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':

  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Valley of the Kings
  • City of Luxembourg Notre-Dame Cathedral for Duchy of Luxembourg
  • Cracow Wawel Cathedral - numerous Polish monarchs
  • Dresden Elbe Valley Tombs of royal family of Saxony
  • El Escurial Pantheon of the Kings of Spain
  • 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)
  • Mtskheta Georgian monarchs
  • Naples Santa Chiara for Bourbon Dynasty
  • 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 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
  • 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)