Lower Vítkovice
Industrial heritage site in the Czech Republic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lower Vítkovice (Czech: Dolní oblast Vítkovice) is a national site of industrial heritage[1] located in the Vítkovice district of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It includes an extensive industrial area Vítkovice ironworks with a unique collection of industrial architecture. A set of three successive parts - coal mine, coke ovens and blast furnace operations - also called Ostravian Hradčany,[2] after Hradčany, the Castle District of Prague. The area is registered in the list of European cultural heritage,[3] and was placed on the Czech Republic's list of tentative UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001 under the name The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava.[4]
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