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New Lanark

Rank:

UNESCO

Wonder Type: Cultural

Country: United Kingdom

Best of: Village

Description:

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. [More Details]

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