Heritage Family 02
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Bangkok
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Market & urban centre
Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)
Pak Khlong Talat Flower Market
At the mouth of an old Bangkok moat, a fish market that, through successive royal, political and commercial decisions, became the place where the city finds the flowers for its rites.
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Neighbourhood & district
Bangkok (Dusit)
Dusit District
North of Rattanakosin Island, the royal domain conceived by Chulalongkorn carried Bangkok beyond its walls, and later witnessed the birth of the country’s constitutional life.
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Neighbourhood & district
Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)
Phra Nakhon District
Bangkok’s central district preserves the layout of the capital founded in 1782 – its palace, its canals and the remains of its ramparts – but also lived-in neighbourhoods whose place in conservation is a matter of debate.
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Neighbourhood & district
Bangkok (Samphanthawong)
Samphanthawong District
From the relocation of the Teochew merchants in 1782 to the gold shops of Yaowarat Road, Bangkok’s Chinatown follows the history of the capital step by step.
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Market & urban centre
Bangkok (Samphanthawong)
Sampheng Market (Chinatown)
Born of the relocation in 1782 of the Chinese settled on the site of the Grand Palace, a market lane that became the first nucleus of the Chinese quarter, still active as a wholesale market.