World Heritage Identification Number: 1063
World Heritage since: 2002
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇭🇺 Hungary
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape: A Glimpse into the Heart of Hungarian Viticulture
The Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape, inscribed by UNESCO in 2002, offers a captivating glimpse into the heart of Hungarian viticulture. This cultural landscape, nestled within the low hills and river valleys of northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia, is one of the seven major wine regions of Hungary, known as Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
The cultural landscape of Tokaj graphically demonstrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low hills and river valleys. The intricate pattern of vineyards, farms, villages and small towns, with their historic networks of deep wine cellars, illustrates every facet of the production of the famous Tokaj wines, the quality and management of which have been strictly regulated for nearly three centuries.
UNESCO Justification of the World Heritage Site
Criterion (iii): The Tokaji wine region represents a distinct viticultural tradition that has existed for at least a thousand years and which has survived intact up to the present.
Criterion (v): The entire landscape of the Tokaji wine region, including both vineyards and long established settlements, vividly illustrates the specialized form of traditional land-use that it represents.
Encyclopedia Record: Tokaj wine region
Tokaj wine region or Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. It is also one of the seven larger wine regions of Hungary. Hegyalja means "foothills" in Hungarian, and this was the original name of the region.Additional Site Details
Area: 13,255 hectares
(v) — Outstanding example of traditional human settlement
Coordinates: 48.15 , 21.35
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