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I love exploring everything around me - thus, it is not surprising I am a scientist. The important aspect of doing good science is to travel...

All in all, I am traveling quite a lot, mostly around Europe. Since I like bustling cities and quiet historical towns as well as nature, the list of my visited sites is diverse.

Czechia Last Update 13.02.23 139 WHS Visited 141 Reviews 139 WHS Rated 70 TWHS Visited

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Saint-Honorat, Île monastique de l’archipel de Lérins à Cannes (T)

Matejicek Czechia - 26-Jul-22

I visited the Island of Saint-Honorat during my vacations in Cannes in September 2001. We did a day trip to the Lérins Islands by ferry from the port of Cannes in a same way as a lot of other tourists. I do not remember all the details but the tour included both islands. It means bigger Sainte-Marguerite with the fortress, where a small museum was located, and nice small beaches all around the island, where we spent most of our time. We also did a short stop at the Saint Honorat Island, where the monastery is located.

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Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)

Matejicek Czechia - 01-Feb-22

I visited the German component of the transnational extension of Christiansfeld, Denmark, during a gloomy weekend in Fall 2004. We did a trip to Upper Lusatia (Lausitz in German), the region in Germany inhabited by Sorbian Slavic minority (Upper and Lower Lusatia were parts of the Bohemian Crown in Middle Ages). One of our first stops was Herrnhut (Ochranov in Czech, Ochranow in Sorbian language). The titles in all the languages are related to "protection". While the Slavonic ones are rather literal, the German one is more poetic and it recalls a hat of the Lord, for shielding of Brethern against their enemies, probably Catholics.

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Meteora

Matejicek Czechia - 30-Nov-21

I have very nice memories to the trip to northern Greece in June 2006. I managed to visit two promising TWHS (Zagorochoria and Mount Olympus) and two excellent WHS: paleochristian monuments in Thessaloniki and the rock city with monasteries in Meteora.

To visit the Meteora site, we traveled by bus from Ioannina via Metsovo to Kalambaka/Kastraki. Then, we did a loop by walking along the asphalt road that goes through the rock city. We did stopovers to visit the Roussanou monastery (PHOTO), where we joint the guided tour, and also the Holy Trinity monastery, which we visited for free but without stepping inside. We spent a night in a tent on dry meadow full of ants in the eastern part of the rock city complex (I am not sure if it is legal now but such were the times...) Unsurprisingly, this WHS was very touristy and overcrowded by visitors. The advantage of our walking and staying at the site regime was that we were a bit incoherent with the constant flow of tourist groups in buses and cars

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Vlkolinec

Matejicek Czechia - 29-Nov-21

Vlkolínec [Vlk = wolf in Slovak language] was my very end destination of the trip to Veľká Fatra mountains in 2004. We started in the south, in spa town Turčianské Teplice, ascended to the highest peak - Ostriedok (1596m) then followed the main and the eastern ridges of this beautiful Carpathian mountains in a direction to the town of Ružomberok. After several days spent in relatively wild nature, the descending to civilizations was welcomed opportunity to take a rest and refresh ourselves in the UNESCO guarded village of Vlkolínec. It was not intentional to spare money, but later we realized that entering the village from the upper side means no entrance fee at all.

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Wachau Cultural Landscape

Matejicek Czechia - 28-Nov-21

Wachau belongs to my favorite WHSs in Austria, and I visited already several times. My last visit was in Summer 2013, when I joint a cycling trip of my friends despite the fact: I hate cycling(!) so, I had to manage traveling by other ways. We traveled from Czechia by car through Waldviertel, which is a forested highland. The contrast of the typical Central-European landscape and the Mediterranean-like Danube valley is really impressive and somewhat surprising. Danube is fairly clean in Wachau and we enjoyed swimming, watching birds and even crayfish in clean waters. Even though there is quite busy traffic of both cars and bicycles along the river, it is always possible to escape to river beaches or to surrounding hills with picturesque views.

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Name: Matejicek
Country: Czechia
Most Impressive: Prague, Assisi, Bauhaus, Primeval beech forests
Proposal: Ještěd transmitter, Lecce, Burren landscape, Sligo megalithic landscape, Carnac megalithic landscape, Tainan temples in Taiwan

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Florence 5

Prague 5

Primeval Beech Forests 5

Ravenna 5

Rome 5

Siena 5

St. Petersburg 5

Vatican City 5

Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5

Assisi 4.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5

Teide National Park 4.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5

Bauhaus Sites 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Dolomites 4

Etruscan Necropolises 4

Granada 4

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 4

Isole Eolie 4

Kraków 4

Meteora 4

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4

Rammelsberg and Goslar 4

San Gimignano 4

Sintra 4

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 4

Tallinn 4

Telc 4

Tugendhat Villa 4

Vienna 4

Westminster 4

White City of Tel-Aviv 4

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.5

Amami-Oshima Island 3.5

Arles 3.5

Avignon 3.5

Bardejov Town 3.5

Belem 3.5

Belfries 3.5

Brugge 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Giant's Causeway 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Kotor 3.5

Lake District 3.5

Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Modena 3.5

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Quedlinburg 3.5

Reims 3.5

Riga 3.5

Speyer Cathedral 3.5

Stoclet House 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Thessalonika 3.5

Trebic 3.5

University of Coimbra 3.5

Val di Noto 3.5

Verona 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Agrigento 3

Amiens Cathedral 3

Amsterdam Canal Ring 3

Bamberg 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 3

Budapest 3

Caves and Ice Age Art 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

Cologne Cathedral 3

Edinburgh 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Graz 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

Longobards in Italy 3

Major Town Houses 3

Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 3

Mont-Saint-Michel 3

Mount Etna 3

Naumburg Cathedral 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Pienza 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3

Plečnik's Lubljana 3

Pont du Gard 3

Salzburg 3

Schönbrunn 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Stralsund and Wismar 3

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3

Tower of London 3

Urbino 3

Val d'Orcia 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Warsaw 3

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.5

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5

Holy Trinity Column 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5

Old City of Berne 2.5

Orange 2.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Roskilde Cathedral 2.5

San Cristobal de La Laguna 2.5

Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5

Syracuse 2.5

Venetian Works of Defence 2.5

Vlkolinec 2.5

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 2.5

Classical Weimar 2

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2

Kladruby nad Labem 2

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Semmering Railway 2

ShUM Sites 2

The Porticoes of Bologna 2

Danube Limes 1.5

Holasovice 1.5

Litomysl Castle 1.5

Lower German Limes 1.5

Nice 1.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Bahá’i Holy Places 1

Luther Memorials 1

Tokaji Wine Region 1

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Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)

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Vlkolinec

Wachau Cultural Landscape

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