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Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 29-Nov-23

When you take the relatively short way from the centre of Paris to Saint-Denis you are not sure if you really went the right way. You are still very much in Paris but the quarter is rather poor and and as a caucasian north European you feel like a stranger among a largely arab crowd. Street vendors enhance the exotic feeling. When you stand in front of the building the doubts are not resolved: The asymmetrical facade with just one tower looks rather clumsy and unfinished despite the beautiful portals. The modern arge square in front does not help the impression.

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Viking Age Ring Fortresses

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 18-Sep-23

There may have been a time when viking sites were underrepresented on the world heritage list but by now I think they are already overrepresented. Firstly the viking period is a rather limited era and has already 6 sites or more on the list. I haven't visited all of them but I have visited Jelling and Hedeby (and St. Kilda but there the Viking connections is not central). While I found both visits worthwhile and interesting, in both there is very little to see and they need a lot of explanation and imagination and I am not so sure at all that they really need to be on the list.

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Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 22-Mar-23

I visited the Molino viejo de Zabala, west of Cartagena. It is indicated on this website as one of the locations of this nomination though I didn't find out why since I didn't find it in the nomination a there are hundreds more. There are also larger groupe of windmills what would increase the pleasure of the visit. As far as I could see they seem all protected. This single mill is small and about 300 years old. Tt is rightfully preserved but it is a very simple construction and I doubt it varies greatly from similar mills in Greece or the Balkan. If you have experienced the incredible complexity of dutch mills, for example at Kinderdijk or even more in Zaandam with many different functions and technical finesses there seems little reason to inscribe the Spanish mills.

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Primeval Beech Forests

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 02-Jun-22

This is a hard site to rate: There is no doubt at all that these areas should be protected. But this site has been so "successful" with its many extensions that it has kind of ridiculed its on OUV: How can a site have OUV that has 82 locations in most European countries? The locations are so numerous that nobody can still consider unique so it would actually only be consequent to remove the site from the list! It implies the strong question how many locations a serial site can or should have (I couldn't answer this question in respect to the Compostela sites though I think definitely that a much stronger selection would improve the sites)

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Christiansfeld

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 17-May-22

I visited this little town in the summer of 2021 when I covered all the inscribed sites on Denmark proper and a few tentative sites. I decided to stay overnight here and rented a room in the Brødremenighedens Hotel, probably the only hotel in town. It is not cheap (as all hotels in Denmark) but it is in one of the largest historic buildings in town and features not only a restaurant (with a UNESCO-Menue!) and several historic halls. I figure you can see them also without being a guest. There were several reasons I decided to stay overnight: It fit decently with my travel route coming south from the eastern centre of Jutland (coming from Aarhus over Jelling) and, as strange as it sounds, because I knew that there was not very much to see

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Name: Caspar Dechmann
Country: Switzerland
Most Impressive: Venice
Proposal: Gdansk, New York Central Park

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Granada 5

Pompei 5

Prague 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Altamira Cave 4.5

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Brugge 4.5

Costiera Amalfitana 4.5

Florence 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Loire Valley 4.5

Potsdam 4.5

Rome 4.5

St. Petersburg 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Vienna 4.5

Acropolis 4

Ancient Nara 4

Arab-Norman Palermo 4

Archaeological Site of Delphi 4

Assisi 4

Bamberg 4

Budapest 4

Calakmul 4

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4

City of Bath 4

Cordoba 4

Dubrovnik 4

Ferrara 4

Flemish Béguinages 4

Fortified City of Carcassonne 4

Himeji-jo 4

Horyu-ji Area 4

Ironbridge Gorge 4

Malbork Castle 4

Mantua and Sabbioneta 4

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4

Mont-Saint-Michel 4

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4

Mycenae and Tiryns 4

Neolithic Orkney 4

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4

Oporto 4

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4

Puebla 4

Rammelsberg and Goslar 4

Ravenna 4

Rhodes 4

Route of Santiago de Compostela 4

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4

Siena 4

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4

Toledo 4

Vatican City 4

Verona 4

Wachau Cultural Landscape 4

Würzburg Residence 4

Asturian Monuments 3.5

Avignon 3.5

Bordeaux 3.5

Burgos Cathedral 3.5

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

Fortifications of Vauban 3.5

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.5

Gwynedd Castles 3.5

Isole Eolie 3.5

Itsukushima Shrine 3.5

Las Medulas 3.5

Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5

Major Town Houses 3.5

Maulbronn Monastery 3.5

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5

Mount Etna 3.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Old City of Berne 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5

Quedlinburg 3.5

Querétaro 3.5

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5

Salzburg 3.5

San Gimignano 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

St. Kilda 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Syracuse 3.5

Uxmal 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5

Xochicalco 3.5

Agrigento 3

Arles 3

Avila 3

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3

Botanical Garden, Padua 3

Burgundy 3

Canterbury 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

Classical Weimar 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Dutch Water Defence Lines 3

Eisinga Planetarium 3

Fontainebleau 3

Fujisan 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Graz 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Kinderdijk 3

Kutna Hora 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

Longobards in Italy 3

Lübeck 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Naples 3

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3

Pont du Gard 3

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3

Provins 3

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3

Reims 3

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3

Rhaetian Railway 3

Saint-Emilion 3

San Miguel de Allende 3

Seville 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Split 3

The Four Lifts 3

Trogir 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Val di Noto 3

Van Nellefabriek 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Villa Romana del Casale 3

Wartburg Castle 3

Aachen Cathedral 2.5

Abbey of St Gall 2.5

Bellinzone 2.5

Camino Real 2.5

Campeche 2.5

Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5

Champagne 2.5

City of Luxembourg 2.5

El Escurial 2.5

Genoa 2.5

Heritage of Mercury 2.5

La Lonja de la Seda 2.5

Lyon 2.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5

Morelia 2.5

Muskauer Park 2.5

Nancy 2.5

Naumburg Cathedral 2.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5

Palmeral of Elche 2.5

Pannonhalma 2.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5

Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5

Schönbrunn 2.5

Serra de Tramuntana 2.5

Sian Ka'an 2.5

Statue of Liberty 2.5

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5

Tower of London 2.5

Urbino 2.5

Vézelay 2.5

Alcala de Henares 2

Belfries 2

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2

Caves and Ice Age Art 2

Chaîne des Puys 2

Corfu 2

Forth Bridge 2

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2

Genbaku Dome 2

Jelling 2

Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2

Kronborg Castle 2

Le Havre 2

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2

Modena 2

Monte San Giorgio 2

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2

Regensburg 2

Reichenau 2

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2

San Marino and Mount Titano 2

Santa Maria delle Grazie 2

Stoclet House 2

Stralsund and Wismar 2

Studley Royal Park 2

The Porticoes of Bologna 2

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Beemster Polder 1.5

Christiansfeld 1.5

Cologne Cathedral 1.5

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Crespi d'Adda 1.5

Fagus Factory 1.5

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5

Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5

Hiraizumi 1.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5

Messel Pit 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Par force hunting landscape 1.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5

Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5

Poblet Monastery 1.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5

Roskilde Cathedral 1.5

ShUM Sites 1.5

Stevns Klint 1.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1

Djerba 1

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1

Primeval Beech Forests 1

Schokland 1

Tarraco 1

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5

Lower German Limes 0.5

Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5

Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5

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Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)

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Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)

Primeval Beech Forests

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