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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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Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 08-Mar-22

Before I really start my "review" of this site I have to anticipate that I am a great fan of rock art sites. I think they are sometimes among the most important cultural sites since they open to us a window into a time of the human brain of which we wouldn't know anything at all otherwise: It offers glimpses into human hunt practice but mainly into cult and artistry. I think the fantastic paintings at Chauvet are possibly the most important artworks of mankind considering their age, skill and originality. And while I think the Ice Cave Art offers almost nothing to the visitor who visits the caves the artwork linked to it is not only hugely important but equally exciting.

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The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 08-Mar-22

Tarragona is an easy and interesting day trip from Barcelona and one day is just about the time to see it all. Beside the three churches of the episcopal see it offers a quite remarkable heritage of Modernism.

The three churches were the seat of a bishop at visigothic time when the belief was supposedly Arian and not catholic. As Wikipedia tells us this constellation of three (and sometimes even more) churches was typical for early episcopal seats even within Catalunya and similar groups are documented in Valencia, Vic and La Seu d'Urgell (which bears the episcopal see still in its name). As far as I could find out all of them are lost in which case Tarrassa would be unique just for this constellation alone.

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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

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Assisi 4

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Dubrovnik 4

Ferrara 4

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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

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

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Strasbourg 3.5

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Uxmal 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5

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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

Fontainebleau 3

Fujisan 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Graz 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

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Kinderdijk 3

Kutna Hora 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

Longobards in Italy 3

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Margravial Opera House 3

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Pont du Gard 3

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3

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Reims 3

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Rhaetian Railway 3

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San Miguel de Allende 3

Seville 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Split 3

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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

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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

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

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

The Porticoes of Bologna 2

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Christiansfeld 1.5

Cologne Cathedral 1.5

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Crespi d'Adda 1.5

Fagus Factory 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 Lubljana 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

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1

Primeval Beech Forests 1

Schokland 1

Tarraco 1

Lower German Limes 0.5

Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5

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Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)

Primeval Beech Forests

Christiansfeld

Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin

The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)

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