World Heritage Identification Number: 541
World Heritage since: 1994
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇱🇹 Lithuania
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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A Journey Through Time: Exploring the Vilnius Historic Centre
The Vilnius Historic Centre, nestled in the heart of Lithuania's capital city, offers a captivating journey through time that showcases the rich cultural and architectural heritage of Eastern Europe. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994, this historic centre boasts an impressive complex of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical buildings, preserving a medieval layout and natural setting that has withstood the test of time.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
Political centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the end of the 18th century, Vilnius has had a profound influence on the cultural and architectural development of much of eastern Europe. Despite invasions and partial destruction, it has preserved an impressive complex of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and classical buildings as well as its medieval layout and natural setting.
Encyclopedia Record: Vilnius Old Town
The Old Town of Vilnius, one of the largest surviving medieval old towns in Northern Europe, as inscribed within UNESCO World Heritage Sites, has an area of 3.59 square kilometres. It encompasses 74 quarters, with 70 streets and lanes numbering 1487 buildings with a total floor area of 1,497,000 square meters. The administrative division of the Old Town is a larger territory and comprises more than 4.5 square kilometres. It was founded by the Lithuanian Grand Duke and King of Poland Jogaila in 1387 on the Magdeburg rights the oldest part of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, it had been developed over the course of many centuries, and has been shaped by the city's history and a constantly changing cultural influence. It is a place where some of Europe's greatest architectural styles—gothic, renaissance, baroque and neoclassical—stand side by side and complement each other. There are many Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox churches, residential houses, cultural and architectural monuments, museums in the Old Town.Additional Site Details
Area: 352.09 hectares
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: 54.68667 , 25.29306
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