Man-made Terraces
Notable terraces laid out in gardens and parks, or for agricultural use.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Alto Douro | patamares | |
| Ambohimanga | ||
| Assisi | Roman city plan (which is still intact) was based on terraces | |
| Bahá’i Holy Places | Bahai gardens | |
| Bali Subak system | ||
| Bassari Country | Fields are organised in terraces (AB ev) | |
| Battir | ||
| Bethlehem | terraced gardens | |
| Changdeokgung Palace Complex | "The garden was landscaped with a series of terraces planted with lawns, flowering trees, flowers, a lotus pool and pavilions set against a wooded background." - AB Document (Unesco Description) | |
| Chavin | ||
| Chichen-Itza | surrounding El Castillo | |
| Costiera Amalfitana | used for the vineyards | |
| Dacian Fortresses | Sarmizegetusa Regia was constructed on five terraces (wiki) | |
| El Fuerte de Samaipata | By the Incas | |
| Fort and Shalamar Gardens | Shalamar Gardens are terraced | |
| Hani Rice Terraces | ||
| Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine | "... over 1,000 man-made flat terraces, large and small, have been identified. The flat areas are the sites of workshops where silver production was carried out" (nom file) | |
| Konso | ||
| Koutammakou | "Some of the fields are terraces on the hills." | |
| Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces | ||
| Machu Picchu | ||
| Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley | ||
| Maulbronn Monastery | The Cistercians (and their lay brothers) made them for water management purposes | |
| Medina Azahara | To construct the buildings on different terraces, the mountainside had to be specially prepared. The bare rock was cut and the foundations filled in with the resulting stone blocks to create a wall, and then on the outside, the foundations were filled in and supported by thick retaining walls. (AB ev) | |
| Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha | "The monasteries demonstrate a flexible architectural style that adapts to the landscape. Some, such as the halls of Baoguosi, are built on terraces of varying levels" (wiki) | |
| Nemrut Dag | "This funerary mound, whose interior layout remains unknown despite numerous attempts to locate the dromos, is surrounded on the east, west and north sides by artificial terraces" (AB ev) | |
| Oaxaca and Monte Alban | Monte Alban: "the site is characterized by several hundred artificial terraces" (wiki) | |
| Palenque | ||
| Persepolis | Persepolis is located over a half artificial terrace. | |
| Petra | ||
| Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands | ||
| Potsdam | Sans Souci Palace Vineyard Terrace | |
| Preah Vihear Temple | (stone terraces attached to the hills forming entraces and temple grounds) | |
| Qadisha Valley | agricultural terraces | |
| Qalhat | funerary terraces (AB ev) | |
| Qhapaq Ñan | Huacahuasi, Rumiqolqa, Choqetakarpu | |
| Quebrada de Humahuaca | The precolumbian site of Coctaca has agricultural terraces | |
| Quirigua | ||
| Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | Villa della Regina's Terrace Garden | |
| Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras | ||
| Rio Abiseo National Park | Gran Pajat | |
| San Agustín | "huge monumental platforms, terraces and mounds" | |
| San Pedro de la Roca Castle | built in a series of terraces | |
| Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | Pumapungo | |
| Serra de Tramuntana | ||
| Sukur | Terraced fields | |
| Tarraco | built on terraces | |
| Um er-Rasas | Cultivated terraces were built by damming the bottom of local wadis with low terrace walls (nom file) | |
| Upper Middle Rhine Valley | ||
| Vat Phou | Vat Phou Temple (stone terraces attached to the hills forming entraces and temple grounds) | |
| Vatican City | Cortile del Belvedere (never completed) | |
| Villa d'Este | ||
| Wachau Cultural Landscape | vine terraces | |
| Wulingyuan | Rice field terraces of Tujia villages | |
| Xochicalco | "The main ceremonial center is atop an artificially leveled hill, with remains of residential structures, mostly unexcavated, on long terraces covering the slopes" W(wiki) |
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