Urban landscape, Post-medieval European

Bordeaux
The historic centre of Bordeaux is inscribed as an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble, created in the age of Enlightenment, whose values continued up to the first half of the 20th century.
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Budapest
The Budapest World Heritage Site consists of three parts: 1. Buda Castle Quarter This holds the city's medieval sites, with Buda Castle.
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City of Luxembourg
Luxembourg - not a city yet - already made its appearance in history in 963. In that year, Count Siegfried came in possession of the strategic rock.
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Classical Weimar
The ensemble "Classical Weimar" reflects a period in history when this East German town was the cultural heart of Europe.
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Florence
Florence was founded by Etruscan settlers from nearby Fiesole. In the first century the Romans came and conquered the town, and named it Florentia.
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Grand Place, Brussels
The Unesco justification for inscription reads: "The Grand-Place is an outstanding example of the eclectic and highly successful blending of architectural and artistic styles that characterizes the culture and society of this region.
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Guimarães
The historic town of Guimarães is associated with the creation of the Portuguese national identity in the twelfth century.
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Holašovice
Holašovice is a small historic village located in the south of the Czech Republic. The village was deserted after the Second World War, allowing its medieval plan and vernacular buildings in the South Bohemian Folk or Rural Baroque style to remain intact.
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Hollokõ
Hollókõ is an Palóc ethnographic village, an ethnic minority group in north-east Hungary. The village, which developed mainly during the 17th and 18th centuries, is a living example of rural life before the agricultural revolution of the 20th century.
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Ibiza
Ibiza provides an excellent example of the interaction between the marine and coastal ecosystems. It also preserves considerable evidence of its long history.
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Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora developed as a result of the exploitation of silver mines and in the 14th century became a royal city endowed with monuments that symbolized its prosperity.
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Mostar
Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after its Old Bridge (Stari most) and the towers on its sides, "the bridge keepers" (natively: mostari).
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Nancy
The Place Stanislas named after the Polish king and duke of Lorraine Stanislaw Leszczynski, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance were added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO in 1983.
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Old City of Berne
Berne was founded in 1191 by Berchthold V, Duke of Zähringen. After a fire in 1405, which almost completely destroyed the wooden-built town, the houses where rebuilt of sandstone.
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Old City of Dubrovnik
The Old City of Dubrovnik is known for its monumental centre. Dubrovnik became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards.
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Old Rauma
Rauma is an outstanding example of an old Nordic city constructed in wood, a veritable conservatory of traditional settlements in this part of Europe.
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Paris, Banks of the Seine
Paris on the banks of the Seine stretches from Saint-Chapelle and the Notre Dame in the east to the Eiffel Tower in the west.
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Røros
Known for its copper mines, Røros is one of Norway's two nationally significant mining towns with activity starting in the 17th century.
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Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian era model village in West Yorkshire, England. Saltaire was founded by Sir Titus Salt in 1853.
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St. Petersburg
"The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments" is the full name for this entry.
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Trebíc
The Jewish Quarter and St. Procopius Basilica of Trebic bear witness to the coexistence of and interchange of values between the Jewish and Christian cultures from the Middle Ages until the Second World War.
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Ubeda and Baeza
The Andalusian towns Úbeda and Baeza hold the best-preserved examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in Spain.
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Urbino
Urbino is a city in the Marche notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of its then duke, Federico da Montefeltro.
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Val di Noto
The Noto Valley, located in south-eastern Sicily, owes its place on the World Heritage List to a tragic event in its history.
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Valetta
The Maltese capital Valetta was founded by the Knights Order of St. John of Jerusalem, in 1568. They ruled from here for 2,5 centuries and created a late Renaissance city (within city walls to withstand the Turks).
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Vicenza
In Vicenza and the Veneto the wealth and stability of the Venetian empire helped create the Palladian style in architecture, which became influential all over Europe and the United States.
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Vienna
Vienna's inner city still is a living tribute to Habsburg times. This dynasty ruled most of Central Europe between 1273 and 1918.
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Vilnius
The Lithuanian capital Vilnius is a historic trading town with medieval origins. It is situated right on the boundary between Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy.
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Vlkolinec
Vlkolínec was established in the 14th century and after 1882 it became part of Ružomberok. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1993 because of being an untouched and complex example of folk countryside architecture of this region of the Northern Carpathians.
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Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl (250 km northeast of Moscow is said to have been founded in 1010. It lies at the intersection of major highways, railroads and waterways.
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Zamosc
Zamosc is a perfectly preserved example of a late-16th-century planned Renaissance town. It was founded in 1580 by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea.
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