Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site

Official name
Maritime Greenwich | UNESCO
Country
United Kingdom | Map
Continent
Europe
Location
London Borough of Greenwich, England
51.4811° Lat, 0.3700° Lon | Map
Code
795
Time Zone
Europe/London (GMT, +0000)
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Category
Cultural
Description
Inscribed 1997. The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Queen's House (by Inigo Jones) was the first Palladian building in England, while the complex that was until recently the Royal Naval College was designed by Christopher Wren. The park, laid out on the basis of an original design by André Le Nôtre, contains the Old Royal Observatory, the work of Wren and the scientist Robert Hooke.