Baroque
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Amsterdam Canal Ring | Dutch Baroque - several, including Paleis op de Dam | |
| Antigua Guatemala | Antigua is where the “Barroco Sísmico” or seismic baroque was developed thanks to Diego de Porres, a Guatemalan architect after the earthquakes of 1717. He also designed various baroque churches in Guatemala and in Central America such as Basílica de Esquipulas, Guatemala and Catedral de León, Nicaragua. | |
| Arequipa | ||
| Assisi | The temple of Minerva "currently houses a church, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, built in 1539 and renovated in Baroque style in the 17th century." | |
| Atlantic Forest South-East | Ivapurunduva's 'Quilombo' Chapel | |
| Banska Stiavnica | Calvary complex on Scharfenberg hill | |
| Baroque Churches | ||
| Belfries | belfry of Mons | |
| Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe | Baroque water display (AB ev) | |
| Bom Jesus do Monte | Carried out primarily in a Baroque style (AB ev) | |
| Brugge | church of Saint Walburga | |
| Budapest | Burg Palace | |
| Burgos Cathedral | Main Sacristy (1761-1765) | |
| Camino Real | Former convent of San Francisco in Tepeji del Río - Baroque murals by Juan Correa and Francisco Martinez ; Durango - large Baroque Cathedral (AB ev) | |
| City of Luxembourg | Saint Michael's Church "unites Romanesque and Baroque architectural styles, pre-dating the national Moselle Baroque style." | |
| Congonhas | ||
| Cordoba | Cathedral-Mosque: "The minaret has also been restyled into a Baroque bell tower.", also: Descalzas Convent, and other places in historic center. | |
| Corvey | Current Abbey is a replacement, built in Baroque style | |
| Cuzco | ||
| Diamantina | ||
| Drottningholm | ||
| Dubrovnik | Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains (Unesco website) | |
| Fasil Ghebbi | Baroque influence | |
| Ferrara | Chiesa dei Teatini, Palazzo Paradiso, San Carlo Borromeo | |
| Florence | Complex of San Firenze, Ognissanti, San Gaetano, Santa Maria del Carmine, the interior of the Santissima Annunziata and rooms decorated by Pietro da Cortona in the Palazzo Pitti | |
| Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda | There are also some features taken from Mexican baroque art of the 17th and 18th centuries (AB ev) | |
| Gammelstad | Pulpit in Nederlulea church | |
| Genoa | Genoa for many palaces on Strada Nuova | |
| Grand Place, Brussels | "(...) houses occupied by powerful corporations. Each different but built over a very short time, they illustrate remarkably the Baroque architecture of the late 17th century, with a singular treatment of the gables and decorations, sometimes fretted, sometimes more classical." (Official description) | |
| Graz | Schloss Eggenberg | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | The new town of Františkovy Lázně "was laid out initially along a central axis (founded on Baroque principles of axiality and symmetry) within which the principal functions of the spa were concentrated." "Following another fire in 1759, the city [of Karlovy Vary] was reconstructed according to late-Baroque principles." (Ab Ev) "A number of examples of Baroque architecture may be seen in The Great Spas of Europe. Bad Ems has some exemplars, including: one of the earliest hotels in Europe, the 'house with the four towers' located in the Kurpark". "The massive Baroque church of St Mary Magdalene stands high above the Vřídló Hotspring in Karlovy Vary". (Nomination File, p. 64, 317) | |
| Guanajuato | ||
| Hallstatt-Dachstein | "late Baroque additions" (AB ev) | |
| Heritage of Mercury | Idrija's Theatre and frescoes at the Gwerkenegg Castle | |
| Holy Trinity Column | ||
| Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba | ||
| Karlskrona | all main churches and civil buidings are built in Baroque Style | |
| Kotor | Many of the city palaces | |
| Kraków | St Anne's Church | |
| Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra | Pechersk Lavra | |
| L'viv | Dominican Church | |
| Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape | ||
| León Cathedral | Transition from baroque to neo-classic | |
| Lima | ... are typical examples of Hispano-American Baroque (AB ev) | |
| Litomysl Castle | sundials and 18th century modifications of the interior | |
| Longobards in Italy | Santa Sophia in Benevento: "the façade shows baroque influences, mirroring the configuration given to the whole building over the years following the 1668 earthquake, and features a joined gable with a slightly curved peak." (Nomination file, p. 204) + "In 1957 most of the original appearance was restored, basing on evidence from historical documentation, with the exception of the Baroque façade." (wiki) | |
| Macao | St. Joseph's Seminary Building and Church | |
| Mafra | A monumental Baroque and Italianized Neoclassical palace-monastery (wiki) | |
| Margravial Opera House | ||
| Mexico City and Xochimilco | As the capital of the "Virreinato de Nueva España" and known as the "City of Palaces" during the apogee of Baroque, the historic centre of Mexico City is full of ecclesiastical and civil jewels of baroque, as: • Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de la Santísima Virgen María: its construction started in 1571 and ended in 1813, therefore having a mix of consecutive architectural styles, but Baroque is considered the most prominent. At Plaza de la Constitución S/N. • La Profesa, Oratory of San Felipe Neri: at Isabel La Católica #21. Concluded in neoclassical style by Manuel Tolsá. • Chapel of Nuestra Señora del Pilar (la Enseñanza): at Donceles #102. • Temple and fmr. convent of Santa Inés: at Moneda #26. • Church and fmr. convent of San Francisco: At Francisco I. Madero #7. • Church of Santo Domingo: Belisario Rodríguez S/N. • Church of Santa Teresa la Antigua: above Capilla del Cristo. At Licenciado Verdad #8. • Church and Convent of Jesús María: at Jesús María #39. • Church of San Lorenzo Diácono y Mártir: at Belisario Domínguez #28. • Church of the Inmaculada Concepción: of a more subdued baroque style, at Belisario Domínguez #3. • Parish of Santa Catarina: at República de Brasil. • Fmr. Temple of San Agustín: at República de El Salvador #76. • Museo Nacional de las Culturas: at Moneda #13 (behind the National Palace). • Church de la Santísima Trinidad: at Emiliano Zapata #60. • Church of San Bernardo: at 20 de noviembre #33. • Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público: at Moneda #4. • Casa del Marqués de Prado Alegre: at Francisco I. Madero #39. • Palacio de los Condes de San Mateo de Valparaíso: at Isabel La Católica #44. • Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso: at Justo Sierra #16. • Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina: at República de Brasil #33. Initially the Palace of the Inquisition in the city, built 1732-1736. | |
| Mir Castle | First Renaissance, later Baroque style | |
| Moravian Church Settlements | Although the town plan possesses Baroque elements, the town was constructed in a time of change, and there are architectural elements from the Baroque, Rococo, and Classical styles. (nom file) | |
| Naples | Capella Sansevero, San Lorenzo Maggiore | |
| Nesvizh | Corpus Christi Church | |
| Novodevichy Convent | Moscow Baroque style | |
| Oaxaca and Monte Alban | The Church and former monastery of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (...) is a Baroque ecclesiastical building complex (wiki) | |
| Old Havana | its old centre retaining an interesting mix of Baroque and neoclassical monuments (Unesco website) | |
| Olinda | about twenty baroque churches (OUV) | |
| Oporto | Church of Sao Francisco (noted for its outstanding Baroque inner decoration - wiki) | |
| Ouro Preto | ||
| Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles | Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua: "The largest of the chapels that open off the ambulatory is the Treasury Chapel, a baroque work by the Genoese architect Filippo Parodi, a pupil of Bernini." (Nomination file, p. 115) | |
| Par force hunting landscape | Eremitageslottet | |
| Paraty and Ilha Grande | There are four important historic baroque churches in Paraty (wiki) | |
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | Les Invalides | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | The Hall of Realms, the last remnant of the baroque Palace of "el buen Retiro". | |
| Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk | ||
| Plantin-Moretus Museum | "Criterion (iv): As an outstanding example of the relationship between the living environment of a family during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the world of work and the world of commerce, the Plantin-Moretus Complex is of unrivalled documentary value relating to significant periods of European history: the Renaissance, the Baroque and Classicism. (Official description) | |
| Poblet Monastery | n a straight line with the Golden Gate, you can see the access door to the atrium of the monastery church, opened in the wall surrounding the 3rd enclosure. It is a 17th century baroque gate that was built by the Duke of Cardona in 1670. | |
| Prague | St. Nicholas Church (Old Town Square) and St. Nicholas Cathedral and many other buildings | |
| Puebla | ||
| Quedlinburg | The three-story half-timbered house "Börse" was built by master carpenter Andreas Besen in the Baroque style. An inscription cites its year of construction as 1683. | |
| Querétaro | ||
| Quito | ||
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | "The town was not significantly damaged in World War II and so the historic centre has survived intact, with its original medieval layout and many Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque buildings of high quality." (AB Ev) | |
| Ravenna | The dome of the Church of San Vitale "is decorated with baroque frescoes executed in 1778-82, and in stark contrast to the architectonic purity of the structure." (AB Ev) | |
| Regensburg | Carmelite Church of St. Joseph, Löschenkohl town house | |
| Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | As a result of the impetus of Emmanuel-Philibert, his successors developed a vast building programme throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, giving the town and its region a Baroque style, the pivot of which is the residences. (AB ev) | |
| Rome | "it was in Rome that Baroque art was born and then spread throughout Europe and to other continents." (OUV) | |
| Route of Santiago de Compostela | Sobrado Abbey: "The monumental new Baroque abbey church was dedicated in 1708." | |
| Røros | The Baroque church with its white-washed walls (AB ev extension) | |
| Salamanca | Plaza Mayor: "was built in the traditional Spanish baroque style" | |
| Salvador de Bahia | "the Baroque intricacy of the Church and Convent of São Francisco and the Church of the Third Order of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Black People" (wiki) | |
| Salzburg | Many buildings including Salzburg Cathedral | |
| San Antonio Missions | Church at Mission Concepción: late baroque style of New Spain (AB ev) | |
| San Miguel de Allende | Sanctuary of Jesús de Nazareno de Atotonilco | |
| Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | Carmen de la Asuncion Church | |
| Santa Cruz de Mompox | Santa Barbara Church, dome and bell tower | |
| Santiago de Compostela | The High Altar reflects the magnificent intervention of baroque architecture in the Romanesque space. (off website) | |
| Schönbrunn | ||
| Segovia | Church of San Esteban: "Baroque interior rebuilt after fire, 18th century | |
| Siena | The Chigi Chapel in the Cathedral, the Chapel of the Madonna del Rosario, San Donato, Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova, Santa Maria in Provenzano, among others | |
| St. Petersburg | Petrodvorec Palace | |
| Strasbourg | Palais Rohan | |
| Syracuse | "The group of monuments and archaeological sites situated in Syracuse (between the nucleus of Ortygia and the vestiges located throughout the urban area) is the finest example of outstanding architectural creation encompassing several cultural influences (Greek, Roman and Baroque)." (Official description – Criterion iv) – A remarkable example of Baroque architecture is the façade of the Cathedral, classified as "High Sicilian Baroque" | |
| São Francisco Square | Church and Santa Casa da Misericordia: "baroque ornamentation" (AB ev) | |
| Telc | ||
| The Porticoes of Bologna | The Meloncello arch is one of the most brilliant examples of Bolognese Baroque architecture (nom file) | |
| Torun | Holy Spirit Church | |
| Trinity Sergius Lavra | The Palace of the Metropolitan and other 17th century additions | |
| University of Coimbra | lavish Baroque-style Coimbra University Library (AB ev) | |
| Upper Middle Rhine Valley | Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz | |
| Val d'Orcia | Palazzo Chigi Zondadari in San Quirico d'Orcia | |
| Val di Noto | ||
| Valletta | ||
| Vatican City | "an ideal and exemplary religious and palatial creation of the Renaissance and of Baroque art" (OUV) | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Many buildings among them Maria della Salute | |
| Versailles | ||
| Vienna | Saint Charles' Church, Jesuit Church, Domenican Church, St Peter's Church | |
| Villa d'Este | Some Baroque works (including Bernini's) were added and are fully preserved (nom file) | |
| Vilnius | most of the churches | |
| Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont | several palaces at Nizza Monferrato such as Palazzo De Benedetto and Palazzo Crova | |
| Wachau Cultural Landscape | Melk Abbey, Gottweig Abbey | |
| Willemstad | "In the 18th century the so-called Curaçao Baroque architecture evolved, with facades in a wide variety of forms, the curved gable being the unifying feature.” - AB Evaluation | |
| Wooden Churches of Maramures | The Church of the Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple: "The painter Hodor Toader did the painted decoration in 1806, using an iconography and style which confirms the influences of Baroque and Rococo painting, especially in the naos and sanctuary." (AB Ev) – "The church (...) features some of the most representative baroque indoor murals in Maramures." (wiki) | |
| Würzburg Residence | ||
| Yuso and Suso Monasteries | Interior of Yuso | |
| Zacatecas | The Cathedral (1730-60) is a highly decorated Baroque structure (AB ev) | |
| Žatec – Landscape of Hops | "The mostly two-storey Baroque and Renaissance fabric..." (AB ev) |
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