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Fortifications of Vauban

Hubert Austria - 17-Aug-23

Fortifications of Vauban

Vauban completed! In June 2023, on my trip to Lombardy and Piedmont, I took the opportunity for a day trip to the French Alps to visit my last two Vauban Fortifications. In my recent review of the Savoy Residences, I complained about serial WHS with too many locations. However, the Vauban Fortifications are, in my opinion, an example of an appropriate number of sub-locations. The twelve fortifications are scattered along the outer borders of present-day France and you can compare how Vauban adapted his construction principles to the different terrain: in the high and low mountains, on flat terrain, on the coast, at an estuary and on islands.At the time of my first review (see below), I had visited six of the locations

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Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

Hubert Austria - 16-Aug-23

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

Oh dear! Italy and its serial World Heritage Sites: 14 Savoy Residences, 9 Sacri Monti, 25 Palladio sites, 14 Medici Villas, 7 Longobards locations… Not to mention all the prehistoric and nuragic sites in Sardinia or the countless historic theatres of the Marche region still waiting on the tentative list. Of course it's not just Italy, many countries have this kind of WHS where I would say: Less would be more. But the north-west corner of Italy seems to be a hotspot for this. On my trip through Lombardy and Piedmont in June 2023 I couldn't help but think of our friend Iain and his rule that he doesn't tick off a WHS until he has visited 50% + 1 locations. WHS hunting can be challenging, even in Central Europe

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The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)

Hubert Austria - 24-Nov-22

The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)

Alvar Aalto was kind enough to build his most important works in Finland close to World Heritage Sites or along the route between two inscribed sites. Very prescient of him. So I could easily include all thirteen locations of this TWHS in my round trip through Southern and Central Finland. I visited Finland in early June 2022 and almost all Aalto sites that are open to the public already offered tours. Unfortunately, Villa Mairea was still closed (tours were only available from the third week of June).

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The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)

Hubert Austria - 26-Aug-22

The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)

"You have to look for a rock lying on a rock," was the advice from our guide as we peered through our binoculars in search of a Saimaa ringed seal. Unfortunately, the best time to observe the seals was already over at the beginning of June. The best chances to see them are during the moult in May. "They don't like rain and they don't like wind", was another piece of information that our guide shared with us. Well, it was warm and dry and almost windless on our three-hour sunset tour. But only at the end, when I had almost given up on it, did we get to see two of these cute animals.

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The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier

Hubert Austria - 10-Apr-22

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier

"I’m struggling to understand how an original Le Corbusier building could be in that state of disrepair" was the comment from meltwaterfalls when I posted this photo of the Cité Frugès in our WhatsApp group. And I was shocked too when I visited Pessac in June 2021. To be fair, I must admit that the photo shows the worst example of disrepair. But there were a few more houses that appear to have been uninhabited for a long time and are in urgent need of renovation. And the photo also shows that the public areas, the streets and pavements are not well maintained, the whole neighbourhood looks a bit run down.However, the majority of the housing units are inhabited, some would benefit from a new coat of paint but all in all most of them are in good condition

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  1. Fortifications of Vauban
  2. Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
  3. The Prosecco Hills
  4. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
  5. Danube Limes
  6. Kladruby nad Labem
  7. Cordouan Lighthouse
  8. Plečnik's Lubljana
  9. Pirin National Park
  10. Alcala de Henares
  11. Cuenca
  12. Aranjuez
  13. Toledo
  14. Santa Maria de Guadalupe
  15. Salamanca
  16. Avila
  17. Segovia
  18. El Escurial
  19. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  20. Elvas
  21. Great Spa Towns of Europe
  22. Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
  23. Caceres
  24. Mérida
  25. The Porticoes of Bologna
  26. The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
  27. Lower German Limes
  28. Stralsund and Wismar
  29. Great Spa Towns of Europe
  30. Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun
  31. Nikko
  32. Tomioka Silk Mill
  33. Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
  34. Fujisan
  35. Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
  36. Kii Mountain Range
  37. Himeji-jo
  38. Horyu-ji Area
  39. Ancient Nara
  40. Ancient Kyoto
  41. Alto Douro
  42. Guimarães
  43. Bom Jesus do Monte
  44. Oporto
  45. University of Coimbra
  46. Convent of Christ in Tomar
  47. Monastery of Batalha
  48. Monastery of Alcobaça
  49. Chaîne des Puys
  50. Sintra
  51. Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park
  52. Florence
  53. Medici Villas and Gardens
  54. Margravial Opera House
  55. Jodrell Bank Observatory
  56. Úbeda and Baeza
  57. Granada
  58. Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
  59. Botanical Garden, Padua
  60. Antequera Dolmens Site
  61. Gorham's Cave Complex
  62. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  63. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
  64. Amiens Cathedral
  65. Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
  66. Champagne
  67. Reims
  68. Provins
  69. Fontainebleau
  70. Versailles
  71. Chartres Cathedral
  72. Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
  73. Loire Valley
  74. Bourges Cathedral
  75. Mont-Saint-Michel
  76. Fortifications of Vauban
  77. Le Havre
  78. Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
  79. ShUM Sites
  80. Water Management System of Augsburg
  81. Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
  82. Caves and Ice Age Art
  83. Speyer Cathedral
  84. Maulbronn Monastery
  85. Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
  86. Hollókö
  87. Hortobágy
  88. Tokaji Wine Region
  89. Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
  90. Spissky Hrad and Levoca
  91. Bardejov Town
  92. Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
  93. Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
  94. Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
  95. Churches of Peace
  96. Centennial Hall
  97. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
  98. Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
  99. Kraków
  100. Auschwitz Birkenau
  101. Banska Stiavnica
  102. Vlkolinec
  103. Vatican City
  104. Rome
  105. Cesky Krumlov
  106. Holasovice
  107. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
  108. Naumburg Cathedral
  109. Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
  110. Poblet Monastery
  111. Tarraco
  112. Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
  113. Vall de Boi
  114. Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
  115. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  116. Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
  117. Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  118. Albi
  119. Fortified City of Carcassonne
  120. Canal du Midi
  121. Arles
  122. Maison Carrée of Nîmes
  123. Avignon
  124. Pont du Gard
  125. Orange
  126. Causses and Cévennes
  127. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
  128. Lyon
  129. Pannonhalma
  130. Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
  131. Split
  132. Trogir
  133. Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
  134. Dubrovnik
  135. Plitvice Lakes
  136. Cologne Cathedral
  137. Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
  138. Zollverein
  139. Mining Sites of Wallonia
  140. Aachen Cathedral
  141. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  142. Messel Pit
  143. Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
  144. Heritage of Mercury
  145. Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
  146. Holy Trinity Column
  147. Litomysl Castle
  148. Telc
  149. Trebic
  150. Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
  151. Tugendhat Villa
  152. Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
  153. Wartburg Castle
  154. Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
  155. Ravenna
  156. Ferrara
  157. Hallstatt-Dachstein
  158. Fertö/Neusiedlersee
  159. Kew Gardens
  160. Maritime Greenwich
  161. Westminster
  162. Tower of London
  163. Teide National Park
  164. San Cristobal de La Laguna
  165. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  166. Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
  167. Vienna
  168. Quedlinburg
  169. Potsdam
  170. Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
  171. Bauhaus Sites
  172. Luther Memorials
  173. Rammelsberg and Goslar
  174. Mantua and Sabbioneta
  175. Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
  176. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  177. Dolomites
  178. Aquileia
  179. Margravial Opera House
  180. Classical Weimar
  181. Primeval Beech Forests
  182. Fagus Factory
  1. Abbey of Kremsmünster (T)
  2. Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
  3. Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
  4. Amalienborg and its district (T)
  5. Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
  6. Arsenal de Rochefort et fortifications de l'estuaire de la Charente (T)
  7. Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
  8. Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
  9. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
  10. Bulwarked Fortifications (T)
  11. Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
  12. Cathedral of Gurk (T)
  13. Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
  14. Central Park (T)
  15. Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
  16. Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
  17. Creswell Crags (T)
  18. Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
  19. Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (T)
  20. Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
  21. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
  22. El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage (T)
  23. Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France (T)
  24. Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
  25. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
  26. Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
  27. Flow Country (T)
  28. Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
  29. Franja Partisan Hospital (T)
  30. Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
  31. Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
  32. Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Peninsula (T)
  33. Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
  34. Hangar Y (T)
  35. Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
  36. Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
  37. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
  38. Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
  39. Hochosterwitz Castle (T)
  40. Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr (T)
  41. Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
  42. La Camargue (T)
  43. La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
  44. Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
  45. Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne (T)
  46. Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
  47. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
  48. Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
  49. Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
  50. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
  51. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
  52. Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
  53. Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
  54. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
  55. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
  56. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
  57. Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
  58. Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
  59. Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
  60. National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
  61. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
  62. Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
  63. Orvieto (T)
  64. Paper Mill in Duszniki-Zdrój (T)
  65. Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
  66. Pombaline Lisbon (T)
  67. Priorat-Montsant-Siurana paysage agricole de la montagne méditerranéenne (T)
  68. Rade de Marseille (T)
  69. Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
  70. Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
  71. Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
  72. Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
  73. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
  74. The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
  75. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
  76. The Fortress of Terezín (T)
  77. The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
  78. The historic town of Korcula (T)
  79. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
  80. The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
  81. The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
  82. The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
  83. The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
  84. The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)
  85. The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
  86. The Silver Route (T)
  87. The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
  88. The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (T)
  89. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
  90. Valle Salado de Añana (T)
  91. Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
  92. Vila Viçosa (T)
  93. Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)

Top 50 Missing Sites

  1. Amritsar
  2. Bagan
  3. Chicago School of Architecture
  4. Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  5. Dzongs of Bhutan
  6. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
  7. Lena Delta
  8. Middle and Upper Sepik
  9. Minoan palaces of Crete
  10. Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
  11. Nan Madol
  12. Okavango Delta
  13. Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
  14. Salisbury Plains, Grytviken
  15. Scrovegni's Chapel
  16. Shwedagon Pagoda
  17. Torres del Paine National Park
  18. Ur
  19. Varanasi
  20. Westhoek: places of memory and monuments of the Great War

Top 200 WHS

  1. Volcanoes of Kamchatka
  2. Hawaii Volcanoes
  3. Teide National Park
  4. Brasilia
  5. Shibam
  6. Toledo
  7. Sana'a
  8. Old City of Jerusalem
  9. Rome
  10. Istanbul
  11. Venice and its Lagoon
  12. Ellora Caves
  13. Moenjodaro
  14. Sukhothai
  15. Angkor
  16. Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
  17. Altamira Cave
  18. Plitvice Lakes
  19. Iguazu National Park
  20. The Sundarbans
  21. Okavango Delta
  22. Lake Baikal
  23. Victoria Falls
  24. Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
  25. Kenya Lake System
  26. Central Amazon Conservation Complex
  27. Tugendhat Villa
  28. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  29. Nasca Lines
  30. Çatalhöyük
  31. Stonehenge
  32. Chichen-Itza
  33. Tikal National Park
  34. Teotihuacan
  35. Chan Chan
  36. Mesa Verde
  37. Chaco Culture
  38. San Agustín
  39. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  40. St. Petersburg
  41. Florence
  42. Amsterdam Canal Ring
  43. Carthage
  44. Classical Gardens of Suzhou
  45. Lower Valley of the Awash
  46. Potsdam
  47. Changdeokgung Palace Complex
  48. Versailles
  49. Imperial Palace
  50. Rapa Nui
  51. Palmyra
  52. Nemrut Dag
  53. Petra
  54. Hatra
  55. Persepolis
  56. Tchogha Zanbil
  57. Samarra
  58. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
  59. Machu Picchu
  60. Kilimanjaro National Park
  61. Sagarmatha National Park
  62. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  63. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
  64. Castel del Monte
  65. Great Wall
  66. Himeji-jo
  67. Hill Forts of Rajasthan
  68. Gwynedd Castles
  69. Agra Fort
  70. Auschwitz Birkenau
  71. Budapest
  72. Brugge
  73. Vienna
  74. Kraków
  75. Dubrovnik
  76. Granada
  77. Lübeck
  78. Maritime Greenwich
  79. Great Barrier Reef
  80. Rock Islands
  81. West Norwegian Fjords
  82. Mexico City and Xochimilco
  83. Cuzco
  84. Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
  85. Gunung Mulu
  86. South China Karst
  87. Meidan Emam, Esfahan
  88. Qutb Minar
  89. Fraser Island
  90. Sub-Antarctic Islands
  91. Temple of Heaven
  92. Sun Temple, Konarak
  93. Prambanan
  94. Khajuraho Group of Monuments
  95. Chola Temples
  96. Los Glaciares
  97. Te Wahipounamu
  98. Ilulissat Icefjord
  99. Yosemite National Park
  100. Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
  101. Redwood
  102. Cape Floral Region
  103. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
  104. Rainforests of the Atsinanana
  105. Serengeti
  106. Ngorongoro
  107. Yellowstone
  108. Galapagos Islands
  109. Aldabra Atoll
  110. Komodo National Park
  111. Gulf of California
  112. Ancient Nara
  113. Ancient Kyoto
  114. Völklingen Ironworks
  115. Ironbridge Gorge
  116. Vredefort Dome
  117. Grand Canyon
  118. Nubian Monuments
  119. Ancient Thebes
  120. Bauhaus Sites
  121. Jantar Mantar
  122. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  123. Lorentz National Park
  124. Virunga National Park
  125. Namib Sand Sea
  126. Air and Téneré
  127. Rio de Janeiro
  128. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  129. Medici Villas and Gardens
  130. Uluru
  131. Bali Subak system
  132. Persian Garden
  133. Wadi Rum
  134. Hallstatt-Dachstein
  135. Thingvellir
  136. Cartagena
  137. Potosi
  138. Québec
  139. Ouro Preto
  140. Puebla
  141. Meroe
  142. Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
  143. Great Zimbabwe
  144. Cliff of Bandiagara
  145. Kremlin and Red Square
  146. Sydney Opera House
  147. Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
  148. Amiens Cathedral
  149. Sceilg Mhichíl
  150. Mount Athos
  151. Westminster
  152. Mont-Saint-Michel
  153. Saint Catherine Area
  154. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
  155. Vatican City
  156. Meteora
  157. Ravenna
  158. Bethlehem
  159. Kizhi Pogost
  160. Lalibela
  161. Aachen Cathedral
  162. Göreme NP
  163. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
  164. Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
  165. Taj Mahal
  166. Pyramids (Memphis)
  167. Mogao Caves
  168. Borobudur
  169. Potala Palace
  170. Sigiriya
  171. Dazu Rock Carvings
  172. Ajanta Caves
  173. Fujian Tulou
  174. Kathmandu Valley
  175. Bukhara
  176. Ping Yao
  177. Samarkand
  178. Kairouan
  179. Medina of Marrakesh
  180. Damascus
  181. Historic Cairo
  182. Aleppo
  183. Pont du Gard
  184. Leptis Magna
  185. Baalbek
  186. Pompei
  187. Hierapolis-Pamukkale
  188. Acropolis
  189. Mycenae and Tiryns
  190. Olympia
  191. Laponian Area
  192. Pico Island
  193. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
  194. Coffee Cultural Landscape
  195. Timbuktu
  196. Koutammakou
  197. Djenné
  198. Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
  199. Aksum
  200. Giant's Causeway