The Czech Republic: Saaz hop-growing landscape granted UNESCO World Heritage status
The Northwest Bohemian town of Žatec and its surrounding hop-growing landscape have been granted UNESCO World Heritage status. The announcement on Monday, September 18 means that Czechia now has 17 entries on the prestigious list, Radio Prague reported.
Žatec, known in German as Saaz, is internationally famous for growing high-quality Saaz hops. It has seven centuries of tradition in the field and is responsible for a large part of Czechia’s total hop production.
World Heritage Sites are selected by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance.
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