UNESCO World Heritage for Sweden

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 15 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Sweden 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).


1991 - Royal Domain of Drottningholm
1993 - Engelsberg Ironworks
1993 - Birka and Hovgården
1994 - Skogskyrkogården
1994 - Rock Carvings in Tanum
1995 - Hanseatic Town of Visby
1996 - Laponian Area
1996 - Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå
1998 - Naval Port of Karlskrona
2000 - Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
2000 - High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
2001 - Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
2004 - Varberg Radio Station
2005 - Struve Geodetic Arc
2012 - Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland