Coronation Locations

Connected Sites: 25

This includes all "installation" ceremonies for monarchs.

Connected Sites

  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    612
    9
    (St Peter's Basilica)- Popes until 1963
  • Reims
    Reims
    France
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.42
    291
    9
    Most French monarchs
  • Mtskheta
    Mtskheta
    Georgia
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.18
    174
    5
    (Svetitskhoveli Cathedral) Georgian Monarchs
  • Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1995
    4.00
    471
    17
    Holyrood Abbey (ruined in 1768) was used for the Scottish coronation of Charles I in 1633. Scottish kings were traditionally crowned at Scone whilst sitting on the "Stone of Destiny". However this was captured by Edward I in 1296 and taken to Westminster where it was put into the English Throne. After a chequered history (see wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone )it was returned to Scotland in 1996 and can be seen in Edinburgh Castle (though should be returned to Westminster for any future British coronations!)
  • Guimarães
    Guimarães
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.01
    229
    10
  • Hué
    Hué
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.30
    239
    7
    Coronation place for Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam
  • Thang Long
    Thang Long
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 2010
    2.08
    167
    9
    for ancient Vietnamese court coronation
  • Golestan Palace
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.90
    91
    3
    "This spectacular terrace, known as the Marble Throne, was built in 1806 by order of Fath Ali Shah of Qajar (r. 1797-1834) Coronations of Qajar kings, and formal court ceremonies were held on this terrace. The last coronation to be held at the Marble Throne was the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlavi, in 1925." (Wiki)
  • Santiago de Compostela
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.56
    227
    7
    "After the centre of Asturian political power moved from Oviedo to León in 910, Compostela became more politically relevant, and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111"
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • City of Bath
    City of Bath
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.57
    409
    13
    Edgar the "First King of All England" was crowned at Bath Abbey on May 11 973. This was the first "English" coronation recorded in any detail and formed the template for all subsequent ceremonies. A plaque on the East wall of the current building records the event.
    See commons.wikimedia.org
  • Aachen Cathedral
    Inscribed: 1978
    3.74
    337
    18
    For 600 years, from 936 to 1531, the Aachen chapel was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens (wiki)
  • Budapest
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.88
    545
    15
    Matthias Church
  • Westminster
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    631
    16
    Westminster Abbey - Nearly all English/British Monarchs since 1066
  • Imperial Palace
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.19
    333
    11
    Beijing Imperial palace for Ming and Qing Emperors
  • Ayutthaya
    Ayutthaya
    Thailand
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.60
    289
    15
    the ruins of ancient palace was the coronation place for ancient siamese court
  • Red Fort
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.11
    227
    4
    (Delhi) Aurangzeb 1659
  • Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.91
    324
    6
    Philip 5th, current king of Spain, was crowned in the congress of deputies inside the inscribed property
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.19
    680
    20
    Notre Dame de Paris for Napoleon I
  • Mexico City and Xochimilco
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.84
    274
    8
    (Metropolitan Cathedral) - Maximilian I planned for 1864 but it never happened
  • Luang Prabang
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.65
    191
    5
    The last king of Laos decorated and refurbished Luang Prabang royal palace for his coronation, before the end of his monarchy.
  • Kremlin and Red Square
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.02
    252
    8
    (Uspensky Cathedral) Russian Tsars. Ivan the Terrible 1547 onwards
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    437
    19
    (Wawel Cathedral) most Polish Monarchs 1370-1734
  • Gusuku of Ryukyu
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    67
    10
    Gusuku's Shuri castle courtyard was a coronation place of Ryukyu Kingdom
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.15
    230
    7
    For most of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
  • Ancient Nara
    Inscribed: 1998
    4.00
    290
    14
    Ruin of Heijikyo Palace for ancient Japanese Emperors