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Aranjuez
Jay T USA - 08-Jan-20
I love gardens, so I was rather excited to choose Aranjuez Cultural Landscape as the first central Iberian World Heritage Site to visit after I arrived in Madrid for a long weekend last May. In truth, the gardens were not as impressive as others I have visited, but I did appreciate the laidback atmosphere of this suburb that began as a royal estate in the 16th century. After arriving in town, I started my tour indoors with the palace, so as to avoid a passing rain shower. The palace had many fine rooms, but since I came to Aranjuez to view the gardens, as soon as the skies brightened I was back outside. The gardens next to the palace were beautiful, however I was slightly let down by the Island Garden, which was not as well upkept as I thought it might be
Read OnVilla Adriana (Tivoli)
Jay T USA - 01-Jan-20
On paper the Villa Adriana seems a site that I would love -- a collection of architecture from around the known world in the 2nd century A.D. incorporated into a retreat (and eventual seat of power) for Roman emperor Hadrian in the hills east of Rome. In reality -- well, it didn't meet my expectations. Part of that could have been the difficulty I had in getting to the villa; no taxis were easily to be found anywhere in Tivoli on the weekday I visited last November, and I couldn't find a good schedule for the Number 4 bus. I eventually made it to the villa by taxi, and began exploring the grounds mid-day. I rather wish I had a guide, though, since, as others have noted, the signs are lacking, and what signs existed were written in an academic style rather challenging to comprehend
Read OnToledo
Jay T USA - 18-Dec-19
Oh Toledo, jewel of a city! This was easily my favorite day trip from Madrid when I visited Spain last May. I was entranced from my first view of the walled old town overlooking the Tagus River on the short walk from the Moorish-style train station to the escalators serving the historic center atop the hill. I arrived on a Sunday, which was an ideal time to attend a mass in the historic Toledo cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture (it was not a good day to see the tower, however, since it was closed)
Read OnSantiago de Compostela
Jay T USA - 13-Nov-19
Pilgrim, you have reached journey's end. The paths through the old town suddenly open up onto a plaza marked with walkways in the shape of the scalloped symbol of the Camino de Santiago, and there, at the center of the rays, pilgrims and tourists alike stop in awe and reflection and gaze up at the Baroque façade of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. The cathedral is even larger than it seemed when looking down at the bell towers from the Mount of Joy outside the city. Staffs and backpacks are set down and cell phones and selfie sticks are pulled out. Some kiss the ground in reverance. And then, sometime later, the visitors migrate to the side entrance to the cathedral, and file through the nave and around the altar, mostly in hushed silence
Read OnPotsdam
Jay T USA - 06-Nov-19
I've always associated Potsdam, Germany, with the Cold War, but outside of knowing some historical context, I was unprepared for how beautiful the palaces and gardens would be when I visited in the fall of 2007. Autumn was a spectacular season to stroll the grounds, as trees changing color were reflected in the waterways wending their way through Sansoucci Park, the heart of the original inscription. While I enjoyed visiting some of the palaces and grand structures in this World Heritage Site, to include Sanssouci, the New Palace, and the Chinese House, it was the gardens that I found most memorable. The terraces ouside the Orangery and Sanssouci palace provided a beautiful view over Potsdam, nestled in fall foliage
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- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Proposal
- Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 03.12.19
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- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Valletta
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Gulf of Porto
- Mount Etna
Visited WHS
Rating StatsIguacu 5Istanbul 5Petra 5Rome 5Uluru 5Acropolis 4.5Everglades 4.5Göreme NP 4.5Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5Lake Baikal 4.5Nikko 4.5Pompei 4.5Toledo 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Wadi Rum 4.5Yellowstone 4.5Brugge 4Budapest 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Quito 4Québec 4Salzburg 4Siena 4Sintra 4Vienna 4Brú na Bóinne 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Ibiza 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Neolithic Orkney 3.5Olympia 3.5Speyer Cathedral 3.5Split 3.5Vicenza 3.5Al Ain 3Belem 3Naples 3Potsdam 3Biblical Tells 2.5Blenheim Palace 2.5Cahokia Mounds 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Kotor 2.5Lima 2.5Poverty Point 2.5Quseir Amra 2.5Rideau Canal 2.5Turaif Quarter 2.5Um er-Rasas 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5Aranjuez 2Belfries 2Evora 2Reviewed WHS
- Aranjuez
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Toledo
- Santiago de Compostela
- Potsdam
- Neolithic Orkney
- Lima
- Gwynedd Castles
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Burgos Cathedral
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Statue of Liberty
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Pompei
- Las Medulas
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Flemish Béguinages
- Camino Real
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Speyer Cathedral
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Lake Baikal
- Gros Morne National Park
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Brugge
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Thingvellir
- Huascaran National Park
- Poverty Point
- Pitons Management Area
- Mesa Verde
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Belfries
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Split
- Quito
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Vicenza
- Skocjan Caves
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- La Fortaleza
- Grand Pré
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Tombs of Buganda Kings
- San Antonio Missions
- Olympia
- Kotor
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Petra
- Kinderdijk
- Galapagos Islands
- Budapest
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Sangay National Park
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Great Barrier Reef
- Brú na Bóinne
- Westminster
- Sintra
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Kew Gardens
- Göreme NP
- Blenheim Palace
- Wadi Rum
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Giant's Causeway
- Biblical Tells
- Vienna
- Schönbrunn
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Belem
- Versailles
- Siena
- Old Town Lunenburg
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Forth Bridge
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Venice and its Lagoon
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Nubian Monuments
- Independence Hall
- Florence
- Ayutthaya
- Vatican City
- Salzburg
- Novodevichy Convent
- Iguazu National Park
- Evora
- Ancient Thebes
- Um er-Rasas
- Rome
- New Lanark
- Iguacu
- Everglades
- Australian Convict Sites
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Nikko
- Istanbul
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Uluru
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Naples
- Ibiza
- Edinburgh
- Al Ain
- Turaif Quarter
- Rideau Canal
- Ephesus
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Historic Cairo
- Acropolis
- Tower of London
- Quseir Amra
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Yosemite National Park
- Tongariro National Park
- Québec
- Monticello
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
Visited TWHS
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Arbel (arbel, nebe shueb, horns of hittim) (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Kydonia) (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
- Soufriere-Scott’s Head Marine Reserve (T)
- St. George Fortified System (T)
- St. George Historic District (T)
- The Burren (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds historic precinct (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 200 WHS
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Koutammakou
- Timbuktu
- Alto Douro
- Olympia
- Acropolis
- Ephesus
- Pompei
- Baalbek
- Leptis Magna
- Syracuse
- Aleppo
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Fez
- Samarkand
- Hué
- Potala Palace
- Borobudur
- Bamiyan Valley
- Taj Mahal
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Aachen Cathedral
- Lalibela
- Meteora
- Vatican City
- Saint Catherine Area
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Qadisha Valley
- Chartres Cathedral
- Luther Memorials
- Abbey of St Gall
- Westminster
- Sydney Opera House
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kinderdijk
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Meroe
- Ouro Preto
- Québec
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Santo Domingo
- Old Havana
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Tequila
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Loire Valley
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Rio de Janeiro
- Grand Pré
- Air and Téneré
- El Pinacate
- Wadi Rum
- Namib Sand Sea
- Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Nubian Monuments
- Göreme NP
- Grand Canyon
- Uluru
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Ancient Kyoto
- Gyeongju
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Virunga National Park
- Galapagos Islands
- Banc d'Arguin
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Keoladeo National Park
- Cape Floral Region
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Glacier parks
- Yosemite National Park
- Los Glaciares
- Laponian Area
- Gros Morne National Park
- Chola Temples
- Fujisan
- Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- South China Karst
- Gunung Mulu
- Ha Long Bay
- Skocjan Caves
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cuzco
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Gulf of California
- Te Wahipounamu
- Great Barrier Reef
- Socotra Archipelago
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands
- Maritime Greenwich
- Valparaiso
- Granada
- Cracow
- Brugge
- Seville
- Strasbourg
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Genbaku Dome
- Statue of Liberty
- Bikini Atoll
- Independence Hall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Himeji-jo
- Great Wall
- Masada
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Red Fort
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Potosi
- Guanajuato
- Sewell Mining Town
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Western Ghats
- Huascaran National Park
- Samarra
- Persepolis
- Petra
- Al Ain
- Rapa Nui
- Imperial Palace
- Versailles
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Wartburg Castle
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Potsdam
- Site of Carthage
- Tyre
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Florence
- St. Petersburg
- Dubrovnik
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Budapest
- Vienna
- Valletta
- SGang Gwaay
- Mesa Verde
- Machu Picchu
- Chan Chan
- Teotihuacan
- Tikal National Park
- Chichen-Itza
- Cahokia Mounds
- Stonehenge
- Nasca Lines
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Kenya Lake System
- Pantanal
- Victoria Falls
- Lake Baikal
- Okavango Delta
- Iguazu National Park
- Plitvice Lakes
- Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
- Everglades
- Angkor
- Ayutthaya
- Silk Roads
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Island of Gorée
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Damascus
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Prague
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Edinburgh
- Salzburg
- Old City of Acre
- Walled City of Baku
- Cordoba
- Shibam
- Brasilia
- Thingvellir
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Isole Eolie
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Yellowstone
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Giant's Causeway
- Tongariro National Park
- Pitons Management Area