Sebasfhb Profile
Hello! My name is Sebastian and I am a 21 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
Stari 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
Read OnVilnius
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 27-Jan-23
My first WHS trip in 2023 was to the historic centre of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which happened to be celebrating its 700th anniversary on the 25th of January (more on that later). Visiting Lithuania has always been a dream of mine. When interested in history from a young age, children usually grow up to choose a certain specific area or period of interest: dinosaurs, Romans and Greek, ancient Egypt, the Vikings, etc. Personally, I “chose” medieval Eastern Europe and don’t ask me why. I just find that specific period in that area immensely interesting
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- Name
- Sebasfhb
- Country
- Netherlands
- Proposal
- Hilversum City Hall, Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo, Eleven Frisian Cities
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 10.09.23
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- Belfries
- The Four Lifts
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Major Town Houses
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Eisinga Planetarium
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Stoclet House
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
Visited WHS
Rating StatsAssisi 5Bamberg 5Florence 5Kraków 5Kyiv 5Naples 5Pompei 5Prague 5Ravenna 5Valletta 5Butrint 4.5Rome 4.5Vilnius 4.5Wartburg Castle 4.5Ferrara 4Mostar 4Trebic 4Trier 4Classical Weimar 3.5Kernavė 3.5Lübeck 3.5Split 3.5Corfu 3Meknes 3Stećci 3Belfries 2.5Corvey 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Pienza 2Visited TWHS
- 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)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (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)
- Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)