Ian Cade Profile
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.
Recent Reviews Ian Cade
Le Havre
Ian Cade UK - 27-Feb-24
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
Read OnParis, Banks of the Seine
Ian Cade UK - 29-May-23
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.
Read OnPont sur la gorge du Salgina (T)
Ian Cade UK - 04-Apr-23
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.
Read OnEnsemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
Ian Cade UK - 18-May-22
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.
Read OnStonehenge
Ian Cade UK - 30-Dec-21
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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Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Rome 5Ajanta Caves 4.5Brasilia 4.5Chaco Culture 4.5Ellora Caves 4.5Guanajuato 4.5Istanbul 4.5Mesa Verde 4.5Prague 4.5Sceilg Mhichíl 4.5Vienna 4.5Aquileia 4Bamberg 4Granada 4Le Havre 4Mostar 4Pampulha 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Split 4Tallinn 4Abbey of St Gall 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Budapest 3.5Cordoba 3.5El Escurial 3.5Everglades 3.5Florence 3.5Gammelstad 3.5Graz 3.5Kraków 3.5L'viv 3.5Medina of Fez 3.5Puebla 3.5Quedlinburg 3.5Rabat 3.5Regensburg 3.5Riga 3.5Rio de Janeiro 3.5Saint-Emilion 3.5Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5Sintra 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Syracuse 3.5Temple of Heaven 3.5Teotihuacan 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Tugendhat Villa 3.5Valletta 3.5Volubilis 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Westminster 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Avignon 3Belem 3Belfries 3Gyeongju 3Kerkuane 3Lyon 3Meknes 3Oporto 3Orange 3Reims 3Seville 3Telc 3Verona 3Vilnius 3Warsaw 3Aachen Cathedral 2.5Arles 2.5Ayutthaya 2.5Beemster Polder 2.5Brugge 2.5Burgundy 2.5Canterbury 2.5Carthage 2.5Centennial Hall 2.5Champagne 2.5Classical Weimar 2.5Elephanta Caves 2.5Fontainebleau 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Giant's Causeway 2.5Grand Canal 2.5Kairouan 2.5Kew Gardens 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Laponian Area 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Lübeck 2.5Medina of Sousse 2.5New Lanark 2.5Potsdam 2.5Reichenau 2.5Rideau Canal 2.5Saltaire 2.5Stari Grad Plain 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Toledo 2.5Torun 2.5Trier 2.5Trogir 2.5Aranjuez 2Avila 2Jelling 2Kernavė 2Nesvizh 2Trebic 2Blenheim Palace 1.5Holasovice 1.5Imperial Tombs 1.5Kronborg Castle 1.5Modena 1.5Morelia 1.5Muskauer Park 1.5Peking Man Site 1.5Stećci 1.5Valongo Wharf 1.5Corvey 1Mafra 1Danube Limes 0.5Schokland 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Le Havre
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Stonehenge
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Everglades
- Forth Bridge
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Torun
- Istanbul
- Bauhaus Sites
- Bauhaus Sites
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Muskauer Park
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Stevns Klint
- Valongo Wharf
- Riga
- Par force hunting landscape
- Christiansfeld
- Pampulha
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Brasilia
- Monticello
- Rio de Janeiro
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Gammelstad
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Xochicalco
- Guanajuato
- Puebla
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- San Miguel de Allende
- Camino Real
- Morelia
- Teotihuacan
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Querétaro
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Churches of Peace
- Centennial Hall
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Laponian Area
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- University of Coimbra
- Independence Hall
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Meknes
- Medina of Fez
- Volubilis
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Rabat
- Regensburg
- Salzburg
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- New Lanark
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Fagus Factory
- Corvey
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Quedlinburg
- Segovia
- Alcala de Henares
- Avila
- El Escurial
- Aranjuez
- Rideau Canal
- Yellowstone
- Chaco Culture
- Taos Pueblo
- Mesa Verde
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Aquileia
- Skocjan Caves
- Longobards in Italy
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Heritage of Mercury
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Graz
- Toledo
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Tallinn
- Kronborg Castle
- Semmering Railway
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Gyeongju
- Grand Canal
- Summer Palace
- Haeinsa Temple
- Peking Man Site
- Malbork Castle
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Great Wall
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Imperial Tombs
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Imperial Palace
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Temple of Heaven
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Edinburgh
- Gwynedd Castles
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Saint-Emilion
- Fontainebleau
- Bordeaux
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Verona
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Wadden Sea
- Fagus Factory
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Ellora Caves
- Dong Phayayen
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Angkor
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Sukhothai
- Ajanta Caves
- Elephanta Caves
- Ayutthaya
- Tower of Hercules
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Altamira Cave
- Asturian Monuments
- Santiago de Compostela
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Studley Royal Park
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- Nesvizh
- Mir Castle
- Warsaw
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Vilnius
- Kernavė
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Amiens Cathedral
- Kunta Kinteh Island
- Kunta Kinteh Island
- Stone Circles of Senegambia
- Zollverein
- Jelling
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Statue of Liberty
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Speyer Cathedral
- Cordoba
- Donana National Park
- Seville
- Stoclet House
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Surtsey
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Orange
- Lyon
- Pont du Gard
- Arles
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Beemster Polder
- Schokland
- Kinderdijk
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Versailles
- Chartres Cathedral
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Yosemite National Park
- Vatican City
- Rome
- Florence
- Modena
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Aachen Cathedral
- The Four Lifts
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cologne Cathedral
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Dresden Elbe Valley
- Litomysl Castle
- Trebic
- Telc
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Holy Trinity Column
- Grand Canyon
- Le Havre
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Liverpool
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Cahokia Mounds
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Drottningholm
- Bauhaus Sites
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Luther Memorials
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Thingvellir
- Saltaire
- Sydney Opera House
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Valletta
- Syracuse
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Val di Noto
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Giant's Causeway
- Bamberg
- Messel Pit
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Würzburg Residence
- Strasbourg
- Lübeck
- Medina of Essaouira
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Avignon
- Westminster
- Potsdam
- Maritime Greenwich
- Tower of London
- Canterbury
- Schönbrunn
- Brú na Bóinne
- Stonehenge
- Budapest
- Tugendhat Villa
- Belem
- Sintra
- Oporto
- Brugge
- Belfries
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Kraków
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Blenheim Palace
- Kew Gardens
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- City of Bath
- Trier
- City of Luxembourg
- Kutna Hora
- Holasovice
- Prague
- Cesky Krumlov
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Major Town Houses
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Flemish Béguinages
- Dougga/Thugga
- Kerkuane
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Kairouan
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Carthage
- Vienna
Visited TWHS
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