Dynastic Burial Places

Connected Sites: 52

Definition
Burial sites of Ruling Dynasties, containing the graves of several family members and stretching over decades/centuries

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Connected Sites

  • Speyer Cathedral
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.03
    264
    13
    German emperors and kings, 1039-1308
  • Tombs of Buganda Kings
    Inscribed: 2001
    1.94
    43
    6
    Royal Tombs of the Baganda (4, since late 19th century)
  • Mtskheta
    Mtskheta
    Georgia
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.18
    175
    5
    Georgian monarchs
  • Medina of Marrakesh
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.73
    335
    11
    Saadian Tombs, containing about sixty members of the Saadi Dynasty of Morocco (1554 - 1659)
  • St. Petersburg
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.19
    268
    9
    Peter and Paul Cathedral - almost all the Russian Emperors and Empresses from Peter the Great to Nicholas II
  • Hué
    Hué
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.30
    239
    7
    Tombs of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945)
  • Samarkand
    Samarkand
    Uzbekistan
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.37
    167
    6
    (Gur-e Amir) family crypt of the Timurid Dynasty
  • Naples
    Naples
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.48
    435
    9
    Santa Chiara for Bourbon Dynasty
  • Gebel Barkal
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.13
    30
    4
    "Later Napatan pyramids were sited at Nuri, on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Nubia. This necropolis was the burial place of 21 kings and 52 queens and princes. The oldest and largest pyramid at Nuri is that of the Napatan king and twenty-fifth dynasty pharaoh Taharqa. The most extensive Nubian pyramid site is at Meroe, which is located between the fifth and sixth cataracts of the Nile, approximately one hundred kilometres north of Khartoum. During the Meroitic period over forty kings and queens were buried there."
  • Monastery of Alcobaça
    Inscribed: 1989
    3.20
    220
    11
    Kings Afonso II, Afonso III, and their Queens Urraca of Castile and Beatrice of Castile are buried here, as well as King Pedro I and his mistress, In?s de Castro.
  • Nesvizh
    Nesvizh
    Belarus
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.51
    94
    6
    "The physical presence of the Radziwills? remains in situ with the 72 coffins and sarcophagi of the Corpus Christy Church-Mausoleum." (AB)
  • Novodevichy Convent
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.81
    145
    9
    The cathedral served as burial place for women of the tsarist and ruling families (AB ev)
  • Meroe
    Meroe
    Sudan
    Inscribed: 2011
    4.04
    34
    4
    Contains the tombs of several Kentakes of Kush (as well as numerous Kings)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Monastery of Batalha
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.44
    233
    11
    first royal pantheon in Portugal
  • Medina of Tunis
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.05
    182
    3
    Tourbet el Bey: "the last resting place of most of the Husainid dynasty rulers of Tunisia"
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Santiago de Compostela
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.56
    228
    7
    Cathedral: "The Royal Pantheon displays tombs and reclining statues of kings of Galicia and León that died in the 12th to 14th c.: Fernando II of León, Alfonso IX (VIII of Galicia), the queen Doña Berenguela (wife of Alfonso VII), Doña Juana de Castro (wife of Peter the Cruel) and Raymond of Burgundy, niece of Pope Callixtus II and son-in-law of Alfonso VI, among others."
    See www.santiagoturismo.com
  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    611
    19
    Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paolo for the Venetian doges
  • Urbino
    Urbino
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.27
    185
    8
    From 1538, the (now former) monastery of Santa Chiara became the ducal dynastic burial place with the burial of Duke Francesco Maria I Della Rovere, his wife Eleonora Gonzaga, his son Cardinal Giulio Della Rovere, his daughter-in-law Giulia Varano (first wife of Duke Guidobaldo II) and his niece Eleonora or Lavinia Della Rovere (daughter of Duke Guidobaldo II and Vittoria Farnese).
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Yin Xu
    Yin Xu
    China
    Inscribed: 2006
    3.19
    47
    3
    Nine royal tombs from the Late Shang Dynasty (1300-1046 BC)
  • Moidams
    Moidams
    India
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.06
    5
    3
    "The moidams of Charaideo contain the remains of the Tai-Ahom kings" (AB ev)
  • Archaeological Site of Aigai
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.52
    123
    11
    Kings of Macedonia
  • El Escurial
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.35
    255
    13
    Pantheon of the Kings of Spain
  • Westminster
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    632
    16
    Westminster Abbey, English and British Monarchs
  • Birka and Hovgarden
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.28
    110
    9
    Hovgarden
  • Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.90
    22
    3
    Bin Tepe is the burial place of the Lydian kings
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    592
    20
    Habsburgs Imperial Crypt Capuchin Church
  • Verona
    Verona
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.61
    368
    12
    Scaliger Tombs
  • Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.28
    76
    7
    Confucius' tomb and the remains of more than 100,000 of his descendants
  • Studenica Monastery
    Inscribed: 1986
    2.97
    95
    6
    Contains the remains of the first Serbian kings
  • Royal Joseon Tombs
    Royal Joseon Tombs
    Republic of Korea
    Inscribed: 2009
    2.66
    140
    9
  • Roskilde Cathedral
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.80
    270
    8
    Danish monarchs since the 15th century
  • Prague
    Prague
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.28
    587
    16
    St. Vitus Cathedral, tombs of Bohemian kings
  • Poblet Monastery
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.05
    157
    8
    Kings and queens of Catalonia and Aragon
  • Longobards in Italy
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.81
    227
    14
    Brescia: "Following the example of his predecessors, he [King Desiderius] too pursued the hope of defining a stable and lasting rule, (...) turning San Salvatore into a dynastic tomb, and centering his family's political and financial power upon the monastery of Santa Giulia. This is documented (...) by the fact that the monastery's founder Queen Ansa, and possibly other members of the family were buried in the church." (Nomination file, p. 139)
  • Kremlin and Red Square
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.02
    254
    8
    Cathedral of the Archangel - various tsars
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    438
    19
    Wawel Cathedral - numerous Polish monarchs
  • Koguryo Tombs
    Koguryo Tombs
    Korea (DPR)
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.73
    23
    2
    Burial site of kings from the Goguryo Kingdom (427 AD - 668 AD)
  • Kaesong
    Korea (DPR)
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.37
    36
    2
    Goryeo Dynasty
  • Imperial Tombs
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.24
    218
    10
    Chinese Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
  • Gyeongju
    Gyeongju
    Republic of Korea
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.30
    146
    14
    Tombs of ancient Silla dynasty
  • Gusuku of Ryukyu
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    68
    10
    Tamaudun for the local second Sho Dynasty
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    443
    16
    "The Prince's Chapel [in Lichtenthal Abbey] was built in 1288, and until 1372 was the burial place of the Margraves of Baden."
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Gelati Monastery
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.18
    144
    6
    Within the four hectares monastic enclosure are royal graves, reflecting the monastery’s role as a burial place for the Georgian Royal family. (AB ev)
  • Florence
    Inscribed: 1982
    4.45
    588
    15
    Capelle Medicee at San Lorenzo
  • Ferrara
    Ferrara
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.19
    234
    10
    The monastery of Corpus Domini, founded in 1406, has traditionally been the main burial place of members of the Este family in the city
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • City of Luxembourg
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.17
    441
    12
    Notre-Dame Cathedral for Duchy of Luxembourg
  • Baekje Historic Areas
    Baekje Historic Areas
    Republic of Korea
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.42
    73
    8
    Baekje Dynasty (Tomb of King Muryeong)
  • Ancient Thebes
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.38
    257
    11
    Valley of the Kings
  • Ambohimanga
    Ambohimanga
    Madagascar
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.54
    44
    4
    Used to be the location for the Merina Dynastic Tombs (the mortal remains were transferred in 1897 by the French, but that didn't reduce the holiness of the site for the Malagasy people)
  • Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
    Inscribed: 1991
    2.29
    219
    11
    German Carolingian kings
  • Schwerin Residence Ensemble
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.85
    116
    5
    Schelfkirche: "It is the family burial place of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, including Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin." (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Royal Palaces of Abomey
    Inscribed: 1985
    2.72
    37
    2
    Includes the royal tcmbs of Tegbessou (1728-1774), Kpengla (1774-1789) and Agouglo (1789-1797)