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 (BST, +0100)

Current Time

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.