Early Mechanical Printing

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Early Mechanical Printing':

  • Aachen Cathedral Gutenburg created his first pieces with moveable type as momentos for pilgrims heading to Aachen, when this was cancelled one year he was forced to reveal his secret invention as a way of repaying len
  • Kiev Pechersk Lavra: early 17th century printshop, now Book and Book Binding Museum
  • Lima First print shop in 1584
  • Luther Memorials
  • Lyon
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta Sabbioneta: Hebrew printing-press (1567)
  • Mogao Caves Diamond Sutra (currently in the British Museum)
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
  • Plantin-Moretus Museum
  • Spissky Hrad & Levoca Levoca: "There was a printing press as early as 1624" (wiki)
  • Strasbourg-Grande īsle This is where Gutenberg lived when he perfected the movable type and first displayed the printing press
  • Venice and its Lagoon