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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Poland.

Understand

Poland ratified the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on June 29, 1976. The first protected sites were inscribed in 1978.

Poland has 15 sites listed in the World Heritage, 14 cultural and 1 natural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
50.03719.1751 Auschwitz Birkenau	Cultural	(vi)	German Nazi concentration and extermination camp (1940-1945), place of memory of the Shoah.	UNESCO sheet
50.06719.962 Historic center of Krakow	Cultural	(iv)		UNESCO sheet
52.26621.0123 Warsaw Historic Center	Cultural	(ii), (vi)		UNESCO sheet
54.04219.0334 Castle of the Teutonic Order of Malbork	Cultural	(ii), (iii), (iv)		UNESCO sheet
Wooden churches in southern Lesser Poland 49.75421.22915 Binarowa 49.75121.9746 Blizne 49.46666720.2087 Dębno 49.66421.9018 Haczow 49.85777820.5669 Lipnica Dolna 49.621.210 Sękowa	Cultural	(iii), (iv)		UNESCO sheet
Churches of Peace in 51.0516.211 Jawor and 50.8516.483312 Świdnica	Cultural	(iii), (iv), (vi)		UNESCO sheet
51.10722217.07694413 Wroclaw Centenary Hall	Cultural	(i), (ii), (iv)		UNESCO sheet
49.86619.683314 Kalwaria Zebrzydowska : Mannerist and landscaped architectural ensemble and pilgrimage park	Cultural	(ii), (iv)		UNESCO sheet
49.979120.063815 Wieliczka Salt Mines	Cultural	(iv)		UNESCO sheet
51.57914.72616 Muskau Park / Mużakowski Park	Cultural	(i), (iv)	Common cross-border site withGermany.	UNESCO sheet
Wooden tserkvas from the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine 49.53388921.03222217 Brunary 49.95297223.0027718 Chotyniec 49.50133321.1726819 Kwiatoń 49.58331.183320 Owczary 49.36972220.95041921 Powroźnik 50.17646723.4009222 Radruż 49.20963922.68777823 Smolnik 49.36919422.12894424 Turzańsk	Cultural	(iii), (iv)	Common cross-border site withUkraine.	UNESCO sheet
50.71723.26725 Zamość old town	Cultural	(iv)		UNESCO sheet
53.0118.61926 Medieval Town of Toruń	Cultural	(ii), (iv)	Torun owes its origins to the Teutonic order who built a castle there in the middle of the 13th century.e century, to serve as a basis for the conquest and evangelization of Prussia. It quickly took on a commercial role within the Hanseatic League and many of the imposing public and private buildings of the XIVe and XVe centuries (including the house of Copernicus) which remain in the Old Town as in the New Town bear witness to its importance.	UNESCO sheet
Tarnowskie Góry lead, silver and zinc mine and its underground hydraulic management system (in Silesian Voivodeship)	Cultural	(i) (ii) (iv)	Located in Upper Silesia, one of the main mining regions of Central Europe located in southern Poland, the site includes the entire underground mining network with its galleries, shafts and access galleries as well as its hydraulic management system. Most of the property is located underground, while on the surface only a few elements remain, such as the remains of the 19th century steam pumping station.e century. This hydraulic system reflects the continuous efforts over three centuries to drain underground mining sites. It has turned the unwanted presence of water in mines into an opportunity to supply cities and industries with water. Tarnowskie Góry has made a significant contribution to the global production of lead and zinc.	UNESCO sheet
52.523.58327 Białowieża Forest	Natural	(vii)	Common cross-border site with the Belarus	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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