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Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
Ralf Regele Germany - 22-Dec-23
I mainly want to give an update about the renovations taking place at the cathedral of Tournai. As of December 2023, the scaffoldings on the outside are mostly removed, so the main body of the cathedral can be seen again in all of its gray glory. However, there are still extensive renovation works going on inside the cathedral. Almost half of the interior is blocked off and under scaffolding, including the complete gothic choir. So they are working on it since almost 20 years now ? The open parts are also a bit unkempt, with tools lying around, bad lighting and artwork in strange places. So it is still not the best time to visit the cathedral.As for my general impression, I agree with most reviewers that it is not the most interesting cathedral
Read OnBig Bend National Park (T)
Ralf Regele Germany - 18-Oct-23
I was initially skeptical if the Big Bend National Park is a good travel choice, let alone a good choice for a world heritage site. It is never mentioned as one of the greatest US national parks, in fact, it is hardly mentioned at all. Also, the often displayed image of an U-shaped canyon is actually from horseshoe bend (1000 miles to the west), and is not present in the Big Bend NP. Luckily, Big Bend turned out to be a very enjoyable national park and worthy candidate
Read OnSwiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
Ralf Regele Germany - 27-Sep-23
I mainly want to give an update about the accessability of the WHS area. In Flims, the old cable cars are replaced by a new system called "Flims Express", which will serve the Foppa-Naraus-Fil de Cassons line. However, the new lift is not expected to be operational before the end of 2024, and the old cable cars are already out of service. This means that the cable car tour described in some of the other reviews is no longer available. You can still hike the Foppa-Fil de Cassons route, but this means hiking all the way up from Flims and down again. To at least get a a good view of the main "arena" area with the Tschingelhörner, I opted for the alternative route from Flims, which is going up by the second main cable car line "ArenaExpress" up to Nagens
Read OnLes « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
Ralf Regele Germany - 30-Jun-23
Some reviewers have already noted that the 'coules de petite valachie' TWHS is quite close to the already inscribed Horezu monastry WHS. So is this just a minor sidestep on the way to something more worthwhile, or can it stand on its own ? My initial reaction was indeed "Ah, it is so close, might as well spend a couple of minutes there". However, the site at Maldaresti is actually quite a nice heritage area, with two of the mysterious 'cula', an old church, a little heritage house and some nice green surroundings. The culas itself are interesting, too, being a mixture of a country house and a fortress from a time when the area was seemingly so dangerous that everything needed to be fortified - castles, villages, churches, houses
Read OnEnsemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France (T)
Ralf Regele Germany - 27-May-23
On the way towards the Mont Perdu WHS from the french side, I made a visit to the "Gouffre D'Esparros" cave, which is part of the obscure TWHS "Ensemble de grottes a concretions du Sud de la France". The cave is a bit in the middle of nowhere. However, the GPS should find it, the roads are fine and the infrastructure for the visit is actually pretty good. Despite visiting on a long weekend with nice weather, I was the only visitor for the early tour, so I had my own private tour guide. The cave itself is quite nice (but I have a soft side for caves). Although the cave has a rather vertical layout, the tour path itself was completely horizontal and easy to walk. The stalagmites were nice but not too numerous
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Recently Visited WHS
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- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- The Four Lifts
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
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Andorra . Belgium . Estonia . Holy See . Israel . Malta . Moldova . Norway . San Marino . United Arab Emirates .Visited WHS
Rating StatsChavin 5Florence 5Masada 5Rome 5Seville 5Aachen Cathedral 4.5Acropolis 4.5Angkor 4.5Ayutthaya 4.5Chaco Culture 4.5Chan Chan 4.5Cordoba 4.5Cuzco 4.5Istanbul 4.5Mesa Verde 4.5Oporto 4.5Qhapaq Ñan 4.5Qutb Minar 4.5Rani-ki-Vav 4.5Ravenna 4.5Taj Mahal 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Bryggen 4Lübeck 4Nikko 4Redwood 4Uxmal 4Valletta 4Vienna 4Agrigento 3.5Albi 3.5Budapest 3.5Calakmul 3.5Carlsbad Caverns 3.5Chichen-Itza 3.5Genbaku Dome 3.5Granada 3.5Grand Canyon 3.5Guimarães 3.5Gwynedd Castles 3.5Horyu-ji Area 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Iguacu 3.5Imperial Tombs 3.5Jantar Mantar 3.5Jelling 3.5Lima 3.5Luther Memorials 3.5Meknes 3.5Mount Etna 3.5New Lanark 3.5Nubian Monuments 3.5Palenque 3.5Red Fort 3.5Rhaetian Railway 3.5Rock Art of Alta 3.5Siena 3.5Speyer Cathedral 3.5Stevns Klint 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Summer Palace 3.5Syracuse 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Verona 3.5Villa d'Este 3.5Wadi Rum 3.5Arequipa 3Assisi 3Bamberg 3Belfries 3Brugge 3Corvey 3Ferrara 3Genoa 3Orange 3Pantanal 3Riga 3Røros 3Saltaire 3Split 3Tallinn 3Urbino 3Al Ain 2.5Aquileia 2.5Arles 2.5Bauhaus Sites 2.5Biblical Tells 2.5Campeche 2.5Centennial Hall 2.5Classical Weimar 2.5Fagus Factory 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Graz 2.5Kernavė 2.5Modena 2.5Old City of Acre 2.5Puebla 2.5Quseir Amra 2.5Regensburg 2.5Robben Island 2.5Sighisoara 2.5Trogir 2.5Val d'Orcia 2.5Brasilia 2Pienza 2Vegaøyan 2Dacian Limes 1.5Danube Limes 1.5Modernist Kaunas 1.5ShUM Sites 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Abydos, city of pilgrimage of the Pharaohs (T)
- Al Qastal (Settlement) (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Archaeological Site of Nikopolis (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Big Bend National Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (Punakha Dzong, Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Paro Dzong, Trongsa Dzong and Dagana Dzong) (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Great Desert Landscapes (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Ngwenya Mines (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Olympic Park Munich (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Petrified Forest National Park (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Qasr Al-Mushatta (T)
- Qawra/Dwejra (T)
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan (T)
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo and his descendants (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of Saytagrah (T)
- Siwa archaeological area (T)
- Sun Temple, Modhera and its adjoining monuments (T)
- Tamzhing Monastery (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- The historic ensemble of Orchha (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Yangtze Gorges Scenic Spot (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Big Bend National Park (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (T)
- Tamzhing Monastery (T)
- The historic ensemble of Orchha (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Qawra/Dwejra (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Al Qastal (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- Archaeological Site of Nikopolis (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Sites of Saytagrah, India's non-violent freedom movement (T)