UNESCO World Heritage Site

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany, inscribed in 2000.

The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of ag

The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.

Country
Germany
Region
Europe
Category
Cultural
Inscribed
2000
UNESCO reference
534
Area
11,891 ha

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