Man-made Terraces

Notable terraces laid out in gardens and parks, or for agricultural use.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Man-made Terraces':

  • Ambohimanga
  • Assisi Roman city plan (which is still intact) was based on terraces
  • Bahá’i Holy Places Bahai gardens
  • Champasak Vat Phou Temple (stone terraces attached to the hills forming entraces and temple grounds)
  • El Fuerte de Samaipata By the Incas
  • Fort and Shalamar Gardens Shalamar Gardens are terraced
  • Koutammakou "Some of the fields are terraces on the hills."
  • Lavaux
  • Machu Picchu
  • Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
  • Potsdam Sans Souci Palace Vineyard Terrace
  • Preah Vihear Temple (stone terraces attached to the hills forming entraces and temple grounds)
  • Quebrada de Humahuaca The precolumbian site of Coctaca has agricultural terraces
  • Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
  • Rio Abiseo National Park Gran Pajatén
  • Sukur Terraced fields
  • Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  • Vatican City Cortile del Belvedere (never completed)