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St. Petersburg

Jay T USA - 18-Mar-20

The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments is easily my favorite of all World Heritage Sites I've seen in Russia. This 300-year-old city was wrested from swamps to become a capital, much like a city started later that century half a world away and much closer to home for me. Saint Petersburg is a feast for travelers, replete with history, culture, and architecture.

Saint Petersburg was a dream made manifest by Peter the Great, who envisioned a great European city built upon the Neva River delta looking westward. This city is a joy to explore on foot, from the broad avenue of Nevsky Prospekt to the grand square in front of the Winter Palace, home to the renowned Hermitage Museum; from Vasilievsky Island to the Peter and Paul Fortress; from St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Bronze Horseman statue, commemorating famed poet Alexander Pushkin's ode to the city founder, to the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, built atop the site where assassins finally succeeded in killing Tsar Alexander II, a tsar who sought change too fast for some, but too slow for others. Change and revolution are common themes to Saint Petersburg

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Roman Walls of Lugo

Jay T USA - 11-Mar-20

The Romans left a mark on northwestern Spain that can still be seen today in bridges, ancient villages, gold mines, a lighthouse, and, most spectacularly, the Roman Walls of Lugo. I visited the latter when hiking parts of the Camino Primitivo in May 2019. This is one of two World Heritage Sites I visited on that trip to Spain that were famed for their walls (the other, Avila), and I have to say I preferred these walls. I circumnavigated Lugo twice, once following the perimeter at ground level, and once on the ramparts. Both trips gave a good perspective of the walls' height and width, which really must be seen to be appreciated. In the evening, quite a lot of locals come out for exercise jogging or walking around the walls

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Popocatepetl monasteries

Jay T USA - 19-Feb-20

Volcanoes bring tremendous change to their environments, and fittingly the 16th-century monasteries established around the active volcano Popocatépetl, southeast of Mexico city, effected tremendous cultural change on the peoples of Mesoamerica. Here missionaries settled in concert with Spanish colonists, helping to establish the Catholic church as a dominant force in Mexican life.

I'm afraid I am not much more original than other visitors to this World Heritage Site, as I chose to visit the Cuernavaca Cathedral en route to Xochicalco, and hoped to visit the Convent of the Nativity in Tepoztlán before returning to Mexico City. I arrived early in the morning and was able to walk around the grounds of the cathedral complex before many other tourists arrived. The church was simply furnished, with walls decorated with murals, some of which depict Christianity coming to East Asia. The outdoor patio was beautifully landscaped, and the chapels around the church were brightly painted and well maintained

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Mount Etna

Jay T USA - 12-Feb-20

Last November I was rather excited that planning worked out and that my 200th World Heritage Site would be a natural site: Mount Etna. I had scheduled a day tour that would include an organized 4x4 vehicle drive into the core zone, but I had not counted on three factors: 1) November is within the off season for visitors; 2) the weather on the mountain can be unpredictable; and 3) my day tour was cancelled before I arrived due to a lack of other participants. I regrouped and joined a half day tour that also visited Taormina, but I couldn't help but feel let down about not getting a proper tour of the volcano.

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Luis Barragán House and Studio

Jay T USA - 05-Feb-20

It's a bit of an education incorporating World Heritage Sites into travel. When I took a trip to Mexico City in January 2017, I knew I'd be viewing several sites dedicated to meso-American civilizations, some dedicated to Spanish colonialism, and hopefully a natural site dedicated to the monarch butterfly migration. I also included a visit to a 20th century site honoring a Mexican architect obscure to me, even through he was the second architect to receive the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize: The Luis Barragán House and Studio.

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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5

Edinburgh 5

Grand Canyon 5

Great Barrier Reef 5

Iguacu 5

Iguazu National Park 5

Istanbul 5

Mesa Verde 5

Old City of Jerusalem 5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 5

Petra 5

Rome 5

St. Petersburg 5

Uluru 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5

Yosemite National Park 5

Acropolis 4.5

Everglades 4.5

Galapagos Islands 4.5

Gros Morne National Park 4.5

Göreme NP 4.5

Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5

Lake Baikal 4.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5

Nikko 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Toledo 4.5

Valletta 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Wadi Rum 4.5

Yellowstone 4.5

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Burgos Cathedral 4

Costiera Amalfitana 4

Dinosaur Provincial Park 4

Dorset and East Devon Coast 4

Ephesus 4

Florence 4

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4

Huascaran National Park 4

Independence Hall 4

Ironbridge Gorge 4

Kinderdijk 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

L'Anse aux Meadows 4

La Fortaleza 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Quito 4

Québec 4

Rietveld Schröderhuis 4

Route of Santiago de Compostela 4

Salzburg 4

Schönbrunn 4

Siena 4

Singapore Botanic Gardens 4

Sintra 4

Skocjan Caves 4

Statue of Liberty 4

Thingvellir 4

Tongariro National Park 4

Tower of London 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Vienna 4

Westminster 4

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Australian Convict Sites 3.5

Brú na Bóinne 3.5

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5

Grand Place, Brussels 3.5

Gulf of Porto 3.5

Historic Cairo 3.5

Ibiza 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Las Medulas 3.5

Neolithic Orkney 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5

Speyer Cathedral 3.5

Split 3.5

Vicenza 3.5

Al Ain 3

Ayutthaya 3

Belem 3

Botanical Garden, Padua 3

Camino Real 3

El Escurial 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Grand Pré 3

Great Smoky Mountains 3

Greater Blue Mountains 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3

Monticello 3

Morne Trois Pitons 3

Mount Etna 3

Naples 3

New Lanark 3

Pitons Management Area 3

Potsdam 3

Roman Walls of Lugo 3

San Antonio Missions 3

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3

Santiago de Compostela 3

Wet Tropics of Queensland 3

Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5

Biblical Tells 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Blenheim Palace 2.5

Cahokia Mounds 2.5

Colonia del Sacramento 2.5

Defence Line of Amsterdam 2.5

Forth Bridge 2.5

Fortifications of Vauban 2.5

Kotor 2.5

Lima 2.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5

Novodevichy Convent 2.5

Old Town Lunenburg 2.5

Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5

Poverty Point 2.5

Quseir Amra 2.5

Rideau Canal 2.5

Royal Exhibition Building 2.5

Sangay National Park 2.5

Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5

Turaif Quarter 2.5

Um er-Rasas 2.5

Venetian Works of Defence 2.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5

Vizcaya Bridge 2.5

White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2

Aranjuez 2

Belfries 2

Evora 2

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2

Miguasha Park 2

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2

Altamira Cave

Ancient Thebes

Archaeological Site of Delphi

Asturian Monuments

Avila

Bamberg

Canterbury

Caral-Supe

Carlsbad Caverns

Central University City Campus of the UNAM

Chaco Culture

Chavin

Churches of Chiloé

City of Bath

City of Luxembourg

Cuzco

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios

Dubrovnik

Etruscan Necropolises

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings

Giant's Causeway

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

Machu Picchu

Major Town Houses

Mammoth Cave

Margravial Opera House

Maritime Greenwich

Masada

Maulbronn Monastery

Medici Villas and Gardens

Megalithic Temples of Malta

Melaka and George Town

Mexico City and Xochimilco

Museumsinsel (Museum Island)

Nubian Monuments

Olympic National Park

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands

Primeval Beech Forests

Puebla

Pyramids (Memphis)

Qhapaq Ñan

Rapa Nui

Redwood

Regensburg

Rhodes

Segovia

Sewell Mining Town

Stoclet House

Stonehenge

Strasbourg

Sydney Opera House

Taos Pueblo

Teotihuacan

Tower of Hercules

Trogir

Valparaiso

Villa d'Este

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St. Petersburg

Roman Walls of Lugo

Popocatepetl monasteries

Mount Etna

Luis Barragán House and Studio

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