Dubbed 'White City'
WHS that hold the nickname "White City" (in any language).
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Arequipa | La Ciudad Blanca (The building material is white "Sillar") | |
| Berat and Gjirokastra | The name of the city in Albanian is "Berat" or "Berati", which is probably derived from the Old Slavonic Бѣлградъ or "Bel(i)grad"[(Белград, meaning "white city" in theSouth Slavic languages), under which name it was known in Greek, Bulgarian, Latin and Slavic documents during the High and Late Middle Ages | |
| Berlin Modernism Housing Estates | One of the estates is called "Weisse Stadt" = "White City | |
| Kasbah of Algiers | Nicknamed "Al bidha meaning « the white » is what the city's called because of its white washed buildings whether they originated from colonial powers or local populations." (wiki) | |
| Sucre | La Ciudad Blanca | |
| Syracuse | The architecture of Syracuse almost always shows white facades, tending towards beige or yellow-gold, since they were built with the Iblei stone. For this reason Syracuse is often called, architecturally, the "white city". (wiki) | |
| White City of Tel-Aviv | "In 1984, in celebration of Tel Aviv's 75th year,[7] an exhibition was held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art entitled White City, International Style Architecture in Israel, Portrait of an Era. Some sources trace the origin of the term "White City" to this exhibition and its curator Michael Levin, some to the poet Nathan Alterman" (wiki) |
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