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Vlkolinec
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 28-Nov-18
According to everything we've been taught at school, Vlkolinec is a gem and a true beauty of Slovak rural architecture. One of the places you have to see, one of the treasures of our cultural heritage. As you can probably guess from my star rating, I don't share the enthusiasm. Sure, the village is nice, it has been inhabited for a very long time and the architecture, though a bit bland is truly typical of what you will find on other Slovak villages. A tiny museum, a gift shop cum small gallery, walk up and down, you can reach some hiking trails from the top of the village. Or arrive by car from Ruzomberok, there's a parking spot by the village and a short hike couple of hundred metres
Read OnAggtelek and Slovak Karst
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 28-Nov-18
To me, the caves of Aggtelek and Slovak Karst are the best WHS we have and I'm very proud of it. Depends of course on the cave you visit, but if you had been born, let's say in Eastern Slovakia, you would have visited most of them by the time you've finished your compulsory school attendance. Summer is the best time to visit, when there's a season. Most of the caves are closed off for winter, one or two are open. I would recommend visiting the Domica cave, either from Slovak or Hungarian part. Hungarians have it opened all year round and are much more accomodating than my compatriots are, I am sad to say. There's an underground river you can ride and you will cross border and the interior decorations are pretty. Another stunner is Dobsinska ice cave
Read OnQadisha Valley
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 27-Nov-18
Qadisha Valley has gorgeous views and very pretty nature. We arrived via a scenic route, through a mountain pass Bcharee from Bekaa Valley. There is Cedar of Gods cedar tree reserve and some monasteries included in the inscription. Some are only reached on foot via some hikes. As I am not very keen on those, Ivan took Els' advice from her review and chose the Monastery of St. Anthony of Khozaia which can be reached via car all the way to the entrance gate. Check your maps as the turn from the main road is quite sudden. The monastery has a church that is carved into a cave and a quirky cave shrine all in dark, except for the illuminated statue of the hermit. The views from the monastery are stunning and the monastery very peaceful. We enjoyed it very much.
Read OnByblos
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 27-Nov-18
Byblos is one of the towns that, along with likes of Jericho, Damascus, Plovdiv and Athens claim to be the oldest continously inhabited cities of the world. As far as Lebanon goes, it's the easiest one to visit, a chilled under-an-hour drive up north from Beirut. Well, as long as you won't get stuck in traffic jams, that are especially painful in the evenings (we enjoyed them on our way back). The town is very touristy and milking its potential to the last drop. There's a free parking spot that's well signposted, or, if you fancy yourself very lazy, you can make use of the vallet parking right by the entrance, we spent about 3 euros on that.
Read OnBaalbek
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 27-Nov-18
Save it for the last if you can, because not only is Baalbek the most stunning WHS of Lebanon, but even after couple of hundred sites visited, many many Roman ruins included, it still blew our minds and exceeded all our expectations. Just wow.
Baalbek site, located inside Baalbek, the administrative centre of the Bekaa valley and one of the places you wlll be advised against travelling to in Lebanon, contains spectacular ruins of Roman temples of Bacchus, temple of Jupiter and temple of Venus. They were built on a magnificent scale, 23 metres high, with columns 2.2 metres in diameter. The sheer scale of everything is mind-blowing. I enjoyed climbing on top of one of the large Corinthian-style column head. Another awesome thing, you can walk around, climb wherever you want, without some nasty local guard whistling at you to shoo away (greetings to Delphi). There are two museums on-site: one in the medieval tower and another in an underground tunnel on your way back
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Visited WHS
Baalbek 5Istanbul 5Meteora 5Pompei 5Rome 5Granada 4.5Lena Pillars 4.5Prague 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Vienna 4.5Westminster 4.5Belem 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Bukhara 4Cordoba 4Cracow 4Derbent 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Naples 4Oporto 4Paphos 4Ravenna 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Seville 4Siena 4Sintra 4Syracuse 4Tallinn 4Toledo 4Anjar 3.5Anuradhapura 3.5Assisi 3.5Avila 3.5Bamberg 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Bisotun 3.5Bryggen 3.5Burgundy 3.5Butrint 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Cuenca 3.5Delos 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5El Tajin 3.5Garajonay 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Isole Eolie 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Kotor 3.5Kronborg Castle 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5Le Morne 3.5Lyon 3.5Lübeck 3.5Masada 3.5Mostar 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Olympia 3.5Persian Garden 3.5Pienza 3.5Pont du Gard 3.5Potsdam 3.5Puebla 3.5Qadisha Valley 3.5Querétaro 3.5Regensburg 3.5Reims 3.5Rhodes 3.5Riga 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Shushtar 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Sinharaja Forest 3.5Skogskyrkogarden 3.5Split 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Tabriz Bazaar 3.5Tequila 3.5Torun 3.5Trier 3.5Trogir 3.5Troy 3.5Val d'Orcia 3.5Vall de Boi 3.5Verona 3.5Vilnius 3.5Viñales Valley 3.5Warsaw 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Xanthos-Letoon 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Zacatecas 3.5Çatalhöyük 3.5Aquileia 3Aranjuez 3Arles 3Belfries 3Bolgar 3Bordeaux 3Byblos 3Caceres 3Corvey 3Elvas 3Ferrara 3Genoa 3Hollókö 3Kiev 3L'viv 3Le Havre 3Morelia 3Mtskheta 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Nancy 3Nessebar 3Novgorod 3Pearling 3Provins 3Tarraco 3Telc 3Tyre 3Urbino 3Vicenza 3Vézelay 3Yazd 3Zamosc 3Al Ain 2.5Ancient Merv 2.5Bahla Fort 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Camino Real 2.5Choirokoitia 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Crespi d'Adda 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Ibiza 2.5Jelling 2.5Kandy 2.5Kernavë 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Liverpool 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Madara Rider 2.5Maymand 2.5Mir Castle 2.5Modena 2.5Nesvizh 2.5New Lanark 2.5Sammallahdenmäki 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Tamgaly 2.5Vlkolinec 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Camagüey 2Corfu 2Nisa 2Saltaire 2Sarazm 2Saryarka 2Susa 2Trebic 2Aapravasi Ghat 1.5Al Zubarah 1.5Battir 1.5Hortobágy 1.5Pasargadae 1.5Schokland 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Alisadr Cave (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Ancient Jericho: Tell es-Sultan (T)
- Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans (T)
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
- Bashkir Ural (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Centro Storico di Lucca (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eglises romanes d'Andorre (T)
- Ensemble historique de Santa Coloma (T)
- Ensemble of the Astrakhan Kremlin (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fann mountains (T)
- Firuzabad Ensemble (T)
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings (T)
- Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Gemer and Abov churches with the medieval mural paintings (T)
- Great Pskov (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Hegmataneh (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
- Khorramabad Valley (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization (T)
- Krasnoyarsk Stolby (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le massif forestier de Fontainebleau (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nice, la ville neuve née du tourisme, ou l’invention de la Riviera (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- Persian Caravanserai (T)
- Rostov Kremlin (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- Shush (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Silk Route (Also as Silk Road) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Taq-e Bostan (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- The Collection of Historical Bridges (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of the Central Region in the Emirate of Sharjah (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Jelling mounds, runic stones, palisade area and church (T)
- Virgin Komi Forests (re-nomination) (T)
- Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakhon Si Thammarat (T)
- Western Caucasus (re-nomination) (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Chernobyl
- Communist heritage of Volgograd
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Divided Cities along the German Border
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Modern Legacy of Vienna
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Olympic Park in Munich
- The Soviet Architecture of Moscow
- Transiberian Railway
Top 200 WHS