The World Heritage List includes 830 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value [1].
If you have Google Earth you can download the KMZ file that includes all the sites. Downloading and then loading the file into Google Earth places markers at each site, making them easy to find and then include in travel plans.
On our vacation this summer we will travel to Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Belgium has 9 sites.
- Flemish Béguinages (1998)
- La Grand-Place, Brussels (1998)
- The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault) (1998)
- Belfries of Belgium and France (1999, 2005) * 3
- Historic Centre of Brugge (2000)
- Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) (2000)
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons) (2000)
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai (2000)
- Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex (2005)
Germany has 32 sites:
- Aachen Cathedral (1978)
- Speyer Cathedral (1981)
- Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square (1981)
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies (1983)
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl (1984)
- St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim (1985)
- Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier (1986)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987, 2005) * 10
- Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1987)
- Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (1990, 1992, 1999)
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch (1991)
- Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar (1992)
- Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993)
- Town of Bamberg (1993)
- Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg (1994)
- Völklingen Ironworks (1994)
- Messel Pit Fossil Site (1995)
- Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau (1996)
- Cologne Cathedral (1996)
- Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (1996)
- Classical Weimar (1998)
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin (1999)
- Wartburg Castle (1999)
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (2000)
- Monastic Island of Reichenau (2000)
- Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen (2001)
- Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar (2002)
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2002)
- Dresden Elbe Valley (2004)
- Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski (2004) *
- Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (2004)
- Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (2006)
Luxembourg has 1 site:
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