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Since 1997, I travel with a focus on visiting World Heritage Sites. I take 3 to 4 larger trips annually, and there are also many weekend trips in Europe to survive the rest of the year.
My travel plans for 2019 include:
- Colombia (late December)
And for 2020 I have fixed plans already as well:
- Central African Republic (March)
- Israel & Palestine (May)
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Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
Els Slots The Netherlands - 29-Oct-19
I recently stayed for 2 nights in the Sicilian coastal town of Taormina, using it as a base for visiting Mt. Etna. There’s no way that I can write up 500 words about it (the usual size of my blog entries), so I’ll keep this a short TWHS review.
The roots of the town go back to the Siculi, a tribe that inhabited the area before it became part of Magna Graecia. The Greeks came, then the Romans, the Byzantines, the Normans, the Spanish and finally the Anglo-Saxon Grand Tour travelers. This impressive list of civilizations unfortunately isn’t reflected in a wealth of historic points of interest in the current town.
Read OnCentre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
Els Slots The Netherlands - 17-Oct-19
The Historic Center of Irkutsk is an enigmatic entry on Russia’s Tentative List. Its official description is in French and just rambles on about its general history, architectural styles, street plan and renovation projects. There seems to be no focus what the prospective WHS should entail: “a large number of preserved architectural monuments of different periods and styles (Siberian baroque, classicism, art nouveau, "Russian style", local traditions, Gothic, Byzantine, Asian architectural art, constructivism)” suggests a broad approach, while it seems logical that OUV could be found somewhere in its renowned wooden architecture.
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Els Slots The Netherlands - 24-Aug-19
Staigue Fort is one of five early medieval drystone enclosures that make up the Western Stone Forts, a site on the Irish Tentative List. It is located along the touristic route known as the Ring of Kerry, a few kilometers off the main road at the end of a narrow way. I visited it on my way back to Cork Airport after an unsuccessful hit at Skellig Michael (BTW - I did see the island so well from the Kerry Cliffs that I was tempted to count it as a ‘visit’! If it had been inscribed on natural criteria as well, I would have).
Read OnThe Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
Els Slots The Netherlands - 17-Aug-19
Just 3 weeks after the St. Kilda failure, I went on my way to another Atlantic Island WHS: Skellig Michael. Months before I had booked a tour for Saturday the 17th of August, but already on Friday morning it was clear that boats would not sail either on Friday, Saturday or Sunday because of rough seas. So I tried to make the most of my time and have a closer look at the Irish Tentative List. The country so far has only 2 WHS. And although the island isn’t exactly dotted with highlights, there must be some more potential. My first stop was in the town of Cashel, where I visited one of the Royal Sites of Ireland also known as the Rock of Cashel.
Read OnHôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
Els Slots The Netherlands - 11-Aug-19
The Hospital of Our Lady with the Rose has been added to Belgium’s Tentative List earlier this year. The hospital of medieval origin is located in the Walloon town of Lessines, a municipality of 18,000 inhabitants best known as the birth place of painter René Magritte. I visited it on a stormy Saturday as a day trip by car from my home.
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Recently Visited WHS
- Update 25.11.19
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- Galapagos Islands
- Quito
- Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining region
- Aachen Cathedral
- Drottningholm
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Nemrut Dag
- Hattusha
- Kinderdijk
- Ayutthaya
- Sukhothai
- Palenque
- Teotihuacan
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Kathmandu Valley
- Oporto
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Granada
- Palmeral of Elche
- Anuradhapura
- Polonnaruva
- Sigiriya
- Kandy
- Old Town of Galle
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Speyer Cathedral
- Würzburg Residence
- Cologne Cathedral
- Tikal National Park
- Antigua Guatemala
- Vatican City
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Taj Mahal
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Rome
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Horyu-ji Area
- Himeji-jo
- Ancient Kyoto
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Genbaku Dome
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Ancient Nara
- Nikko
- Djenné
- Timbuktu
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Visby
- Gammelstad
- Laponian Area
- Karlskrona
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Southern Öland
- Schokland
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Istanbul
- Göreme NP
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Sian Ka'an
- Chitwan National Park
- Lumbini
- Belem
- Sintra
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Salamanca
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Yakushima
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Keoladeo National Park
- Agra Fort
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Lübeck
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- St. Petersburg
- Altamira Cave
- Segovia
- Asturian Monuments
- Cordoba
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Seville
- Caceres
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Vall de Boi
- Atapuerca
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Beemster Polder
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Ancient Merv
- Mesa Verde
- Independence Hall
- Mammoth Cave
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Chaco Culture
- Monticello
- Taos Pueblo
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Itchan Kala
- Bukhara
- Shakhrisyabz
- Victoria Falls
- City of Luxembourg
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Vilnius
- Curonian Spit
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Valletta
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Tallinn
- Trier
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Potsdam
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Quedlinburg
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Bamberg
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Messel Pit
- Bauhaus Sites
- Luther Memorials
- Classical Weimar
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Wartburg Castle
- Reichenau
- Burgos Cathedral
- El Escurial
- Santiago de Compostela
- Avila
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Toledo
- Garajonay
- Ibiza
- Poblet Monastery
- Mérida
- Santa Maria de Guadelupe
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Donana National Park
- Cuenca
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Las Medulas
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Tarraco
- Alcala de Henares
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- Humayun's Tomb
- Qutb Minar
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Pattadakal
- Hampi
- Ajanta Caves
- Ellora Caves
- Mahabalipuram
- Chola Temples
- Sanchi
- Mountain Railways of India
- Brú na Bóinne
- Petra
- Quseir Amra
- Luang Prabang
- Riga
- Ruins of León Viejo
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Skocjan Caves
- Rapa Nui
- Røros
- Urnes Stave Church
- Bryggen
- Rock Art of Alta
- Maloti Drakensberg
- Bellinzone
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Loire Valley
- St. George, Bermuda
- Land of Frankincense
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Longmen Grottoes
- Gyeongju
- Kronborg Castle
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Isole Eolie
- Imperial Tombs
- Holy Trinity Column
- Arequipa
- Kazan Kremlin
- Verona
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Bardejov Town
- Assisi
- Xidi and Hongcun
- Old City of Berne
- Abbey of St Gall
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Robben Island
- Paphos
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Choirokoitia
- Mount Taishan
- Great Wall
- Imperial Palace
- Mogao Caves
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Peking Man Site
- Huangshan
- Jiuzhaigou Valley
- Huanglong
- Mountain Resort, Chengde
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
- Potala Palace
- Lushan National Park
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Ping Yao
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Summer Palace
- Temple of Heaven
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Ha Long Bay
- Hué
- Hoi An
- My Son
- Bahla Fort
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Jelling
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Haeinsa Temple
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Sangay National Park
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Durmitor National Park
- Kotor
- Studenica Monastery
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Giant's Causeway
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Studley Royal Park
- Stonehenge
- Gwynedd Castles
- Blenheim Palace
- Westminster
- City of Bath
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Tower of London
- Canterbury
- Neolithic Orkney
- Edinburgh
- Maritime Greenwich
- Virunga National Park
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Rwenzori Mountains
- Chan Chan
- Simien National Park
- Mtskheta
- Upper Svaneti
- Gelati Monastery
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Asante Traditional Buildings
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Acropolis
- Meteora
- Thessalonika
- Epidaurus
- Mystras
- Olympia
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Banska Stiavnica
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Vlkolinec
- Kyiv
- L'viv
- Cuzco
- Machu Picchu
- Chavin
- Huascaran National Park
- Manu National Park
- Lima
- Nasca Lines
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo
- Panamá
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Meknes
- Volubilis
- Medina of Tétouan
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Puebla
- Guanajuato
- Chichen-Itza
- Morelia
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Uxmal
- Querétaro
- Campeche
- Xochicalco
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Danube Delta
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Monastery of Horezu
- Churches of Moldavia
- Sighisoara
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Dacian Fortresses
- Angra do Heroismo
- Monastery of Batalha
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Evora
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Anjar
- Baalbek
- Byblos
- Tyre
- Qadisha Valley
- Borobudur
- Sangiran Early Man Site
- Prambanan
- Castel del Monte
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Florence
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Old Havana
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Viñales Valley
- Dubrovnik
- Split
- Plitvice Lakes
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Trogir
- Warsaw
- Cracow
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Zamosc
- Torun
- Malbork Castle
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Budapest
- Hollókö
- Hortobágy
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Pannonhalma
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Ancient Thebes
- Nubian Monuments
- Historic Cairo
- Baroque Churches
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Chartres Cathedral
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Fontainebleau
- Amiens Cathedral
- Orange
- Arles
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- Strasbourg
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Reims
- Lake Baikal
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Sammallahdenmäki
- Old Rauma
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- San Gimignano
- Matera
- Vicenza
- Siena
- Naples
- Ferrara
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Ravenna
- Pienza
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Aquileia
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Modena
- Urbino
- Pompei
- Agrigento
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Aksum
- Lalibela
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Avignon
- Nancy
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Pont du Gard
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Bourges Cathedral
- Canal du Midi
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Lyon
- Saint-Emilion
- Prague
- Cesky Krumlov
- Telc
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Kutna Hora
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Holasovice
- Litomysl Castle
- Grand Canyon
- Yungang Grottoes
- Tugendhat Villa
- Provins
- Zollverein
- Villa d'Este
- Vat Phou
- Churches of Peace
- Alto Douro
- Guimarães
- Aranjuez
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Tombs of Buganda Kings
- Derwent Valley Mills
- New Lanark
- Saltaire
- Samarkand
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Vigan
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Val di Noto
- Calakmul
- Paramaribo
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Monte San Giorgio
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Valparaiso
- Trebic
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
- Takht-e Soleyman
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Mapungubwe
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Gebel Barkal
- Kew Gardens
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Cape Floral Region
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Kii Mountain Range
- Um er-Rasas
- Orkhon Valley
- Novodevichy Convent
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Muskauer Park
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Val d'Orcia
- Kernavë
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Pico Island
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Liverpool
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Vredefort Dome
- Dong Phayayen
- Macao
- Cienfuegos
- Le Havre
- Soltaniyeh
- Syracuse
- Kunya-Urgench
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Centennial Hall
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Yin Xu
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Genoa
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Regensburg
- Aflaj irrigation system
- South China Karst
- Jeju
- Teide National Park
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Bordeaux
- Corfu
- Red Fort
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Twyfelfontein
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Nisa
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Fujian Tulou
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles
- Le Morne
- Melaka and George Town
- Stari Grad Plain
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Camagüey
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- San Miguel de Allende
- Rhaetian Railway
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Wadden Sea
- Dolomites
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Tower of Hercules
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Caral-Supe
- Central Highlands
- Jantar Mantar
- Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil
- Tabriz Bazaar
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Albi
- Camino Real
- Thang Long
- West Lake
- Wadi Rum
- Hiraizumi
- Fagus Factory
- Longobards in Italy
- Meroe
- Al Ain
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- Causses and Cévennes
- León Cathedral
- Rock Islands
- Bali Subak system
- Heritage of Mercury
- Margravial Opera House
- Elvas
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Chengjiang Fossil Site
- Namib Sand Sea
- Mount Etna
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Hani Rice Terraces
- Fujisan
- University of Coimbra
- Golestan Palace
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Erbil Citadel
- Van Nellefabriek
- Corvey
- Namhansanseong
- Silk Roads
- Pyu Ancient Cities
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Stevns Klint
- Trang An
- Bolgar
- Burgundy
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Champagne
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Christiansfeld
- Par force hunting landscape
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Forth Bridge
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens
- Ephesus
- Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art
- Chaîne des Puys
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Plain of Jars
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Ani
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Bagan
- Kulangsu
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Sviyazhsk
- Ivrea
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Medina Azahara
- Qalhat
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Hampi 5Rapa Nui 5Rome 5Bukhara 4.5Calakmul 4.5Caral-Supe 4.5Florence 4.5Granada 4.5Grand Canyon 4.5Istanbul 4.5Meroe 4.5Nasca Lines 4.5Ngorongoro 4.5Petra 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Uluru 4.5Willandra Lakes 4.5Aksum 4Arequipa 4Assisi 4Baalbek 4Bagan 4Budapest 4Chavin 4Cordoba 4Djenné 4Elvas 4Hattusha 4Hué 4Kandy 4Kyiv 4Lalibela 4Meteora 4Mostar 4Palenque 4Pantanal 4Ping Yao 4Pompei 4Puebla 4Ravenna 4Seville 4Toledo 4Vilnius 4Wadi Rum 4Agrigento 3.5Ani 3.5Anjar 3.5Anuradhapura 3.5Aquileia 3.5Aranjuez 3.5Ayutthaya 3.5Baroque Churches 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Bolgar 3.5Brugge 3.5Butrint 3.5Byblos 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Classical Weimar 3.5Congonhas 3.5Cracow 3.5Curonian Spit 3.5Diamantina 3.5Edinburgh 3.5Ellora Caves 3.5Ephesus 3.5Fagus Factory 3.5Fasil Ghebbi 3.5Fatehpur Sikri 3.5Fontainebleau 3.5Gelati Monastery 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Great Wall 3.5Guanajuato 3.5Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5Ha Long Bay 3.5Hiraizumi 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Hoi An 3.5Huanglong 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Iguacu 3.5Itchan Kala 3.5Kinderdijk 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5L'viv 3.5Laponian Area 3.5León Cathedral 3.5Lima 3.5Longmen Grottoes 3.5Luang Prabang 3.5Lyon 3.5Malbork Castle 3.5Mapungubwe 3.5Matera 3.5Mount Etna 3.5Mount Taishan 3.5Mtskheta 3.5My Son 3.5Mystras 3.5Nessebar 3.5Nikko 3.5Ohrid Region 3.5Old Havana 3.5Olympia 3.5Panamá 3.5Paramaribo 3.5Pearling 3.5Pico Island 3.5Plain of Jars 3.5Plitvice Lakes 3.5Polonnaruva 3.5Potosi 3.5Prague 3.5Prambanan 3.5Qadisha Valley 3.5Quito 3.5Quseir Amra 3.5Qutb Minar 3.5Robben Island 3.5Rock Art of Alta 3.5Saint-Emilion 3.5Sanchi 3.5Segovia 3.5Sheki 3.5Shirakami-Sanchi 3.5Siena 3.5Sintra 3.5Soltaniyeh 3.5Split 3.5Summer Palace 3.5Syracuse 3.5Tallinn 3.5Temple of Heaven 3.5Teotihuacan 3.5The Sundarbans 3.5Thessalonika 3.5Timbuktu 3.5Tiwanaku 3.5Torun 3.5Tower of London 3.5Trang An 3.5Tsodilo 3.5Tyre 3.5Um er-Rasas 3.5Uxmal 3.5Vall de Boi 3.5Vat Phou 3.5Vatican City 3.5Verona 3.5Vienna 3.5Vigan 3.5Visby 3.5Volubilis 3.5Westminster 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Yin Xu 3.5Yungang Grottoes 3.5Al Ain 3Albi 3Arles 3Avignon 3Bamberg 3Belem 3Belfries 3Bordeaux 3Brasilia 3Bryggen 3Burgundy 3Corfu 3Corvey 3Ferrara 3Fujisan 3Genoa 3Graz 3Gyeongju 3Ivrea 3Jeju 3Kernavë 3Kotor 3Kulangsu 3Le Havre 3Morelia 3Mérida 3Naples 3Nesvizh 3Nisa 3Oporto 3Paphos 3Potsdam 3Red Fort 3Riga 3Røros 3Salzburg 3Stećci 3Sucre 3Trier 3Urbino 3Avila 2.5Bagerhat 2.5Bellinzone 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Camagüey 2.5Canterbury 2.5Champagne 2.5Christiansfeld 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Cuenca 2.5Erbil Citadel 2.5Ibiza 2.5Kazan Kremlin 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Lübeck 2.5Macao 2.5Mammoth Cave 2.5Meknes 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Nancy 2.5Pannonhalma 2.5Pienza 2.5Poblet Monastery 2.5Qalhat 2.5Reims 2.5Skocjan Caves 2.5Skogskyrkogarden 2.5Tarraco 2.5Trebic 2.5Trogir 2.5Tugendhat Villa 2.5Valletta 2.5Valparaiso 2.5Vicenza 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5Vézelay 2.5Warsaw 2.5Wartburg Castle 2.5Zamosc 2.5Caceres 2Campeche 2Cuzco 2Evora 2Hollókö 2Jelling 2Le Morne 2Lumbini 2Modena 2Orange 2Provins 2Saltaire 2Telc 2Bridgetown 1.5Centennial Hall 1.5Chaîne des Puys 1.5Neolithic Orkney 1.5Regensburg 1.5Stari Grad Plain 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
- Akdamar Church (T)
- Amarbayasgalant monastery and sacred cultural landscape (T)
- Amedy city (T)
- Ananuri (T)
- Ancient Buddhist Site, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Archaeo-astronomical Site Kokino (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State: Site at Jinsha and Joint Tombs of Boat- shaped Coffins in Chengdu City, S (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Bahoutdin Architectural Complex (T)
- Barbar Temple (T)
- Benguela Current Marine Ecosystem Sites (T)
- Black River Gorges National Park (T)
- Brandberg National Monument Area (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Centro Storico di Pavia e Certosa (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
- Chobe Linyanti System (T)
- Chocolate Hills Natural Monument (T)
- Chor-Bakr (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- City Hall, Georgetown (T)
- City of Granada and its natural environment (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Classical Karst (in Slovene language: Klasicni kras) (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Dali Chanshan Mountain and Erhai Lake Scenic Spot (T)
- Dana Biosphere Reserve (T)
- Darmstadt Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe (T)
- David Gareji Monasteries and Hermitage (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Desert Landscapes of the Mongolian Great Gobi (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (Punakha Dzong, Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Paro Dzong, Trongsa Dzong and Dagana Dzong) (T)
- Eglises romanes d'Andorre (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Etosha Pan (T)
- Fishriver Canyon (T)
- Franja Partisan Hospital (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Lower German Limes (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Austria) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (extension) (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun Nature Reserve (T)
- Georgetown's Plantation Structure and Historic Buildings (T)
- Gorge of Samaria National Park (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Hamad Town Tumuli Moundfield (T)
- Harran and Sanliurfa (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Historic Monuments and Sites of Ancient Quanzhou (Zayton) (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Ishak Pasha Palace (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Jômon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidô, Northern Tôhoku, and other regions (T)
- Jozani - Chwaka Bay Conservation Area (T)
- Kaboud Mosque (T)
- Kakum National Park (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Koloniën van Weldadigheid (agricultural pauper colonies) (T)
- Koloniën van Weldadigheid (agricultural pauper colony) (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- La Moneda Palace (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le noyau historique médiéval ou la "Cuve" de Gand (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les grandes villes d'eaux d'Europe (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Liberation Heritage Route (T)
- Mahansthangarh and its Environs (T)
- Mattanchery Palace, Ernakulam, Kerala (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Medieval Settlement of Kirtipur (T)
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP) (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Kydonia) (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Ngwenya Mines (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Old Dongola (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Paimio Hospital (formerly Paimio Sanatorium) (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Protected area of Lake Atitlán: multiple use (T)
- Ram Janaki Temple (T)
- Raoudha nilometre in Cairo (T)
- Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)
- Saar Heritage Park (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- Serpent Mound (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Sites mémoriaux du génocide : Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero et Gisozi (T)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
- St.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
- Sümela Monastery (The Monastery of Virgin Mary) (T)
- Surakhany, Atashgyakh (Fire - worshippers, temple - museum at Surakhany) (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- Tet el Bad (Stone Coffin) (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
- The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The Complex of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The forts of Rostaq and al-Hazm (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The Historical City of Masouleh (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
- The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (T)
- The Medieval Town of Tansen (T)
- The monasteries of Tatev and Tatevi Anapat and the adjacent areas of the Vorotan Valley (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Blagaj (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Plečnik (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Uplistsikhe Cave Town (T)
- Valle Calchaquí (T)
- Volcan Masaya National Park (T)
- Western Stone Forts (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period : Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe-Kyaung (Mandalay) (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Western Stone Forts (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
- Chobe Linyanti System (T)
- Ancient Buddhist Site, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Lower German Limes (T)
- Harran and Sanliurfa (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Historic Monuments and Sites of Ancient Quanzhou (Zayton) (T)
- The Complex of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape (T)
- Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Raoudha nilometre in Cairo (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Austria) (T)
- Uplistsikhe Cave Town (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- David Gareji Monasteries and Hermitage (T)
- Ananuri (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)
- The forts of Rostaq and al-Hazm (T)
- Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
- Teylers (T)
- Etosha Pan (T)
- Benguela Current Marine Ecosystem Sites (T)
- Fishriver Canyon (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Darmstadt Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Tet el Bad (Stone Coffin) (T)
- Yapease Quarry Sites (T)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Ngwenya Mines (T)
- Architectural ensemble of Francysk Scaryna avenue in Minsk (1940's -1950's) (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Koloniën van Weldadigheid (agricultural pauper colonies) (T)
- The Historical City of Masouleh (T)
- Surakhany, Atashgyakh (Fire - worshippers, temple - museum at Surakhany) (T)
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP) (T)
- Sites mémoriaux du génocide : Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero et Gisozi (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period : Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe-Kyaung (Mandalay) (T)
- Archaeo-astronomical Site Kokino (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- City of Granada and its natural environment (T)
- Volcan Masaya National Park (T)
- Old Dongola (T)
- Les grandes villes d'eaux d'Europe (T)
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- Eglises romanes d'Andorre (T)
- Franja Partisan Hospital (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- Amedy city (T)
- Centro Storico di Pavia e Certosa (T)
- Le noyau historique médiéval ou la "Cuve" de Gand (T)
- St.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
- Paimio Hospital (formerly Paimio Sanatorium) (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
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- Dana Biosphere Reserve (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- Jômon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidô, Northern Tôhoku, and other regions (T)
- L’ancienne ville de Tripoli (T)
- Ensemble du site naturel de la region du Chouf (T)
- Centre historique de Saida (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (extension) (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
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- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Archaeological Complex of Pachacamac (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- Mattanchery Palace, Ernakulam, Kerala (T)
- Saar Heritage Park (T)
- Barbar Temple (T)
- Black River Gorges National Park (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Voormalige Nazorgkolonie en Sanatorium Zonnestraal (T)
- Kakum National Park (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Elephant Cave (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Dinosaur Ichnite Sites of the Iberian Peninsula (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- Serpent Mound (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Jozani - Chwaka Bay Conservation Area (T)
- Valle Calchaquí (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mahansthangarh and its Environs (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Gorge of Samaria National Park (T)
- Ram Janaki Temple (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Bagan
- Baikonur Cosmodrome / Cape Canaveral
- City of Herat
- Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Ensemble du site naturel de la région du Chouf avec les monuments et les sites
- Huaca de la Luna and Huaca del Sol
- Major Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Mammoth Bone Burials
- Mecca, Kaaba
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Mt Kailash
- Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
- Nan Madol
- Okavango Delta
- Plain of Jars / Sites Mégalithiques de la province de Xieng Khouang
- Svalbard
- Taino Ceremonial site of Caguana
- Tana Toraja Cultural Landscape
- Varanasi
Top 200 WHS
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Isole Eolie
- Teide National Park
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Edinburgh
- Toledo
- Sana'a
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Mountain Railways of India
- Silk Roads
- Ellora Caves
- Angkor
- The Sundarbans
- Okavango Delta
- Lake Baikal
- Victoria Falls
- Pantanal
- Kenya Lake System
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Kakadu National Park
- Nasca Lines
- Uxmal
- Palenque
- Chichen-Itza
- Caral-Supe
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Chan Chan
- Mesa Verde
- Chaco Culture
- Classical Weimar
- Riga
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Willandra Lakes
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- Hattusha
- Palmyra
- Nemrut Dag
- Petra
- Hatra
- Persepolis
- Tchogha Zanbil
- Samarra
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Machu Picchu
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Elvas
- Castel del Monte
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Great Wall
- Himeji-jo
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Upper Svaneti
- Kutna Hora
- Budapest
- Vienna
- Cracow
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Socotra Archipelago
- Peninsula Valdes
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Minaret of Jam
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Nikko
- Temple of Heaven
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Pattadakal
- Mahabalipuram
- Hampi
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Chola Temples
- Los Glaciares
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Yosemite National Park
- Manu National Park
- Yakushima
- Calakmul
- Sangha Trinational
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Jiuzhaigou Valley
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Wrangel Island
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Aldabra Atoll
- Yin Xu
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Salamanca
- Monticello
- Lorentz National Park
- Virunga National Park
- Namib Sand Sea
- Orkhon Valley
- Vat Phou
- Uluru
- Wadi Rum
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Sintra
- Thingvellir
- Arequipa
- Paramaribo
- Guanajuato
- Willemstad
- Potosi
- Québec
- Ouro Preto
- Puebla
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Meroe
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Kinderdijk
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Haghpat and Sanahin
- Churches of Peace
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- Rila Monastery
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Churches of Chiloé
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Mount Athos
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Saint Catherine Area
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Kizhi Pogost
- Lalibela
- Thessalonika
- Göreme NP
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Taxila
- Longmen Grottoes
- Mogao Caves
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex
- Borobudur
- Potala Palace
- Sigiriya
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Ajanta Caves
- Itchan Kala
- Hué
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Kathmandu Valley
- Bukhara
- Ping Yao
- Samarkand
- Medina of Fez
- Kairouan
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Damascus
- Historic Cairo
- Aleppo
- Volubilis
- Trier
- Baalbek
- Pompei
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Acropolis
- Olympia
- Viñales Valley
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Djenné
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Aksum