🏛️ Garden Kingdom of Dessau-W&#xf6;rlitz

Germany · Europe · Cultural · 51.81°N, 12.15°E

The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm is a cultural landscape and World Heritage Site in Germany, located between the city of Dessau and the town of Wörlitz in Central Germany. One of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe, it was created in the late 18th century under the regency of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau. Today, the cultural landscape of Dessau-Wörlitz encompasses an area of 142 km2 (55 sq mi) within the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Because of its exceptional landscape design and testimony to the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm was designated as a world heritage site in 2000.

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Quick facts

Country	Germany
Continent / region	Europe
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	51.81°N, 12.15°E · view on map

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is a cultural World Heritage site in Germany, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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