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.
Recent Reviews Matejicek
Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
Matejicek Czechia - 17-Jun-23
Though I visited Rome several times, it was still not enough to visit all the interesting places in Rome, not to mention the places around. In May 2023, I traveled to Salento region in the Southern Italy, so I took opportunity and did a stop in Brindisi. This place was the end of extended Via Appia, and the reason why Brindisi was connected to Rome was a possibility to travel to Greece and the East by sailing from the local port.
Brindisi is now important port and tourist spot. One can find however several interesting monuments spanning two millennia in the relatively small and rather unassuming historical core. The only site related to Via Appia that could be seen is its "official" end marked by giant two columns (PHOTO)
Read OnSalento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
Matejicek Czechia - 13-Jun-23
I spent Pentecost Holidays (late May of 2023) in Lecce and it was my second visit of this place. Besides Lecce, I did a half-day trip to Nardo, and also did a stop in Ostuni during my return to Bari (I enjoyed direct flights between Prague and Bari!). Together with my 2018 visit of the Salento region (visiting of Lecce and Gallipoli), I could see almost all components mentioned on the worldheritagesite webpages. However, I did a small research and no explicit list of components are provided on official UNESCO pages and anywhere at all, maybe with an exception of Basilica di Santa Croce and Cattedrale di Lecce including Piazza del Duomo, which are absolute highlights of this TWHS
Read OnSaint-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
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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
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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 Ljubljana
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
- Holy Trinity Column
- Cesky Krumlov
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Prague
- Longobards in Italy
- Val di Noto
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
- Stoclet House
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Dolomites
- Zagori Cultural Landscape
- 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
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Arles
- Ferrara
- Modena
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- 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
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