UNESCO World Heritage for Netherlands

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 9 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Netherlands to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available).


1995 - Schokland and Surroundings
1996 - Defence Line of Amsterdam
1997 - Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
1998 - Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
1999 - Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
2000 - Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
2009 - The Wadden Sea
2010 - Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
2014 - Van Nellefabriek