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 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 a kind of mild obsession. 

 

 

Germany Last Update 31.08.24 280 WHS Visited 23 Reviews 280 WHS Rated 85 TWHS Visited

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Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)

CugelVance Germany - 16-Jun-24

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)

I visited this site in late february 2023.The Sheikh Abdullah Al Jaber Palace (Diwan Khaz'aal) was incredibly difficult to find....why???

Well,first of all it is fenced off,but that is not the real reason why it is so inaccessible.

First things first. the palace,or better its ruins,are clearly visible from the viewing platform of one of the water towers (3 towers near the ocean and in front of the Kuwait Aqua Park) near the Dasman Palace

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Trading town of Julfar (T)

CugelVance Germany - 16-Jun-24

Trading town of Julfar (T)

Of the four components of the tentative WHS "Trading town of Julfar", I only visited the old town of the Emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, where the Sheikh Al Quasimi Mosque is located, the National Museum of Ras Al-Khaimah, and the port area.

I visited that area in february 2023 after I had visited another nearby tentative whs site,the Jazīrat al Ḩamrā pearling town.

I took the bus from Jazeera al-Hamra bus stop and got off at the  Corniche Al Qasimi bus [...]

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Jazirat Al-Hamra (T)

CugelVance Germany - 16-Jun-24

Jazirat Al-Hamra (T)

I visited the Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village in February 2023. I was on the way from the emirate of Sharjah to the emirate of Ras al Khaimah, the last emirate in the United Emirates that I had not yet visited. The bus stopped at the bus stop Jazeera al Hamra and several passengers left the bus; I decided very spontaneously to get out there, too. According to the schedule, I had two hours until the next bus. I bought a bottle of water in a small shop opposite the bus stop and walked for about 35 minutes in hot temperatures through dusty and fairly deserted streets. You hardly saw anyone, and when you did, they were foreign workers from India or Bangla Desh

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Rostov Kremlin (T)

CugelVance Germany - 16-Jun-24

Rostov Kremlin (T)

I visited the quiet and pleasant little town of Veliky Rostov on a sunny and mild summer day in June 2018 during the Football World Cup in Russia.
I took the train from Jaroslavl early in the morning to V.Rostov train station. From there I walked past the Church of St.Nicolas ("Храм Николая Чудотворца На Всполье") to my accommodation, a beautiful old palace that was converted into a hotel.
Shortly afterwards I went into the city center to the Rostov Kremlin...to be honest, my jaw dropped when I saw this fantastically beautiful Kremlin...delightful...like something out of a fairy tale...a true joy and feast for the eyes...absolutely impressive.

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Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin

CugelVance Germany - 02-Jun-24

Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin

I visited the pedra de les orenetes on tuesday,the 28th of may. I am no aficionado of rock art sites. Thats for sure! However,the pedra de les orenetes site really suprised me in a very positive way.

But first things first I took the bus nr.500 at exactly 8.45 near the metro station "Artigues/Sant Adria in Barcelona. The bus was punctual and on the minute. Luckily, I arrived at the supposed bus stop around 15 minutes earlier.....well, I couldnt find the bus stop...it was not  there where it was supposed to be according to google.I asked some locals but nobody had an idea where that bus stop could be.I was running out of time when I discovered the thin pole with the timetable of the bus 500.That pole was the bus stop. Actually,it is only 50 meters away from the place indicated by google,but bloody difficult to find as the time table can only be seen if you walk on the street and not from the side walk

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CugelVance
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Germany
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Petra/Potsdam/Jerusalem/Wachau
Proposal
5 communist prisons in Romania(tentative whs) and three prisons in Germany( Hohenscheonhausen,Cottbus and Bautzen)

Recently Visited WHS

Update 31.08.24
  • Schwerin Residence Ensemble

    • 13 Countries Complete

    Albania . Armenia . Estonia . North Macedonia . Germany . Holy See . Lithuania . Luxembourg . Andorra . Bahrain . Moldova . San Marino . United Arab Emirates .

    Rating Stats
    Itchan Kala 5
    Matera 5
    Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 5
    Old City of Jerusalem 5
    Petra 5
    Potsdam 5
    Salzburg 5
    White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 5
    Burgundy 4.5
    Curonian Spit 4.5
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
    Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.5
    Medina of Fez 4.5
    Medina of Tunis 4.5
    Mérida 4.5
    Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
    Prague 4.5
    Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.5
    Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
    Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.5
    Yaroslavl 4.5
    Assisi 4
    Berat and Gjirokastra 4
    Brugge 4
    Bukhara 4
    Champagne 4
    Dubrovnik 4
    Elvas 4
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4
    Hallstatt-Dachstein 4
    Kremlin and Red Square 4
    L'viv 4
    Mantua and Sabbioneta 4
    Pilgrimage Church of Wies 4
    Rila Monastery 4
    Rome 4
    Salamanca 4
    Samarkand 4
    Seville 4
    Urbino 4
    Völklingen Ironworks 4
    Acropolis 3.5
    Agrigento 3.5
    Aquileia 3.5
    Avignon 3.5
    Bamberg 3.5
    Banska Stiavnica 3.5
    Carthage 3.5
    Cordoba 3.5
    Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 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
    Kazan Kremlin 3.5
    Kernavė 3.5
    Kotor 3.5
    Kraków 3.5
    Margravial Opera House 3.5
    Medina of Marrakesh 3.5
    Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
    Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
    Nancy 3.5
    Novgorod 3.5
    Novodevichy Convent 3.5
    Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
    Pont du Gard 3.5
    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
    Quedlinburg 3.5
    Québec 3.5
    Roman Walls of Lugo 3.5
    Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
    Santiago de Compostela 3.5
    Siena 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
    Zamość 3.5
    Amphitheater of El Jem 3
    Arab-Norman Palermo 3
    Arles 3
    Auschwitz Birkenau 3
    Bellinzone 3
    Bordeaux 3
    Budapest 3
    Caceres 3
    Cesky Krumlov 3
    Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3
    Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3
    City of Bath 3
    Classical Weimar 3
    Cologne Cathedral 3
    Colonies of Benevolence 3
    Cuenca 3
    Ferrara 3
    Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3
    Granada 3
    Graz 3
    Gwynedd Castles 3
    Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3
    Kronborg Castle 3
    Lyon 3
    Medina of Essaouira 3
    Medina of Tétouan 3
    Meknes 3
    Modena 3
    Monastery of Geghard 3
    Naumburg Cathedral 3
    Nessebar 3
    Old City of Berne 3
    Oporto 3
    Palmeral of Elche 3
    Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3
    Pearling 3
    Rammelsberg and Goslar 3
    Ravenna 3
    Regensburg 3
    Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3
    Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3
    Split 3
    Stralsund and Wismar 3
    Thessalonika 3
    Toledo 3
    Torun 3
    Trier 3
    Val di Noto 3
    Vatican City 3
    Verona 3
    Vienna 3
    Wadden Sea 3
    Walled City of Baku 3
    Wartburg Castle 3
    Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3
    Zollverein 3
    Aachen Cathedral 2.5
    Avila 2.5
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
    Belem 2.5
    Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5
    Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
    City of Luxembourg 2.5
    Corfu 2.5
    Corvey 2.5
    Donana National Park 2.5
    Evora 2.5
    Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
    Kairouan 2.5
    Kutna Hora 2.5
    Lübeck 2.5
    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
    Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2.5
    Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
    Medina of Sousse 2.5
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
    Modernist Kaunas 2.5
    Mtskheta 2.5
    Ohrid Region 2.5
    Paphos 2.5
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 2.5
    Poblet Monastery 2.5
    Qal'at al-Bahrain 2.5
    Rabat 2.5
    Reichenau 2.5
    Rhodes 2.5
    Riga 2.5
    San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
    Segovia 2.5
    Sheki 2.5
    Sintra 2.5
    Strasbourg 2.5
    Tallinn 2.5
    The trulli of Alberobello 2.5
    Tower of London 2.5
    Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
    Valletta 2.5
    Würzburg Residence 2.5
    Abbey of St Gall 2
    Al Ain 2
    Alcala de Henares 2
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 2
    Aphrodisias 2
    Aranjuez 2
    As-Salt 2
    Asturian Monuments 2
    Bahla Fort 2
    Bardejov Town 2
    Bauhaus Sites 2
    Belfries 2
    Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2
    Butrint 2
    Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2
    Delos 2
    Dilmun Burial Mounds 2
    Flemish Béguinages 2
    Guimarães 2
    Hedeby and Danevirke 2
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2
    Khinalig 2
    Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2
    Luther Memorials 2
    Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2
    Mir Castle 2
    Moravian Church Settlements 2
    Mostar 2
    Nice 2
    Odesa 2
    Old Rauma 2
    Orange 2
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 2
    Pergamon 2
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 2
    Reims 2
    Roskilde Cathedral 2
    Saltaire 2
    Sighisoara 2
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2
    The Porticoes of Bologna 2
    Tower of Hercules 2
    Trebic 2
    Tugendhat Villa 2
    University of Coimbra 2
    Venetian Works of Defence 2
    Westminster 2
    White City of Tel-Aviv 2
    Antequera Dolmens Site 1.5
    Boyana Church 1.5
    Canal du Midi 1.5
    Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
    Centennial Hall 1.5
    Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5
    Fagus Factory 1.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
    Lower German Limes 1.5
    Messel Pit 1.5
    Muskauer Park 1.5
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 1.5
    Schönbrunn 1.5
    ShUM Sites 1.5
    Shakhrisyabz 1.5
    Speyer Cathedral 1.5
    Tarraco 1.5
    Telc 1.5
    Villages with Fortified Churches 1.5
    Warsaw 1.5
    Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
    Úbeda and Baeza 1.5
    Danube Limes 1
    Gobustan Rock Art 1
    La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1
    La Lonja de la Seda 1
    Maritime Greenwich 1
    Medina Azahara 1
    Nesvizh 1
    Primeval Beech Forests 1
    Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1
    The Prosecco Hills 1
    Thingvellir 1
    Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 0.5
    Botanical Garden, Padua 0.5
    Gorham's Cave Complex 0.5
    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
    1. "Lok-Batan" Mud Cone (T)
    2. Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
    3. Alaverdi Cathedral (T)
    4. Amalienborg and its district (T)
    5. Ananuri (T)
    6. Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
    7. Cetinje Historic Core (T)
    8. Chor-Bakr (T)
    9. Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
    10. Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
    11. David Gareji Monasteries and Hermitage (T)
    12. Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
    13. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
    14. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
    15. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
    16. Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
    17. Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
    18. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
    19. Green Belt (T)
    20. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
    21. Historical theatres of the Marche Region (T)
    22. Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
    23. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
    24. Jerusalem (T)
    25. Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
    26. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
    27. Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
    28. La Camargue (T)
    29. La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
    30. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
    31. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
    32. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    33. Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
    34. Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
    35. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
    36. Minaret in Vobkent (T)
    37. Mining Historical Heritage (T)
    38. Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
    39. Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
    40. Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
    41. Nicortsminda Cathedral (T)
    42. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
    43. Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
    44. Old Town of Bar (T)
    45. Olympic Park Munich (T)
    46. Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
    47. Rade de Marseille (T)
    48. Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (T)
    49. Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
    50. Rostov Kremlin (T)
    51. Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
    52. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    53. Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
    54. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)
    55. Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
    56. Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
    57. Silk Roads: Early Period (Prehistory) (T)
    58. Site of the Schöningen Spears – Humans and hunting 300,000 years ago (T)
    59. Smederevo Fortress (T)
    60. St. Nicholas Church (T)
    61. Surakhany, Atashgyakh (Fire - worshippers, temple - museum at Surakhany) (T)
    62. Susha historical and architectural reserve (T)
    63. Tashkent makhallas (T)
    64. Tbilisi Historic District (T)
    65. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
    66. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
    67. The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
    68. The Fortress of Terezín (T)
    69. The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
    70. The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
    71. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
    72. The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
    73. The pearl trading town of Jazirat Al-Hamra (T)
    74. The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
    75. The Television Tower Stuttgart. Archetype and symbol of modern mass communication (T)
    76. Thingvellir National Park (T)
    77. Torgau Castle Chapel (T)
    78. Trading town of Julfar (T)
    79. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    80. Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
    81. Uplistsikhe Cave Town (T)
    82. Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
    83. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
    84. Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf - extension of the WHS (T)
    85. Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)

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