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New Lanark

French: New Lanark
The New Lanark is a World Heritage site in United Kingdom defined by the UNESCO in 2001 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.
It is on position 337 (543, 324, 49) in our monthly survey..

"New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism."
Copyright © 1992 2014 UNESCO/World Heritage Centre. All rights reserved."

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