Argo Profile

We had always liked travelling, thought we really started collecting WHS in 2006. Then came the children, making the collection more challenging, as our goal is to visit these sites together as a family. Fortunately, living in Europe gives many opportunities of reasonable trips with two young children: we try to cover Europe in the most complete way, leaving long haul trips for later.

Our alias “Argo” relates to the name of the mythological ship which was used by Jason and companions for their trips, including the famous Golden Fleece quest – thus a good name for our own quest of WHS!

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Ville de Lixus (T)

Argo France - 02-Mar-24

Ville de Lixus (T)

Lixus is claimed one of the oldest settlements of the western Mediterranean antique world – although just “off” the Gibraltar straight, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It was first a Phoenician trade city and was later occupied by Romans and then successive civilisations until Middle-Age. Though as often with this kind of sites, the remains you get to see are mainly from the Roman period. The archaeological site lays on a hillside and top above one of the last meanders of the Loukkos river, overlooking both the plain and the Atlantic Ocean, which makes an enjoyable and strategic location

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East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands (T)

Argo France - 29-Oct-23

East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands (T)

Large areas of England East Coast have recently been chosen to make up a new TWHS focusing on migratory birds, as part of the East Atlantic Flyway. Although there is no precise map yet of the proposed site, and boundaries could change of course in the future, I had a closer look at maps that were published in different news websites, and believe we visited at least three areas to be considered under this proposal. The purpose of our visits was each time on another aspect of the place (we are more “history” than “birds” fans), which may be of interest for some other visitors as well, as travelling to the UK to see merely the same as Wadden Sea in mainland Europe may not be so appealing.

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Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)

Argo France - 17-Oct-23

Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)

We visited Birkenhead Park in June 2022. The park is open 24h a day, 7 days a week, free of charge. You can easily park your car (for free as well) along the streets around it, or access it by public transport (by train from Liverpool, which is just on the opposite bank of the Mersey).

Birkenhead Park offers everything you can expect from a typical English city park : wide open greens and wooded areas ; an artificial lake (with ducks and swans) and meandering paths around it, bridges, a bandstand, a boathouse on its shore ; all sport facilities : tennis courts, bowling greens, and of course a cricket ground where the local junior team was practicing on that day. This makes it a very nice place to spend a leisure afternoon. It advertises itself as “the People’s park”, having been thought and created from its very origin as a public park and opened as early as 1846. Open to everyone, all the time. It would even have inspired the creator of Central Park in New York city during a trip he made to Liverpool soon after Birkenhead park had opened

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Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (C) (T)

Argo France - 20-Aug-23

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (C) (T)

We visited the cable station in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, Canada, in August 2023. This was a nice detour of approximately 100km and 1h50 on our way from Gander to Saint John’s. Heart’s Content is a nice village and the station is right along the main road, easy to find and park by. On one side of the road stand the two buildings of the station itself ; opposite side of the road and immediately by the sea, a tiny memorial garden has been set at the very place where the cable was coming on shore. A long plaque with words in both English and morse code shows the way of the cable from the shore to the station. There are a few benches and free flowing potable water – we had a nice picnic there.

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Negotinske Pivnice (T)

Argo France - 16-Apr-23

Negotinske Pivnice (T)

It seems the tradition of growing vine and making wine around Negotin, a small town in the East of Serbia bordering Bulgaria and Romania, dates back from Roman times. This led to the development of wine cellars, but mots of these settlements are now lost or were destroyed. The most remarkable of the few remaining ones (from 19th and 20th centuries) is in Rajac – a village which gives its name to one of the Serbian wines. We made a stop there in summer 2022.

The wine cellars, or “Pivnice”, form a distinct, geographically separated settlement : the village is in the valley from where a small winding road leads to the cellars on top of the hill, overlooking the valley. When arriving, you would believe to have reached the next village but actually all the buildings are wine cellars only.  They have square or rectangular plan, with one level only (although a handful for them have two levels), partly dug into the ground, probably to keep a more stable temperature inside, which is best for wine storage. Wine is still made here and can be tasted and purchased in a few of them

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Argo
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Update 25.02.24
Rating Stats
Aleppo 5
Petra 5
Pompei 5
Rome 5
Siena 5
Acropolis 4.5
Cuzco 4.5
Dubrovnik 4.5
Ephesus 4.5
Florence 4.5
Kraków 4.5
Palenque 4.5
Pergamon 4.5
Prague 4.5
Toledo 4.5
Assisi 4
Bosra 4
Brugge 4
Masada 4
Naples 4
Potosi 4
Rhodes 4
Split 4
Arles 3.5
Avila 3.5
Belfries 3.5
Bryggen 3.5
Budapest 3.5
Caceres 3.5
Corfu 3.5
Cuenca 3.5
Delos 3.5
Elvas 3.5
Evora 3.5
Garajonay 3.5
Kotor 3.5
Matera 3.5
Mostar 3.5
Mystras 3.5
Oporto 3.5
Paphos 3.5
Rabat 3.5
Reims 3.5
Segovia 3.5
Sintra 3.5
Tiwanaku 3.5
Uluru 3.5
Verona 3.5
Vienna 3.5
Volubilis 3.5
Vézelay 3.5
Belem 3
Corvey 3
Lyon 3
Modena 3
Orange 3
Pienza 3
Puebla 3
Riga 3
Sucre 3
Telc 3
Trebic 3
Trier 3
Visby 3
Warsaw 3
Albi 2.5
Aquileia 2.5
Butrint 2.5
Epidaurus 2.5
Ivrea 2.5
Jelling 2.5
Kernavė 2.5
Morelia 2.5
Nessebar 2.5
Nice 2.5
Potsdam 2.5
Provins 2.5
Reichenau 2.5
Røros 2.5
Trogir 2.5
Vilnius 2.5
Genoa 2
Graz 2
Lima 2
Meknes 2
Nancy 2
Torun 2
Urbino 2
Aranjuez 1.5
Hollókö 1.5
Old Rauma 1.5
Tequila 1.5
Battir 1
Mafra 1
Schokland 0.5
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