Canals



World Heritage Sites connected to 'Canals':

  • Amsterdam Canal Ring
  • Ayutthaya Ayutthaya Historic Zone has many canals and waterways
  • Bali Subak system for water management
  • Bamberg The inscribed centre includes some remains of the "Ludwig Canal" including "Lock 100" and quays/old cranes alongside the street "Am Kanal". The Ludwig Canal was built between 1836/46 as the first attempt to link the Main and Danube. See ; link
  • Banska Stiavnica Network of canals connecting the water reservoirs
  • Beemster Polder
  • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Brecknock and Abergavenny canal
  • Brugge
  • Canal du Midi
  • City of Bath Kennet and Avon Canal
  • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Tavistock canal
  • Defence Line of Amsterdam "... canals nave been built to drain the land" (AB ev)
  • Derwent Valley Mills
  • Ferrara Canale San Nicolo-Medelana
  • Fort and Shalamar Gardens
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire Antonine Wall: when a new section of the Union Canal was built in 2000 a Tunnel was built under the wall to avoid damaging it.
  • Ironbridge Gorge Shropshire Canal
  • Las Medulas Roman canals
  • Liverpool Leeds and Liverpool Canal (via Stanley Dock)
  • Mexico City Xochimilco
  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
  • Provins "Some of the canals have been covered, but most still remain as in the Middle Ages."
  • Rideau Canal
  • Saltaire Leeds and Liverpool canal
  • Shushtar
  • Sian Ka'an Recently, a 24 km Mayan artificial canal was discovered (Unesco website)
  • St. Petersburg Kronstadt - The Peter and Catherine Canals, Ligovsky Canal
  • The Four Lifts Canal du Centre
  • Venice and its Lagoon
  • Vienna Danube canal