List of heritage registers

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This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided.

Global

•  United Nations
  • World Heritage Sites (see Lists of World Heritage Sites) – UNESCO, advised by the International Council on Monuments and Sites
  • Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) – Food and Agriculture Organization

Albania

 Albania: List of Religious Cultural Monuments of Albania

• National Centre of Cultural Property Inventory

Andorra

 Andorra: Bé d'interès cultural, as maintained by Patrimoni Cultural = Cultural Heritage of Andorra; (Catalan) Llista de monuments d'Andorra

Argentina

 Argentina: National Historic Monuments of Argentina; (French) Monument historique national (Argentine)

Australia

 Australia: Australian National Heritage List, Commonwealth National Heritage List, Register of the National Estate, Heritage registers in Australia

Austria

 Austria: Denkmalgeschütztes Objekt, as maintained by the Bundesdenkmalamt

Belarus

 Belarus: Cultural Properties of Belarus

Belgium

 Belgium: National Heritage Site (Belgium); (Dutch) Lijsten van cultureel erfgoed

Brazil

 Brazil: List of National Historic Heritage of Brazil, as maintained by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage;^[1] (Portuguese) Listas de patrimônio do Brasil

Burma

 Burma: Yangon City Heritage List^[2]

Canada

•  Canada The Canadian Register of Historic Places, while it confers no historic designation or protection itself, endeavours to list all federal, provincial, territorial and local sites.^[3]

Federal

• National Historic Sites of Canada

Provincial

•  Alberta
  • Sites owned and run by the provincial government as a functioning historic site or museum are known as Provincial Historic Sites and Provincial Historic Areas. Buildings and sites owned by private citizens and companies or other levels or branches of government may gain one of two levels of historic designation, "Registered Historic Resource" or "Provincial Historic Resource".^[4] Historic designation in Alberta is governed by the Historic Resources Act.^[5] The province also lists buildings deemed historically significant by municipal governments on the Alberta Register of Historic Places, which is also part of the larger Canadian Register of Historic Places although this does not imply provincial or federal government status or protection.^[6] The Alberta Main Street Program helps to preserve historic buildings in the downtowns of smaller communities.^[7] The Heritage Survey Program is a survey of 80,000 historic buildings in Alberta, with no protective status.^[8]

•  New Brunswick
  • Places and areas designated under the Heritage Conservation Act (the New Brunswick Register of Historic Places acts as a register of sites designated under the Act)^[9]

•  Newfoundland
  • Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador designated properties

•  Ontario
  • Properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act

•  Quebec
  • Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec^[10]

Local

• Heritage buildings of Vancouver
• City of Toronto Heritage Property Inventory
• Register of Historic Resources in Edmonton^[11]

Chile

 Chile: National Monuments of Chile, as maintained by the Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales^[12]

China

 China: Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (全国重点文物保护单位), designated by State Administration of Cultural Heritage

Hangzhou

Sites Protected at the City Level of Hangzhou are districts, artifacts or buildings legally declared to be "protected". According to the "Regularations of historic districts and historic buildings in Hangzhou" effectivated from 1 January 2005, historic buildings are those artifacts or districts that have lasted more than 50 years, and of significant values for history, science, and art study. In Hangzhou, declaring a historic house requires consulting the urban planning administration bureau, and the real estate administration bureau.

As of 31 June 2011, there are 287 declared historic houses in Hangzhou, proclaimed as 5 batches.^[13] In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses.

• List of first batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of second batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of third batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of fourth batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of fifth batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou

Harbin

• Harbin Urban and Rural Planning Bureau
  • Preserved Buildings

Hong Kong

• Declared monuments of Hong Kong
• List of Grade I historic buildings in Hong Kong
• List of Grade II historic buildings in Hong Kong
• List of Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong

Colombia

 Colombia: National Monuments of Colombia; (Spanish) Monumentos Nacionales de Colombia

Croatia

•  Croatia Register of Protected Natural Values of the Republic of Croatia
• Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia

Cuba

•  Cuba Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural^[14]

Czech Republic

•  Czech: (Czech) Seznam národních kulturních památek České republiky, (German) Liste der Nationalen Kulturdenkmale Tschechiens, as featuring on MonumNet^[15]

Denmark

•  Denmark: National Register of Sites and Monuments, as maintained by the Danish Agency for Culture^[16]

Estonia

•  Estonia: National Registry of Cultural Monuments.^[17] It is maintained by the National Heritage Board of Estonia.

It has been described as one of the most successful and more complete heritage registers.^[18]

France

•  France Monument historique
  • Mérimée List^[19]
  • List of historic monuments of 1840. See Liste des monuments historiques de 1840, at Fr. Wikipedia

Germany

•  Germany: The Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz is an organization which facilitates public awareness and protection of heritage sites listed. These lists are kept on the website denkmalliste.org, which has all German heritage registers ("Denkmallisten") gathered together in one portal.^[20]
• Kulturdenkmal
  • Bayerische Denkmalliste^[21]

Indonesia

 Indonesia: Cultural Properties of Indonesia

Ireland

 Ireland: In the Republic of Ireland, some registers are maintained by sections of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (The National Monuments Service and National Inventory of Architectural Heritage). Others are maintained by the "planning authority": the local council for the county, city, borough, or town where the monument or building is sited.

Name	Type	Maintenance
National Monument	"a monument or the remains of a monument the preservation of which is a matter of national importance by reason of the historical, architectural, traditional, artistic, or archaeological interest attaching thereto"[22]	Owned or managed by the National Monuments Service. The Service's own list of monuments is not definitive.[23]
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage	"all— (a) structures and buildings together with their settings and attendant grounds, fixtures and fittings, (b) groups of such structures and buildings, and (c) sites, which are of architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest"[24]	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The NIAH's survey is not yet complete.[25]
protected structure	"structures, or parts of structures, which form part of the architectural heritage and which are of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest"[26]	Relevant planning authority maintains a list as part of its development plan.[27]
architectural conservation area	"a place, area, group of structures or townscape, taking account of building lines and heights, that— (a) is of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest or value, or (b) contributes to the appreciation of protected structures"[26]	Planning authority
special planning control area	"an architectural conservation area [...] of special importance to, or as respects, the civic life or the architectural, historical, cultural or social character of a city or town in which it is situated"[26]	Planning authority
area of special amenity	"by reason of— (a) its outstanding natural beauty, or (b) its special recreational value, and having regard to any benefits for nature conservation"[26]	Planning authority
Database of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes	Gardens marked on the first- or second-edition (1850–95) maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.[28]	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage[29]

Italy

 Italy: Catalogo nazionale dei beni culturali under creation; catalogo regionale dei beni culturali already maintained by each region^[30]

Jamaica

•  Jamaica Jamaica National Heritage Trust, established in 1958.^[31] The organisation maintains a list of National Heritage Sites in Jamaica.^[32]

Japan

 Japan: Cultural Properties of Japan, as maintained by the Agency for Cultural Affairs; see also National Treasures of Japan

Korea (North)

 North Korea: National Treasures of North Korea, Cultural assets of North Korea

Korea (South)

 South Korea: National Treasures of South Korea, Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Korea, as maintained by Cultural Heritage Administration

Latvia

•  Latvia
• "The list of state protected monuments of culture", available at . Contains information about 7131 monuments of culture (March 2012). The list is maintained by State Inspection for Heritage Inspection, a Government agency.

Luxembourg

•  Luxembourg
• "Buildings and objects classified as national monuments or listed on supplementary inventory".

The list is maintained by Service des sites et monuments nationaux, a Government agency. The latest version is available here .

See Lëscht vun de klasséierte Monumenter on lb-wiki and commons:Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Luxembourg

Macedonia (Republic of)

 Macedonia: (French) Patrimoine culturel de la République de Macédoine

Malta

 Malta: National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands

Mexico

 Mexico: National Monuments of Mexico^[33]

Morocco

 Morocco: Historic Monuments and Sites of Morocco

Mozambique

 Mozambique: Cultural Properties of Mozambique

Namibia

 Namibia: National Monuments, as maintained by the National Heritage Council of Namibia;^[34] (German) Liste der Nationalen Denkmäler in Namibia

Netherlands

•  Netherlands List of Rijksmonuments (Monumentenregister van de Rijksdienst voor het cultureel erfgoed)^[35]

New Zealand

•  New Zealand Rarangi Taonga:^[36] The Register of Historic Places, Historic Areas, Wahi Tapu and Wahi Tapu Areas (administered by New Zealand Historic Places Trust.)

Pakistan

•  Pakistan There are several organizations that take care of historic and heritage sites in Pakistan.

Paraguay

 Paraguay: El Inventario Nacional de Bienes Culturales, under creation by the Dirección de Catalogación del Patrimonio Cultural^[37]

Philippines

 Philippines: Cultural Properties of the Philippines

Poland

 Poland: A list of objects of cultural heritage in Poland (zabytki) is maintained by the Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa. It is primarily composed of objects in the register of objects of cultural heritage (rejestr zabytków), objects with the status of Historical Monument (pomnik historii), objects classified as a cultural park (park kulturowy).^[38]

Portugal

 Portugal: National Monuments, as maintained by IGESPAR; (Portuguese) Lista de património edificado em Portugal

Romania

•  Romania National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania – The list, created in 2004–2005, contains historical monuments entered in the National Cultural Heritage of Romania. It is maintained by the Romanian National Institute of Historical Monuments, part of the Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony in Romania.

Russia

 Russia: Russian cultural heritage register; (Russian) Списки объектов культурного наследия России; Historical Cities of Russia

Senegal

 Senegal: Sites et Monuments historiques;^[39] (French) Liste des monuments et sites historiques au Sénégal

Serbia

•  Serbia

Cultural Heritage of Serbia (see also: World Heritage Sites in Serbia)

The register is divided into twelve categories:

Exceptional Importance	Great Importance	Protected
Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance	Archaeological Sites of Great Importance	Protected Archaeological Sites
Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance	Monuments of Culture of Great Importance	Protected Monuments of Culture
Historic Landmarks of Exceptional Importance	Historic Landmarks of Great Importance	Protected Historic Landmarks
Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Exceptional Importance	Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance	Protected Spatial Cultural-Historical Units

Sierra Leone

 Sierra Leone: National Monuments of Sierra Leone, as maintained by the Ancient Monuments and Relics Commission^[40]

Singapore

•  Singapore National Monuments of Singapore

Slovakia

 Slovakia: Cultural Heritage Monuments of Slovakia; (German) Liste (Kulturdenkmale in der Slowakei)

South Africa

•  South Africa South African Heritage Resources Agency

• List of heritage sites in South Africa

Spain

•  Spain Monument (Spain) (Monumento histórico or Bien de Interés Cultural)
  • Lists of Bienes de Interés Cultural

Swaziland

•  Swaziland: National Monuments of Swaziland, as maintained by the Swaziland National Trust Commission^[41]

Sweden

•  Sweden: Listed buildings in Sweden, as maintained by the Swedish National Heritage Board; see also (Swedish) Kulturmärkning i Sverige

Switzerland

•   Switzerland Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property (German: Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter, French: Inventaire suisse des biens culturels). National register of some 8,300 objects of international, national, regional and local significance. Managed by the Federal Office for Civil Protection (see its website).
• There are also cantonal registers of cultural heritage sites.
• See also Category:Heritage registers in Switzerland.

Ukraine

•  Ukraine State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine

United Kingdom

 United Kingdom

Heritage, culture, planning and conservation are devolved issues in the United Kingdom, and are dealt with by the governments of the constituent countries. England, which does not have its own devolved government, is covered by an agency of the United Kingdom government. See also Historic Environment Record (HERs) and Sites and Monuments Record (SMRs) maintained usually at a local government level (Archaeological Trusts in Wales).

• The Schedule of Ancient Monuments (follows on pre-devolution 1979 Act of Parliament)
• England: English Heritage, an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport
  • The National Heritage List for England (launched May 2011). Contains list of all scheduled monuments, listed buildings, registered parks and gardens, historic wrecks and registered historic battlefields in England^[42]
  • English Heritage Archive: formerly the National Monuments Record (England)
  • Register of Parks and Gardens^[43]
  • Registered Battlefields (UK)
  • Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
  • Heritage at Risk
• Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, an executive agency within the Department of the Environment
• Scotland:
  • Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Executive Education Department
    • Inventory of Historic Battlefields
    • Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland
  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) – executive non-departmental public body
    • National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS): the archive formerly known as the Scottish National Buildings Record
    • CANMORE: a database that is part of the NMRS
• Wales:
  • Cadw, an agency of the Welsh Assembly Government
    • Scheduled Monuments in Wales
    • Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, a Welsh Government sponsored body
    • National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW)
    • Coflein: the online database for the NMRW

United States

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In the United States, a site is only listed on the National Register of Historic Places on recommendation from the state historic preservation offices in the relevant state.

Some states maintain their own state-level historic registers, although in some U.S. states all properties on the state register duplicate the National Register listing.

The National Register listing in itself confers no protection to a historic property but may qualify the site for matching grants for historic restoration.

Local historic designations in many municipalities provide some limited protection against demolition of historic landmarks.

National

•  United States National Monuments are a separate register from the National Register of Historic Places^[44]
• National Historic Landmarks^[45]
• National Natural Landmarks^[46]

State-level and local-level

•  Alabama
  • Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage

•  California
  • California Historical Landmarks^[47]
  • California Register of Historical Resources^[48]
  • California Points of Historical Interest^[49]
  • List of Berkeley Landmarks, Structures of Merit, and Historic Districts
  • Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
  • San Francisco Designated Landmarks

•  Georgia (U.S. state)
  • List of historic buildings and districts designated by the City of Atlanta

•  Illinois
  • Chicago Landmarks

•  Michigan
  • Michigan Historic Sites

•  Mississippi
  • Mississippi Landmarks

•  New York
  • Town of Oyster Bay Landmarks
  • New York City Landmarks (designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission)

•  Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
  • List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations

•  Virginia
  • Virginia Historic Landmarks Register

•  Washington
  • Washington State Heritage Register^[50]

Venezuela

 Venezuela: Inventario de monumentos, as maintained by the Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural^[51]

Zambia

 Zambia: Monuments and Historic Sites of Zambia

Zimbabwe

 Zimbabwe: National Monuments of Zimbabwe

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References

External links

• Manual on Systems of Inventorying Immovable Cultural Property (UNESCO)