Ian Cade Profile

Ian Cade
Ian Cade.

I discovered the World Heritage list whilst studying in the Czech city of Olomouc in 2003, and since then I have spent a fair bit of my time visiting the sites and boring people with information about them. World Heritage Sites provide a great way to hunt out the best bits of countries and can give you a look at some great parts of a destination that you would otherwise not see. A few of my favourite sites have been the ones that I have made a special effort to get to see because of their place on the list; Sceilg Mhichíl, Guanajuato and Preah Vihear

I mostly take short trips around Europe, making the most of budget airlines special offers, seeing some of the continent's great cities, visiting friends and dragging them to some pretty obscure places.
I try to travel outside Europe at least once a year and hope to tick off a few of the places on my wish list when money, politics and time enable this.

It's not about the shark!:
Whilst the World Heritage Sites themselves are the focus of my travels, they are more a means to an end, the real joy of travelling comes from interacting with people, waiting for trains at hitherto unknown corners of the world then eating and drinking the tasty (and not so tasty) delights on offer.

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Le Havre

Ian Cade UK - 27-Feb-24

Le Havre

Come on Kids, lets explore …. Prefabricated concrete structural classicism!!

Le Havre for a rainy weekend in February probably doesn’t scream “Family Holiday” but this was perhaps our most successful attempt to combine World Heritage Sites with something a 4 year old will enjoy.

There were multiple reasons why this was enjoyable, but at the heart of all of them was how successful this rebuilding project was in creating a livable city. There is a bit of an academic pursuit in pointing out how every block of concrete pillars along ave

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Paris, Banks of the Seine

Ian Cade UK - 29-May-23

Paris, Banks of the Seine

Paris is great, it justifiably is one of the metropoles around which Europe seems to revolve and the Banks of the Seine show the finest parts of it. But I just want to focus on one specific part of the inscribed area.


“Oh Dad, THERE IS AN OBELISK! Can we go and visit it?”

Now I am a seriously proud Dad of a 5 year old that can not only recognise an obelisk, but gets properly excited by them, however at this precise moment I really didn’t want to indulge the request, partially because we were on a boat enjoying a cruise, but also I knew that this lump of Luxor that so enthused my daughter was in a place I hate above most other places I have visited on this World Heritage Site quest.

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Pont sur la gorge du Salgina (T)

Ian Cade UK - 04-Apr-23

Pont sur la gorge du Salgina (T)

TLDR I really liked this bridge and Philip has already covered the relevant practical and historical details below. I was fortunate that he offered to be my guide over a weekend to eastern Switzerland (and bits of Germany and Liechtenstein too) and can say I am in full agreement with all his points. So the best I can offer is my own journey from finding this bridge ugly and boring to thinking it should be inscribed as a masterpiece of human creative genius.


What makes something beautiful?

After a couple of decades of thinking about it, I’m pretty comfortable knowing that there isn’t really such a thing as objective beauty, rather we regularly arrive at things we can agree on as being pleasing mostly based on habit and convention. 

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Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)

Ian Cade UK - 18-May-22

Ensemble of Alvaro Siza

We decided to throw ourselves into this tentative site a little more by staying in an apartment in the Barrio da Bouca in Porto, located a short walk (or two metro stops) from the centre of the city.

I rather liked the unique layout and aesthetics of the estate, squeezed into a triangle of ground, it was densely populated but provided ample space between buildings, and the units themselves were pleasant and spacious. The interiors offered design touches that separated it from your standard holiday rental. I liked the sliding wall that separates a bedroom from the main living space, and the wooden shutters across the doors and windows were both very functional and aesthetically pleasing, bringing back fond memories of Casa Barragan. 

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Stonehenge

Ian Cade UK - 30-Dec-21

Stonehenge

Like many people Covid -19 has led to quite a change in my World Heritage travelling, especially when coupled with two young children, as such the last two years have given me plenty of opportunities to get to know one of my local WHS in more detail, hopefully this run down of the broader site will be of use to others wanting to visit.

(Picture of the chamber inside West Kennet Long Barrow)

My Top 3  StonehengeAlready covered in a lot of detail, iconic and the highlight of this inscription

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Name
Ian Cade
Country
UK
Most Impressive
Angkor
Proposal
Major Buildings of the Chicago School of Architecture/ Scorvegni Chapel (Padua)
Website
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Recently Visited WHS

Update 28.02.24
Rating Stats
Angkor 5
Rome 5
Brasilia 4.5
Istanbul 4.5
Prague 4.5
Vienna 4.5
Mostar 4
Split 4
Bordeaux 3.5
Budapest 3.5
Cordoba 3.5
Florence 3.5
Graz 3.5
Kraków 3.5
L'viv 3.5
Puebla 3.5
Rabat 3.5
Riga 3.5
Sintra 3.5
Syracuse 3.5
Valletta 3.5
Volubilis 3.5
Belem 3
Lyon 3
Meknes 3
Oporto 3
Orange 3
Reims 3
Telc 3
Verona 3
Warsaw 3
Arles 2.5
Ayutthaya 2.5
Brugge 2.5
Burgundy 2.5
Carthage 2.5
Champagne 2.5
Kairouan 2.5
Lübeck 2.5
Potsdam 2.5
Reichenau 2.5
Saltaire 2.5
Toledo 2.5
Torun 2.5
Trier 2.5
Trogir 2.5
Avila 2
Trebic 2
Modena 1.5
Morelia 1.5
Corvey 1
Mafra 1
Schokland 0.5
  1. Le Havre
  2. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  3. Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
  4. Stonehenge
  5. Kladruby nad Labem
  6. Everglades
  7. Forth Bridge
  8. Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai
  9. Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
  10. Torun
  11. Istanbul
  12. Bauhaus Sites
  13. Bauhaus Sites
  14. Primeval Beech Forests
  15. Muskauer Park
  16. Bursa and Cumalikizik
  17. Stevns Klint
  18. Valongo Wharf
  19. Riga
  20. Par force hunting landscape
  21. Christiansfeld
  22. Pampulha
  23. Fortifications of Vauban
  24. Brasilia
  25. Monticello
  26. Rio de Janeiro
  27. Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
  28. Mining Sites of Wallonia
  29. Gammelstad
  30. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
  31. Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
  32. Luis Barragán House and Studio
  33. Xochicalco
  34. Guanajuato
  35. Puebla
  36. Popocatepetl monasteries
  37. Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
  38. Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
  39. San Miguel de Allende
  40. Camino Real
  41. Morelia
  42. Teotihuacan
  43. Central University City Campus of the UNAM
  44. Querétaro
  45. Mexico City and Xochimilco
  46. Churches of Peace
  47. Centennial Hall
  48. Birka and Hovgarden
  49. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  50. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  51. Engelsberg Ironworks
  52. Laponian Area
  53. Struve Geodetic Arc
  54. Falun Great Copper Mountain
  55. University of Coimbra
  56. Independence Hall
  57. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
  58. Meknes
  59. Medina of Fez
  60. Volubilis
  61. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  62. Rabat
  63. Regensburg
  64. Salzburg
  65. Pilgrimage Church of Wies
  66. Hallstatt-Dachstein
  67. New Lanark
  68. Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
  69. Fagus Factory
  70. Corvey
  71. Rammelsberg and Goslar
  72. Stralsund and Wismar
  73. Quedlinburg
  74. Segovia
  75. Alcala de Henares
  76. Avila
  77. El Escurial
  78. Aranjuez
  79. Rideau Canal
  80. Yellowstone
  81. Chaco Culture
  82. Taos Pueblo
  83. Mesa Verde
  84. Venetian Works of Defence
  85. Aquileia
  86. Skocjan Caves
  87. Longobards in Italy
  88. Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
  89. Heritage of Mercury
  90. Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
  91. Graz
  92. Toledo
  93. Wachau Cultural Landscape
  94. Tallinn
  95. Kronborg Castle
  96. Semmering Railway
  97. Roskilde Cathedral
  98. Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
  99. Gyeongju
  100. Grand Canal
  101. Summer Palace
  102. Haeinsa Temple
  103. Peking Man Site
  104. Malbork Castle
  105. Hwaseong Fortress
  106. Jongmyo Shrine
  107. Great Wall
  108. Royal Joseon Tombs
  109. Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
  110. Imperial Tombs
  111. Changdeokgung Palace Complex
  112. Hahoe and Yangdong
  113. Imperial Palace
  114. Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
  115. Temple of Heaven
  116. Grimeton Radio Station
  117. Rock Carvings in Tanum
  118. Edinburgh
  119. Gwynedd Castles
  120. Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  121. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
  122. Mantua and Sabbioneta
  123. Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
  124. Saint-Emilion
  125. Fontainebleau
  126. Bordeaux
  127. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
  128. Verona
  129. Venice and its Lagoon
  130. Botanical Garden, Padua
  131. Wadden Sea
  132. Fagus Factory
  133. Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
  134. Ellora Caves
  135. Dong Phayayen
  136. Preah Vihear Temple
  137. Angkor
  138. Sambor Prei Kuk
  139. Sukhothai
  140. Ajanta Caves
  141. Elephanta Caves
  142. Ayutthaya
  143. Tower of Hercules
  144. Route of Santiago de Compostela
  145. Altamira Cave
  146. Asturian Monuments
  147. Santiago de Compostela
  148. Roman Walls of Lugo
  149. Amsterdam Canal Ring
  150. Studley Royal Park
  151. Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
  152. Nesvizh
  153. Mir Castle
  154. Warsaw
  155. Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
  156. Struve Geodetic Arc
  157. Vilnius
  158. Kernavė
  159. Fortifications of Vauban
  160. Amiens Cathedral
  161. Kunta Kinteh Island
  162. Kunta Kinteh Island
  163. Stone Circles of Senegambia
  164. Zollverein
  165. Jelling
  166. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
  167. Statue of Liberty
  168. Durham Castle and Cathedral
  169. Speyer Cathedral
  170. Cordoba
  171. Donana National Park
  172. Seville
  173. Stoclet House
  174. Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
  175. Surtsey
  176. Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
  177. Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
  178. La Lonja de la Seda
  179. Orange
  180. Lyon
  181. Pont du Gard
  182. Arles
  183. Rietveld Schröderhuis
  184. Beemster Polder
  185. Schokland
  186. Kinderdijk
  187. Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
  188. Dutch Water Defence Lines
  189. Dorset and East Devon Coast
  190. Derwent Valley Mills
  191. Sceilg Mhichíl
  192. Mont-Saint-Michel
  193. Versailles
  194. Chartres Cathedral
  195. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  196. Yosemite National Park
  197. Vatican City
  198. Rome
  199. Florence
  200. Modena
  201. Santa Maria delle Grazie
  202. Plantin-Moretus Museum
  203. Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
  204. Aachen Cathedral
  205. The Four Lifts
  206. Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
  207. Cologne Cathedral
  208. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
  209. Dresden Elbe Valley
  210. Litomysl Castle
  211. Trebic
  212. Telc
  213. Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
  214. Holy Trinity Column
  215. Grand Canyon
  216. Le Havre
  217. Ironbridge Gorge
  218. Liverpool
  219. Greater Blue Mountains
  220. Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
  221. Cahokia Mounds
  222. Skogskyrkogarden
  223. Drottningholm
  224. Bauhaus Sites
  225. Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
  226. Luther Memorials
  227. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  228. Thingvellir
  229. Saltaire
  230. Sydney Opera House
  231. Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
  232. Valletta
  233. Syracuse
  234. Megalithic Temples of Malta
  235. Val di Noto
  236. Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
  237. Giant's Causeway
  238. Bamberg
  239. Messel Pit
  240. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  241. Würzburg Residence
  242. Strasbourg
  243. Lübeck
  244. Medina of Essaouira
  245. Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
  246. Medina of Marrakesh
  247. Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  248. Avignon
  249. Westminster
  250. Potsdam
  251. Maritime Greenwich
  252. Tower of London
  253. Canterbury
  254. Schönbrunn
  255. Brú na Bóinne
  256. Stonehenge
  257. Budapest
  258. Tugendhat Villa
  259. Belem
  260. Sintra
  261. Oporto
  262. Brugge
  263. Belfries
  264. Grand Place, Brussels
  265. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
  266. Kraków
  267. Auschwitz Birkenau
  268. Blenheim Palace
  269. Kew Gardens
  270. Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
  271. City of Bath
  272. Trier
  273. City of Luxembourg
  274. Kutna Hora
  275. Holasovice
  276. Prague
  277. Cesky Krumlov
  278. Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
  279. Major Town Houses
  280. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  281. Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
  282. Flemish Béguinages
  283. Dougga/Thugga
  284. Kerkuane
  285. Amphitheater of El Jem
  286. Kairouan
  287. Medina of Sousse
  288. Medina of Tunis
  289. Carthage
  290. Vienna
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