Summer residences

Connected Sites: 11

WHS connected with sites created as or containing significant numbers of summer residences for rulers and ruling classes to escape from the heat and bustle of the capital

Connected Sites

  • Summer Palace
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.90
    294
    9
  • Schönbrunn
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.50
    506
    14
    Summer residence of the Habsburg family
  • St. Petersburg
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.19
    267
    9
    Peterhof Palace, the summer palace of Peter the Great
  • El Escurial
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.35
    254
    13
    The House of the Prince (La Casita del Príncipe) - in neoclassical style, constructed between 1771 and 1775 and remodeled in 1781, under King Charles III by the architect Juan de Villanueva. It became the summer residence of the crown prince, the future Charles IV. It’s in el Escorial.
  • Semmering Railway
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.46
    180
    9
    after the railway was built, the Semmering region became a summer resort to wealthy Viennese; also Wartholz Castle was used as official summer residence by Emperor Karl I in 1917 and 1918
  • Potsdam
    Potsdam
    Germany
    Inscribed: 1990
    3.52
    371
    10
    Sanssouci is the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
  • Mountain Resort, Chengde
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.54
    62
    4
  • Mountain Railways of India
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.42
    84
    8
    Darjeeling, Shimla and Ootacamund were all developed as locations for the British Raj to escape the heat of the lowlands and the railways were created to give them easy access.
  • Medici Villas and Gardens
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.07
    233
    8
    Villa di Cafaggiolo (AB ev)
  • Lushan National Park
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.92
    54
    3
    "In addition there are around 600 villas built by Chinese and foreign visitors in the late 19th and 20th centuries, when the area became a popular resort and was, during the 1930s and 40s the official Summer Capital of the Republic of China." (UNESCO)
  • M'Zab Valley
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.46
    35
    5
    "The living pattern of the Ibadis of the M'zab Valley included a seasonal migration. Each summer, the population settled in palm groves, where the "summer cities" were marked by the looser organization of their settlememts" AB. The structures include a summer citadel or Ksar