Belgium UNESCO sites (with map)
Belgium has 10 UNESCO sites of its own, plus elements from 6 transnational sites. They range from prehistoric sites to architecture of the 20th century.
Click on the map to jump to the articles, if available, or use the list below the map. Below you’ll also find Belgium’s entries on the UNESCO Tentative List.
Historic Center of Brugge
A completely intact, mostly Gothic, core of a medieval trading city.
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Four pioneering works of architecture in Art Nouveau style.
La Grand-Place, Brussels
The central plaza in Brussels, surrounded by beautiful old guild houses, a Gothic city hall and other impressive historical architecture.
Flemish Beguinages
Centuries-old architectural ensembles in Flanders that once housed religious communities of women.
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
A site dating to thousands of years ago where flint was mined to create axes and other tools.
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
A 12th-century cathedral with a mix of Romanesque and Gothic elements.
Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
300 years of printing history and domestic life, with art by Rubens.
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louviere and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
A feat of hydraulic engineering from the Industrial Revolution, used to move vessels between very differing water levels.
Stoclet House
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
Transnational
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and other Regions of Europe
Primeval forests of European beech trees that survived the last Ice Age and then spread across Europe, now protected in 93 locations across 18 countries.
Colonies of Benevolence
A utopian experiment in reducing urban poverty by building planned agrarian communities.
The Great Spa Towns of Europe
Towns in seven countries where an early tourism industry thrived around natural hot springs.
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
Belfries of Belgium and France
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
Belgium’s Tentative List
Cultural sites
- Workers’ Assembly Halls
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose – Lessines
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
- L’œuvre architecturale d’Henry van de Velde
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes
- Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chaussée romaine Boulogne-Cologne situe sur le territoire de la Région wallonne
- Le palais de Princes Evêques de Liège
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas »
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Le noyau historique médiéval ou la ‘Cuve’ de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine
- Noyau historique d’Antwerpen -Anvers- de l’Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250
- Leuven/Louvain, bâtiments universitaires, l’héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique
Mixed cultural and natural site
- Hoge Kempen Rural – Industrial Transition Landscape