Tunnels

The tunnel should preferably be mentioned in the documentation or be significant""."

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Tunnels':

  • Aflaj irrigation system
  • Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns Tiryns (cyclopean tunnels)
  • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Pwll du Tram tunnel. 1780-1812. 2400mtres Horse drawn
  • Budapest Underground Railway 1893-6
  • Canal du Midi Malpas Tunnel (the first navigable canal tunnel built and the first tunnel to be excavated by gunpowder), plus earlier tunnel beneath
  • City of Bath Twerton Tunnel
  • City of Luxembourg Casemates and tunnels
  • Copan 2 tunnels dug by archaeologists better to display aspects of the construction and earlier phases ; link
  • Derwent Valley Mills Butterley Tunnel on the Cromford Canal Opened 1794 Length 3083 yards (2819m)
  • Edinburgh Mid-19th century Scotland Street Tunnel; link
  • Guanajuato The subterranean Roads. The first was built in 1883-1908 other followed.
  • Liverpool The entrance to the Queensway Mersey tunnel is inside the inscribed area. When it was built in the 1920's it was significant in World Terms for its length as an underwater tunnel.
  • Mountain Railways of India The Kalka-Shimla railway has 102 tunnels in its 96 kms. Originally there were 103 but tunnel no46 doesn't exist any more!
  • Old City of Acre The Templers tunnel
  • Old City of Jerusalem The Western (Wailing) Wall Tunnel; and also "Hezekiah's Tunnel, or the Siloam Tunnel is a tunnel that was dug underneath the Ophel in Jerusalem about 701 BC during the reign of Hezekiah. It was probably a widening of a pre-existing cave and is mentioned in the Bible."
  • Paphos 5 tunnels in Palaipaphos
  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Chirk tunnel
  • Rammelsberg and Goslar Rathstiefster tunnel (c 1150), the Tiefer-Julius-Fortunatus tunnel (1585), the Roeder tunnel system, Gelenbeeker tunnel (1927)
  • Rhaetian Railway
  • Rome Passetto di Borgo (1277) - 800 metres Connects Vatican with Castel Sant'Angelo for Popes to escape
  • San Marino and Mount Titano The tunnel of the defunct railway
  • Semmering Railway Semmering tunnel 1431 mtres 1848-54
  • Tiwanaku At the Akapana Pyramide