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Kutna Hora

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 05-Dec-19

On this trip to the Czech Republic I had planned to see beside the treasure trove of Prague one new WHS and one new TWHS: The Villa Tugendhat in Brno and the Jested Tower near Liberec. None of it worked out. For the Villa Tugendhat even three weeks ahead was too late to find any space in a tour, they are now booked out for months ahead, even in wintertime. While I enjoyed Brno for its lively old town and the beautiful St. James church with its ossuary, I decided not to visit the Villa just from the the outside since the garden is hardly enjoyable in wintertime. After that we didn't do our day trip to Liberec either because the performance of two rare Rachmaninov operas that we had planned to see was cancelled. I decided instead to use that day for a short day trip to Kutna Hora.

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Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 08-May-19

I visited this town in May 2019 and found it attractive despite terribly bad weather: a mid size, completely intact medival old town. Of the three large churches St. Nicolaus is the most impressive also with the two neighbouring chapels, the baroque St. Josef and the older St. Magdalena. The latter has nice frescoes and is the only not baroquified church in town. Hall’s OUV potential lies nonetheless not in its homogenous historic center but in its mint which claims to be the first industrial mint worldwide and the first that coined the first silver coin that equaled in value the then common Gulden that was made of gold. Gold had to be imported from far away and the rich silver mine in nearby Schwaz made big and highly pure silver coins possible

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Segovia

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 04-Apr-19

Segovia has long been on my wish list, also because of some raving reviews on this website. On my first afternoon in the city I started with the three famous highlights:

I found the Alcázar more [...]

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Avila

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 17-Mar-19

I visited Avila in March 2019 after spending a couple of days in Segovia and found the first impression quite stunning. The city walls in the evening sun are quite a site and Avila clearly deserves its WHS status just for them alone. The walls are mostly built between the 11th and 14th century but seem based on little known older structures. They really look in perfect shape and they are repaired all the time. This is great but one wonders how much material has been exchanged in the process.

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Stourhead (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 07-Aug-18

This is probably one of the most iconic gardens in England if not in the World. Like all great gardens it is staged with so much work and artistry that you are happy to believe that this is a perfect landscape that even includes naturally the Pantheon. I was equally with the many various huge and very old trees. It is a pleasure to walk around the big lake and it is staged in a way that you have to walk counterclockwise! The attached house is great, has a remarkable picture gallery and beautiful Georgian library but is less unique then the garden.

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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

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 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

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

Plantin-Moretus Museum 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

City of Bath 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

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

Fontainebleau 3

Fujisan 3

Graz 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 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

Speyer Cathedral 3

Split 3

The Four Lifts 3

Trogir 3

Val di Noto 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

Champagne 2.5

City of Luxembourg 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

El Escurial 2.5

Genoa 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 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

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.5

Pannonhalma 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

Yagul and Mitla 2.5

Alcala de Henares 2

Belfries 2

Benedictine Convent of St. John 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

Le Havre 2

Monte San Giorgio 2

Popocatepetl monasteries 2

Regensburg 2

Reichenau 2

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2

Santa Maria delle Grazie 2

Stoclet House 2

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 1.5

Crespi d'Adda 1.5

Hiraizumi 1.5

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 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

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1

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Kutna Hora

Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)

Segovia

Avila

Stourhead (T)

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