Wachau Cultural Landscape
Also known as Wachau
Category
Cultural
Inscribed under criteria (ii), (iv).
Region
Europe and North America
Austria
Inscribed
2000
Area
18,387 ha
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Wachau Cultural Landscape is about 70 km west of Vienna. The nearest other World Heritage site is Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn, about 70 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Vienna · about 2,400,000 peopleabout 70 km east
- Linz · about 349,000 peopleabout 85 km west
- Wiener Neustadt · about 83,000 peopleabout 85 km south-east
- České Budějovice · about 99,000 peopleabout 100 km north-west
- Jihlava · about 54,000 peopleabout 120 km north
- Brno · about 388,000 peopleabout 130 km north-east
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
AustriaCultural68 km away
AustriaCultural72 km away
Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, UkraineNatural78 km away
AustriaCultural85 km away
CzechiaCultural91 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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