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I got interested of World Heritage Sites when I first learned about them as a teenager back in the early 2000's. For me it was funny that in my home country of Finland there was an old factory that was protected by the UNESCO and it made me more curious of what World Heritage Sites were about.

Nowadays I try to visit as many sites as I can during my travels but I don't plan my trips just around WHS collecting. But the WHS collecting has brought me to places I would have never visited otherwise, and even if those random sites aren't the most spectacular, the journey and experience to visit e.g. a tiny wooden Slovak church in a remote small village feels even more special.

My travels have so far concentrated on Europe and Asia, but hopefully in the future there will be more visits to the Americas and Africa.

Finland Last Update 25.03.25 195 WHS Visited 40 Reviews 196 WHS Rated 61 TWHS Visited

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Construction de la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)

Tony H. Finland - 31-Mar-25

I visited Andorra as a day trip from Barcelona in March 2025. The 7 hours I had in the country were enough to visit 2 of the locations of this TWHS, which compensated the fact that I couldn't visit the Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley WHS.

I first walked from Andorra La Vella to Santa Coloma, it's just a 30-minute walk, mostly along the river. On your way to Santa Coloma you get great views of the Roc d'Enclar, that is also part of this TWHS. The church of Sant Vicenç d'Enclar looks very picturesque on top of the rocky hill and the mountains rising behind it. I have no clue how you can get on top of the Roc d'Enclar where the church is, it must require some serious hiking!

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Itsukushima Shrine

Tony H. Finland - 13-Jan-25

I visited Itsukushima island as a day trip from Hiroshima in November 2024. Even on an average Friday morning the local train from Hiroshima to Miyajimaguchi's ferry port was packed with tourists heading to see this beautiful island. You can arrive to Miyajimaguchi from Hiroshima also by a tram but it takes much longer than the train. There are two ferries operating to the island from Miyajimaguchi, and one of them is operated by JR and is included in the JR Pass. But if you're paying with IC card it doesn't matter which one you take. There are also direct ferries from Hiroshima to Itsukushima but they're quite pricey compared to the train and tram

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Genbaku Dome

Tony H. Finland - 13-Jan-25

I visited Genbaku Dome in November 2024. Despite the sunny and warm weather, my mind wasn't sunny. A heavy feeling will land on you when you approach the ruins of what used to be the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall. We all know how we got the point that it's in ruins now and watching these ruins made me full of heavy thoughts. But I have to admit that still even in ruins it's quite attractive building. Opposite the Genbaku Dome on the other side of the Ota river is the Peace Bell that anyone can go to play. The sound of the bell playing over the Genbaku Dome makes the scene even more haunting.

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Rietveld Schröderhuis

Tony H. Finland - 10-Dec-24

I was visiting Utrecht University back in 2010 and to get to the university from my accommodation I cycled past Rietveld Schröderhuis daily. Unfortunately I didn't have time to visit it back then and it always bothered me how near miss this site was for me. But luckily in April 2024 I had finally chance to visit the house properly. I had pre-booked the house tour online and I arrived 15 minutes before my time slot. While waiting for the tour to start I was guided to watch a film about the house and interview of Truus Schröder-Schräder where she described how the life was in the house. I found the film very interesting and good introduction before the actual tour.

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Beijing Central Axis

Tony H. Finland - 10-Dec-24

Visited in June 2024 just before the site was added to the WH list. On this review I will focus on the parts of the axis that are not inscribed otherwise, so I'm skipping Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City and Wanning Bridge in this review.

After visiting Temple of Heaven I exited it through the western gate. From here starts Yongdingmen Park and I was surprised to see almost immediately a map of the Beijing Central Axis that showed the core zone and the buffer zone of the WH site! On the map Yongdingmen Park was marked as "Southern Section Road Archeological Sites". Walking bit further into the park there were other maps showing the exact spots of these archaeological sites

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Ancient Kyoto 5

Ephesus 5

Florence 5

Granada 5

Istanbul 5

Medina of Marrakesh 5

Mountain Railways of India 5

Nemrut Dag 5

Old City of Jerusalem 5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 5

Persepolis 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rome 5

Taj Mahal 5

Vatican City 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Vienna 5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 5

Ancient Nara 4.5

Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5

Dolomites 4.5

Dubrovnik 4.5

Giant's Causeway 4.5

Great Wall 4.5

Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5

Haghpat and Sanahin 4.5

Imperial Palace 4.5

L'viv 4.5

Prague 4.5

Riga 4.5

St. Petersburg 4.5

Upper Svaneti 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Beijing Central Axis 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Central Highlands 4

Churches of Moldavia 4

Curonian Spit 4

Gelati Monastery 4

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4

Hegra 4

Historic Cairo 4

Itsukushima Shrine 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4

Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4

Nancy 4

Prambanan 4

Qutb Minar 4

Rhaetian Railway 4

Rietveld Schröderhuis 4

Rila Monastery 4

Schönbrunn 4

Seville 4

Summer Palace 4

Tallinn 4

Temple of Heaven 4

Trang An 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Vilnius 4

West Norwegian Fjords 4

Yazd 4

Acropolis 3.5

Agra Fort 3.5

Banska Stiavnica 3.5

Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5

Borobudur 3.5

Boyana Church 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Cordoba 3.5

Eisinga Planetarium 3.5

Fatehpur Sikri 3.5

Grand Place, Brussels 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Hué 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3.5

Mostar 3.5

Old City of Acre 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Persian Garden 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vlkolinec 3.5

Warsaw 3.5

Anuradhapura 3

Ayutthaya 3

Bardejov Town 3

Bethlehem 3

Białowieża Forest 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3

Butrint 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cologne Cathedral 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Fortress of Suomenlinna 3

Golestan Palace 3

Göbekli Tepe 3

Hattusha 3

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3

Hoi An 3

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Kernavė 3

Kotor 3

Major Town Houses 3

Maritime Greenwich 3

Masjed-e Jâme' 3

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Monastery of Geghard 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

My Son 3

Nikko 3

Ohrid Region 3

Old Rauma 3

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Petäjävesi Old Church 3

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3

Plečnik's Ljubljana 3

Québec 3

Red Fort 3

Safranbolu 3

Sammallahdenmäki 3

San Marino and Mount Titano 3

Selimiye Mosque 3

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3

Skogskyrkogarden 3

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Syracuse 3

Tower of London 3

Troy 3

Val di Noto 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3

Westminster 3

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3

Çatalhöyük 3

Bahá’i Holy Places 2.5

Belfries 2.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.5

Drottningholm 2.5

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 2.5

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5

Genbaku Dome 2.5

Historic Jeddah 2.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Kinderdijk 2.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5

Mtskheta 2.5

Nice 2.5

Pasargadae 2.5

Roskilde Cathedral 2.5

The Porticoes of Bologna 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5

Bali Subak system 2

Beemster Polder 2

Belem 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2

Bryggen 2

Danube Limes 2

Dutch Water Defence Lines 2

Erbil Citadel 2

Grand Canal 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Kandy 2

Mir Castle 2

Nesvizh 2

Rideau Canal 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Struve Geodetic Arc 2

Thang Long 2

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2

Thessalonika 2

Turaif Quarter 2

Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2

Yogyakarta 2

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Lower German Limes 1.5

Schokland 1.5

Stoclet House 1.5

The Persian Qanat 1.5

Persian Caravanserai 1

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Construction de la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)

Itsukushima Shrine

Genbaku Dome

Rietveld Schröderhuis

Beijing Central Axis

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