an excellent combination of the work of nature and man in a preserved pre-industrial form and represents a significant phenomenon of human civilization, which for centuries specialized in the breeding of ceremonial, representative horses.
More information: https://www.nhkladruby.cz/en
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This international registration includes eleven spa towns located in seven European countries: Baden bei Wien (Austria); Kupele (Belgium); Františkovy Lázně; Karlovy Vary; Marianske Lazne (Czech Republic); Vichy (France); Bad Ems; Baden-Baden; Bad Kissingen (Germany); Montecatini Terme (Italy); and the city of Bath (United Kingdom).
All of these cities were built around natural mineral springs. They bear witness to the international European spa culture that developed from the early 18th century to the 1930s, leading to the emergence of large international resorts that influenced urban typologies around ensembles of spa buildings such as baths, kurhaus and kursaal (buildings and rooms dedicated to therapy), pumping rooms, drinking halls, colonnades and galleries designed to exploit the natural mineral springs and to drink their practical sources. Associated facilities include gardens, assembly rooms, casinos, theatres, hotels and villas, as well as spa-specific supporting infrastructure. All of these ensembles are integrated into an overall urban context that includes carefully managed recreational and therapeutic environments in a picturesque landscape. Together, these places embody a significant exchange of human values and developments in medicine, science and balneology.
More information: https://www.karlovyvary.cz/en https://www.marianskelazne.cz/en/ https://www.frantiskovy-lazne.info/en
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The ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe are a transnational serial property consisting of 93 plots in 18 countries. They represent an outstanding example of relatively undisturbed, complex temperate forests and exhibit a wide range of complex ecological patterns and processes of pure and mixed beech stands in a variety of environmental conditions. The European beech (Fagus sylvatica) has survived every glacial phase (ice age) over the past 1 million years in the harsh climatic conditions of refuge areas in the southern parts of the European continent.These refuges have been documented by scientists using paleoecological analysis and the latest genetic coding techniques. After the last ice age, around 11,000 years ago, beech began to expand its range from these southern refuge areas to eventually cover large parts of the European continent. During this expansion process, which is still ongoing, beech has created different types of plant communities that occupy very different environments. The interplay between the diversity of environments, climatic gradients and different species gene pools has shaped and continues to shape this high diversity of beech forest communities. These forests contain an invaluable population of old trees and a genetic reservoir of beech and many other species that are tied to and dependent on these old forest habitats.
More information: https://www.europeanbeechforests.org/
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This cultural landscape has been shaped for centuries by a living tradition of growing and trading the world's most renowned hop variety, used in beer production worldwide. The land is comprised of exceptionally fertile hop fields on the Ohře River, which have been continuously farmed for hundreds of years, as well as historic villages and buildings used for hop processing. The urban component of the property is represented by the medieval centre of Žatec with its southern extension, known as the "Prague Suburbs" with numerous specific industrial buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Together, these illustrate the development of agro-industrial processes and the socio-economic system of growing, drying, certifying and trading hops from the late Middle Ages to the present day.
More information: https://www.zatec-and-the-landscape-of-saaz-hops.com/en/
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Source: World Heritage List Czechia
