CugelVance Profile

I am a Berlin-based feverish traveller who visits every unesco site a country can offer if.....time allows...........if money allows.....if feasible...if...public transport..if....if....if.

I speak german,english and spanish. I have a decent command of italian,and have a basic knowledge of russian,czech,portuguese,and french. 

I love to drink a beer with friends,watch boxing,meet people from all over the world,pick up words in foreign languages,watch tv series in foreign languages,go to the movies,ride a bike in the  countryside,and plan my next travel as well as reading a book of my favourite author Jack Vance.

 

Thanks to this wonderful website my love for the wonders of our world has become of kind of mild obsession. 

 

 

Germany Last Update 29.11.23 254 WHS Visited 12 Reviews 254 WHS Rated 64 TWHS Visited

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Vicenza and the Palladian Villas

CugelVance Germany - 28-Nov-23

After reading the rewievs for this whs I realized that most of them are quite old or short.Thats why I ve decided to write a review about this easily accessible whs.
I visited Vicenca on sunday, november the 12th and monday morning, November the  13th.
I had read quite a lot about this whs before I visited Vicenza and I had also marked all of Palladio's villas in the off-line map "maps.me" with different colors depending on priority. 

I arrived around 10.00 a.m in Vicenza and headed straight for the Palladian Basicila in the city centre. Since I knew that I was in a race against time I didnt intend to spend too much time visiting the villas closed to the public. I had pre-booked a guided tour at the "La Rotunda",Palladio''s masterpiece,at exactly 15.30

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Longobards in Italy

CugelVance Germany - 18-Oct-23

I visited two of the whs sites on oct the 4th. Early in the morning I took the train from Perugia( where I rented an apartment for one week in order to discover Umbria and its wonderful little gems) to Spoleto. This umbrian town turned out to be a true pearl.I immediately fall in love with that fascinating city. After visiting the duomo,the rocca albornaziano,and some sites in Spoleto and strolling through its medieval alleys I had to make a tough decision:Spoleto is a fantastic city which is really worth every minute you spend there and I would certainly recommend an overnight stay as night time surely adds its magic to that umbrian pearl...........earlier this year I had visited Sighisoara in Romania....

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Al Ain

CugelVance Germany - 19-Feb-23

I visited the al ain oasis on the 20th of january 2023. I took the bus from Abu Dhabi's central bus station to Al Ain where I arrived around 2 hours later. I just walked from the bus station to the al ain national museum which was -unfortunetely-closed due to renovation works. I then walked to the nearby entrance of the oasis where a group of argentine soccer fans from Puerto Rico asked me to take a picture of them. Truly a funny situation.There are hardly any tourists in Al Ain,and I met a bunch of argentine soccer fans. Since I speak spanish I joined them and we walked together through the oasis. I learnt a little bit about life in puerto rico and their beloved club racing buenos aires.Two days later I learnt that their team racing had won 2-1 vs Boca Juniours in al ain.

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Villages with Fortified Churches

CugelVance Germany - 04-Apr-23

Visit 28-03-2023

On that day I visited Biertan( in german :Birthaelm) and Saschiz (in german: Kreisd).

I couldn't enter the fortified church in Saschiz as it was closed. And to be honest I wasn't impressed at all of what I could see from the outside. According to the locals the church is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The one in Biertan turned out to be far more interesting. The percentage of ethnic Germans, the so-called siebenbuerger sachsen/saxons is less than 10 % nowadays.

The entire church and its surrounding village can be visited within 45 minutes. A more impatient visitor may only need 30 minutes.

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Thracian tomb of Kazanlak

CugelVance Germany - 19-Feb-23

I visited the thracian tomb of kazanlak on the 16th of jan,early in the morning of that day. The day before I had arrived in Kazanlak around 18.00 in the afternoon  by train from Burgas via Sliven. The first thing I had encoutered after leaving the railway station in Kazanlak was a place where a huge group of people was dancing to traditional bulgarian music. Fascinating. I asked them if I could join them.Well,my moves were stiff,but the locals were extremely friendly. They explained me that every sunday in most bulgarian cities there is public dancing to traditional music which can be joined by  whoever wants to.A wonderful idea to promote native and traditional music and dances in our globalized world.

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    Elvas 5
    Itchan Kala 5
    Matera 5
    Old City of Jerusalem 5
    Potsdam 5
    Salzburg 5
    Yaroslavl 5
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    Carthage 4.5
    Cuenca 4.5
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    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
    L'viv 4.5
    Medina of Fez 4.5
    Mérida 4.5
    Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.5
    Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
    White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.5
    Zamość 4.5
    Amphitheater of El Jem 4
    Assisi 4
    Banska Stiavnica 4
    Brugge 4
    Bukhara 4
    Caceres 4
    Corfu 4
    Dubrovnik 4
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    Kernavė 4
    Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4
    Mantua and Sabbioneta 4
    Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4
    Medina of Essaouira 4
    Medina of Tunis 4
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 4
    Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4
    Petra 4
    Pilgrimage Church of Wies 4
    Prague 4
    Rila Monastery 4
    Rome 4
    Salamanca 4
    Samarkand 4
    Spissky Hrad and Levoca 4
    Urbino 4
    Völklingen Ironworks 4
    Wachau Cultural Landscape 4
    Walled City of Baku 4
    Acropolis 3.5
    Agrigento 3.5
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    Bamberg 3.5
    Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
    Edinburgh 3.5
    El Escurial 3.5
    Ephesus 3.5
    Florence 3.5
    Gelati Monastery 3.5
    Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
    Göreme NP 3.5
    Haghpat and Sanahin 3.5
    Kairouan 3.5
    Kazan Kremlin 3.5
    Kotor 3.5
    Kremlin and Red Square 3.5
    Margravial Opera House 3.5
    Medina of Marrakesh 3.5
    Meknes 3.5
    Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
    Nancy 3.5
    Novgorod 3.5
    Novodevichy Convent 3.5
    Old Rauma 3.5
    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
    Quedlinburg 3.5
    Québec 3.5
    Roman Walls of Lugo 3.5
    Santiago de Compostela 3.5
    St. Petersburg 3.5
    Syracuse 3.5
    Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
    Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
    Versailles 3.5
    Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
    Vilnius 3.5
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
    Arab-Norman Palermo 3
    As-Salt 3
    Bardejov Town 3
    Bellinzone 3
    Bordeaux 3
    Butrint 3
    Cesky Krumlov 3
    Christiansfeld 3
    Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3
    City of Bath 3
    Classical Weimar 3
    Cologne Cathedral 3
    Colonies of Benevolence 3
    Cordoba 3
    Corvey 3
    Ferrara 3
    Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3
    Granada 3
    Graz 3
    Gwynedd Castles 3
    Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3
    Kraków 3
    Kronborg Castle 3
    Lyon 3
    Medina of Sousse 3
    Modena 3
    Monastery of Geghard 3
    Muskauer Park 3
    Naumburg Cathedral 3
    Nessebar 3
    Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3
    Pearling 3
    Rabat 3
    Rammelsberg and Goslar 3
    Ravenna 3
    Regensburg 3
    Saltaire 3
    Seville 3
    Siena 3
    Split 3
    Stralsund and Wismar 3
    Telc 3
    Thessalonika 3
    Toledo 3
    Torun 3
    Trier 3
    Val di Noto 3
    Vatican City 3
    Verona 3
    Wadden Sea 3
    Wartburg Castle 3
    Water Management System of Augsburg 3
    White City of Tel-Aviv 3
    Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3
    Zollverein 3
    Aachen Cathedral 2.5
    Aranjuez 2.5
    Auschwitz Birkenau 2.5
    Avila 2.5
    Bahla Fort 2.5
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
    Belem 2.5
    Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
    City of Luxembourg 2.5
    Evora 2.5
    Fagus Factory 2.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
    Hedeby and Danevirke 2.5
    Kutna Hora 2.5
    Lübeck 2.5
    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
    Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5
    Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
    Modernist Kaunas 2.5
    Mtskheta 2.5
    Ohrid Region 2.5
    Old City of Berne 2.5
    Oporto 2.5
    Paphos 2.5
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 2.5
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.5
    Qal'at al-Bahrain 2.5
    Reichenau 2.5
    Rhodes 2.5
    Riga 2.5
    Sheki 2.5
    Sighisoara 2.5
    Strasbourg 2.5
    Tallinn 2.5
    The trulli of Alberobello 2.5
    Tower of Hercules 2.5
    Tower of London 2.5
    Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
    Valletta 2.5
    Vienna 2.5
    Würzburg Residence 2.5
    Abbey of St Gall 2
    Al Ain 2
    Alcala de Henares 2
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 2
    Aphrodisias 2
    Asturian Monuments 2
    Bauhaus Sites 2
    Belfries 2
    Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2
    Budapest 2
    Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2
    Caves and Ice Age Art 2
    Delos 2
    Dilmun Burial Mounds 2
    Flemish Béguinages 2
    Guimarães 2
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2
    Khinalig 2
    Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2
    Luther Memorials 2
    Mir Castle 2
    Mostar 2
    Nice 2
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 2
    Pergamon 2
    Roskilde Cathedral 2
    San Marino and Mount Titano 2
    Segovia 2
    ShUM Sites 2
    The Porticoes of Bologna 2
    Trebic 2
    Tugendhat Villa 2
    University of Coimbra 2
    Venetian Works of Defence 2
    Westminster 2
    Antequera Dolmens Site 1.5
    Boyana Church 1.5
    Canal du Midi 1.5
    Centennial Hall 1.5
    Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5
    Fortifications of Vauban 1.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
    Lower German Limes 1.5
    Messel Pit 1.5
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
    Schönbrunn 1.5
    Shakhrisyabz 1.5
    Speyer Cathedral 1.5
    The Prosecco Hills 1.5
    Villages with Fortified Churches 1.5
    Warsaw 1.5
    Botanical Garden, Padua 1
    Danube Limes 1
    Gobustan Rock Art 1
    Maritime Greenwich 1
    Nesvizh 1
    Odesa 1
    Primeval Beech Forests 1
    Sintra 1
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1
    Thingvellir 1
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    Holy Trinity Column 0.5
    Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 0.5
    Longobards in Italy 0.5
    Sarazm 0.5
    Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 0.5
    Struve Geodetic Arc 0.5
    Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 0.5
    Western Tien-Shan 0.5
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