Urban fabric

Connected Sites: 22

Definition
Historic center WHS which mention "urban fabric" (or "tissu urbain" in French) in their OUV statement.

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Connected Sites

  • Strasbourg
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.52
    396
    10
  • Pearling
    Pearling
    Bahrain
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.16
    89
    6
  • Brugge
    Brugge
    Belgium
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.97
    503
    21
  • Olinda
    Olinda
    Brazil
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.06
    46
    4
    "a tree-covered landscape laid over an urban fabric delightfully moulded to the contours of the topography"
  • Ping Yao
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.47
    94
    8
  • Lyon
    Lyon
    France
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.22
    308
    9
  • Riga
    Riga
    Latvia
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.54
    356
    15
    "The urban fabric of its medieval centre "
  • Siena
    Siena
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    4.05
    378
    10
    "The city is a masterwork of dedication and inventiveness in which the buildings have been designed to fit into the overall planned urban fabric and also to form a whole with the surrounding cultural landscape." (Official description)
  • Sheki
    Sheki
    Azerbaijan
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.71
    68
    3
    "Besides the manor houses, Sheki's public buildings encompass religious structures, identified in the urban fabric by the vertical lines of the mosque minarets, public baths and caravanserais." - AB Evaluation
  • Medina of Fez
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.73
    261
    9
  • Kutna Hora
    Kutna Hora
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.35
    256
    14
  • Aleppo
    Aleppo
    Syria
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.53
    68
    5
  • Valparaiso
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.12
    160
    12
  • Tlacotalpan
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.66
    45
    6
    Tlacotalpan is a Spanish colonial river port on the Gulf coast of Mexico which has preserved its original urban fabric to an exceptional degree (OUV)
  • Stone Town of Zanzibar
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.42
    146
    7
  • Kulangsu
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.94
    72
    5
  • Ferrara
    Ferrara
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.19
    234
    10
    "The originality of the urban fabric of Ferrara, along with its Renaissance design and layout elements, makes it a clearly recognisable Renaissance city." (Official description)
  • Dilmun Burial Mounds
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.11
    77
    6
    "(...) 15 site components consist of 13 single royal mounds and two pairs of royal mounds, all embedded in the urban fabric of A'ali village." (OUV)
  • Bukhara
    Bukhara
    Uzbekistan
    Inscribed: 1993
    4.03
    156
    6
  • Belfries
    Belfries
    Belgium, France
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.95
    443
    17
    "As major and central elements of the medieval town, the belfries have conserved their importance and played a pivotal role in the development of the urban fabric right up to present times." (Official description)
  • Ahmadabad
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.60
    69
    6
  • Ancient Ksour
    Ancient Ksour
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.05
    23
    3
    "Their urban fabric is dense and closely-packed; with narrow and twisting lanes running between the blank outer walls of courtyard houses." (OUV)