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Corfu
Hubert Austria - 04-Mar-24
Most of the previous reviewers visited Corfu as a day trip from Albania or arrived directly by plane. This is reasonable, as the Old Town of Corfu is a remote site for WHS travelers in Greece. For a long time, it was the only WHS in the northwest, the sites in Albania are much closer. But since Zagori Cultural Landscape was inscribed on the list in 2023, more visitors may be heading to Corfu from mainland Greece.
I visited Corfu as a day trip from Ioannina. I left Ioannina early in the morning by rental car to catch the first ferry from Igoumenitsa at 7am. The drive to Igoumenitsa takes an hour, the ferry to Corfu takes about an hour and twenty minutes
Read OnAmsterdam Canal Ring
Hubert Austria - 06-Feb-24
The Netherlands should be praised for limiting its Amsterdam nomination to the most beautiful part of the city, the Canal Ring. It is great fun to walk along the canals and admire the façades and details of the architecture. No two gables look the same. This is of course well known and has already been highlighted by previous reviewers. So why another review? The answer is: just to recommend also taking a look behind the façades of these impressive canal houses.
In June 2023 I had a scientific meeting at Amsterdam University and I was able to extend my stay to the following weekend. I had visited Amsterdam several times before, including the obligatory canal cruise and non-WHS stuff not to be missed like the Rijksmuseum and van Gogh Museum
Read OnDreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
Hubert Austria - 29-Jan-24
It seems I'm going to be the party pooper here with my "thumbs down". But now that Palaces of King Ludwig II have been nominated for decision in 2025, one critical view may be appropriate. The nomination was controversial among the local population. In a ballot in the municipality of Schwangau in June 2023, 56% of citizens voted in favour of the nomination (with a turnout of 56%), so not really overwhelming. The residents near Neuschwanstein are mainly concerned about a further increase in visitor numbers. Those in favour of the nomination argue that the number is already 1.5 million per year and that more can hardly be expected.
Read OnThessalonika
Hubert Austria - 30-Dec-23
The city of Thessaloniki is not nice. The Byzantine churches are.Most of the churches in the lower town are squeezed between ugly modern buildings. I liked the upper town better. Some of the old Ottoman architecture has been preserved in the narrow streets and steep staircases. The frescoes there are among the most beautiful in Thessaloniki, but the monasteries are rather inconspicuous from the outside. I walked past the entrance to the Latomou monastery twice before I finally found it.Assif wrote in his review that it is impossible to find out the opening hours of the churches. This has not changed until today. You can‘t rely on the information provided on the Thessaloniki tourism website or on Google Maps
Read OnThe broader region of Mount Olympus (T)
Hubert Austria - 29-Dec-23
I would have loved to start this review with the words: I climbed the Seat of the Gods! But that wouldn’t be entirely true. The truth ist that I did not make it to Mytikas, the highest peak of Mount Olympus.
But first things first.I arrived in Litochoro in the early afternoon and started my visit with the Olympus National Park Information Centre, located just outside the town. The exhibition there is relatively new and provides a good introduction to the park. The flora and fauna of the vegetation zones are presented on several levels, from the foothills to the highest peak.I spent the night in Litochoro and started my two-day tour to Mount Olympus the next morning. It's about 20 kilometres from Litochoro to the Prionia car park, the highest point you can reach by car
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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 1Mafra 1Saltaire 1Hortobágy 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Corfu
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Thessalonika
- Zagori Cultural Landscape
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- 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 Ljubljana
- 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
- 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
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