UNESCO World Heritage Site

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Czechia, inscribed in 1996.

Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. It married Baroque architecture (mainly the work of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach) and the classical and neo-Gothic style of the ca

Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. It married Baroque architecture (mainly the work of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach) and the classical and neo-Gothic style of the castles of Lednice and Valtice with countryside fashioned according to English romantic principles of landscape architecture. At 200 km2 , it is one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe.

Country
Czechia
Region
Europe
Category
Cultural
Inscribed
1996
UNESCO reference
763
Area
14,398.5 ha

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