Famous tapestries
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Arles | ||
| Belfries | Belfrie of Oudenaarde: The tapestries hanging in the Lower Cloth Hall and the adjacent Cloth Hall building represent an art form that brought the city fame between about the 15th-18th centuries | |
| Blenheim Palace | Series of 10, made in Brussels, depicting the battles in the Wars of the Spanish Succession by the 1st Duke of Marlborough | |
| Burgos Cathedral | A number of Flemish tapestries | |
| El Escurial | The monastery of San Lorenzo, main beneficiary of that Royal collection, still has a rich collection of tapestries. Many of them from Bayeau and Goya and a few from Watteau. (Until recently they couldn't be visited) | |
| Golden Mountains of Altai | The 5th century BC Pazyryk carpet, a product of an Achaemenid carpet production centre, was discovered in 1949 in the Altai Mountains. | |
| Guimarães | Palace of the Dukes of Braganza: "In its vast collection, are the tapestries of Pastrana, which narrate some of the events in North African conquests, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves ... and a collection of Flemish tapestries by Peter Paul Rubens, among others" | |
| Istanbul | Numerous Seljuk carpets | |
| Kraków | Tapestries in the cathedral and in the castle | |
| Kronborg Castle | 40 King's Tapestries (1580) displaying no less than 113 historic Danish kings ("To reach such a high number, Frederik II included all sorts of legendary kings"). 14 have survived, 7 are still in the castle | |
| Mantua and Sabbioneta | Palazzo Ducale: "The nine tapestries with the Stories of Saint Peter and Saint Paul were woven in Brussels around 1550 after the cartoons that Raphael created for Pope Leo X for a set of tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel." | |
| Mont-Saint-Michel | Depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry | |
| Mudejar Architecture of Aragon | La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza has a large and valuable collection of Flemish and French tapestries which used to be displayed inside the cathedral | |
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | 105 carpets prepared by Le Brun for the Louvre | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | The Prado has a rich tapestry collection, most of which is of Royal origin. It includes almost all the important works of tapestry from Goya. | |
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | Goslar - Margaretendecke (1440) at St. Annenhaus | |
| Santiago de Compostela | The Santiago Cathedral Museum houses "tapestries by Rubens, Teniers, Josédel Castillo or Goya" | |
| Strasbourg | Strasbourg Cathedral | |
| Upper Middle Rhine Valley | Koblenz: the elector's former palace is now a museum; among other curiosities, it contains some fine Gobelin tapestries. (Wiki) | |
| Vatican City | Tapestries by Rafael in the Sistine Chapel | |
| Westminster | Westminster Abbey is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry |
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