Wachau Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site

Official name

Wachau Cultural Landscape | UNESCO

Country

Austria | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Towns of Krems and Melk, Lower Austria
48.3644° Lat, 15.4341° Lon | Map

Code

970

Time Zone

Europe/Vienna (CEST, +0200)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2000. The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces - in terms of architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins), urban design, (towns and villages), and agricultural use, principally for the cultivation of vines - of its evolution since prehistoric times.