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Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
Daniel C-Hazard Germany - 31-May-22

The Forest of Fontainebleau is huge in area (for a Central European forest) and nice to visit. The various sandstone formations scattered around, in particular the Place du Cuvier, form the birthplace of the sport of bouldering, and the landscape inspired the so-called Barbizon school of painters, who gathered in the village of the same name on the edge of the forest. However, I do not fully understand why the area should receive another WHS status. A large fraction is already protected under the WHS "Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe", including the areas around the Ermitage de Franchard, Les Gorges d’Apremont [visit/hike recommended] and Place du Cuvier
Read OnArt and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. (T)
Daniel C-Hazard Germany - 28-Apr-21

Sardinia boasts arguably the best beaches in Europe as well as countless prehistoric and protohistoric archaeological sites. This TWHS is only about necropoles though, not less than 35 in the description (out of more than 10,000 on Sardinia), and most of them situated in the northwest of the island. As I have not been to that part of the island yet, I have only seen two of the tentative sites: Li Muri near Arzachena and the mysterious Tomba del Labirinto. Both are unique and worth the visit, and the latter could definitely use a protection concept.
Read OnEisinga Planetarium
Daniel C-Hazard Germany - 11-Sep-20

In human history, there have always been individuals who were ahead of their time. Eise Eisinga was one of those. Actually a wool comber, he was also an amateur astronomer (and what an astronomer he was!).
In 1774, another Dutch amateur astronomer (and self-proclaimed preacher), Eelco Alta, predicted the end of the world, believing a rare conjunction of the Moon and the then-known four planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter would inevitably lead to a crash of the celestial bodies and the destruction of the Earth.
Read OnLa Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
Daniel C-Hazard Germany - 01-Sep-20

I arrived from France by car via the Col des Roches pass, after having visited Besançon and the Royal Saltworks. Given the limited time I had and due to the Covid-19 crisis, I decided to skip any museums or other indoor exhibitions (apart from a short elevator ride in the Espacité building) and to take advantage of the sunny weather to focus on architecture and urban planning. Thus, all places described as follows had free entry.
I drove to La Chaux-de-Fonds first (in case you don't have a Swiss motorway vignette and plan to just see the two listed towns and return to France afterwards, you may want to avoid the 1,000 meters of motorway between the towns by exiting the A20 in Le Crêt du Locle). Parking is mostly free in both communities but requires a parking disc. I started my tour at Le Crématoire, a fine example of local Art Nouveau. It is not located within the core zone. After having seen the Cure catholique romaine du Sacré-Coeur, I followed the recommendation of several other WHS community members and took the elevator up to the top of the Espacité building for a bird's eye view of this planned city
Read OnJodrell Bank Observatory
Daniel C-Hazard Germany - 19-Nov-19

I think this site deserves its world heritage status and it surely fills a WHS niche. It is not the oldest radio telescope in the world but one of the oldest "bigger ones" as far as I could find out. Personally, I find the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which is four times bigger in diameter (and six years younger), more impressive. A cross-national nomination would have made sense in my opinion (well played, UK!).
What I did not like so much was the fact that the site's management has made the WH listed smaller Mark II Telescope completely off limits to the public. I understand that astrophysics research is still carried out by the University of Manchester but allowing visitors a closer look and operating such a site would not exclude each other. Nowadays, to have a closer look on the Lovell Telescope, the main one, the visitor has to pay at least 7.65 GBP entrance fee for an adult, plus 4.00 GBP for a parking ticket
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- Name
- Daniel C-Hazard
- Country
- Germany
- Most Impressive
- Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland (Denmark)
- Proposal
- Crater Lake, OR (USA); Huaca Pucllana, Lima (Peru); Torres del Paine National Park (Chile); Grytviken, South Georgia (UK); Cape Winelands (South Africa); Kirkjubøur, Faroe Islands (Denmark); Svalbard Archipelago (Norway); Architectural Work of Alvar Aalto (Finland); Glendalough (Ireland); Delta Works (Netherlands); Wuppertal Suspension Railway (Germany); Schloss Neuschwanstein (Germany); Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Germany); Château de Chillon (Switzerland); Monte, Madeira (Portugal); Garisenda and Asinelli, Bologna (Italy); Piran (Slovenia); Noravank (Armenia); Old Tbilisi (Georgia); Moscow Metro (Russia); Daisetsuzan National Park (Japan); Kamakura (Japan); Yamanote Line (Japan); Egmont National Park (New Zealand)
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 13.09.23
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- Asturian Monuments
- Eisinga Planetarium
- Djerba
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
- Modernist Kaunas
- Yogyakarta
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
Visited WHS
Rating StatsFlorence 5Granada 5Meteora 5Rapa Nui 5Rome 5Cuzco 4.5Dolomites 4.5Dubrovnik 4.5Fraser Island 4.5Istanbul 4.5Loire Valley 4.5Pompei 4.5Prague 4.5Qhapaq Ñan 4.5Siena 4.5Uluru 4.5Vatican City 4.5Avignon 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Cordoba 4Kotor 4Masada 4Matera 4Nikko 4Potsdam 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Seville 4Sintra 4Split 4Tallinn 4Toledo 4Verona 4Vienna 4Albi 3.5Amiens Cathedral 3.5Aquileia 3.5Arles 3.5Avila 3.5Ayutthaya 3.5Bamberg 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Bryggen 3.5Burgundy 3.5Butrint 3.5Champagne 3.5City of Bath 3.5Fujisan 3.5Gelati Monastery 3.5Himeji-jo 3.5Horyu-ji Area 3.5Kinderdijk 3.5Kraków 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5Kyiv 3.5Lake District 3.5Le Havre 3.5Litomysl Castle 3.5Lübeck 3.5Malbork Castle 3.5Mtskheta 3.5Naples 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Old Havana 3.5Oporto 3.5Peninsula Valdes 3.5Provins 3.5Quedlinburg 3.5Regensburg 3.5Reichenau 3.5Saint-Emilion 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Telc 3.5The Four Lifts 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Torun 3.5Val di Noto 3.5Valletta 3.5Vilnius 3.5Wadden Sea 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Westminster 3.5Belem 3Belfries 3Corfu 3Cuenca 3Evora 3Ibiza 3Kernavė 3Lyon 3Macao 3Nancy 3Québec 3Reims 3Riga 3Syracuse 3Trier 3Trogir 3Aranjuez 2.5Bardejov Town 2.5Cahokia Mounds 2.5Castel del Monte 2.5Christiansfeld 2.5Drottningholm 2.5El Escurial 2.5Genoa 2.5Graz 2.5Guimarães 2.5Jelling 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Lima 2.5Orange 2.5Pont du Gard 2.5Rhaetian Railway 2.5Robben Island 2.5Saltaire 2.5ShUM Sites 2.5Southern Öland 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Tarraco 2.5Vallée de Mai 2.5Van Nellefabriek 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5Vézelay 2.5Warsaw 2.5West Lake 2.5Zollverein 2.5Corvey 2Trebic 2Al Ain 1.5Beemster Polder 1.5Centennial Hall 1.5Holasovice 1.5Modernist Kaunas 1.5Nice 1.5Schokland 1.5Djerba 1Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ananuri (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- City of Motovun (T)
- Classical Karst (in Slovene language: Klasicni kras) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Creswell Crags (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Franja Partisan Hospital (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Serbia) (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Hangar Y (T)
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes (T)
- Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chaussée romaine Boulogne-Cologne situe sur le territoire de la Région wallonne (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Makhteshim Country (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Moler landscapes of the Liim Fiord (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- Møns Klint (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Meudon (T)
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary (T)
- Peruvian Central Railway (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Pont sur la gorge du Salgina (T)
- Primošten Vineyards (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Svalbard Archipelago (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The monastery of Noravank and the upper Amaghou Valley (T)
- The Murge of Altamura (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Padang Civic Ensemble (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (T)
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Bagan
- Chernobyl
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Drift Passes of Rangiroa, French Polynesia
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Ephesus
- Klondike and the Gold Rush Trails
- Lake Titicaca
- Major Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Okavango Delta
- Ross Island
- Salisbury Plains, Grytviken
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Svalbard
- Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Transiberian Railway
- Varanasi
- Vatnajökull National Park
Top 200 WHS
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Isole Eolie
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Cordoba
- Split
- Toledo
- Prague
- Sana'a
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Grand Canal
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Angkor
- Cueva de las Manos
- Everglades
- Iguacu
- Victoria Falls
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Stonehenge
- Taos Pueblo
- Chichen-Itza
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Val di Noto
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Carthage
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Versailles
- Rapa Nui
- Palmyra
- Nemrut Dag
- Petra
- Persepolis
- Dolomites
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Machu Picchu
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Great Wall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Genbaku Dome
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Vilnius
- Kotor
- Avila
- Avignon
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- San Gimignano
- Cesky Krumlov
- Upper Svaneti
- Budapest
- Brugge
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Siena
- Angra do Heroismo
- Wadden Sea
- Ningaloo Coast
- Great Barrier Reef
- Cuzco
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Fraser Island
- Nikko
- Huangshan
- Hampi
- Prambanan
- Gros Morne National Park
- Los Glaciares
- Te Wahipounamu
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Yosemite National Park
- Glacier parks
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Yakushima
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Redwood
- Vallée de Mai
- Kinabalu Park
- Cape Floral Region
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Nahanni National Park
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- Bauhaus Sites
- Jantar Mantar
- Olympic National Park
- Lorentz National Park
- Virunga National Park
- Namib Sand Sea
- Tongariro National Park
- Fujisan
- Val d'Orcia
- Rio de Janeiro
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Loire Valley
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Uluru
- Persian Garden
- Wadi Rum
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Sintra
- Thingvellir
- Old Havana
- Arequipa
- Salvador de Bahia
- Antigua Guatemala
- Quito
- Potosi
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Kinderdijk
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Monastery of Geghard
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Boyana Church
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Baroque Churches
- Urnes Stave Church
- Kyiv
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Abu Mena
- Rila Monastery
- Assisi
- Churches of Chiloé
- Mtskheta
- Flemish Béguinages
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Mount Athos
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Bethlehem
- Kizhi Pogost
- Lalibela
- Aachen Cathedral
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Göreme NP
- Sammallahdenmäki
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Haeinsa Temple
- Kii Mountain Range
- Borobudur
- Potala Palace
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Xidi and Hongcun
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Kathmandu Valley
- Ping Yao
- Tabriz Bazaar
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Damascus
- Aleppo
- Arles
- Syracuse
- Aquileia
- Tower of Hercules
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Leptis Magna
- Baalbek
- Pompei
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Agrigento
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou