Sebasfhb Profile
Hello! My name is Sebastian and I am a 23 year old student from the Netherlands. I thoroughly enjoy travelling and I’ve been actively visiting World Heritage sites since I was about 13/14. I am especially interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Recent Reviews Sebasfhb
Nessebar
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 16-Aug-24
Visit in August 2024. The history and individual sights of Nessebar have already been described by the other reviewers. I will base my review on two other aspects; one is a warning, and the other concerns the practicalities of visiting Nessebar from Varna with a guided tour.
First of all, DO NOT VISIT NESSEBAR IN SUMMER. Even though Nessebar is right up my alley (I am very interested in the medieval period in Eastern and Southeastern Europe), and even though the many churches, their architecture and frescoes impressed me very much (pay special attention to the use of coloured brick patterns and other decorative elements), the visitor experience of this WHS is highly affected by the fact that Nessebar is very close to (and in practice even an integral part of) the Sunny Beach resort town that is immensely popular with tourists from Western Europe (mostly Brits, Germans and Dutchmen)
Read OnStari Grad Plain
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 10-Aug-23
I visited the Stari Grad Plain early August 2023 as part of my Balkans summer tour. I stayed in Split (a WHS) for 6 nights and decided to add a day trip to the island of Hvar and its WHS Stari Grad Plain. Before visiting, I read the reviews on this site on this forum. Previous visitors found this WHS to be quite underwhelming. To be honest, my experience was quite positive and I was pleasantly surprised.
From Split one can take a ferry operated by Jadrolinija. This ferry departs from the Marina, which is conveniently located very close to the city centre, the central bus and train station
Read OnStećci
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 05-Aug-23
In June, during my trip through the Balkan, I was wandering around Belgrade, Serbia searching for an interesting souvenir. I happened to stumble across a book on the Stecci, published in 1982 and written in Serbo-Croatian (Title: Umetnost na tlu Jugoslavije; Stecci). As a WH traveller I of course immediately recognised the topic as being one of the (relatively close) WHS. Such an interesting find and I bought it without thinking twice; this was the souvenir I had been looking for.
Early August 2023, I visited Mostar (a WHS) in Bosnia & Herzegovina. A review of my visit to Mostar is forthcoming. Of couse, I had added a visit to one of the Stecci sites to my (/our) itinerary
Read OnThe Scotland District of Barbados (T)
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 31-May-23
I visited the Scotland District in August 2022. Well, what we WH travellers know as the Scotland District at least. To most people in and from Barbados, the Scotland District is unknown. Show it on a map, show a picture, and they will recognise it as Mount Hillaby, the highest point in Barbados. When you just drive through this sparsely-populated part of Barbados, there is nothing that catches the eye. Most people will tick this TWHS off on the way to more popular tourist destinations and other TWHS locations, such as St. Nicholas’ Abbey. Having read the previous review of the Scotland District TWHS, I was not particularly excited to go out of my way and visit.
Villages with Fortified Churches
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 30-May-23
In February 2022, I visited the fortified church in Prejmer on a day trip from Romania’s capital, Bucharest. If you want to stay within Romania, Prejmer is actually the closest World Heritage site from Bucharest (although Srebarna Nature Reserve, the Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo and the Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari are located closer to Bucharest on the Bulgarian side of the border). I stayed a week in Bucharest with my family and convinced my fellow-travellers, who are not interested in ticking off obscure World Heritage sites at all, to rent a car for a day and make the 3-hour drive to Prejmer
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- Sebasfhb
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- Hilversum City Hall, Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo, Eleven Frisian Cities
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- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (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)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Princely religious foundations in Wallachia and Moldavia (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac (T)
- The Scotland District of Barbados (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)