Sugar

Connected Sites: 12

WHS which in which the production or trade in Sugar played a significant role.

Connected Sites

  • Aapravasi Ghat
    Inscribed: 2006
    1.76
    79
    6
    The Ghat was the arrival point for c half a million indentured labourers coming from India to work in the sugar plantations of Mauritius.
  • Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.53
    122
    4
    Valley de los Ingenios: "a living museum of the sugar industry featuring 75 ruined sugar mills..."
  • Cienfuegos
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.72
    106
    4
    Cienfuegos blossomed as a port in the 19th century due to a boom in the regional sugar trade
  • Rio de Janeiro
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.62
    195
    6
    sugar plantations on the Tijuca (middle 17th century)
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.50
    140
    8
    Deforestation for sugar plantations has had a significant negative role in defining the areas of inscribed remnant rainforest.
    See rainforest-australia.com
  • Bordeaux
    Bordeaux
    France
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.27
    260
    7
    18th century sugar trade
  • The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
    Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.73
    375
    29
    Cité Frugès: This unique venture was initially commissioned in 1924 by the local industrialist Henry Frugès (1879-1974), whose wealth had been built on the success of his sugar refinery business
    See invisiblebordeaux.blogspot.nl
  • Susa
    Susa
    Iran
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.40
    30
    4
    sugar cane factory (12th century CE)
  • Paphos
    Paphos
    Cyprus
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.27
    220
    9
    . Following the prohibition of religions other than Christianity the Palaepaphos site became a sugar cane plantation. The Lusignan manor house was centre of operations. (There is a Lusignan sugar-cane refinery in the coastal plain but although it seems to be part of the Palaipaphos archaeological site to the Department of Antiquities it appears not to be within the inscribed area.)
  • Coffee Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.97
    70
    7
    Zone B: "Coffee of excellent quality is produced in the municipality, which is also important for its sugar cane, blackberry and asparagus." (Nomination file, p. 51)
  • Bridgetown
    Bridgetown
    Barbados
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.32
    96
    7
    the fortified port town was able to establish its importance in the British Atlantic trade and became an entrepôt for goods, especially sugar, and enslaved persons destined for Barbados and the rest of the Americas (unesco website)
  • Antigua Naval Dockyard
    Antigua Naval Dockyard
    Antigua and Barbuda
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.68
    64
    4
    "Its aim was to protect the interests of sugar cane planters " (UNESCO)