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Popocatepetl monasteries

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 19-Aug-21

I visited this site around New Years 16/17 during a visit to friends in Cuernavaca. It is not an easy site to visit thoroughly since there are many monasteries and they are all slightly different but to the rushing beholder not very much. It takes an effort to appreciate the individuality of each site. In addition the monasteries are all rather bulky, they look more like fortresses then like churches and that was certainly intentional since missionary time could be dangerous and the local population might not always and everywhere be equally enthusiastic or just willing to adopt the new faith

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Ljubljana

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 13-Aug-21

I visited Ljubljana after Christmas 2019 to spend New Years with friends who own an apartment in the city. Already then, before inscription, the town was overrun with tourists, mainly from Italy. Slovenia is not only a beautiful country but also cheaper then Italy to make a trip there attractive for Italians.

I am not sure how much of its attraction the city owns to Plečnik. Perhaps the generosity of open spaces in the center may his main merit. His buildings with the pyramids and columns do not necessarily blend well with the medieval and baroque architecture of the city center, they seem often a bit inserted into the surrounding buildings as if they were taken from another city and placed here

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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)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 13-Aug-21

I based myself this summer 2021 for ten days in Copenhagen. Of those ten days I spent about half the time in the City with some great museums and the other half I travelled around the capital region including of course Rosilde and Helsingor, a day trip to Sweden and a evening in Dragor. The latter is a pretty small town south of Copenhagen but the old town is more like a village with a harbor. This area is well preserved with yellow simple houses and cobble lanes. The harbour is quite big filled with leisure boats. It was nice to stroll around the lanes for half an hour and I had a simple dinner at the harbor. There is not much to see of the former ship industry but a few small buildings in the harbor area

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Jomon Prehistoric Sites

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 12-Aug-21

I played in May 2014 a concert in the big modern concert hall of Hachinohe. During my stay in that city for rehearsals I had plenty of spare time and there seemed very little to see in this modern town. Public transport was only marked with Japanese letters, hardly anybody spoke any English, I felt rather trapped. Unfortunately I did not know about the Korekawa Jomon Site and missed out on that. I am not sure if it existed at that time or not. But after the concert I travelled west with my hosts to Aomori city to the same site that Els has visited, Sannai-Maruyama.

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ShUM Sites

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 12-Aug-21

This site is used everywhere around Rheinland Pfalz to promote tourism. While the Jewish communities in those towns may have been of great importance for the European Jews the main story that sticks in your mind after your visit is the horrible and repeated persecutions those communities had to suffer. Even the buildings you see now are all reconstructions after destructions in different periods what makes you feel embarrassed as a European of christian background and you cannot help but be reminded of the Third Reich. The fact is that there was horrible Antisemitism in the 19th C. (just remember Dreyfuss as one example) and that today synagogues in most European countries need protection from military or paramilitary staff.

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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

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

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 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

Dutch Water Defence Lines 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

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

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

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

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

Santa Maria delle Grazie 2

Stoclet House 2

The Porticoes of Bologna 2

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Christiansfeld 1.5

Cologne Cathedral 1.5

Crespi d'Adda 1.5

Fagus Factory 1.5

Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5

Hiraizumi 1.5

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5

Ljubljana 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

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

Lower German Limes 0.5

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