Matejicek Profile

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.
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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.
Read OnMoravian 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.
Read OnMeteora
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
Read OnVlkolinec
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.
Read OnWachau 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
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 13.02.23
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsFlorence 5Prague 5Ravenna 5Rome 5Siena 5Assisi 4.5Granada 4Kraków 4Meteora 4Sintra 4Tallinn 4Telc 4Vienna 4Aachen Cathedral 3.5Arles 3.5Avignon 3.5Bardejov Town 3.5Belem 3.5Belfries 3.5Brugge 3.5Ferrara 3.5Giant's Causeway 3.5Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5Kotor 3.5Lake District 3.5Modena 3.5Oporto 3.5Potsdam 3.5Quedlinburg 3.5Reims 3.5Riga 3.5Speyer Cathedral 3.5Stoclet House 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Thessalonika 3.5Trebic 3.5Val di Noto 3.5Verona 3.5Bamberg 3Budapest 3Graz 3Pienza 3Salzburg 3Urbino 3Warsaw 3Kutna Hora 2.5Orange 2.5Regensburg 2.5Syracuse 2.5Vlkolinec 2.5Danube Limes 1.5Holasovice 1.5Litomysl Castle 1.5Nice 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Meteora
- Vlkolinec
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Regensburg
- Semmering Railway
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Schönbrunn
- Vienna
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- St. Petersburg
- Siena
- Florence
- Tugendhat Villa
- Holasovice
- Kutna Hora
- Telc
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Plečnik's Lubljana
- Holy Trinity Column
- Cesky Krumlov
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Prague
- Longobards in Italy
- Val di Noto
- Stoclet House
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Dolomites
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Old City of Berne
- Kotor
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Litomysl Castle
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Banska Stiavnica
- Danube Limes
- Danube Limes
- Amami-Oshima Island
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Urbino
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Val d'Orcia
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Quedlinburg
- Trebic
- Avignon
- Arles
- Ferrara
- Modena
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Plečnik's Lubljana
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Pienza
- University of Coimbra
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Isole Eolie
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- Bardejov Town
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Bauhaus Sites
- Ravenna
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Lake District
- Syracuse
- Mount Etna
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Assisi
- Teide National Park
Visited TWHS
- Alanya (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Archipelago of la Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio (T)
- Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. (T)
- Bouches de Bonifacio (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- Geyser in Herlany (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Paper Mill at Velké Losiny (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád (T)
- Saint-Honorat, Île monastique de l’archipel de Lérins à Cannes (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Sites of Great Moravia: Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice - Church of St.Margaret at Kopcani (T)
- Sites of Great Moravia: Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice - Church of St.Margaret at Kopcani (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- The broader region of Mount Olympus (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Zagorochoria - North Pindos National Park (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Saint-Honorat, Île monastique de l’archipel de Lérins à Cannes (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
- Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. (T)
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- Paper Mill at Velké Losiny (T)
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (T)
- The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- The city of Bergamo (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Zagorochoria - North Pindos National Park (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Historic Centre of Parma (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Bouches de Bonifacio (T)
- Sites of Great Moravia: Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice - Church of St.Margaret at Kopcani (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Alanya (T)
- The broader region of Mount Olympus (T)
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
- Geyser in Herlany (T)
- The Burren (T)
- Archipelago of la Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)