Brussels

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Brussels

6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Brussels.

UNESCO sites in Brussels

• La Grand-Place, BrusselsCultural · 1998 · 0 km

  La Grand-Place in Brussels is a remarkably homogeneous body of public and private buildings, dating mainly from the late 17th century. The architecture provides a vivid illustration of the level of social and cultural li…

• Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)Cultural · 2000 · 2 km

  The four major town houses - Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta - located in Brussels and designed by the architect Victor Horta, one of the earliest initiato…

• Stoclet HouseCultural · 2009 · 5 km

  When banker and art collector Adolphe Stoclet commissioned this house from one of the leading architects of the Vienna Secession movement, Josef Hoffmann, in 1905, he imposed neither aesthetic nor financial restrictions …

• Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of EuropeNatural · 2007 · 9 km

  This transnational property includes 93 component parts in 18 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isolated refuge areas in the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Mediterranean and Py…

• Belfries of Belgium and FranceCultural · 1999 · 22 km

  Twenty-three belfries in the north of France and the belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were inscribed in 2005, as an extension to the 32 Belgian belfries inscribed in 1999 as Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia. Built between …

• Flemish BéguinagesCultural · 1998 · 26 km

  The Béguines were women who dedicated their lives to God without retiring from the world. In the 13th century they founded the béguinages , enclosed communities designed to meet their spiritual and material needs. The Fl…