New Towns

Connected Sites: 9

New Towns which are specifically included in the nomination.

Connected Sites

  • Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1995
    4.00
    471
    17
    "the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the 18th century onwards had a far-reaching influence on European urban planning"
  • Strasbourg
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.52
    393
    10
    "the Neustadt, new town, designed and built under the German administration (1871-1918)"
  • Riga
    Riga
    Latvia
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.54
    355
    15
    "...at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, when Art Nouveau was at the height of its popularity, Riga experienced an unprecedented financial and demographic boom.... The middle class of Riga used their acquired wealth to build imposing apartment blocks outside the former city walls" (wiki)
  • Naples
    Naples
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.48
    435
    9
    Nea Polis (Neápolis/Napoli) means New Town. It was founded as an extension of the old Greek town of Parthenope.
  • Quedlinburg
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.25
    210
    9
    "Around the year 1,200, the Quedlinburg New Town began to develop along the walls of the Old Town behind the Mühlgraben canal. Its inhabitants came from the villages surrounding Quedlinburg"
    See www.quedlinburg.de
  • Prague
    Prague
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.28
    585
    16
    "a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem)"
  • Nice
    Nice
    France
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.78
    353
    5
    "(...) vacationing led to the proactive implementation of specific forms of town planning which were deployed in several phases, first from the first two poles constituted by the "Vila Nova" and the "New Borough" (...)" (Official description) – Next to a pre-existing urban core, a new town was formed from the end of the 18th century, whose development and characteristics were determined by the winter resort function in the 19th century, and an increasingly important summer resort function from the 1920s. (Nomination file, p. 300)
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    442
    16
    The new town of Františkovy Lázně "was laid out initially along a central axis (founded on Baroque principles of axiality and symmetry) within which the principal functions of the spa were concentrated." (Ab Ev)
  • Schwerin Residence Ensemble
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.85
    116
    5
    Parts of the new town are specifically included, for example, Neustädtisches Palais.