World Heritage Identification Number: 618
World Heritage since: 1993
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇸🇰 Slovakia
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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The Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and Its Surroundings: A UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity, located in central Slovakia, offers a unique blend of history, culture, and natural beauty that has earned it a place on the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List since 1993. This small town nestled within the Štiavnica Mountains presents a well-preserved example of a medieval mining center transformed over time into a town adorned with Renaissance architecture, 16th-century churches, elegant squares, and castles.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
Over the centuries, the town of Banská Štiavnica was visited by many outstanding engineers and scientists who contributed to its fame. The old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past.
Encyclopedia Record: Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. For its size, the caldera is known as the Štiavnica Mountains. Banská Štiavnica has a population of less than 10,000. It is a completely preserved medieval town. Because of their historical value, the town and its surroundings were proclaimed by the UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site on December 11, 1993.Additional Site Details
Area: 20,632 hectares
(v) — Outstanding example of traditional human settlement
Coordinates: 48.46111 , 18.9
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