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My wife and I love travel and have been going on adventures every chance we get since the day we got married. Our home base is in the PNW in the U.S. I love history, so World Heritage Sites are always one of the first items I look up when we are travelling to a new place. I try to visit a new country every year.

United States Last Update 28.06.25 43 WHS Visited 24 Reviews 43 WHS Rated 0 TWHS Visited

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Poblet Monastery

2Flow2 United States - 07-Jun-25

Poblet Monastery

I have to agree with Andrew_Kerr that this site deserves higher ratings than it was previously receiving, and from reading the older reviews it seems to be largely due to the way in which the tour system has been re-worked. Whereas previously an in-person tour was required, the availablity of these has now become significantly more limited as they have been supplanted with an audio guide that you can use to enter the full monastery at any time and tour at your own pace. (I say "full monastery" to refer to the large section open to tourists, though, as this is still an actively used monastery so there are sections exclusively reserved for the monks which travellers cannot enter.)

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Tarraco

2Flow2 United States - 07-Jun-25

Tarraco

For me, Tarraco (Tarragona as it is called today) is a light 3.5 stars for me, bordering on a 3. As you can gather from the other reviews on here, none of the individual locations are particularly jaw-dropping for this WHS, but taken together they make up quite an interesting vision of Roman life. Also, the fact that this is one of the first Roman settlements not only in Spain, but outside of Italy as a whole is just plain cool.

Tarragona has done a decent job of making each of these locations accessible and providing explanations of what you're seeing via signage and audiovisual displays at each of them. If you want to just hit the biggest highlights and avoid the stuff that are mostly just "rocks" or a piece of hardly-identifiable architecture, then I recommend doing the Amphitheatre, the Circus, the Walls, and the Aqueduct. This is more or less what my group did, as we were limited on time and there is only so much I can convince my non-WHS friends to go out of their way for

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Vall de Boi

2Flow2 United States - 08-Jun-25

Vall de Boi

Though Hubert's review is over a decade old, it was the most recent one written before my May 2025 trip to Vall de Boi and I have to say, not much has changed. In fact, Hubert's review is quite comprehensive and I recommend giving it a read before reading my own here. I'll try and fill in any gaps.

Yes, this high concentration of churches were constructed by the Lords of Erill, though as the attendant at the one of the churches told us, it was not for religious piety that the lords constructed the buildings but rather to establish a particular small territory as their own during the constant conquerings and re-conquerings between the local leaders during that period.

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Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

2Flow2 United States - 07-Jun-25

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

This is an area with some very beautiful hikes! I recommend a visit after seeing it in May 2025!

Now, whether this site is of "outstanding value to humanity", as many reviewers have commented, is debatable. As Els mentioned in her review over a decade ago, it's questionable the extent to which this site "reflects the persistence of pastoralism and a strong mountain culture, notably the survival of a communal land-ownership system dating back to the 13th century" as the inscription claims. The Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley is located decently near Andorra's main highway that connects the whole country, and is close to the city of Encamp, which itself feels fairly like a mix of any generic Western European nation blended together with any outdoorsy city in the the modern American West

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Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau

2Flow2 United States - 17-May-25

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau

Visited in May 2025. These two works by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner are both excellent locations to visit, and as other reviewers have said, are just as good as the Antoni Gaudí works.

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