Neoclassical architecture
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Aranjuez | Casa del Labrador | |
Arequipa | Arequipa Cathedral | |
Asmara | President's Palace: "Governor Ferdinando Martini wanted a structure with colonnades at the entrance in neoclassical style" (wiki) | |
Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University | "unique examples of classical and neoclassical buildings" (AB ev) | |
Bahá’i Holy Places | ||
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe | Schloss Wilhelmshöhe | |
Bom Jesus do Monte | The sanctuary, which has been rebuilt and enlarged over time, is marked by Baroque as well as Rococo and Neo-Classical style architecture (AB ev) | |
Bordeaux | Bordeaux is exceptional in the unity of its urban and architectural classical and neo-classical expression (OUV) | |
Camagüey | ||
Camino Real | Ojuelos - a square with 19th century arcading in Mudejar and Neoclassic style (AB ev) | |
Cienfuegos | ||
Classical Weimar | Roman House | |
Cordouan Lighthouse | The upper part of the lighthouse was built in 1788-1789, in the neoclassical style of the late 18th century (nom file p8) | |
Corfu | ||
Edinburgh | New Town | |
El Escurial | 318-002 Subsidiary building "La Casita del Infante" | |
Florence | The loggia at the Piazzale Michelangelo was designed in the neoclassical style. | |
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War | Saint-Quentin German military cemetery | |
Great Spa Towns of Europe | "Generally, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, neo-classical styles of architecture were adopted for principal spa buildings such as baths, treatment rooms, conversation houses and assembly rooms." Bath Street in Bath is "an exemplary model of civic urban intervention by inserting a neoclassical street through the existing Jacobean fabric of the seventeenth century." (Nomination File, p. 282, 318) | |
Grimeton Radio Station | ||
Island of Patmos | Chora: there is a small group of neo-classical houses dating from the 19th century (AB ev) | |
Karlskrona | Admiral Chapman's estate at Skärva | |
León Cathedral | Transition from baroque to neo-classic | |
Lima | Several altarpieces in the Cathedral, Facade of Municipal Palace, Inside patio of Casa Negreiros | |
Litomysl Castle | The theatre | |
Luang Prabang | Royal Palace is built in French neoclassical style | |
Mafra | A monumental Baroque and Italianized Neoclassical palace-monastery (wiki) | |
Mexico City and Xochimilco | At the end of the colonial period and during roughly the first century of its independent life, the historic centre of the city received numerous works in the neoclassical style. Just like in many other countries, this style was used to relate the new nation and its surging institutions to the glories of the Democracy of Athens and the Republic of Rome. Examples: • Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de la Virgen María: as it was ended in 1813, when the neoclassical style was becoming widely adopted. These neoclassical works were developed by Architect Manuel Tolsá, who built the clock tower and the dome of the cathedral. At Plaza de la Constitución S/N. • Church of Nuestra Señora de Loreto: at San Ildefonso 80. • La Profesa, Oratory of San Felipe Neri: at Isabel La Católica 21. Concluded in neoclassical style by Manuel Tolsá. • Palacio de Minería: also by Manuel Tolsá, at Tacuba #5 • Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL): at Tacuba #8. Initially the seat of the "Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas" • Carlos the IV statue or "El Caballito". • Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris: by Ignacio Capetillo Servín and Federico Mariscal, at Donceles #36. • Hemiciclo de Juárez: at Alameda Central Park. • Palacio de Bellas Artes: by Ádamo Boari, as was typical in the period, the building is very eclectic, but neoclassicism may be considered the predominant style. At Juárez Av. S/N • Antigua Escuela de Economía: at República de Economía #92. By architect Manuel Gorozpe. | |
Mining Sites of Wallonia | Bois du Luc service buildings, Grand Hornu | |
Monticello | ||
Mostar | All administrative buildings were built by the Austrians after 1878 in the Neoclassical style | |
Museumsinsel (Museum Island) | ||
Naples | Villa Pignatelli and Basilica San Francesco di Paola | |
Nice | Its hotels, villas and apartment buildings (immeubles d’agrément) showcase the succession of styles that were fashionable in Europe between the end of the 18th century and the middle of the 20th century, from neo-classicism to the modern movement, via the historicist eclecticism of the Belle-Époque and Art Deco. (AB ev) | |
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin | Château de l'Hermitage | |
Old Havana | its old centre retaining an interesting mix of Baroque and neoclassical monuments (Unesco website) | |
Oporto | Palacio de la Bolsa | |
Paramaribo | the neoclassical Reformed Church is built from brick (unesco website) | |
Paris, Banks of the Seine | Église de la Madeleine | |
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | The Prado museum, the royal observatory and the botanical garden were all designed by Juan de Villanueva, "the best known architect of Spanish Neoclassicism" (wiki) | |
Plečnik's Ljubljana | neoclassical Church of St. Francis of Assisi | |
Portobelo-San Lorenzo | Antonelli's Spanish military architecture characterizes the first construction period (1596-99) and the neoclassical style of Salas and Hernandez (1753-60) dominated afterwards. (long description unesco website) | |
Potsdam | Glienicke Castle (Berlin) | |
Québec | the city took on its present aspect, which was greatly influenced by the Baillairges, a dynasty of architects who, for several generations, imposed an interesting interpretation of the neo-classical style (AB ev) | |
Rammelsberg and Goslar | The portal building at the mouth of the Ernst-August Tunnel (Ernst-August-Stollen) in Gittelde is in neoclassical style. | |
Regensburg | Residential Palace (1804) | |
Rome | Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II | |
Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans | ||
Salvador de Bahia | Neoclassical façade of Rio Branco Palace | |
San Cristobal de La Laguna | Facade of the cathedral | |
San Marino and Mount Titano | "The inscribed city centre includes fortification towers, walls, gates and bastions, as well as a neo-classical basilica of the 19th century, (...)" (Official description) | |
Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | the Palace of Justice, a solid neoclassical building (nom file) | |
Santiago de Compostela | neoclassical façade at Convent and Church of Santo Agostiño | |
Schwerin Residence Ensemble | "The buildings form an architectural ensemble which reflects the historicist spirit of the time, ranging from neo-Renaissance to neo-Baroque and neo-Classical (...)." "Neo-Classicism (...) is represented by the Governmental Administration Buildings I and II, the Marstall (Royal Stables) and the Museum". (Ab Ev) | |
Siena | The Neoclassical facade of the San Cristoforo church in Piazza Tolomei, Collegio Tolomei, Palazzo Incontri, among others. | |
Sintra | Seteais Palace, Palace of Ramalhão (wiki) | |
Spissky Hrad and Levoca | Large Provincial House in Levoca | |
St. George, Bermuda | Ebenezer Methodist Church of 1840 | |
St. Petersburg | ||
Studley Royal Park | Temple of Piety | |
Sucre | late 18th, early 19th century buildings in a style brought from metropolitan Spain (AB ev) | |
São Luis | "a number of public buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which are largely in neoclassical style" (AB ev) | |
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine | Friedrich Mine Adit Portal : "The architecture of the portal, ..., exhibits Prussian neoclassical features and character." (AB ev) | |
Tequila | El Martineno Distillery, Tequila (1870) | |
Tlacotalpan | The other church along the plaza is the San Cristóbal Parish, which dates from 1849. It is Neoclassical with some Moorish influence (wiki) | |
Tower of Hercules | Restoration | |
Urbino | Duomo | |
Val di Noto | Noto Cathedral: "In the 19th century the dome had to be reconstructed twice, ending up as a Neo-Classical construction, after collapses caused by earthquakes." | |
Verona | Town Hall | |
Versailles | Petit Trianon | |
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai | early 20th century Edwardian Neo-classical style (AB ev) | |
Vienna | Parliament, Burgtheater, State Opera | |
Willemstad | Villa Maria mansion | |
Yaroslavl | On the embankment of Volga, there are a number of significant neo-classical buildings (AB ev) |
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