Dubbed 'White City'

Connected Sites: 7

Definition
WHS that hold the nickname "White City" (in any language).

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Connected Sites

  • Arequipa
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.34
    170
    10
    La Ciudad Blanca (The building material is white "Sillar")
  • Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.16
    277
    15
    One of the estates is called "Weisse Stadt" = "White City
  • Berat and Gjirokastra
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.54
    186
    7
    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
  • Inscribed: 2003
    2.43
    210
    11
    "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)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Syracuse
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.59
    248
    8
    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)
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Sucre
    Sucre
    Bolivia
    Inscribed: 1991
    2.86
    92
    7
    La Ciudad Blanca
  • Kasbah of Algiers
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.52
    56
    4
    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)