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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

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Residences 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

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The 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).

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The 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.

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The 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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Rome 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Bauhaus Sites 4.5

Dubrovnik 4.5

Florence 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Kraków 4.5

Old City of Jerusalem 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Sintra 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Nara 4

Auschwitz Birkenau 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Convent of Christ in Tomar 4

Dolomites 4

Granada 4

Loire Valley 4

Maritime Greenwich 4

Meteora 4

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4

Neolithic Orkney 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Plitvice Lakes 4

Prague 4

Rila Monastery 4

Toledo 4

Tugendhat Villa 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Versailles 4

Vienna 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Acropolis 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5

Arles 3.5

Brugge 3.5

Budapest 3.5

City of Bath 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Cordoba 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

Elvas 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5

Las Medulas 3.5

Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Masada 3.5

Matera 3.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Naples 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5

Ravenna 3.5

Riga 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Selimiye Mosque 3.5

Seville 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

Siena 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Teide National Park 3.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5

The trulli of Alberobello 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5

Vilnius 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5

Zollverein 3.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3

Albi 3

Altamira Cave 3

Alto Douro 3

Assisi 3

Asturian Monuments 3

Avignon 3

Bamberg 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Belem 3

Bordeaux 3

Canal du Midi 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 3

Corfu 3

Cuenca 3

Curonian Spit 3

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3

Eisinga Planetarium 3

Etruscan Necropolises 3

Fontainebleau 3

Forth Bridge 3

Fortifications of Vauban 3

Graz 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3

Himeji-jo 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Jodrell Bank Observatory 3

Kew Gardens 3

Kii Mountain Range 3

Kinderdijk 3

Major Town Houses 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Medina of Tétouan 3

Mystras 3

Old Rauma 3

Pont du Gard 3

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

Saint-Emilion 3

Salamanca 3

Salzburg 3

San Gimignano 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Santiago de Compostela 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Split 3

Strasbourg 3

Telc 3

Trier 3

Vall de Boi 3

Villa d'Este 3

Vizcaya Bridge 3

Vézère Valley 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3

Amiens Cathedral 2.5

Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.5

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Bryggen 2.5

Canterbury 2.5

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5

Causses and Cévennes 2.5

Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5

Centennial Hall 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chartres Cathedral 2.5

Churches of Peace 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5

El Escurial 2.5

Flemish Béguinages 2.5

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5

Fujisan 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5

Heritage of Mercury 2.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Lake District 2.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5

Le Havre 2.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.5

Mérida 2.5

Naumburg Cathedral 2.5

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.5

Nessebar 2.5

Petäjävesi Old Church 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5

Pirin National Park 2.5

Poblet Monastery 2.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5

Québec 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5

ShUM Sites 2.5

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5

Speyer Cathedral 2.5

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 2.5

Statue of Liberty 2.5

Stevns Klint 2.5

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2.5

Tallinn 2.5

The Four Lifts 2.5

The Prosecco Hills 2.5

Thessalonika 2.5

Tower of London 2.5

Trogir 2.5

University of Coimbra 2.5

Urbino 2.5

Val d'Orcia 2.5

Van Nellefabriek 2.5

Venetian Works of Defence 2.5

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 2.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5

Wadden Sea 2.5

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.5

Würzburg Residence 2.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.5

Zamość 2.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2

Alcala de Henares 2

Archaeological site of Philippi 2

Avila 2

Belfries 2

Bellinzone 2

Bom Jesus do Monte 2

Bourges Cathedral 2

Burgos Cathedral 2

Burgundy 2

Caceres 2

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2

Chaîne des Puys 2

Christiansfeld 2

Crespi d'Adda 2

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2

Evora 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Gorham's Cave Complex 2

Hedeby and Danevirke 2

Ivrea 2

Kernavė 2

Kladruby nad Labem 2

Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining region 2

Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2

Medici Villas and Gardens 2

Medina Azahara 2

Messel Pit 2

Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2

Mining Sites of Wallonia 2

Modernist Kaunas 2

Muskauer Park 2

New Lanark 2

Old City of Berne 2

Orange 2

Pienza 2

Primeval Beech Forests 2

Provins 2

Reims 2

Roman Walls of Lugo 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Royal Palace at Caserta 2

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2

Sammallahdenmäki 2

San Cristobal de La Laguna 2

Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2

Schönbrunn 2

Semmering Railway 2

Stralsund and Wismar 2

The Porticoes of Bologna 2

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2

Tomioka Silk Mill 2

Tower of Hercules 2

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2

Úbeda and Baeza 2

Abbey of St Gall 1.5

Aranjuez 1.5

Atapuerca 1.5

Bardejov Town 1.5

Blenheim Palace 1.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Danube Limes 1.5

Donana National Park 1.5

Fortress of Suomenlinna 1.5

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5

Genoa 1.5

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 1.5

Jelling 1.5

Kronborg Castle 1.5

Litomysl Castle 1.5

Luther Memorials 1.5

Modena 1.5

Monte San Giorgio 1.5

Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun 1.5

Nancy 1.5

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 1.5

Pannonhalma 1.5

Plečnik's Lubljana 1.5

Quedlinburg 1.5

Reichenau 1.5

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 1.5

Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 1.5

Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5

Stoclet House 1.5

Studley Royal Park 1.5

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 1.5

Tarraco 1.5

Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 1.5

Trebic 1.5

Viking Age Ring Fortresses 1.5

Vlkolinec 1.5

Vézelay 1.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Žatec – Landscape of Hops 1.5

Beemster Polder 1

Corvey 1

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1

Holasovice 1

Hollókö 1

Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1

Lower German Limes 1

Madara Rider 1

Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park 1

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 1

Saltaire 1

Schokland 1

Struve Geodetic Arc 1

Hortobágy 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Tokaji Wine Region 0.5

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Fortifications of Vauban

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

The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (T)

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier

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