Built in the 19th Century

Connected Sites: 76

WHS whose OUV derives entirely or significantly from 19th century constructions. Where construction straddles the centuries the date of conception/commencement is used i.e which century does the site really "belong" to in spirit.

Connected Sites

  • Cienfuegos
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.72
    106
    4
    laid out in its current form in 1819 with 6 buildings remaining from then until 1850 and a further 327 to 1900
  • Crespi d'Adda
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.40
    154
    7
    from 1878
  • Aapravasi Ghat
    Inscribed: 2006
    1.76
    79
    6
    The Ghat was the reception location for c 500000 indentured labourers arriving from 1834-1920. The main buildings date between 1849-65
  • Vizcaya Bridge
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.89
    190
    10
    1893
  • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.59
    121
    10
    Although the Ironworks commenced in 1788 the majority of the growth took plae in the 19th century - Big Pit was opened in 1880
  • Vlkolinec
    Vlkolinec
    Slovakia
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.81
    148
    11
    The current buildings date mainly from the 19th century
  • Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.74
    47
    4
  • Hué
    Hué
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.30
    239
    7
    Blossomed as capital of unified Viet Nam from 1802 on
  • Fortified City of Carcassonne
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.87
    299
    14
    It is of exceptional importance by virtue of the restoration work carried out in the second half of the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc (AB ev)
  • Island of Saint-Louis
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.07
    45
    2
    Founded in 1659 by French traders on an uninhabited island but remained little more than a fortified factory until the English departed in 1817 after a 16 year occupation, leaving it in ruins. A "plan d'urbanisation" was prepared in 1828 defining the regular street layout etc and in 1854 a new governor, Faidherbe, oversaw the completion of the ensemble with further large scale projects.
  • Viñales Valley
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.09
    113
    3
    "Les activites economiques et socio-culturelles demarrent aux XVIIe siecle...La culture du tabac fait ensuite son apparition, devenue la principale activite economique " (Nom file) .."The area was colonised at the beginning of the 1800s by tobacco growers from the Canary Islands.. The first settlement in Vinales is documented in 1871, in the form of a ranch .. The town was established in 1878 as a typical community, with church, school, hospital and recreation park" (Wiki) "Visit to EL Palenque de los Cimarrones, a place where a runaway slave's hide-out is recreated and you learn about afro Cuban religion & the history of the slaves in the 19 century" (tourism web site)
  • Tombs of Buganda Kings
    Inscribed: 2001
    1.94
    43
    6
    The earliest present tomb structure dates to around 1882 (was built as a palace, and turned into a royal tomb in 1884)
  • Pearling
    Pearling
    Bahrain
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.16
    89
    6
    The pearling boom reached its apogee in the last quarter of the 19th century (AB ev) & earliest remaining inscribed buildings
  • Mining Sites of Wallonia
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.25
    176
    7
    Early 19th
  • Golestan Palace
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.90
    91
    3
    it received its most characteristic features in the 19th century (Brief Description)
  • Valongo Wharf
    Inscribed: 2017
    1.15
    65
    5
    ancient wharf built for the landing of enslaved Africans from 1811 onwards
  • As-Salt
    As-Salt
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 2021
    1.95
    61
    5
    Golden Age of As-Salt’s development between 1860s to 1920s. (AB ev)
  • Dutch Water Defence Lines
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.47
    291
    16
    built 1883-1920
  • Budapest
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.88
    546
    15
    Large parts of the inscribed area were constructed in the 19th century - the Bridge (1849) , the Parliament (1884-1904), the Andrassy Avenue area (1872-85 ) and the underground (1893-6)
  • Odesa
    Odesa
    Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2023
    3.17
    64
    2
    developed during its rapid growth in the 19th century (crit ii)
  • Tr’ondëk-Klondike
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.83
    13
    2
    "an area that underwent unprecedented and rapid changes which were brought about by the Klondike Gold Rush and affected both the landscape and the Indigenous populations living there, between the end of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century" (AB ev)
  • Levuka
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.53
    29
    8
    first stage of settlement at Levuka (1820s-1850) & represent 19th century British colonisation (AB ev)
  • La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
    Inscribed: 2009
    1.93
    139
    11
    Planned in the early 19th century, after extensive fires, the towns owed their existence to this single industry. (AB ev)
  • Kunta Kinteh Island
    Inscribed: 2003
    2.07
    44
    5
    6 Gun Battery and Fort Bullen were built in 1816 and 1826 "with the specific intent of thwarting the slave trade once it had become illegal in the British Empire after the passing of the Abolition Act in 1807." (AB eval)
  • Hospicio Cabañas
    Inscribed: 1997
    2.50
    82
    7
    inaugurated in 1829
  • Inscribed: 2000
    2.45
    38
    4
    "Coffee production was established in the island of Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola) by French settlers in the 18th century. The uprisings from 1790 onwards, culminating in the establishment of the independent state of Haiti in 1804, resulted in the flight of French plantation owners, accompanied by many of their African slaves, to the neighbouring island of Cuba, then under Spanish rule. They were granted lands in the south-eastern part of the island in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra, at that time largely not settled and eminently suitable for coffee growing" (AB)
  • The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
    Inscribed: 2025
    3.30
    205
    7
    "all created according to the romantic vision and under the meticulous supervision of King Ludwig II of Bavaria during his reign from 1864 to 1886" (AB ev)
  • Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
    Inscribed: 1978
    3.73
    337
    18
    Kinga underground Chapel 1895
  • Völklingen Ironworks
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.11
    186
    12
    the plant was originally developed in 1873 and 5 Blast furnaces and a coking plant had been constructed by 1897
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    592
    20
    The Ring "was constructed after the dismantling of the city walls in the mid-19th century. From the 1860s to 1890s, many large public buildings were erected along the Ring Road in an eclectic historicist style, sometimes called Ringstraßenstil ("Ring Road style")," (Wiki)
  • Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
    In the 1870s, the Victorian Neo-Gothic buildings were constructed along the eastern edge of the Oval Maidan, symbolizing the second city of the British Empire (AB ev)
  • Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.54
    86
    7
    Founded 1872 but destroyed by fire in 1876. Rebuilt 1882
  • Valparaiso
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.12
    160
    12
    exceptional testimony to the early phase of globalization in the late 19th century (AB ev)
  • Tomioka Silk Mill
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.54
    76
    6
    Mill dates from 1872
  • Tlacotalpan
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.66
    45
    6
    Although populated by some Spaniards in the mid 16th century the settlement hardly grew until the 19th and was destroyed by fires in 1698, 1788 and 1790. In 1821 however it became the port for exports from Oaxaca and Puebla and grew significantly. It was granted "town" status in 1865
  • The Four Lifts
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.93
    184
    10
    The first Lift was built in 1882 and a major part of the canal in 1892 - though the other 3 Lifts weren't constructed until 1909-17
  • Tequila
    Tequila
    Mexico
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.67
    89
    5
    Most of the Haciendas and Distilleries date from the 19th century when the growth in international trade in Tequila led to a large increase in production and industrialisation took place
  • Struve Geodetic Arc
    Struve Geodetic Arc
    Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2005
    1.92
    212
    18
    the surveys were made between 1816-55
  • Stone Town of Zanzibar
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.42
    146
    7
    For cultural fusion "In the 19th century this Swahili tradition was overwhelmed by new styles brought in by the floods of immigrants." and suppression of slavery "The Anglican cathedral is in part a monument commemorating the abolition of the slave trade in the Sultan's dominions. The foundation stone was laid in 1873" (AB ev)
  • Statue of Liberty
    Statue of Liberty
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.30
    516
    19
    Inaugurated 1886
  • Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.03
    264
    7
    Speicherstadt: "Originally developed between 1885 and 1927 (partly rebuilt 1949-1967)" and "The nominated portion of the adjacent Kontorhaus district is a cohesive, densely built 5.13-ha area featuring six very large office complexes begun in the 1920s" (AB)
  • Singapore Botanic Gardens
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.10
    274
    12
    from 1822
  • Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.58
    119
    7
    Oldest remaining ones date from the 19th. This specific way of construction started "from the late 17th century until the 1970s; its requirement of large enclosed spaces for silkworm beds and storage of mulberry leaves" (AB ev)
  • SGang Gwaay
    Inscribed: 1981
    2.90
    8
    4
    "Frozen" after the permanent inhabitants left in the late 19th century
    See www.greatcanadianparks.com
  • Semmering Railway
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.46
    181
    9
    1848-54
  • Saltaire
    Saltaire
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.28
    133
    13
    Founded by Sir Titus Salt in 1853
  • Royal Exhibition Building
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.31
    145
    13
    Completed 1880 for the 1888 exhibition
  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
    Inscribed: 2009
    2.98
    140
    14
    1805
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.19
    681
    20
    Eifel Tower (1889), Grand Palais
  • Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.85
    11
    4
    Late 19th century (from 1860 on)
  • National History Park
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.88
    18
    7
    Thre fort was constructed between 1805-20 and the Palace from 1810-13
  • Muskauer Park
    Muskauer Park
    Germany, Poland
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.62
    151
    8
    Founded in 1815
  • Mountain Railways of India
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.42
    84
    8
    DHR 1879-81, Niligri 1891-1908, Kalka-Shimla 1899-1903
  • Major Town Houses
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.95
    305
    8
    Hotel Tassel 1894, Hotel Solvay 1895-8, Hotel Van Eetvelde 1897 -1900, Maison and Atelier Horta 1898-1901
  • Kulangsu
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.94
    72
    5
    introduction of modern western culture and technology since the opening of a commercial port at Xiamen in 1843 (AB ev)
  • Historic Jeddah
    Historic Jeddah
    Saudi Arabia
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.54
    74
    4
    Most of the remaining historic buildings date from the 19th century
  • Grand-Bassam
    Grand-Bassam
    Côte d'Ivoire
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.31
    25
    1
    late 19th and early 20th-century colonial town (AB ev)
  • Gedeo Cultural landscape
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.06
    11
    2
    "At the end of the 19th century they looked for new territory beyond the chain of hills running southward along the Rift Valley escarpment that they then inhabited, and expanded southwards and eastwards into Guji territory with settlers establishing agroforestry practices in the new forest areas." (AB ev)
  • Erbil Citadel
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.51
    38
    4
    "The nominated property today consists of 19th and early 20th century mainly residential built fabric and a few public buildings, the latter largely transformed, erected on top of an unexcavated tell. The defensive wall system that would justify the appellation of citadel has been replaced by a wall of tall house façades, which happened possibly sometime between the 18th and 19th centuries. "(AB ev)
  • Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.36
    69
    6
    Tradition dates from earlier, but these 7 were built in the 1800s
  • Curonian Spit
    Curonian Spit
    Lithuania, Russia
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.28
    164
    7
    Criterion V: "massive protection and stabilization works begun in the 19th century and still continuing to the present day"
  • Colonies of Benevolence
    Colonies of Benevolence
    Belgium, Netherlands
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.13
    147
    7
    Established in 1818, Frederiksoord (the Netherlands) is the earliest of these colonies (AB ev)
  • Coffee Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.97
    70
    7
    Growing of coffee and construction of the towns started in the 19th century
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.99
    132
    10
    1887
  • Australian Convict Sites
    Inscribed: 2010
    2.66
    181
    13
    Hyde Park Barracks, Fremantle Prison, Great North Road, Cascades Female Factory, Brickendon and Woolmers Estates
  • Asante Traditional Buildings
    Inscribed: 1980
    1.88
    34
    5
    "There exists today only a small number of the traditional structures, habitats of man and gods, of which the majority are less than 100 years old" (AB eval). The Besease Shrine was built c1850
  • Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.43
    470
    10
    Altes Museum built 1824-8. Master Plan created 1841, Neues Museum 1843-7, Nationalgalerie 1866, Bodenmuseum 1897-1904, Pergamonmuseum 1909-30
  • Schwerin Residence Ensemble
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.85
    116
    5
    "designed for the most part during the first half of the 19th century" (AB ev)
  • Forth Bridge
    Forth Bridge
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.89
    263
    12
    opened in 1890 (AB ev)
  • Rideau Canal
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.65
    152
    7
    Opened 1832 - project initiated in 1824
  • Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.20
    42
    7
    200 works to mine and process the saltpeter, with towns to house the workers, and railways to transport the powder to coast, were established in an intensive period of around 50 years from 1880. (AB ev)
  • Fray Bentos
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.79
    36
    5
    From 1865 to 1924 Giebert developed the Liebig Extract of Meat Company Limited (LEMCO) producing meat extract and corned beef (AB ev)
  • Sintra
    Sintra
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.88
    404
    14
    Pena National Palace (1842-1854), Castelo dos Mouros reconstructed in the 19th century
  • Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.80
    99
    10
    started the construction of the Nagasaki Foundry in 1857, Japan’s first Western-style marine engine repair facility. This marked the beginnings of heavy industry in Japan. (AB ev)
  • Royal Palaces of Abomey
    Inscribed: 1985
    2.72
    37
    2
    Among the palaces surviving after the destruction of another 10 in the invasion of 1894 are those of Kings Ghezo (1818-58), Gl?l? (1858-89) and Behanzin (1889- 1894)
  • Inscribed: 2023
    1.01
    8
    0
    "The current observatory was built in 1833-1837" (AB ev)