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Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 29-Nov-23

Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)

When you take the relatively short way from the centre of Paris to Saint-Denis you are not sure if you really went the right way. You are still very much in Paris but the quarter is rather poor and and as a caucasian north European you feel like a stranger among a largely arab crowd. Street vendors enhance the exotic feeling. When you stand in front of the building the doubts are not resolved: The asymmetrical facade with just one tower looks rather clumsy and unfinished despite the beautiful portals. The modern arge square in front does not help the impression. 

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Viking Age Ring Fortresses

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 18-Sep-23

There may have been a time when viking sites were underrepresented on the world heritage list but by now I think they are already overrepresented. Firstly the viking period is a rather limited era and has already 6 sites or more on the list. I haven't visited all of them but I have visited Jelling and Hedeby (and St. Kilda but there the Viking connections is not central). While I found both visits worthwhile and interesting, in both there is very little to see and they need a lot of explanation and imagination and I am not so sure at all that they really need to be on the list.

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Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 22-Mar-23

Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)

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

Primeval Beech Forests

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

Christiansfeld

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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Update 29.11.23
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Pompei 5
Prague 5
Brugge 4.5
Florence 4.5
Istanbul 4.5
Potsdam 4.5
Rome 4.5
Vienna 4.5
Assisi 4
Oporto 4
Puebla 4
Rhodes 4
Siena 4
Toledo 4
Verona 4
Avignon 3.5
Bordeaux 3.5
Edinburgh 3.5
Nikko 3.5
Olympia 3.5
Salzburg 3.5
Segovia 3.5
St. Kilda 3.5
Syracuse 3.5
Uxmal 3.5
Valletta 3.5
Arles 3
Avila 3
Graz 3
Naples 3
Reims 3
Split 3
Trogir 3
Campeche 2.5
Champagne 2.5
Genoa 2.5
Lyon 2.5
Morelia 2.5
Nancy 2.5
Urbino 2.5
Vézelay 2.5
Corfu 2
Modena 2
Hiraizumi 1.5
Djerba 1
  1. Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
  2. Amalienborg and its district (T)
  3. Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
  4. Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)
  5. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
  6. Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
  7. Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (T)
  8. Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
  9. Central Park (T)
  10. Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
  11. Citadel of Alessandria (T)
  12. Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
  13. Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
  14. City of York: historic urban core (T)
  15. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
  16. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
  17. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
  18. Ellis Island (T)
  19. Flow Country (T)
  20. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
  21. Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
  22. Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
  23. Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (extension) (T)
  24. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
  25. L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
  26. La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
  27. Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
  28. Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
  29. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
  30. Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées (T)
  31. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
  32. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
  33. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
  34. Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
  35. Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
  36. Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
  37. Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
  38. Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
  39. Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
  40. Mining Historical Heritage (T)
  41. Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (T)
  42. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
  43. Orvieto (T)
  44. Pombaline Lisbon (T)
  45. Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
  46. Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
  47. Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
  48. Sites of Globalization (T)
  49. Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
  50. The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
  51. The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
  52. 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)
  53. The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Spain) (T)
  54. The Wine in Iberia (T)
  55. Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
  56. Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
  57. Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)

Top 50 Missing Sites

  1. Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library
  2. Cultural Landscape of Santorini
  3. Divided Cities along the German Border
  4. Ephesus
  5. Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
  6. Minoan palaces of Crete
  7. Neuschwanstein Castle
  8. Panama Canal
  9. Scrovegni's Chapel
  10. Sistema Vial Andino/Qhapaq Ñan
  11. Speicherstadt and Chilehaus with Kontorhaus District
  12. Suez Canal
  13. Transiberian Railway
  14. Ur

Top 200 WHS

  1. Moenjodaro
  2. Angkor
  3. Vézère Valley
  4. Altamira Cave
  5. Iguacu
  6. Plitvice Lakes
  7. Lake Baikal
  8. Victoria Falls
  9. Central Amazon Conservation Complex
  10. Neolithic Orkney
  11. Megalithic Temples of Malta
  12. Nasca Lines
  13. Çatalhöyük
  14. Stonehenge
  15. Chavin
  16. Palenque
  17. Cahokia Mounds
  18. Chichen-Itza
  19. Caral-Supe
  20. Tikal National Park
  21. Teotihuacan
  22. Mesa Verde
  23. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
  24. Bordeaux
  25. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  26. St. Petersburg
  27. Florence
  28. Amsterdam Canal Ring
  29. Villa d'Este
  30. Classical Gardens of Suzhou
  31. Atapuerca
  32. Würzburg Residence
  33. Fontainebleau
  34. El Escurial
  35. Wartburg Castle
  36. Blenheim Palace
  37. Potsdam
  38. Versailles
  39. Imperial Palace
  40. Rapa Nui
  41. Petra
  42. Wulingyuan
  43. Great Himalayan National Park
  44. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
  45. Machu Picchu
  46. Las Medulas
  47. Red Fort
  48. Kronborg Castle
  49. Tower of London
  50. Dutch Water Defence Lines
  51. Durham Castle and Cathedral
  52. Malbork Castle
  53. Castel del Monte
  54. Fortified City of Carcassonne
  55. Bahla Fort
  56. Great Wall
  57. Himeji-jo
  58. Crac des Chevaliers
  59. Agra Fort
  60. Strasbourg
  61. Avignon
  62. Old City of Berne
  63. Seville
  64. Bamberg
  65. Rammelsberg and Goslar
  66. Santiago de Compostela
  67. Rhodes
  68. Vienna
  69. Dubrovnik
  70. Granada
  71. Siena
  72. Maritime Greenwich
  73. Great Barrier Reef
  74. West Norwegian Fjords
  75. Mexico City and Xochimilco
  76. Andrefana Dry Forests
  77. Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
  78. South China Karst
  79. Meidan Emam, Esfahan
  80. Nikko
  81. Chola Temples
  82. Tasmanian Wilderness
  83. Redwood
  84. Serengeti
  85. Yellowstone
  86. Galapagos Islands
  87. Ancient Nara
  88. Ancient Kyoto
  89. Crespi d'Adda
  90. New Lanark
  91. Grand Canyon
  92. Nubian Monuments
  93. Ancient Thebes
  94. University of Coimbra
  95. Salamanca
  96. Monticello
  97. Jantar Mantar
  98. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  99. Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
  100. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  101. Loire Valley
  102. Costiera Amalfitana
  103. Persian Garden
  104. Oaxaca and Monte Alban
  105. Puebla
  106. Meroe
  107. Kremlin and Red Square
  108. Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  109. Maulbronn Monastery
  110. Reims
  111. Amiens Cathedral
  112. Speyer Cathedral
  113. Assisi
  114. Belem
  115. Chartres Cathedral
  116. Flemish Béguinages
  117. Mount Athos
  118. Westminster
  119. Route of Santiago de Compostela
  120. Mont-Saint-Michel
  121. Saint Catherine Area
  122. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
  123. Vatican City
  124. Meteora
  125. Ravenna
  126. Aachen Cathedral
  127. Göreme NP
  128. Imperial Tombs
  129. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
  130. Etruscan Necropolises
  131. Taj Mahal
  132. Pyramids (Memphis)
  133. Horyu-ji Area
  134. Sanchi
  135. Mount Wutai
  136. Mahabodhi Temple Complex
  137. Potala Palace
  138. Dazu Rock Carvings
  139. Ajanta Caves
  140. Itchan Kala
  141. Bukhara
  142. Samarkand
  143. Damascus
  144. Arles
  145. Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
  146. Pont du Gard
  147. Trier
  148. Leptis Magna
  149. Pompei
  150. Ephesus
  151. Epidaurus
  152. Troy
  153. Archaeological Site of Delphi
  154. Acropolis
  155. Mycenae and Tiryns
  156. Olympia
  157. Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
  158. Alto Douro
  159. Wachau Cultural Landscape
  160. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
  161. Djenné
  162. Aksum
  163. Fatehpur Sikri
  164. Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
  165. Qhapaq Ñan
  166. Grand Canal
  167. Canal du Midi
  168. Venice and its Lagoon
  169. Istanbul
  170. Rome
  171. Old City of Jerusalem
  172. Sana'a
  173. Prague
  174. City of Bath
  175. Edinburgh
  176. Verona
  177. Split
  178. Shibam
  179. Giant's Causeway