Stoclet House

When banker and art collector Adolphe Stoclet commissioned this house from one of the leading architects of the Vienna Secession movement, Josef Hoffmann, in 1905, he imposed neither aesthetic nor financial restrictions on the project. The house and garden were completed in 1911 and their austere geometry marked a turning point in Art Nouveau, foreshadowing Art Deco and the Modern Movement in architecture. Stoclet House is one of the most accomplished and homogenous buildings of the Vienna Secession, and features works by Koloman Moser and Gustav Klimt, embodying the aspiration of creating a ‘total work of art' (Gesamtkunstwerk). Bearing testimony to artistic renewal in European architecture, the house retains a high level of integrity, both externally and internally as it retains most of its original fixtures and furnishings.

 Belgium

N50 50 6 E4 24 58

Date of Inscription: 2009

Criteria: (i)(ii)

Property : 0.86 ha 

Buffer zone: 25 ha

Ref: 1298

Source: http://whc.unesco.org

La Grand-Place, Brussels

La Grand-Place in Brussels is a remarkably homogeneous body of public and private buildings, dating mainly from the late 17th century. The architecture provides a vivid illustration of the level of social and cultural life of the period in this important political and commercial centre.

 Belgium

City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region

N50 50 48.048 E4 21 8.712

Date of Inscription: 1998

Criteria: (ii)(iv)

Property : 1.48 ha 

Buffer zone: 21 ha

Ref: 857

Source: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/857

Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex

 

Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is associated with the history of the invention and spread of typography. Its name refers to the greatest printer-publisher of the second half of the 16th century: Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–89). The monument is of outstanding architectural value. It contains exhaustive evidence of the life and work of what was the most prolific printing and publishing house in Europe in the late 16th century. The building of the company, which remained in activity until 1867, contains a large collection of old printing equipment, an extensive library, invaluable archives and works of art, among them a painting by Rubens.

 Belgium

City of Antwerp, Flanders Region

N51 13 5.988 E4 23 52.008

Date of Inscription: 2005

Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)

Ref: 1185

Source: http://whc.unesco.org

Historic Centre of Brugge

Brief Description

Brugge is an outstanding example of a medieval historic settlement, which has maintained its historic fabric as this has evolved over the centuries, and where original Gothic constructions form part of the town's identity. As one of the commercial and cultural capitals of Europe, Brugge developed cultural links to different parts of the world. It is closely associated with the school of Flemish Primitive painting.

Belgium

N51 12 32.076 E3 13 30.972

Date of Inscription: 2000

Criteria: (ii)(iv)(vi)

Property : 410 ha

Buffer zone: 168 ha

Ref: 996

Source: http://whc.unesco.org