White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
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The 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 Nativity Cathedral (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).
- 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).
Central Sikhote-Alin | Curonian Spit (w/ Lithuania) | Ferapontov Monastery | Golden Mountains of Altai | Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye | Kazan Kremlin | Kizhi Pogost | Lake Baikal | Monuments of Derbent | Monuments of Novgorod | Moscow Kremlin and Red Square | Novodevichy Convent | St. Petersburg with Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, Gatchina, Strelna, Kronstadt, Oranienbaum, and Shlisselburg | Solovetsky Monastery | Struve Geodetic Arc (w/ nine other countries) | Trinity-Sergius Lavra | Uvs Nuur Basin (w/ Mongolia) | Virgin Komi Forests | Volcanoes of Kamchatka | Western Caucasus | White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal | Wrangel Island | Yaroslavl
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