UNESCO IN

CZECH REPUBLIC

1. WHAT IS UNESCO?

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC

AND CULTURAL ORAGNIZATION

• Headquarters in Paris

• 195 members

• 4. November 1946

• Czechoslovakia

• Czech republic (22.2.1993)

2. 12 UNESCO PLACES

3. ČESKÝ KRUMLOV

HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN

• Jižní Čechy

• Panorama

• Top atracttion r. Castle (2 biggest)

• Vltava

• Unique theatre

• Český Krumlov it is!

• Added to the list in 1992

4. TELČ

HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN

• Added to the list in 1992

• Jihomoravský kraj

• Fire destroy old town

• Townhouses

• Strengthened by a protective

• Ghotic castle (14th century)

• 1958 NCM

5. ŽDAR NAD SÁZAVOU

PILGRIMAGE CHURCH OF JAN Z NEPOMUKU AT ZELENÁ

HORA

• Added to the list in 1994

• Vysočina

• Market town

• Cistercian monastry 1252

• Project to rebuild (finest)

• Finished in 1820

• Shape of five-pointed star

• Cemetery

6. KUTNÁ HORA

HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN, CHURCH OF ST. BARBORA,

CATHEDRAL OF NANEBEVZETÍ PANY MARIE

• Added to the list in 1995

• Středočeský kraj

• Mining of silver

• Church of St. Barbora (1388 – 1558)

• Cathedral of Nanebevzetí pany Marie

• Ex Cistercian monastry (1142)

• Cathedral (1708)

7. LEDNICE-VALTICE

AREA

• Added to the list in 1996

• Jihomoravský kraj

• Complex

• Castel (12th century)

• Area (over 280 km2)

• Princely family of Lichnštejn

• 17th – 20th century

8. HOLAŠOVICE

VILLAGE RESERVATION

• Added to the list in 1998

• Jihočeský kraj

• 13th century

• 16th century

• After WW2

• Forsaken buldings

9. KROMĚŘÍŽ

CASTLE AND GARDENS

• Added to the list in 1998

• Zlínský kraj

• 1997

• Hanácké Athény

• 1848 - Transferred town

• Castle (13th century)

• Gardens

10. LITOMYŠL

CASTLE AND GARDENS

• Added to the list in 1999

• Pardubický kraj

• Half of the 16th century

• Arcade and Italian style

• Sgrafitto facades

• In castle complex

11. OLOMOUC

HOLY TRINITY COLUMN

• Added to the list in 2000

• Olomoucký kraj

• Hearth

• Holy trinity column

• Early years of the 18th century

• Specifc to C. EU

• Olomoucké Baroko

• 35 m

• Ondřej Zahner

12. BRNO

TUGENDHAT VILLA

• Added to the list in 2002

• Jihomoravský kraj

• 1929 – 1930

• Functionalist style

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Project)

• Informal style

14. TŘEBÍČ

THE JEWISH QUARTER AND THE

BASILICA OF ST. PROKOP

• Added to the list in 2002

• Vysočina

• Town of tolerance

• The close co-existence of Christian and

Jewish

• River Jihlava

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FOR YOUR

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