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Fortifications of Vauban
Hubert Austria - 17-Aug-23

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
Read OnResidences of the Royal House of Savoy
Hubert Austria - 16-Aug-23

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
Read OnThe Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
Hubert Austria - 24-Nov-22

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).
Read OnThe Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)
Hubert Austria - 26-Aug-22

"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.
Read OnThe Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
Hubert Austria - 10-Apr-22

"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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Rating StatsRome 5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Bauhaus Sites 4.5Dubrovnik 4.5Florence 4.5Istanbul 4.5Kraków 4.5Pompei 4.5Sintra 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Vatican City 4.5Granada 4Meteora 4Prague 4Toledo 4Vienna 4Acropolis 3.5Aquileia 3.5Arles 3.5Brugge 3.5Budapest 3.5City of Bath 3.5Classical Weimar 3.5Cordoba 3.5Edinburgh 3.5Elvas 3.5Fagus Factory 3.5Ferrara 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Lyon 3.5Masada 3.5Matera 3.5Naples 3.5Nikko 3.5Oporto 3.5Potsdam 3.5Ravenna 3.5Riga 3.5Segovia 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Seville 3.5Siena 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Verona 3.5Vilnius 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Westminster 3.5Zollverein 3.5Albi 3Assisi 3Avignon 3Bamberg 3Belem 3Bordeaux 3Corfu 3Cuenca 3Graz 3Mystras 3Salzburg 3Split 3Telc 3Trier 3Amiens Cathedral 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Bryggen 2.5Canterbury 2.5Centennial Hall 2.5Champagne 2.5El Escurial 2.5Fujisan 2.5Ironbridge Gorge 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Lake District 2.5Le Havre 2.5Lübeck 2.5Mérida 2.5Nessebar 2.5Poblet Monastery 2.5Québec 2.5Regensburg 2.5ShUM Sites 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Tallinn 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Thessalonika 2.5Tower of London 2.5Trogir 2.5Urbino 2.5Val d'Orcia 2.5Van Nellefabriek 2.5Wadden Sea 2.5Zamość 2.5Avila 2Belfries 2Burgundy 2Caceres 2Evora 2Ivrea 2Kernavė 2Orange 2Pienza 2Provins 2Reims 2Abbey of St Gall 1.5Aranjuez 1.5Atapuerca 1.5Bardejov Town 1.5Blenheim Palace 1.5Danube Limes 1.5Genoa 1.5Jelling 1.5Kronborg Castle 1.5Litomysl Castle 1.5Luther Memorials 1.5Modena 1.5Nancy 1.5Pannonhalma 1.5Quedlinburg 1.5Reichenau 1.5Stoclet House 1.5Tarraco 1.5Trebic 1.5Vlkolinec 1.5Vézelay 1.5Corvey 1Hollókö 1Saltaire 1Hortobágy 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- The Prosecco Hills
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Danube Limes
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Cordouan Lighthouse
- Plečnik's Lubljana
- Pirin National Park
- Alcala de Henares
- Cuenca
- Aranjuez
- Toledo
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Salamanca
- Avila
- Segovia
- El Escurial
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Elvas
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Caceres
- Mérida
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Lower German Limes
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun
- Nikko
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Fujisan
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Kii Mountain Range
- Himeji-jo
- Horyu-ji Area
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Alto Douro
- Guimarães
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Oporto
- University of Coimbra
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Chaîne des Puys
- Sintra
- Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park
- Florence
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Margravial Opera House
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Granada
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Amiens Cathedral
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Champagne
- Reims
- Provins
- Fontainebleau
- Versailles
- Chartres Cathedral
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Loire Valley
- Bourges Cathedral
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Le Havre
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
- ShUM Sites
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Speyer Cathedral
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Hollókö
- Hortobágy
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Bardejov Town
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Churches of Peace
- Centennial Hall
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Kraków
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Banska Stiavnica
- Vlkolinec
- Vatican City
- Rome
- Cesky Krumlov
- Holasovice
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Poblet Monastery
- Tarraco
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Vall de Boi
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Albi
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Canal du Midi
- Arles
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Avignon
- Pont du Gard
- Orange
- Causses and Cévennes
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Lyon
- Pannonhalma
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Split
- Trogir
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Dubrovnik
- Plitvice Lakes
- Cologne Cathedral
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Zollverein
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Aachen Cathedral
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Messel Pit
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Heritage of Mercury
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Holy Trinity Column
- Litomysl Castle
- Telc
- Trebic
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Tugendhat Villa
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Wartburg Castle
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Ravenna
- Ferrara
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Kew Gardens
- Maritime Greenwich
- Westminster
- Tower of London
- Teide National Park
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Vienna
- Quedlinburg
- Potsdam
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Bauhaus Sites
- Luther Memorials
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Dolomites
- Aquileia
- Margravial Opera House
- Classical Weimar
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Fagus Factory
Visited TWHS
- Abbey of Kremsmünster (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Arsenal de Rochefort et fortifications de l'estuaire de la Charente (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Bulwarked Fortifications (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- Cathedral of Gurk (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Creswell Crags (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (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)
- El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage (T)
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France (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)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Franja Partisan Hospital (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Peninsula (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Hangar Y (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
- Hochosterwitz Castle (T)
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne (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)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (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)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Paper Mill in Duszniki-Zdrój (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana paysage agricole de la montagne méditerranéenne (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- The Silver Route (T)
- The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
- The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Valle Salado de Añana (T)
- Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- Bulwarked Fortifications (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
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- Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Hangar Y (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana paysage agricole de la montagne méditerranéenne (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- Schwetzingen, castle and castle gardens (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Amritsar
- Bagan
- Chicago School of Architecture
- Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
- Lena Delta
- Middle and Upper Sepik
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
- Nan Madol
- Okavango Delta
- Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
- Salisbury Plains, Grytviken
- Scrovegni's Chapel
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Ur
- Varanasi
- Westhoek: places of memory and monuments of the Great War
Top 200 WHS
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Teide National Park
- Brasilia
- Shibam
- Toledo
- Sana'a
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Ellora Caves
- Moenjodaro
- Sukhothai
- Angkor
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Altamira Cave
- Plitvice Lakes
- Iguazu National Park
- The Sundarbans
- Okavango Delta
- Lake Baikal
- Victoria Falls
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Kenya Lake System
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Tugendhat Villa
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Nasca Lines
- Çatalhöyük
- Stonehenge
- Chichen-Itza
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Chan Chan
- Mesa Verde
- Chaco Culture
- San Agustín
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Carthage
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Lower Valley of the Awash
- Potsdam
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- 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
- Castel del Monte
- Great Wall
- Himeji-jo
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Gwynedd Castles
- Agra Fort
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Budapest
- Brugge
- Vienna
- Kraków
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Lübeck
- Maritime Greenwich
- Great Barrier Reef
- Rock Islands
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Cuzco
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Gunung Mulu
- South China Karst
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Qutb Minar
- Fraser Island
- Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Temple of Heaven
- Sun Temple, Konarak
- Prambanan
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Chola Temples
- Los Glaciares
- Te Wahipounamu
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Yosemite National Park
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Redwood
- Cape Floral Region
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Aldabra Atoll
- Komodo National Park
- Gulf of California
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Vredefort Dome
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- Bauhaus Sites
- Jantar Mantar
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Lorentz National Park
- Virunga National Park
- Namib Sand Sea
- Air and Téneré
- Rio de Janeiro
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Uluru
- Bali Subak system
- Persian Garden
- Wadi Rum
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Thingvellir
- Cartagena
- Potosi
- Québec
- Ouro Preto
- Puebla
- Meroe
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
- Great Zimbabwe
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Sydney Opera House
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Amiens Cathedral
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Mount Athos
- Westminster
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Saint Catherine Area
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Bethlehem
- Kizhi Pogost
- Lalibela
- Aachen Cathedral
- Göreme NP
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Mogao Caves
- Borobudur
- Potala Palace
- Sigiriya
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Ajanta Caves
- Fujian Tulou
- Kathmandu Valley
- Bukhara
- Ping Yao
- Samarkand
- Kairouan
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Damascus
- Historic Cairo
- Aleppo
- Pont du Gard
- Leptis Magna
- Baalbek
- Pompei
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Acropolis
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Olympia
- Laponian Area
- Pico Island
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Timbuktu
- Koutammakou
- Djenné
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Aksum
- Giant's Causeway