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,meet people from all over the world,pick up words in foreign languages,watch tv series in different 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 30.04.25 324 WHS Visited 55 Reviews 324 WHS Rated 111 TWHS Visited

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Angkor

CugelVance Germany - 13-Apr-25

Angkor

Time of the visit of Siam Reap: 26.03.-5.04.2025

As soon as I arrived in Siam Reap I bought a 7-day pass( You have 1 month to use up the 7 days) for the unesco complex of Angkor Wat and went immediately to the temple Angkor Wat where I spent around 3h till sunset.It was a very hot day and the temple was totally overcrowded with visitors from all parts of our planet.The next two following days I visited the unesco sites Preah Vihear near the Thai border as well as Koh Ker. I also visited the Angkor National Museum (strongly recommended as it helps you to understand quite a few things better when out in the Angkor Wat Complex),the war museum and the cultural village ( a kind of surreal cambodian disneyland,quite big) in Siam Reap. I carefully planned the next six days to divide the massive temple complex into six manageable sections

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Ancient City of Ondong (T)

CugelVance Germany - 07-Apr-25

Ancient City of Ondong (T)

Time of the visit: april the 7th,2025

For 90.000 riel(roughly around 21,5$) a tuktuk driver took me from Cambodia's capital Pnom Penh to Oudong's temple mountain.The journey took about an hour. The driver stopped right next to the tourist information office, where I got a map of all the temples. A few meters away are the stairs leading up to the temple complex. The driver was willing to wait three hours. By the time I reached the top of the stairs, my shirt was soaked with sweat from the high temperatures

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Meteora

CugelVance Germany - 15-Mar-25

Meteora

Visit: march the 14 and 15th,2025

Meteora is a first-class whs which plays in the top of the league.I visited all 7 monasteries ( 6 inside and one only from outside )

But first things first: on the 14th of march I took an ktel bus from Thessaloniki early in the morning to Kalampaka via Trikala where I arrived around 13.15. 

I went straight to the tourist information office to get a map of the area. However, I accidentally walked into a travel agency, Meteora Travel. Well, I got a map from them and an offer for a so-called sunset tour at 3 p.m. and a hiking tour at 8 a.m. for the following day. Each tour for 35€, combined 60€.

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The Television Tower Stuttgart (T)

CugelVance Germany - 12-Mar-25

The Television Tower Stuttgart (T)

Visit: march the 12th,2025

I had already been up on the top of Stuttgart's tv tower some 21-22 years ago but by pure accident I found myself again in Stuttgart where I had to kill two hours.I decided to revisit Germany's tentative whs again.

The TV tower in Stuttgart was the first of its kind in the world and triggered a kind of worldwide chain reaction in the tower construction.

Today there are countless tv towers all over our planet.The Stuttgart pioneer is considered an architectural and aesthetic masterpiece by many experts with its timeless design.It was opened in feb.1956 after 20 months of construction.The total height from the ground to the top of the antenna is 216 meters.As a groundbreaking structure, the TV tower served as a model and prototype for TV towers around the world. Even the world's tallest TV tower, the Tokyo Skytree, is considered an offshoot of the Stuttgart original, and experts consider the Stuttgart TV tower to be the most beautiful and safest in the world. Due to its innovative public use ( a cafe inside a tv tower for example) , it has been imitated architecturally and stylistically in many places around the world

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Southwest Coast (T)

CugelVance Germany - 20-Feb-25

Southwest Coast (T)

 

Time of the visit: the 19th of feb.2025

Twice a year I stay for some weeks near Tavira,in the south of Portugal.

Apart from the tentative whs "Southwest Coast" and "Mertola" I have already visited every whs and tentative whs in a radius of 200 km.

Yesterday morning I travelled from Tavira to Sagres and Burgau to visit two of the components of the tentative whs southwest coast.My plan was to spend most of the day in and around Sagres and hike for 1-2 h along the cliffs near Burgau.

Around 11.00 I arrived in Sagres where I visited the Fortaleza de Sagres,some viewpoints and took some pictures from the cliffs there.Sagres didnt impress me much.I dont know why but the entire area around Sagres didnt appeal to me that much .I decided to shorten my stay there and spend more time in and around Burgau which turned out to be a good decision

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CugelVance
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Germany
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156
Most Impressive
Petra/Potsdam/Jerusalem/Wachau/Angkor Wat
Proposal
5 communist prisons in Romania(tentative whs) and three prisons in Germany( Hohenscheonhausen,Cottbus and Bautzen)

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Update 30.04.25
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    1. Rapa Nui
    2. Galapagos Islands
    3. Yellowstone
    4. Machu Picchu
    5. Victoria Falls
    6. Tikal National Park
    7. Socotra Archipelago
    8. Bagan
    9. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
    10. Serengeti

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    Rating Stats
    Angkor 5
    Itchan Kala 5
    Matera 5
    Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 5
    Old City of Jerusalem 5
    Petra 5
    Potsdam 5
    Salzburg 5
    Venice and its Lagoon 5
    White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 5
    Burgundy 4.5
    Curonian Spit 4.5
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
    Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
    Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.5
    Medina of Fez 4.5
    Medina of Tunis 4.5
    Meteora 4.5
    Mérida 4.5
    Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
    Prague 4.5
    Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4.5
    Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.5
    Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.5
    Yaroslavl 4.5
    Acropolis 4
    Assisi 4
    Berat and Gjirokastra 4
    Brugge 4
    Bukhara 4
    Champagne 4
    Dubrovnik 4
    Elvas 4
    Florence 4
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4
    Hallstatt-Dachstein 4
    Hué 4
    L'viv 4
    Mantua and Sabbioneta 4
    Pilgrimage Church of Wies 4
    Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4
    Rila Monastery 4
    Rome 4
    Salamanca 4
    Samarkand 4
    Seville 4
    Trang An 4
    Urbino 4
    Vilnius 4
    Völklingen Ironworks 4
    Agrigento 3.5
    Angra do Heroismo 3.5
    Aquileia 3.5
    Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
    Avignon 3.5
    Ayutthaya 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
    Gelati Monastery 3.5
    Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
    Göreme NP and Cappadocia 3.5
    Haghpat and Sanahin 3.5
    Kazan Kremlin 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
    Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
    Pont du Gard 3.5
    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 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
    Sintra 3.5
    St. Petersburg 3.5
    Syracuse 3.5
    Toledo 3.5
    Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
    Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
    Vatican City 3.5
    Versailles 3.5
    Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
    Vienna 3.5
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
    Zamość 3.5
    Aachen Cathedral 3
    Amphitheater of El Jem 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
    Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3
    Cologne Cathedral 3
    Convent of Christ in Tomar 3
    Cuenca 3
    Ferrara 3
    Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3
    Genoa 3
    Granada 3
    Graz 3
    Gwynedd Castles 3
    Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3
    Hoi An 3
    Kernavė 3
    Kronborg Castle 3
    Lyon 3
    Medina of Essaouira 3
    Medina of Tétouan 3
    Meknes 3
    Modena 3
    Monastery of Alcobaça 3
    Monastery of Geghard 3
    Naumburg Cathedral 3
    Nessebar 3
    Old City of Berne 3
    Oporto 3
    Palmeral of Elche 3
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 3
    Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3
    Pearling 3
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3
    Quedlinburg 3
    Rammelsberg and Goslar 3
    Ravenna 3
    Regensburg 3
    Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3
    Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3
    Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3
    Split 3
    Stralsund and Wismar 3
    Thessalonika 3
    Torun 3
    Trier 3
    Val di Noto 3
    Venetian Works of Defence 3
    Verona 3
    Wadden Sea 3
    Walled City of Baku 3
    Wartburg Castle 3
    Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3
    Zollverein 3
    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
    Colonies of Benevolence 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
    Historic Jeddah 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
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
    Modernist Kaunas 2.5
    Mtskheta 2.5
    Odesa 2.5
    Ohrid Region 2.5
    Paphos 2.5
    Poblet Monastery 2.5
    Preah Vihear Temple 2.5
    Rabat 2.5
    Reichenau 2.5
    Reims 2.5
    Rhodes 2.5
    Riga 2.5
    San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
    Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
    Segovia 2.5
    Sheki 2.5
    Strasbourg 2.5
    Tallinn 2.5
    The Porticoes of Bologna 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
    Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 2
    Al Ain 2
    Alcala de Henares 2
    Alto Douro 2
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 2
    Antequera Dolmens Site 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
    Bom Jesus do Monte 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
    Ivrea 2
    Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2
    Luther Memorials 2
    Medina of Sousse 2
    Mir Castle 2
    Mostar 2
    My Son 2
    Nice 2
    Old Rauma 2
    Orange 2
    Pergamon 2
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 2
    Primeval Beech Forests 2
    Roskilde Cathedral 2
    Saltaire 2
    Santa Maria delle Grazie 2
    Schönbrunn 2
    Sighisoara 2
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2
    Tower of Hercules 2
    Trebic 2
    Tugendhat Villa 2
    Turaif Quarter 2
    University of Coimbra 2
    Villages with Fortified Churches 2
    Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2
    Westminster 2
    White City of Tel-Aviv 2
    Boyana Church 1.5
    Canal du Midi 1.5
    Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
    Centennial Hall 1.5
    Dong Phayayen 1.5
    Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5
    Fagus Factory 1.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
    Koh Ker 1.5
    Lower German Limes 1.5
    Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5
    Messel Pit 1.5
    Monte San Giorgio 1.5
    Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
    Muskauer Park 1.5
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
    Qal'at al-Bahrain 1.5
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 1.5
    Semmering Railway 1.5
    ShUM Sites 1.5
    Shakhrisyabz 1.5
    Speyer Cathedral 1.5
    Tarraco 1.5
    Telc 1.5
    Tokaji Wine Region 1.5
    Warsaw 1.5
    Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
    Úbeda and Baeza 1.5
    Al-Ahsa Oasis 1
    Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 1
    Crespi d'Adda 1
    Danube Limes 1
    Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 1
    Dolomites 1
    Gobustan Rock Art 1
    Hollókö 1
    Hortobágy 1
    Khinalig 1
    La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1
    La Lonja de la Seda 1
    Mafra 1
    Maritime Greenwich 1
    Medina Azahara 1
    Monastery of Batalha 1
    Nesvizh 1
    Pannonhalma 1
    Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1
    Si Thep 1
    The Prosecco Hills 1
    Thingvellir 1
    Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 0.5
    Al Zubarah 0.5
    Botanical Garden, Padua 0.5
    Fertö/Neusiedlersee 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
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    3. Abu Dhabi Sabkha (T)
    4. Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
    5. Alaverdi Cathedral (T)
    6. Amalienborg and its district (T)
    7. Ananuri (T)
    8. Ancient City of Ondong (T)
    9. Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
    10. Cetinje Historic Core (T)
    11. Chor-Bakr (T)
    12. Citadel of Alessandria (T)
    13. Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
    14. Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
    15. David Gareji Monasteries and Hermitage (T)
    16. Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
    17. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
    18. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
    19. Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
    20. European Paper Mills (from the era of hand-made paper) (Germany) (T)
    21. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
    22. Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
    23. Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
    24. Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
    25. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
    26. Green Belt (T)
    27. Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
    28. Historical theatres of the Marche Region (T)
    29. Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
    30. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
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    32. Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
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    41. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    42. Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
    43. Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
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    45. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
    46. Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
    47. Minaret in Vobkent (T)
    48. Mining Historical Heritage (T)
    49. Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
    50. Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
    51. Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
    52. Nicortsminda Cathedral (T)
    53. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
    54. Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
    55. Old Town of Bar (T)
    56. Olympic Park Munich (T)
    57. Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
    58. Pombaline Lisbon (T)
    59. Rade de Marseille (T)
    60. Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (T)
    61. Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
    62. Rostov Kremlin (T)
    63. Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
    64. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    65. Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
    66. Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
    67. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)
    68. Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
    69. Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
    70. Silk Roads: Early Period (Prehistory) (T)
    71. Site of the Schöningen Spears – Humans and hunting 300,000 years ago (T)
    72. Smederevo Fortress (T)
    73. St. Nicholas Church (T)
    74. Surakhany, Atashgyakh (Fire - worshippers, temple - museum at Surakhany) (T)
    75. Susha historical and architectural reserve (T)
    76. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
    77. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
    78. Tashkent makhallas (T)
    79. Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and tradition in Central Asia (T)
    80. Tbilisi Historic District (T)
    81. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
    82. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
    83. The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
    84. The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
    85. The Fortress of Terezín (T)
    86. The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
    87. The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
    88. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
    89. The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
    90. The pearl trading town of Jazirat Al-Hamra (T)
    91. The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
    92. The Television Tower Stuttgart. Archetype and symbol of modern mass communication (T)
    93. Thingvellir National Park (T)
    94. Torgau Castle Chapel (T)
    95. Trading town of Julfar (T)
    96. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    97. Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
    98. Uplistsikhe Cave Town (T)
    99. Via Francigena in Italy (T)
    100. Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
    101. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
    102. Vila Viçosa (T)
    103. Village de Sidi Bou Saïd : Harmonie architecturale et spirituelle en Méditerranée (T)
    104. Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf - extension of the WHS (T)
    105. Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)

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