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Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 29-Nov-23

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.
Read OnViking 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.
Read OnMediterranean 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.
Read OnPrimeval 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)
Read OnChristiansfeld
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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- Caspar Dechmann
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- Switzerland
- Most Impressive
- Venice
- Proposal
- Gdansk, New York Central Park
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 29.11.23
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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 1Reviewed WHS
- 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)
- 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)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (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 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 Wine in Iberia (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- 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