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Santo Domingo
Jay T USA - 05-Jan-22
One of the best parts about travel is learning history from other perspectives. In US history books, Sir Francis Drake is generally viewed favorably for his role as an explorer and a privateer for the Crown; in the Spanish-speaking world, however, he was seen as a pirate and a scourge, raiding Spanish galleons, sacking towns, and ultimately defeating the Spanish Armada. This viewpoint was abundantly clear in the Museum of the Royal Houses when I visited Santo Domingo last October, and for good reason: in 1586 Drake captured the city and set a ransom to be paid by Spain. As an added incentive, Drake began demolishing and setting fire to parts of Santo Domingo until the ransom was ultimately paid
Read OnZacatecas
Jay T USA - 29-Dec-21
The Historic Centre of Zacatecas was a delight, and the highlight of my November trip through central Mexico. Zacatecas takes a bit of planning to reach, but it was well worth the six hour detour from the cluster of World Heritage Sites near Querétaro.
Silver mines put Zacatecas on the map, and funded the rich Baroque architecture seen in the stunning cathedral, as well the Temple of Santo Domingo and the Governor's Palace in the Plaza de Armas. Early in its history, the mines also brought missionaries traveling along the Camino Real, such as the Franciscans, who founded the former San Francisco convent (site of one of two World Heritage Site plaques I found in the historic center), and the Augustinians, who founded the Temple of San Agustin. On my one day in Zacatecas, I spent a couple early hours visiting the churches that were open and admiring the architecture, and then strolling the relatively quiet streets (likely because it was Revolution Day, one of Mexico's public holidays)
Read OnWriting-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
Jay T USA - 15-Sep-21
Duly vaccinated and tested, I made my first foray out of the country last Saturday on a day trip to
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi, the only World Heritage Site in southern Alberta that I had not yet visited. As has been noted, Writing-on-Stone has similarities to Dinosaur Provincial Park, but its inscription is cultural versus natural, and is very much based on the significance of the landscape to the Blackfoot people.
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Read OnMoravian Church Settlements (USA) (T)
Jay T USA - 05-May-21
Almost 300 years ago a group of German Protestant missionaries in North America were granted land in the wooded Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, west of New York City and north of Philadelphia; on Christmas Eve of 1741, these missionaries founded the Moravian community of Bethlehem. For approximately the next century, Bethlehem was a town run by the Moravian church, operating on principles espousing communal living, hard work, and missionary outreach to local Lenape native American groups (a relationship referenced in the novels of 19th century author James Fenimore Cooper).
Read OnCahokia Mounds
Jay T USA - 27-Dec-20
It's rather striking to compare and contrast the first two US World Heritage Sites dedicated to pre-Columbian North American civilizations. Mesa Verde, in the American Southwest, retains impressive adobe structures built into cliffsides, where Pueblo civilizations would live while farming on the fields above. Cahokia Mounds, on the other hand, retains only earthen mounds left behind from what was once the most advanced civilization north of Mexico. Mesa Verde was built in brick and stone, while structures at Cahokia Mounds were made of wood, which did not last through the centuries. Mesa Verde had the advantage of protection from the US federal government as early as the late 19th century
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsIguacu 5Istanbul 5Petra 5Rapa Nui 5Rome 5Uluru 5Acropolis 4.5Everglades 4.5Giant's Causeway 4.5Göreme NP 4.5Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5Lake Baikal 4.5Nikko 4.5Pompei 4.5Toledo 4.5Valletta 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Wadi Rum 4.5Yellowstone 4.5Bamberg 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Quito 4Québec 4Rhodes 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Siena 4Sintra 4Vienna 4Brú na Bóinne 3.5Gulf of Porto 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Ibiza 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Neolithic Orkney 3.5Olympia 3.5Santo Domingo 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
- Santo Domingo
- Zacatecas
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
- Cahokia Mounds
- Yellowstone
- Valparaiso
- Stoclet House
- Rhodes
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Villa d'Este
- Tower of Hercules
- Segovia
- Rapa Nui
- Olympic National Park
- Machu Picchu
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Bamberg
- Würzburg Residence
- Valletta
- St. Petersburg
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Mount Etna
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Gulf of Porto
- El Escurial
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- 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
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
Visited TWHS
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- 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)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (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)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (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 (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (USA) (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Primeros Ingenios Coloniales Azucareros de América (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- Serpent Mound (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (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 Age Ring Fortresses (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds (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
- 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