1715 PL - Gdynia Modernist City Centre (2026)

Located on the Baltic Sea coast, "Gdynia Modernist City Centre" encompasses the two most significant east-west and north-south streets, featuring interwar planning blocks and the majority of the city centre’s preserved buildings from that period, which reflect the large-scale application of modernist ideas in architectural design. The result is an urban organism that harnesses a building-block-based planning approach to develop a characteristic, compact complex of modernist architecture, with robust individual architectural expressions. The city centre, with its buildings, villas on Kamienna Góra hill, and other residential buildings of this period, illustrates a critical break with historicism in the progression of turning the village of Gdynia into a new major sea gateway of the first Polish Republic between the First and Second World Wars.

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1715

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Gdynia Polish sailors house

with mastching stamp showing Gdynia 

1539 PL - Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System (2017)

Description

"Located in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland, one of the main mining areas of central Europe, the property includes the entire underground mine with adits, shafts, galleries and other features of the water management system. Most of the property is situated underground while the surface mining topography features relics of shafts and waste heaps, as well as the remains of the 19th-century steam water pumping station. The elements of the water management system, located underground and on the surface, testify to continuous efforts over three centuries to drain the underground extraction zone and to use undesirable water from the mines to supply towns and industry. Tarnowskie Góry represents a significant contribution to the global production of lead and zinc."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1539

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1599 PL - Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region (2019)

Description

"Located in the mountain region of Świętokrzyskie, Krzemionki is an ensemble of four mining sites, dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (about 3900 to 1600 BCE), dedicated to the extraction and processing of striped flint, which was mainly used for axe-making. With its underground mining structures, flint workshops and some 4,000 shafts and pits, the property features one of the most comprehensive prehistoric underground flint extraction and processing systems identified to date. The property provides information about life and work in prehistoric settlements and bears witness to an extinct cultural tradition. It is an exceptional testimony of the importance of the prehistoric period and of flint mining for tool production in human history."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1599

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1133 AT/BE/CZ/DE/ES/HR/IT/RO/UA - Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (2007)

Brief Description

"The Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian, an outstanding example of undisturbed, complex temperate forests, constitute a transnational serial property of ten separate components along a 185 km axis from the Rakhiv Mountains and the Chornohirskyi Range in Ukraine, west along the Polonynian Ridge, to the Bukovské Vrchy and Vihorlat Mountains in Slovakia. They contain an invaluable genetic reservoir of beech and many species associated with, and dependent on, these forest habitats. They are also an outstanding example of the recolonization and development of terrestrial ecosystems and communities after the last Ice Age, a process which is still ongoing.

The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany, represent examples of on-going post-glacial biological and ecological evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and are indispensable to understanding the spread of the beech in the Northern Hemisphere across a variety of environments. The new inscription represents the addition of five forests totaling 4,391 hectares that are added to the 29,278 hectares of Slovakian and Ukranian beech forests inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2007. The tri-national property is now to be known as the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany)."

喀尔巴阡山脉原始山毛榉林
" 喀尔巴阡山脉原始山毛榉林，由10个跨国的连续遗产组成，沿185公里的轴线，从乌克兰拉希夫山脉和 Chornohirskyi西沿Polonynian山脊，一直到斯洛伐克的Bukovské Vrchy和Vihorlat山脉。这10个遗址是原始的、多元的温带森林的突出例子，展示了最完整、最广泛的生态模式和纯粹的欧洲山毛榉群丛在各种环境 条件下的生长过程。它们包含着宝贵的山毛榉基因库和与这些森林栖息地相关并依赖其生存的许多生物。它们还是上一个冰河时代后陆地生态系统和群落再移植和发 展的突出例子。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1133

2007 Ukraine
1133-001     Chornohora
1133-003     Kuziy-Trybushany
1133-004     Maramarosh
1133-007     Stuzhytsia – Uzhok
1133-008     Svydovets
1133-009     Uholka – Shyrikyi Luh
2007 Slovakia
1133-002     Havešová Primeval Forest
1133-005     Rožok
1133-006     Stužnica – Bukovské Vrchy
1133-010     Vihorlat
2011 Germany
1133bis-011     Jasmund
1133bis-012     Serrahn
1133bis-013     Grumsin
1133bis-014     Hainich
1133bis-015     Kellerwald
2017 Albania
2017 Austria
2017 Belgium
1133ter-024 to 027 Sonian Forest
2017 Bulgaria
2017 Croatia

1133-033 Hajdučki i Rožanski kukovi

1133-034 Paklenica National Park

2017 Italy
2017 Romania
2017 Slovenia
2017 Spain

1133quinquies-057 Hayedos de Ayllon – Tejera Negra

1133quinquies-058 Hayedos de Ayllon – Montejo

1133quinquies-059 Hayedos de Navarra – Lizardoia

1133quinquies-060 Hayedos de Navarra – Aztaparreta

1133quinquies-061 Hayedos de Picos de Europa – Cuesta Fria

1133quinquies-062 Hayedos de Picos de Europa – Canal de Asotin

2021 Czechia

1133-075 Jizera Mountains
2021 Slovakia

2021 North Macedonia

2021 Poland

• 1133quinquies-085 Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley (Bieszczady)
• 1133quinquies-086 Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek (Bieszczady)
• 1133quinquies-087 Terebowiec stream valley (Bieszczady)
• 1133quinquies-088 Wolosatka stream valley (Bieszczady)

2021 Bosnia and Herzegovina

2021 Switzerland

2021 France

Courtesy of Galina from Russia

 1133-001     Chornohora

 1133-004 Maramarosh

 1133-008 Svydovets (on the slope of Mount Stara)

1133-008 Svydovets (Mount Velyka Blyznytsia)

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Courtesy of anjaaustel from postcrossing forum

1133-011 Jasmund - Germany

Courtesy of Eula from postcrossing forum

1133bis-013 Grumsin

Courtesy of Eula from postcrossing forum

1133bis-014 Hainich

 Courtesy of austria1234 from postcrossing forum

1133-018 Kalkalpen – Wilder Graben

 Courtesy of Javier Becerra from Spain

1133ter-024 to 027 Sonian Forest

Courtesy of Nikola2702 from postcrossing forum

1133-033 Hajdučki i Rožanski kukovi

Courtesy of Nikola2702 from postcrossing forum

1133-034 Paklenica National Park

Courtesy of  Jordi_65 from postcrossing forum

1133-057 Hayedos de Ayllon – Tejera Negra

Courtesy of Saint from postcrossing forum

Courtesy of manencov from postcrossing forum

Romania site

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1133-075 Jizera Mountains

Courtesy of sebiusz from postcrossing forum

Polonina Wetlinska

1424 PL/UA - Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine (2013)

Brief Description

"Situated in the eastern fringe of eastern Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of 16 tserkvas, churches, built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. They represent the cultural expression of four ethnographic groups and the formal, decorative and technical characteristics they developed over time. The tserkvas bear testimony to a distinct building tradition rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design interwoven with elements of local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities’ cosmogony. The tserkvas are built on a tri-partite plan surmounted by open quadrilateral or octagonal domes and cupolas. They feature wooden bell towers, iconostasis screens, and interior polychrome decorations as well as churchyards, gatehouses and graveyards."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1424

PL-1424-001     Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel
PL-1424-002     Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
UA-1424-003     Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George
PL-1424-004     Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva
UA-1424-005     Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary
UA-1424-006     Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
PL-1424-007     Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection
UA-1424-008     Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
PL-1424-009     Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, the Apostle
PL-1424-010     Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva
UA-1424-011     Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
PL-1424-012     Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel
PL-1424-013     Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel
UA-1424-014     Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael
UA-1424-015     Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension
UA-1424-016     Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity

Courtesy of Martuchaa from Postcrossing forum

PL-1424-001     Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel

 

 

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PL-1424-002     Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 

Courtesy of knyazna from postcrossing forum

UA-1424-003     Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George

 

Courtesy of BlueHydrangea from Postcrossing forum

PL-1424-004     Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva

Courtesy of knyazna from postcrossing forum

UA-1424-005     Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Courtesy of Martuchaa from Postcrossing forum

PL-1424-007     Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection

Courtesy of knyazna from postcrossing forum

UA-1424-008     Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy Spirit

Courtesy of BlueHydrangea from Postcrossing forum

PL-1424-009     Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, the Apostle

Courtesy of sebiusz from postcrossing forum

PL-1424-010     Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva

 

 Courtesy of wanda164 from postcrossing forum

PL-1424-012     Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel

Courtesy of sebiusz from postcrossing forum

PL-1424-013     Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel

Courtesy of knyazna from postcrossing forum

UA-1424-016     Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity

30 PL - Historic Centre of Warsaw (1980)

Brief Description

"During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in today's meticulous restoration of the Old Town, with its churches, palaces and market-place. It is an outstanding example of a near-total reconstruction of a span of history covering the 13th to the 20th century."

华沙历史中心
"1944年8月华沙起义期间，华沙历史中心85%以上的建筑遭到纳粹部队的摧毁。二战之后，华沙人民用长达5年的时间重建古城，他们修建了教堂、宫殿和贸易场所。华沙的重生是13世纪至20世纪建筑史上不可抹灭的一笔。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/30

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