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International World Heritage Day
To mark International World Heritage Day on 18th April 2008 and to celebrate the inscription of Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site, free coach tours of Liverpool's World Heritage Site were offered. Due to huge demand bookings can no longer be taken.UNESCO Mission to Liverpool
Liverpool's World Heritage Site was in the spotlight in the middle of October 2006 as a mission to assess its "state of conservation" was undertaken on the instruction of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee.Visionary design for city's 'front porch'
Stanley Dock has been largely dis-used since the early 1980's and finding a sustainable new use for this outstanding complex of dock buildings is one of the greatest challenges for the World Heritage Site.Refusal to list drinking fountains
The Friends of Liverpool Monuments has asked English Heritage to list surviving drinking fountains as important examples of Liverpool's social history but in December 2006 English Heritage declined to do so.Welcome to Liverpool World Heritage
A cultural World Heritage Site is an historic monument, group of buildings or site which is of outstanding universal value to the international community.
In 2004, Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This website is designed to give visitors an overview of the Site and how to enjoy its many treasures.
The website also provides practical and academic information to assist in understanding the reasons for Liverpool's inscription and how the World Heritage Site is managed and conserved.
The World Heritage Site stretches along the waterfront from Albert Dock, through The Pier Head and up to Stanley Dock, and up through the historic commercial districts and the RopeWalks area to the cultural quarter which is dominated by the magnificent St George's Hall.
Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site is one of over 850 cultural and natural World Heritage sites which include The Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, the cities of Edinburgh and Bath, Hadrian's Wall and Stonehenge.
The award was made on the basis that the Site is 'the supreme example of a commercial port at a time of Britain's greatest global influence'.
The area's historic significance centres on its involvement in the growth of world trade, mercantile culture, the trans-atlantic slave trade and mass European emigration.
"Nothing gives one so vivid an idea of the vast commerce of the country as these docks, quays and immense wharehouses, piled and cumbered with hides and merchandises of all kinds from all corners of the world." Reverend Francis Kilvert, 1872.