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UNESCO World Heritage Site Liverpool

Liverpool was inscribed onto UNESCO's World Heritage list because it represents "the supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain's greatest global significance".

It became one of the centres of world trade in the 18th and 19th centuries and played an important role in the growth of the British Empire and in the industrial revolution. Liverpool was a major port for organising the mass movement of people, especially enslaved Africans in the 18th century and European emigrants to the New World in the 19th century.

The significant ensembles of historic docks and commercial, civic and cultural buildings of the WHS are spread around 6 areas of distinctive townscape character.

The three monumental Edwardian buildings that dominate the Pier Head stand as testimony to the city's pre-eminence in global trade in the early years of the 20th century: the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building.

Liverpool's innovation in dock technology, port management and transport systems influenced the development of docks worldwide. Liverpool also showed innovation in building construction and created architecture of the highest quality. To this stand as testimony, its outstanding commercial buildings , warehouses and public buildings, such as St George's Hall.

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UNESCO MAP of Liverpool

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