Congresses and Conferences

Sites of Congresses, Conferences or Conventions. The meeting must have been historically significant. The buildings/location must be known and within the WHS. Legislative Parliaments are excluded (see separate Connection). Where a Congress/Conference led to the signing of a Treaty at the same location it is "connected" with the more "famous" title.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Congresses and Conferences':

  • Independence Hall "2nd Continental Congress" (1775-83). To manage the war effort (War of Independence)
  • Panamá Viejo Salon Bolivar - "Panama Congress" (1826) - organised by Bolivar in an attempt to promote pan-American unity
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine The Paris Peace Conference (1919) to end WWI (The various treaties - Versailles, Saint-Germain, Trianon etc were signed elsewhere as per their titles) was held in the Salon de l'Horloge at the French Foreign Ministry in the Quai d'Orsay.; link
  • Potsdam Schloss Cecilienhof -"Potsdam Conference" (1945) - Stalin, Churchill/Atlee and Truman to discuss the post WWII order. Led to the Potsdam Agreement and Potsdam Declaration.
  • Schönbrunn The Congress of Vienna to decide the map of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars was held here.