Famous tapestries

Connected Sites: 22

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Connected Sites

  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    622
    9
    Tapestries by Rafael in the Sistine Chapel
  • Burgos Cathedral
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.43
    196
    8
    A number of Flemish tapestries
  • Strasbourg
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.52
    403
    10
    Strasbourg Cathedral
  • Guimarães
    Guimarães
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.01
    234
    10
    Palace of the Dukes of Braganza: "In its vast collection, are the tapestries of Pastrana, which narrate some of the events in North African conquests, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves ... and a collection of Flemish tapestries by Peter Paul Rubens, among others"
  • Mont-Saint-Michel
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.17
    338
    17
    Depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
  • Santiago de Compostela
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.56
    232
    7
    The Santiago Cathedral Museum houses "tapestries by Rubens, Teniers, Josédel Castillo or Goya"
    See museos.xunta.gal
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.16
    201
    7
    Palazzo Ducale: "The nine tapestries with the Stories of Saint Peter and Saint Paul were woven in Brussels around 1550 after the cartoons that Raphael created for Pope Leo X for a set of tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel."
    See mantovaducale.beniculturali.it
  • Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.14
    159
    11
    La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza has a large and valuable collection of Flemish and French tapestries which used to be displayed inside the cathedral
  • Blenheim Palace
    Blenheim Palace
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.06
    237
    12
    Series of 10, made in Brussels, depicting the battles in the Wars of the Spanish Succession by the 1st Duke of Marlborough
  • El Escurial
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.35
    259
    13
    The monastery of San Lorenzo, main beneficiary of that Royal collection, still has a rich collection of tapestries. Many of them from Bayeau and Goya and a few from Watteau. (Until recently they couldn't be visited)
  • Westminster
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    641
    16
    Westminster Abbey is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
  • Upper Middle Rhine Valley
    Inscribed: 2002
    3.66
    329
    12
    Koblenz: the elector's former palace is now a museum; among other curiosities, it contains some fine Gobelin tapestries. (Wiki)
  • Rammelsberg and Goslar
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.20
    210
    11
    Goslar - Margaretendecke (1440) at St. Annenhaus
  • Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.91
    330
    6
    The Prado has a rich tapestry collection, most of which is of Royal origin. It includes almost all the important works of tapestry from Goya.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.20
    690
    20
    105 carpets prepared by Le Brun for the Louvre
  • Kronborg Castle
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.11
    294
    11
    40 King's Tapestries (1580) displaying no less than 113 historic Danish kings ("To reach such a high number, Frederik II included all sorts of legendary kings"). 14 have survived, 7 are still in the castle
    See www.kronborgcastle.com
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    450
    19
    Tapestries in the cathedral and in the castle
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.37
    499
    12
    Numerous Seljuk carpets
  • Grand Place, Brussels
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.49
    564
    20

    The Broodhuis or Maison du Roi houses the Museum of the City of Brussels. It houses a collection of 16th and 17th century tapestries. (Wikipedia)
  • Golden Mountains of Altai
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.38
    22
    3
    The 5th century BC Pazyryk carpet, a product of an Achaemenid carpet production centre, was discovered in 1949 in the Altai Mountains.
  • Belfries
    Belfries
    Belgium, France
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.92
    454
    17
    Belfrie of Oudenaarde: The tapestries hanging in the Lower Cloth Hall and the adjacent Cloth Hall building represent an art form that brought the city fame between about the 15th-18th centuries
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Arles
    Arles
    France
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.43
    290
    8