This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Hungary.
Understand
Hungary accepts the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on July 15, 1985. The first protected sites were inscribed in 1987.
In 2015, Hungary had eight World Heritage sites, seven cultural and one natural.
Listing
The following sites are listed as World Heritage.
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Millennial Benedictine Abbey of 1 Pannonhalma and its natural environment | Cultural | (iv), (vi) | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 Budapest , with the banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle District and Andrássy Avenue | Cultural | (ii), (iv) | Preserving remains of monuments that exercised great architectural influence at various times, such as those of the Roman city of Aquincum and the Gothic castle of Buda, this site, which is one of the most beautiful urban landscapes in the world, illustrates the periods brilliant stories in the history of the Hungarian capital. | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 Hollókő , the old village and its surroundings | Cultural | (v) | Exceptional example of traditional habitat voluntarily preserved, the village of Hollokö, which developed especially in the XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries, remains a living testimony of the forms of rural life before the agricultural revolution of the twentiethe century. | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||
Early Christian necropolis of 4 Pécs (Sopianae) | Cultural | (iii), (iv) | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta | Cultural | (iv), (v) | The Hortobágy Puszta Cultural Landscape is a vast expanse of plains and swamps in eastern Hungary. The traditional use of the land for purposes such as grazing for domestic animals has been perpetuated there by a pastoral society for over two thousand years. | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cultural landscape of 6 Fertö / Neusiedlersee | Cultural | (v) | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Historic Cultural Landscape of the Wine Region of 7 Tokaj | Cultural | (iii), (v) | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Karst caves8 Aggtelek and Slovakian karst | Natural | (viii) | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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