White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

Infobox World Heritage Site
WHS = White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal


State Party =
Type = Cultural
Criteria = i, ii, iv
ID = 633-644
Region = Europe and North America
Year = 1992
Session = 16th
Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/633The White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal is the name of a World Heritage Site in Russian Federation. The patrimony embraces eight medieval limestone monuments of Zalesye:

*Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir (1158-60, 1185-89);
*The Golden Gate in Vladimir (1158-64, with later modifications);
*The Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir (1194-97);
*The castle of Andrew the Pious in Bogolyubovo (1158-65, with later modifications);
*The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in Bogolyubovo (1165);
*The Suzdal Kremlin with the Cathedral of the Nativity (1222-25, built up in the 16th century);
*The Monastery of Saint Euthymius in Suzdal (mostly 16th century);
*The Church of Boris and Gleb in Kideksha (1152, with later mofifications).

This World Heritage Site does not include, for reasons unknown, several closely related white monuments of Zalesye:
*The Saviour Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessky (1152);
*The Cathedral of Saint George in Yuriev-Polsky (1230-34, with later modifications);
*The Cathedrals of the Knyaginin Convent in Vladimir and Intercession Convent in Suzdal (turn of the 15th and 16th centuries).