Dynastic Burial Places

Burial sites of Ruling Dynasties, containing the graves of several family members and stretching over decades/centuries

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Dynastic Burial Places':

  • Ambohimanga Used to be the location for the Merina Dynastic Tombs (the mortal remains were transferred in 1897 by the French, but that didn't reduce the holiness of the site for the Malagasy people)
  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Valley of the Kings
  • Archaeological Site of Aigai Kings of Macedonia
  • Birka and Hovgĺrden Hovgarden
  • City of Luxembourg Notre-Dame Cathedral for Duchy of Luxembourg
  • Cracow Wawel Cathedral - numerous Polish monarchs
  • El Escurial Pantheon of the Kings of Spain
  • Gebel Barkal "Later Napatan pyramids were sited at Nuri, on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Nubia. This necropolis was the burial place of 21 kings and 52 queens and princes. The oldest and largest pyramid at Nuri is that of the Napatan king and twenty-fifth dynasty pharaoh Taharqa. The most extensive Nubian pyramid site is at Meroe, which is located between the fifth and sixth cataracts of the Nile, approximately one hundred kilometres north of Khartoum. During the Meroitic period over forty kings and queens were buried there."
  • Gyeongju Tombs of ancient Silla dynasty
  • Hué Tombs of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945)
  • Imperial Tombs Chinese Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
  • Koguryo Tombs Burial site of kings from the Koguryo Kingdom (32 BC - AD 427)
  • Kremlin and Red Square Cathedral of the Archangel - various tsars
  • Medina of Marrakesh Saadian Tombs, containing about sixty members of the Saadi Dynasty of Morocco (1554 - 1659)
  • Monastery of Alcobaça Kings Afonso II, Afonso III, and their Queens Urraca of Castile and Beatrice of Castile are buried here, as well as King Pedro I and his mistress, Inęs de Castro.
  • Mtskheta Georgian monarchs
  • Naples Santa Chiara for Bourbon Dynasty
  • Nesvizh "The physical presence of the Radziwills’ remains in situ with the 72 coffins and sarcophagi of the Corpus Christy Church-Mausoleum." (AB)
  • Poblet Monastery Kings and queens of Catalonia and Aragon
  • Prague St. Vitus Cathedral, tombs of Bohemian kings
  • Roskilde Cathedral Danish monarchs since the 15th century
  • Royal Joseon Tombs
  • Royal Palaces of Abomey Includes the royal tcmbs of Tegbessou (1728-1774), Kpengla (1774-1789) and Agouglo (1789-1797)
  • Samarkand (Gur-e Amir) family crypt of the Timurid Dynasty
  • Speyer Cathedral German emperors and kings, 1039-1308
  • St. Petersburg Peter and Paul Cathedral - almost all the Russian Emperors and Empresses from Peter the Great to Nicholas II
  • Studenica Monastery Contains the remains of the first Serbian kings
  • Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius Confucius' tomb and the remains of more than 100,000 of his descendants
  • Tombs of Buganda Kings Royal Tombs of the Baganda (4, since late 19th century)
  • Verona Scaliger Tombs
  • Vienna Habsburgs Imperial Crypt Capuchin Church
  • Westminster Westminster Abbey, English and British Monarchs
  • Yin Xu Nine royal tombs from the Late Shang Dynasty (1300-1046 BC)