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Switzerland Last Update 05.02.20 204 WHS Visited 34 Reviews 210 WHS Rated 64 TWHS Visited

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Heritage of Mercury

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 21-Feb-20

Idrija is full of surprises: We drove there as a day trip from Ljubljana. It is about a one-hour drive through gorges and on curvy streets and then you arrive in a modern, not very appealing industrial town at the confluence of the rivers Idrijca and Nikova. Since the site was in a working state up to the 90s of the last century not much of the 500-year-old industrial history is visible on first sight. Most prominent is the miners church on a hill (mostly closed) and adjacent to it a tiny “sacred mountain” with equally tiny chapels

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Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 14-Feb-20

I have been to several of the nominated towns and while I find the topic very interesting and most towns worth a visit I feel that the nomination is to big and includes too many towns with hardly any OUV. I think it would make more sense to nominate the best example(s) and not so many candidates. A good candidate from what I can see without having been there is the Czech triangle as a separate nomination. I feel the French, Belgian and Italian candidates have very little to offer and could be left out altogether. In Germany I have been to Bad Homburg, Wiesbaden and Baden Baden. All are beautiful and a nice visit but Baden Baden sticks clearly out for me: It was the most famous of the German Spa towns and had the most famous guests

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Rietveld Schröderhuis

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 11-Feb-20

The Rietveld Schröder House is one of those really nice sites that make an interesting visit but that are at the same time so small that you can see them quite thoroughly in one or two hours. I went to Utrecht from Amsterdam. There is train several times an hour. From Utrecht Centraal you take tram number 8 to De Hoogstraat and walk five minutes. There you find a visitor centre in the house next to the RSH with nice books, souvenirs, bathrooms and an interesting movie about the creation of this house. You can certainly also buy tickets here but I would recommend to buy a ticket online in advance

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Defence Line of Amsterdam

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 07-Feb-20

If you look at our rating the Amsterdam Defence Line is not a popular WHS. In any case it offers a rather unique and interesting story which is inextricably connected to older similar defence lines, the most important of which were the Old and the New Dutch Waterline. All of them were huge enterprises including dozens of forts, dykes and sluices. They all use water which the Dutch normally have to fight against as a weapon against invading enemies

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Kutna Hora

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 05-Dec-19

On this trip to the Czech Republic I had planned to see beside the treasure trove of Prague one new WHS and one new TWHS: The Villa Tugendhat in Brno and the Jested Tower near Liberec. None of it worked out. For the Villa Tugendhat even three weeks ahead was too late to find any space in a tour, they are now booked out for months ahead, even in wintertime. While I enjoyed Brno for its lively old town and the beautiful St. James church with its ossuary, I decided not to visit the Villa just from the the outside since the garden is hardly enjoyable in wintertime. After that we didn't do our day trip to Liberec either because the performance of two rare Rachmaninov operas that we had planned to see was cancelled. I decided instead to use that day for a short day trip to Kutna Hora.

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

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Defence Line of Amsterdam

Rietveld Schröderhuis

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Rating Stats

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

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 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

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

Nikko 3.5

Old City of Berne 3.5

Olympia 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 3.5

Westminster 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

Defence Line of Amsterdam 3

Fontainebleau 3

Fujisan 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Graz 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

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

Champagne 2.5

City of Luxembourg 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

El Escurial 2.5

Genoa 2.5

Heritage of Mercury 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

Pannonhalma 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

Tower of London 2.5

Vézelay 2.5

Yagul and Mitla 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

Le Havre 2

Monte San Giorgio 2

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2

Popocatepetl monasteries 2

Regensburg 2

Reichenau 2

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2

Santa Maria delle Grazie 2

Stoclet House 2

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Crespi d'Adda 1.5

Hiraizumi 1.5

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 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

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1

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Heritage of Mercury

Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)

Rietveld Schröderhuis

Defence Line of Amsterdam

Kutna Hora

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