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Eric Lurio USA - 12-Sep-24
When his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Franz Josef the 1st, by the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; King of Jerusalem, etc.; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friaul, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trento and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc
Read OnVienna
Eric Lurio USA - 10-Sep-24
Once upon a time, two centuries and a bit, The German world was split in two, the Hapsburg Slavic lands and and the archduchess and kingdoms that would wind up under the Prussian Hohenzollerans before the whole thing blew up in the First World War. But that was later.
Austria wasn’t much then, and it isn’t much now, but in this picturesque bit of nothing was Vienna, also known as Wein. The capital of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation for far shorter than one would expect, The downtown palace complex called the Hoffburg is where the family and their empire were headquartered for about 400 years, on and off. This was the most glamorous and expensive bit of palatial architecture ever made. Well worth a look.
Read OnBudapest
Eric Lurio USA - 04-Sep-24
AS to the capital of Hungary, it’s not as old as it’s supposed to be. Budapest, pronounced Buda-Pescht, only dates to 1873, and most of the oldest architecture only predates it by a few years, but the commies who found the place in rubble after the war made a decision not to utilize Socialist modernism but in 19th century classical revival and art nouveau, which is why the place was inscribed in the first place.
In other words, in good taste.
The city was originally two cities, Buda, which is on top of a thing midway between a hill and a mountain, and Pescht, which was a smallish flat suburb before the nationalists decided [...]
Read OnEarly Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
Eric Lurio USA - 25-Aug-24
I'm not too sure about this one. They're mostly nondescript office buildings (okay, one has apartments) which I checked out after the Democratic convention. There are three of them right next to the Harold Washington Library at the south end of the fabled loop.
I can understand why much of the architecture of Chicago would be considered WHS-worthy, but aside from the age, there's not any reason for these buildings over any of the others there. The city has so much great architecture that the choice is a mystery. Also, all of these are private and the owners want to demolish them and build the best of what architects have to offer.
Read OnBurgos Cathedral
Eric Lurio USA - 27-Jun-23
I went there last week, as we were on a different tour and had some time, we stopped by and we had enough people to get a discount.
As cathedrals go, this is okay, the art is all over the place, from brilliant to downright awful. As to the architecture, it's standard, nothing to write home about, but it is a major stop on the Camino, so that's why it probably got inscribed.
Does it actually DESERVE to get an inscription, probably not, but it's an old cathedral and UNESCO likes that sort of thing.
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- Most Impressive
- Uluru (it looks like a giant chunk of chocolate just after sunset
- Proposal
- The Kaaba.
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 15.09.24
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- Land of Frankincense
- Kinderdijk
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Yazd
- Regensburg
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Bamberg
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cologne Cathedral
- Würzburg Residence
- Danube Limes
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Schönbrunn
Visited WHS
Rating StatsCopán 5Sabratha 5Vienna 5Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5Kathmandu Valley 4.5Leptis Magna 4.5Monticello 4.5Palenque 4.5Serengeti 4.5Uluru 4.5Baalbek 4Bukhara 4Damascus 4Djenné 4Quirigua 4Timbuktu 4Yazd 4Aleppo 3.5Bamberg 3.5Baroque Churches 3.5Bethlehem 3.5Cahokia Mounds 3.5Danube Limes 3.5Ghadames 3.5Ngorongoro 3.5Old Havana 3.5Palmyra 3.5Pasargadae 3.5Pergamon 3.5Persian Garden 3.5Red Fort 3.5Sian Ka'an 3.5Yogyakarta 3.5Lumbini 3Cyrene 2.5Pearling 2.5Redwood 2.5Rideau Canal 2.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Ayeyawady River Corridor (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Cathédrale de Bamako (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- City of Granada and its natural environment (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Grenadines Island Group (T)
- Historic Lighthouses of The Bahamas (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Marine Protected Areas of American Samoa (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Route of the Peace and National Identity (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- The African Great Rift Valley - The Maasai Mara (T)
- The Core of the Mayan Area (T)
- The Crusader Fortresses (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Volcan Masaya National Park (T)
- Wooded meadows (Laelatu, Kalli-Nedrema, Mäepea, Allika, Tagamoisa, Loode, Koiva, Halliste) (T)
Reviewed TWHS