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Medina Azahara
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 19-Mar-24
Medina Azahara must have been a wonder of the age: a palace city, splendid rooms with precious ornaments with no equal at the time, at least in Europe. So, expectations can be high for an unprepared visitor, but what do you get to see? I nice museum with small finds and scraps of ornaments and explanations about the palace city. When you get on the bus to the excavations (beware: they do run only about every 20 minutes and lines can be long so you may miss one) it is not much more then empty ground walls and a few very heavily restored arches. They say it is only 10 percent of the original palace city, but it seems to be the central area and there is no reason to assume further excavations would be better preserved
Read OnCarmona’s cultural landscape (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 18-Mar-24
For many years the Spanish tentative site included the “Casco antiguo de Cadiz” which has now been removed. When I visited western Andalucía in February 2024 I visited Cadiz, supposedly the oldest city in Europe, dating back to the Phoenicians and almost 3000 years. When you arrive at the city you are potentially in for a surprise: The city is situated on a peninsula (though originally on several islands) and seems more like an island: a splendid, almost Venice-like apparition. Since the space is extremely limited in the old town the houses stand very tight and only intercepted by a few attractive squares. Despite the density most streets are straight, so you often have the feeling of being in a colonial city
Read OnStralsund and Wismar
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 18-Mar-24
I visited Wismar and Stralsund during a two-week trip around northeastern Germany in October 2023. In both cities I stayed one and a half or two days to see its sights but also to soak in the atmosphere. They are good cities for a world heritage traveler insofar as they have enough to offer to keep you entertained for a couple of days but they are also small enough that after those days you feel you have seen them decently enough. Beside the highlights in both towns, it is a great pleasure to walk around the streets and watch out for remarkable buildings of which I generally like the old gabled merchants houses the best and both cities have a lot of those to offer
Read OnThe Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 03-Mar-24
I spent about four days in Seville. Its WHS may be seen within a day but the city has a lot to offer beyond the splendid Alcazar and the cathedral and the less interesting Archive of the Americas. One morning I took the bus to look at this tentative site. I missed the bus at Plaza de Armas since the bus stop is a bit hard to find among the many bus stops in the very north of the square and hidden around the block. I took the next bus half an hour later. Since you are leaving the city all day tickets for the city are not valid on the bus to Saltiponce but the fare is cheap.
Read OnYuso and Suso Monasteries
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 02-Mar-24
I visited this site in 2006 when I didn't think a lot about WHSs yet and hadn't seen many sites. Even then we found it surprising if not ridiculous that this site should be a WHS. The site consists obviously of two sites: Suso the upper monastery is tiny but has a certain charme with visigothic and mozarabic elements that I would certainly appreciate today though they have hardly any OUV on their own. Yuso, the lower monastery, on the other hand, lacks any special character or beauty. There are dozens of more interesting monasteries in Spain alone.
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- Most Impressive
- Venice
- Proposal
- Gdansk, New York Central Park
Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsGranada 5Pompei 5Prague 5Altamira Cave 4.5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Brugge 4.5Florence 4.5Istanbul 4.5Loire Valley 4.5Potsdam 4.5Rome 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Versailles 4.5Vienna 4.5Assisi 4Bamberg 4Budapest 4Calakmul 4Cordoba 4Ferrara 4Oporto 4Puebla 4Ravenna 4Rhodes 4Siena 4Toledo 4Verona 4Avignon 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Burgos Cathedral 3.5Edinburgh 3.5Gwynedd Castles 3.5Isole Eolie 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Mount Etna 3.5Nikko 3.5Olympia 3.5Quedlinburg 3.5Querétaro 3.5Salzburg 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Segovia 3.5St. Kilda 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Syracuse 3.5Uxmal 3.5Valletta 3.5Westminster 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Arles 3Avila 3Burgundy 3Fujisan 3Graz 3Lübeck 3Naples 3Provins 3Reims 3Seville 3Split 3Trogir 3Aachen Cathedral 2.5Abbey of St Gall 2.5Bellinzone 2.5Camino Real 2.5Campeche 2.5Champagne 2.5El Escurial 2.5Genoa 2.5Lyon 2.5Morelia 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Nancy 2.5Pannonhalma 2.5Schönbrunn 2.5Sian Ka'an 2.5Tower of London 2.5Urbino 2.5Vézelay 2.5Belfries 2Corfu 2Jelling 2Le Havre 2Modena 2Bauhaus Sites 1.5Beemster Polder 1.5Christiansfeld 1.5Crespi d'Adda 1.5Fagus Factory 1.5Hiraizumi 1.5Messel Pit 1.5Poblet Monastery 1.5ShUM Sites 1.5Stevns Klint 1.5Djerba 1Tarraco 1Medina Azahara 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Medina Azahara
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Christiansfeld
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites
- ShUM Sites
- Neolithic Orkney
- Heritage of Mercury
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Kutna Hora
- Segovia
- Avila
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Djerba
- Würzburg Residence
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Chaîne des Puys
- Strasbourg
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Campeche
- Major Town Houses
- Flemish Béguinages
- Olympia
Visited TWHS
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Citadel of Alessandria (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (extension) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour - A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries (T)
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Spain) (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Wine in Iberia (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour - A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries (T)
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Stourhead (T)
- Caerleon legionary fortress (T)
- Lacock (T)
- Beauvais (T)
- Abbatiale de Tournus (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana and Prague (Czechia) (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- The Ahuehuete Tree of Santa Maria del Tule (T)
- Zone de monuments de Puebla et Cholula (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Divided Cities along the German Border
- Ephesus
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Panama Canal
- Scrovegni's Chapel
- Sistema Vial Andino/Qhapaq Ñan
- Speicherstadt and Chilehaus with Kontorhaus District
- Suez Canal
- Transiberian Railway
- Ur
Top 200 WHS
- Moenjodaro
- Angkor
- Vézère Valley
- Altamira Cave
- Iguacu
- Plitvice Lakes
- Lake Baikal
- Victoria Falls
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Neolithic Orkney
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Nasca Lines
- Çatalhöyük
- Stonehenge
- Chavin
- Palenque
- Cahokia Mounds
- Chichen-Itza
- Caral-Supe
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Mesa Verde
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Bordeaux
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Villa d'Este
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Atapuerca
- Würzburg Residence
- Fontainebleau
- El Escurial
- Wartburg Castle
- Blenheim Palace
- Potsdam
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- Petra
- Wulingyuan
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Machu Picchu
- Las Medulas
- Red Fort
- Kronborg Castle
- Tower of London
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Malbork Castle
- Castel del Monte
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Bahla Fort
- Great Wall
- Himeji-jo
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Agra Fort
- Strasbourg
- Avignon
- Old City of Berne
- Seville
- Bamberg
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Santiago de Compostela
- Rhodes
- Vienna
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Siena
- Maritime Greenwich
- Great Barrier Reef
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Andrefana Dry Forests
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- South China Karst
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Nikko
- Chola Temples
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Redwood
- Serengeti
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Crespi d'Adda
- New Lanark
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- University of Coimbra
- Salamanca
- Monticello
- Jantar Mantar
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Loire Valley
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Persian Garden
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Puebla
- Meroe
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Reims
- Amiens Cathedral
- Speyer Cathedral
- Assisi
- Belem
- Chartres Cathedral
- Flemish Béguinages
- Mount Athos
- Westminster
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Saint Catherine Area
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Aachen Cathedral
- Göreme NP
- Imperial Tombs
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Horyu-ji Area
- Sanchi
- Mount Wutai
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex
- Potala Palace
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Ajanta Caves
- Itchan Kala
- Bukhara
- Samarkand
- Damascus
- Arles
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Pont du Gard
- Trier
- Leptis Magna
- Pompei
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Troy
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Acropolis
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Olympia
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Alto Douro
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Djenné
- Aksum
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Grand Canal
- Canal du Midi
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Sana'a
- Prague
- City of Bath
- Edinburgh
- Verona
- Split
- Shibam
- Giant's Causeway