Download Excel File List of World Heritage Sites in Poland

SNo,Name,Location,Date,UNESCO data,Description1,Historic Centre of Krakw,Krakw,11th19th century,29; 1978;,"Krakw Old Town is the historic central district of Krakw, Poland. It is one of the most famous old districts in Poland today and was the center of Poland's political life from 1038 until King Sigismund III Vasa relocated his court to Warsaw in 1596. The entire medieval old town is among the first sites chosen for the UNESCO's World Heritage List, inscribed as Cracow's Historic Centre.",,5004?01?N 1957?36?E? / ?50.067N 19.96E,,iv,2,Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines,Wieliczka,13th-20th century,32; 1978;,"The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland, lies within the Krakw metropolitan area. The mine continuously produced table salt from the 13th century until 2007 as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines, for most of this time span being a part of the undertaking ?upy krakowskie. It is believed to be the world's 14th-oldest company.",,4958?45?N 2003?50?E? / ?49.979167N 20.063889E,,iv,3,"Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (19401945)",O?wi?cim,1940-1945,31; 1979;,"Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I (the Stammlager or base camp); Auschwitz IIBirkenau (the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp); Auschwitz IIIMonowitz, also known as BunaMonowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps.",,5002?09?N 1910?42?E? / ?50.035833N 19.178333E,,vi,4,Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bia?owie?a Forest,Belarus and Poland,N/A,33; 1979;,"The Bia?owie?a Forest is an ancient woodland straddling the border between the two countries, located 70km (43mi) north of Brest (Belarus) and 62km (39mi) south-east of Bia?ystok (Poland). It is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest which once spread across the European Plain. The first recorded piece of legislation on the protection of the forest dates to 1538, when a document issued by King Sigismund I the Old instituted the death penalty for poaching a wisent (European bison).",,5240?00?N 2350?00?E? / ?52.666667N 23.833333E,,vii,5,Historic Centre of Warsaw,Warsaw,13th20th century,30; 1980;,"Warsaw's Old Town was established in the 13th century. Initially surrounded by an earthwork rampart, prior to 1339 it was fortified with brick city walls. The town originally grew up around the castle of the Dukes of Mazovia that later became the Royal Castle. The Market Square (Rynek Starego Miasta) was laid out sometime in the late 13th or early 14th century, along the main road linking the castle with the New Town to the north.",,5214?59?N 2100?44?E? / ?52.2498N 21.0122E,,"ii, vi",6,Old City of Zamo??,Zamo??,158217th century,564; 1992;,"Jan Zamoyski commissioned the Italian architect Bernardo Morando to design the city that would be based on the anthropomorphic concept. The main distinguishing features of the Old Town have been well preserved since its establishment. It includes the regular Great Market Square of 100 x 100 meters with the splendid Townhall and so-called Armenian houses, as well as the fragments of the original fortress and fortifications, including those from the period of the Russian occupation in the 19th century.",,5043?14?N 2315?31?E? / ?50.720556N 23.258611E,,iv,7,Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork,Malbork,13th-14th century,847; 1997;,"The Castle in Malbork is the largest castle in the world by area. It was built in Prussia by the Teutonic Knights, a German Roman Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg (Mary's Castle). The town which grew around it was also named Marienburg. The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress, and on its completion in 1406 was the world's largest brick Gothic castle.",,5402?23?N 1901?40?E? / ?54.039722N 19.027778E,,"ii, iii, iv",8,Medieval Town of Toru?,Toru?,12th15th century,835; 1997;,"Toru? has many monuments of architecture beginning from the Middle Ages, including 200 military structures. The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick, including monumental churches, the Town Hall and many burgher houses. In 1236, due to frequent flooding, the city was relocated to the present site of the Old Town. In 1264 the nearby New Town was founded. In 1280, the city (or as it was then, both cities) joined the mercantile Hanseatic League, and thus became an important medieval trade centre.",,5302?00?N 1837?00?E? / ?53.033333N 18.616667E,,"ii, iv",9,Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park,Kalwaria Zebrzydowska,1605-1632,905; 1999;,"The town is named after the religious complex (calvary) founded by Governor of Krakw Miko?aj Zebrzydowski on December 1, 1602. The complex is known as the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska park. The city of Zebrzydw was established in 1617 in order to house the growing number of pilgrims visiting the religious complex.",,4951?37?N 1940?15?E? / ?49.860319N 19.670719E,,"ii, iv",10,Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica,"Jawor, ?widnica",1654-1657,1054; 2001;,"The Churches of Peace in Jawor and ?widnica in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which permitted the Lutherans in the Roman Catholic parts of Silesia to build three Evangelical churches from wood, loam and straw outside the city walls, without steeples and church bells. The construction time was limited to one year.",,5103?14?N 1611?46?E? / ?51.054N 16.196E,,"iii, iv, vi",11,Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland,Lesser Poland Voivodeship,15th-18th century,1053; 2003;,"The wooden church style of the region originated in the late Medieval, the late sixteenth century, and began with Gothic ornament and polychrome detail, but because they were timber construction, the structure, general form, and feeling is entirely different from the gothic architecture or Polish Gothic (in stone or brick).",,4951?34?N 2016?29?E? / ?49.859444N 20.274722E,,"iii, iv",12,Muskauer Park / Park Mu?akowski,Germany and Poland,1815-1844,1127; 2004;,"The Muskau Park is the largest and one of the most famous English gardens of Germany and Poland. Situated in the historic Upper Lusatia region, it covers 3.5 square kilometers (1.4sqmi) of land in Poland and 2.1km2 (0.81sqmi) in Germany. UNESCO added the park to its World Heritage List, as an exemplary example of cross-border cultural collaboration between Poland and Germany.",,5133?01?N 1443?36?E? / ?51.550278N 14.726667E,,"i, iv",13,Centennial Hall,Wroc?aw,1911-1913,1165; 2006;,"The Centennial Hall (formerly People's Hall) is a historic building in Wroc?aw. It was constructed according to the plans of architect Max Berg in 19111913, when the city was part of the German Empire. As an early landmark of reinforced concrete architecture, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.",,5106?26?N 1704?37?E? / ?51.107222N 17.076944E,,"i, ii, iv",14,Wooden Tserkvas of Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine,"(Brunary, Chotyniec, Kwiato?, Owczary, Powro?nik, Radru? Smolnik, Turza?sk) Poland and Ukraine",16th - 19th century,1424; 2013;,"Situated in the eastern fringe of eastern Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of 16 tserkvas, churches, built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. They represent the cultural expression of four ethnographic groups and the formal, decorative and technical characteristics they developed over time. The tserkvas bear testimony to a distinct building tradition rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design interwoven with elements of local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities cosmogony. The tserkvas are built on a tri-partite plan surmounted by open quadrilateral or octagonal domes and cupolas. They feature wooden bell towers, iconostasis screens, and interior polychrome decorations as well as churchyards, gatehouses and graveyards.",,,,"iii, iv",,,,,,For other more formats kindly visit www.downloadexcelfiles.com,,,,,,,,,,Original source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Sites_of_Poland,,,,,