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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bern

3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Bern.

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UNESCO sites in Bern

  • Old City of BerneCultural · 1983 · 0 km

    Founded in the 12th century on a hill site surrounded by the Aare River, Berne developed over the centuries in line with a an exceptionally coherent planning concept. The buildings in the Old City, dating from a variety …

  • Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the AlpsCultural · 2011 · 15 km

    This serial property of 111 small individual sites encompasses the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from around 5000 to 500 B.C. on the edges of lakes, rivers…

  • Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of EuropeNatural · 2007 · 30 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…

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