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 24.03.24 267 WHS Visited 15 Reviews 267 WHS Rated 72 TWHS Visited

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La Camargue (T)

CugelVance Germany - 26-Mar-24

La Camargue (T)

I visited the camargue region on thursday,the 21st of march. I took the bus a50 in Arles at 7.38am( bus stop "lamartine" near the railway station,the bus a50 also stops there) and arrived in Saint-Maries-de-la-Mer around 8.30am.First I went directly to the church "Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer which is a place of pilgrimage for France's gypsies/gitanes as saint sarah also known as  "sarah the black " is the patron saint for that ethnic group. 

The church was open at that time and quite interesting to pass 10-15 minutes there.The interior of the church is full of devotional items, pictures, objects left behind by pilgrims..

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Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

CugelVance Germany - 06-Mar-24

I visited the Fontenay abbey on the 27th of february 2024. I took a train early in the morning to travel from Dijon to Montbard.I had reserved a bicycle with the local tourist office( just outside the railway station in Montbard) beforehand. Since I arrived around 9.45 I had to wait some minutes before they opened the tourist office.Within a few minutes I got a bike and was on my way to the abbey. I took me around 25 min to reach the abbey which is open-daily-from 10.00-12.00 and from 14.00-17.00 in the  winter months from novembre till march. From the end of march on the abbey is open from 10.00 till 18.00.

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Wachau Cultural Landscape

CugelVance Germany - 29-Nov-23

I visited the wachau region on wednesday the 8th of nov. as well as on thurday the 9th of that month. I arrived quite late around 21.00 in Melk on november the 8th.After my check-in at the hotel "weisses lamm" I strolled through the city of Melk for around 3 hours,taking some pictures of the huge monastery during night time both from the river side as well as from the city centre side.I also enjoyed a good schnitsel and some local beers.

I had pre-booked a guided tour(15,50€) through the benedictine monastery of melk the following day at 11.00. I was up very early and had another stroll through the pleasant town of Melk.I also had a quick look at every accessible area of ​​the monastery before the official tour began.I also visited the northern bastion with the Wachau lab and a panoramic terrace.Without intention I entered the bastion through the shop exit and visited the panoramic terrace for free. When I left I noticed that you have to pay a quite hefty entrance fee for that building and its changing special exhibitions(I didnt spent more than 2 minutes in the exhibition area as I am not a fan of totally bizarre contempary art)

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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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CugelVance
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Germany
Most Impressive
Petra/Potsdam/Jerusalem/Wachau
Proposal
prisons are underrepresented on the unesco list,3 german prisons:Hohenschoenhausen,Cottbuss,Bautzen; water towers in Kuwait

Recently Visited WHS

Update 24.03.24
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    Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 5
    Itchan Kala 5
    Matera 5
    Old City of Jerusalem 5
    Potsdam 5
    Salzburg 5
    Burgundy 4.5
    Carthage 4.5
    Cuenca 4.5
    Curonian Spit 4.5
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 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
    Yaroslavl 4.5
    Amphitheater of El Jem 4
    Assisi 4
    Banska Stiavnica 4
    Berat and Gjirokastra 4
    Brugge 4
    Bukhara 4
    Caceres 4
    Champagne 4
    Dubrovnik 4
    Elvas 4
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4
    Hallstatt-Dachstein 4
    Kernavė 4
    Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4
    L'viv 4
    Mantua and Sabbioneta 4
    Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4
    Medina of Essaouira 4
    Medina of Tunis 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
    Aquileia 3.5
    Avignon 3.5
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Arab-Norman Palermo 3
    Arles 3
    As-Salt 3
    Bellinzone 3
    Bordeaux 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
    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
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 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
    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
    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
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
    Belem 2.5
    Butrint 2.5
    Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
    City of Luxembourg 2.5
    Corfu 2.5
    Evora 2.5
    Fagus Factory 2.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
    Hedeby and Danevirke 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
    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
    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
    Bahla Fort 2
    Bardejov Town 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
    Christiansfeld 2
    Delos 2
    Dilmun Burial Mounds 2
    Flemish Béguinages 2
    Fortifications of Vauban 2
    Guimarães 2
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2
    Khinalig 2
    Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2
    Luther Memorials 2
    Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2
    Mir Castle 2
    Mostar 2
    Nice 2
    Orange 2
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 2
    Pergamon 2
    Reims 2
    Roskilde Cathedral 2
    Saltaire 2
    San Marino and Mount Titano 2
    Segovia 2
    ShUM Sites 2
    Sighisoara 2
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 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
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
    Lower German Limes 1.5
    Messel Pit 1.5
    Odesa 1.5
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 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
    Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
    Botanical Garden, Padua 1
    Danube Limes 1
    Gobustan Rock Art 1
    La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1
    Maritime Greenwich 1
    Nesvizh 1
    Primeval Beech Forests 1
    Sintra 1
    Thingvellir 1
    Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 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
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    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. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
    20. Historical theatres of the Marche Region (T)
    21. Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
    22. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
    23. Jerusalem (T)
    24. Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
    25. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
    26. Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
    27. La Camargue (T)
    28. La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
    29. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
    30. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
    31. Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
    32. Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
    33. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
    34. Minaret in Vobkent (T)
    35. Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
    36. Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
    37. Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)
    38. Nicortsminda Cathedral (T)
    39. Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
    40. Old Town of Bar (T)
    41. Olympic Park Munich (T)
    42. Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
    43. Rade de Marseille (T)
    44. Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
    45. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    46. Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
    47. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)
    48. Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
    49. Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
    50. Silk Roads: Early Period (Prehistory) (T)
    51. Smederevo Fortress (T)
    52. St. Nicholas Church (T)
    53. Surakhany, Atashgyakh (Fire - worshippers, temple - museum at Surakhany) (T)
    54. Susha historical and architectural reserve (T)
    55. Tashkent makhallas (T)
    56. Tbilisi Historic District (T)
    57. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
    58. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
    59. The Fortress of Terezín (T)
    60. The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
    61. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
    62. The pearl trading town of Jazirat Al-Hamra (T)
    63. The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
    64. The Television Tower Stuttgart. Archetype and symbol of modern mass communication (T)
    65. Thingvellir National Park (T)
    66. Trading town of Julfar (T)
    67. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    68. Uplistsikhe Cave Town (T)
    69. Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
    70. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
    71. Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf - extension of the WHS (T)
    72. Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)

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