WHS Hotspot

Areas with a cluster of at least 4 WHS within a circle with a diameter of 215km (per Unesco website maps) OR within daytrip range from a centre within the area.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'WHS Hotspot':

Aegean Islands hotspot

  • Medieval City of Rhodes
  • Island of Pátmos
  • Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
  • Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios

    Agra / Delhi hotspot
  • Keoladeo National Park
  • Fatehpur Sikri
  • Agra Fort
  • Taj Mahal
  • Qutb Minar
  • Red Fort
  • Humayun's Tomb

    Andalusia hotspot
  • Granada
  • Seville
  • Cordoba
  • Ubeda and Baeza
  • Dońana National Park
  • Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin

    Bavaria hotspot
  • Würzburg Residence
  • Bamberg
  • Pilgrimage Church of Wies
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  • Regensburg

    Beijing hotspot
  • Great Wall
  • Summer Palace
  • Peking Man Site
  • Temple of Heaven
  • Imperial Tombs
  • Imperial Palace

    Brussels hotspot
  • Major Town Houses
  • Kinderdijk
  • Brugge
  • Belfries
  • Grand Place, Brussels
  • Flemish Béguinages
  • Plantin-Moretus Museum
  • The Four Lifts
  • Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
  • Aachen Cathedral
  • City of Luxembourg
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
  • Rietveld Schröderhuis

    Busan hotspot
  • Gyeongju
  • Haeinsa Temple
  • Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
  • Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple

    Campania hotspot
  • Naples
  • Pompei
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano
  • Royal Palace at Caserta
  • Costiera Amalfitana

    Catalonia hotspot
  • Vall de Boi
  • Tárraco
  • Palau de la Música Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
  • Works of Antoni Gaudí
  • Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin
  • Poblet Monastery

    Central Sri Lanka hotspot
  • Kandy
  • Polonnaruva
  • Anuradhapura
  • Sigiriya
  • Golden Temple of Dambulla

    Cracow Hotspot
  • Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
  • Cracow
  • Auschwitz Birkenau
  • Wieliczka Salt Mine
  • Kalwaria Zebrzydowska

    Dalmatia hotspot
  • Split
  • Trogir
  • Old City of Dubrovnik
  • Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
  • Kotor

    Île-de-France hotspot
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  • Provins
  • Chartres Cathedral
  • Versailles
  • Fontainebleau

    Kyoto hotspot
  • Ancient Kyoto
  • Ancient Nara
  • Horyu-ji Area
  • Himeji-jo
  • Kii Mountain Range

    London hotspot
  • Maritime Greenwich
  • Blenheim Palace
  • Kew Gardens
  • Tower of London
  • Westminster
  • Stonehenge
  • City of Bath
  • Canterbury

    Madrid hotspot
  • El Escurial
  • Aranjuez
  • Segovia
  • Ávila
  • Alcalá de Henares
  • Toledo

    Mexico City hotspot
  • Central University City Campus of the UNAM
  • Puebla
  • Xochicalco
  • Popocatepetl monasteries
  • Luis Barragán House and Studio
  • Teotihuacan
  • Mexico City

    Milan hotspot
  • Bellinzone
  • Crespi d'Adda
  • Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
  • Santa Maria delle Grazie
  • Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  • Monte San Giorgio
  • Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn

    Moravia hotspot
  • Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
  • Tugendhat Villa
  • Trebíc
  • Telc
  • Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
  • Holy Trinity Column
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

    Moscow hotspot
  • Kremlin and Red Square
  • Novodevichy Convent
  • Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
  • Trinity Sergius Lavra

    Nancy hotspot
  • Nancy
  • City of Luxembourg
  • Völklingen Ironworks
  • Trier

    Peloponnese hotspot
  • Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
  • Archaeological Site of Mystras
  • Olympia
  • Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
  • Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus

    Provence hotspot
  • Avignon
  • Pont du Gard
  • Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
  • Orange

    Rome hotspot
  • Rome
  • Vatican City
  • Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
  • Villa d'Este
  • Etruscan Necropolises

    Saxony Anhalt hotspot
  • Classical Weimar
  • Bauhaus Sites
  • Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
  • Luther Memorials
  • Quedlinburg

    Sicily hotspot
  • Isole Eolie
  • Val di Noto
  • Villa Romana del Casale
  • Agrigento
  • Syracuse

    Silesia hotspot
  • Muskauer Park
  • Churches of Peace
  • Auschwitz Birkenau
  • Centennial Hall

    Transylvania hotspot
  • Sighisoara
  • Wooden Churches of Maramures
  • Dacian Fortresses
  • Transylvanian villages

    Tunisia hotspot
  • Ichkeul National Park
  • Amphitheater of El Jem
  • Dougga/Thugga
  • Site of Carthage
  • Medina of Tunis
  • Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
  • Medina of Sousse
  • Kairouan

    Tuscany hotspot
  • Florence
  • Siena
  • San Gimignano
  • Val d’Orcia
  • City of Pienza
  • Pisa

    Veneto hotspot
  • Verona
  • Vicenza
  • Botanical Garden, Padua
  • Venice and its Lagoon

    Yucatán Peninsula hotspot
  • Chichen-Itza
  • Sian Ka'an
  • Uxmal
  • Campeche