🏛️ Landscape of Grand Pré

Canada · Americas · Cultural · 45.12°N, 64.31°W

Grand-Pré is a rural community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Its French name translates to "Great/Large Meadow" and the community lies at the eastern edge of the Annapolis Valley several kilometres east of the town of Wolfville on a peninsula jutting into the Minas Basin surrounded by extensive dyked farm fields, framed by the Gaspereau and Cornwallis Rivers. The community was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline and is today home to the Grand-Pré National Historic Site. On June 30, 2012, the Landscape of Grand-Pré was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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Quick facts

Country	Canada
Continent / region	Americas
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	45.12°N, 64.31°W · view on map

Landscape of Grand Pré is a cultural World Heritage site in Canada, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Landscape of Grand Pré was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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