Sugar
WHS which in which the production or trade in Sugar played a significant role.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aapravasi Ghat | The Ghat was the arrival point for c half a million indentured labourers coming from India to work in the sugar plantations of Mauritius. | |
| Antigua Naval Dockyard | "Its aim was to protect the interests of sugar cane planters " (UNESCO) | |
| Bordeaux | 18th century sugar trade | |
| Bridgetown | the fortified port town was able to establish its importance in the British Atlantic trade and became an entrepôt for goods, especially sugar, and enslaved persons destined for Barbados and the rest of the Americas (unesco website) | |
| Cienfuegos | Cienfuegos blossomed as a port in the 19th century due to a boom in the regional sugar trade | |
| Paphos | . Following the prohibition of religions other than Christianity the Palaepaphos site became a sugar cane plantation. The Lusignan manor house was centre of operations. (There is a Lusignan sugar-cane refinery in the coastal plain but although it seems to be part of the Palaipaphos archaeological site to the Department of Antiquities it appears not to be within the inscribed area.) | |
| Rio de Janeiro | sugar plantations on the Tijuca (middle 17th century) | |
| Susa | sugar cane factory (12th century CE) | |
| The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier | Cité Frugès: This unique venture was initially commissioned in 1924 by the local industrialist Henry Frugès (1879-1974), whose wealth had been built on the success of his sugar refinery business | |
| Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios | Valley de los Ingenios: "a living museum of the sugar industry featuring 75 ruined sugar mills..." | |
| Wet Tropics of Queensland | Deforestation for sugar plantations has had a significant negative role in defining the areas of inscribed remnant rainforest. |
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