World Heritage Identification Number: 1044
World Heritage since: 2001
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇪🇸 Spain
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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Aranjuez Cultural Landscape: A Royal Legacy in the Heart of Spain
The Aranjuez Cultural Landscape, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, is a captivating testament to the harmonious blend of nature and human ingenuity that unfolds across the verdant plains of Spain's Community of Madrid. This enchanting landscape, centered around the historic town of Aranjuez, offers a unique chronicle of three centuries of royal patronage, architectural innovation, and horticultural advancements.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the delicately modulated architecture of its palatial buildings. Three hundred years of royal attention to the development and care of this landscape have seen it express an evolution of concepts from humanism and political centralization, to characteristics such as those found in its 18th century French-style Baroque garden, to the urban lifestyle which developed alongside the sciences of plant acclimatization and stock-breeding during the Age of Enlightenment.
UNESCO Justification of the World Heritage Site
Criterion ii : Aranjuez represents the coming together of diverse cultural influences to create a cultural landscape that had a formative influence on further developments in this field.
Criterion iv : The complex designed cultural landscape of Aranjuez, derived from a variety of sources, mark a seminal stage in the development of landscape design.
Encyclopedia Record: Aranjuez
Aranjuez is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Community of Madrid.Additional Site Details
Area: 2,047.56 hectares
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: 40.03645 , -3.60934
