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Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 15-Jun-20

Following our stay on the Orkneys in Summer 2019 we spent around four days on the Shetland Islands. We took the ferry, which was rather expensive. Mainly for our rental car and for the cabin we booked since the trip is surprisingly long, 8 hours or so, and the trip up north leaves late in the evening and arrives in the morning. If you sleep on the floor or in a chair it is much cheaper, if I remember correctly
Read OnFlow Country (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 13-Apr-20

On our trip around the northern coast of Scotland in summer 2019 we crossed also the area of Flow Country. The main argument about this site seems the size of untouched land that is unique in Europe and the amount of CO2 it binds. To me this seems for my taste to jump on the (very necessary) wave of the current climate consciousness.The trip along the northern coast road is attractive mainly for the rocks and beaches on the seaside. The actual flow country on the landside has a certain wild “Wuthering heights” charm: it is a huge area of rather flat moor with moss in many shades, pools and small hills
Read OnDreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 13-Apr-20

I think these three castles make a very nice group for a WHT nomination. Of the three I have only visited Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee. I will certainly try to visit Lindenhof too, if only for its camp "Venusgrotte" and its further Wagnerian connections. It seems to have the most interesting park of the three.
These castles are certainly an oddity and this is part of the reason why they should be inscribed! Neuschwanstein needs the least introduction: Its exterior is iconic and [...]
Read OnNeolithic Orkney
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 29-Mar-20

Since I had read „At home“ by Bill Bryson with its great chapter on Skara Brae I had dreamed to visit the Orkneys. And when I planned my trip to Scotland for summer 2019 it was my top priority to see these islands. We travelled around the whole northern coast of the country including the most important Islands and I found the landscape absolutely stunning: The lushness of the vegetation and the shades of green in the wonderful Glencoe valley asked for a longer exploration then we had time for
Read OnHeritage 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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- Caspar Dechmann
- Country
- Switzerland
- Most Impressive
- Venice
- Proposal
- Gdansk, New York Central Park
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 05.02.20
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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 3.5Isole 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 3.5Vicenza 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 2.5Vézelay 2.5Belfries 2Corfu 2Le Havre 2Bauhaus Sites 1.5Crespi d'Adda 1.5Hiraizumi 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Neolithic Orkney
- Heritage of Mercury
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
- Kutna Hora
- Segovia
- Avila
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- 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)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (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)
- Centro Storico di Lucca (T)
- Centro storico di Parma (T)
- Centro Storico di Pavia e Certosa (T)
- Citadel of Alessandria (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- Darmstadt Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe (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 (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (France) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Italy) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Hiraizumi (extension) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Île de Djerba (T)
- Jômon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidô, Northern Tôhoku, and other regions (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 médiéval ou la "Cuve" de Gand (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 (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia (T)
- Romanesque Cultural Enclave in the North of Castile-Leon and the South of Cantabria (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- The city of Bergamo (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Spain) (T)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- 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 (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Stourhead (T)
- Caerleon legionary fortress (T)
- Lacock (T)
- Beauvais (T)
- Abbatiale de Tournus (T)
- Île de Djerba (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
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- 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
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
- 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
- Tsingy de Bemaraha
- Ha Long Bay
- 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
- 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