Tony H. Profile

World Heritage fan who is trying to collect as many sites as he can!

Finland Last Update 16.04.24 179 WHS Visited 18 Reviews 181 WHS Rated 53 TWHS Visited

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Haci Bayram Mosque and its Surrounding Area (the Haci Bayram District) (T)

Tony H. Finland - 16-Feb-20

Haci Bayram Mosque and its Surrounding Area (the Haci Bayram District) (T)

Turkey still has some World Heritage status worthy entries on its T-list. But what is probably bothering Turkish politicians, is the fact that Turkey's capital is plain boring when it comes to historical sights (or any sights actually). How to get a World Heritage site to Ankara? Haci Bayram district is Ankara's best attempt. Haci Bayram-i Veli Camii is a small mosque dedicated to a Sufi poet Haci Bayram-i Veli. His tomb is next to the mosque and it's very busy with Turkish worshippers. From the outside the mosque looks old, as it is, but the inside it has been renovated clearly a lot. Original mosque is from the 15th century but the famous Mimar Sinan restored the mosque in the next century

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Upper Svaneti

Tony H. Finland - 08-Sep-16

Upper Svaneti

I'm little surprised that Upper Svaneti is one of the least visited sites in Europe on this website. I'm surprised because it is not anymore these days hard place to visit. The WHS consists of small community of Ushguli which is made up from 4 very small villages located right next to each other. 3 of these villages with surrounding landscape form the buffer zone and the core zone is the village of Chazhashi.

Chazhashi is the only village which has solely original stone houses. However most of the houses have been abandoned and the roofs have collapsed. The village includes the local museum. The core zone also includes small hill with remains of one Svan tower and church from old fortress.

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Istanbul

Tony H. Finland - 13-Mar-15

Istanbul

I feel myself lucky as I've been able to call Istanbul my home for one year. It has given me the possibility to explore the city slowly and especially it's vast historic areas on Fatih peninsula.

The World Heritage site is made up of 4 different quarters. The most famous of them is the Sultanahmet area at the tip of the peninsula. From here you can find the biggest attractions: Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya), Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), Topkapi Palace (Topkapi Sarayi) and Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarayi). This is the area you want to avoid visiting while you live in the city as it is overrun by tourists for most of the year and prices are higher than elsewhere in the city. After visiting the attractions (which are magnificent, there’s no denying in that) I prefered admiring this part of city from the ferries going between Asia and Europe. Interesting museum to visit in this quarter is the small Great Palace Mosaic Museum at Arasta Bazaar

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Bursa and Cumalikizik

Tony H. Finland - 19-Aug-14

2 months after it's inscription to World Heritage List Bursa hasn't experienced yet big tourists masses. Actually I didn't meet any other western tourists than myself but many Arab tourists have found this city and it's bazaars. Also locals were really interested to start a conversation with me which also shows that Bursa hasn't been found by tourists.

Also Bursa doesn't seem to be yet proud of it's World Heritage status as I didn't see any signs saying that I'm in a World Heritage city. In some brochures there were mentions that sites in Bursa were on tentative list so I guess they're waiting for update. But all the sites I visited were in perfect clean condition which shows that inscription didn't come as a surprise for the city.

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Central Highlands

Tony H. Finland - 17-Jun-13

I was part of a field course which we conducted in Sri Lanka. During our course we visited in Meemure village which is located in Knuckles Range inside the World Heritage area. According to our guide this area gets much less tourists than Horton Plains and Peak Wilderness. Meemure village was quite easily reachable from Kandy where we left at 6am. During the ride the views of the Knuckles Range area were amazing and especially sunrise over the valleys. The drive from the main road to the village along the mountain roads took 2 hours. Meemure village is very small and it seems to live from rice cultivation as the village was surrounded by very beautiful rice terraces. There are no tourism facilities and we had our lunch at local family's home

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Tony H.
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Finland
Most Impressive
- Great Pyramids of Giza- Old City of Jerusalem
Proposal
The rock paintings of Astuvansalmi at Ristiina, Finland.

Recently Visited WHS

Update 16.04.24
  • Eisinga Planetarium
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  • Beemster Polder
  • Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
  • Dutch Water Defence Lines
  • Schokland
  • Lower German Limes
  • Colonies of Benevolence
    • Rating Stats
    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
    Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
    Dolomites 4.5
    Dubrovnik 4.5
    Giant's Causeway 4.5
    Göreme NP 4.5
    Haghpat and Sanahin 4.5
    Hegra 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
    Brugge 4
    Budapest 4
    Central Highlands 4
    Churches of Moldavia 4
    Curonian Spit 4
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 4
    Gelati Monastery 4
    Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4
    Historic Cairo 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
    Tallinn 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
    Golestan Palace 3
    Göbekli Tepe 3
    Hattusha 3
    Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3
    Hoi An 3
    Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3
    Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3
    Jantar Mantar 3
    Kernavė 3
    Kotor 3
    Major Town Houses 3
    Maritime Greenwich 3
    Masjed-e Jâme' 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
    Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3
    Petäjävesi Old Church 3
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 3
    Québec 3
    Red Fort 3
    Safranbolu 3
    Sammallahdenmäki 3
    San Marino and Mount Titano 3
    Selimiye Mosque 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
    Historic Jeddah 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
    Colonies of Benevolence 2
    Danube Limes 2
    Dutch Water Defence Lines 2
    Erbil Citadel 2
    Holy Trinity Column 2
    Kandy 2
    Mir Castle 2
    Nesvizh 2
    Rideau Canal 2
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2
    Schokland 2
    Struve Geodetic Arc 2
    Thang Long 2
    Thessalonika 2
    Turaif Quarter 2
    Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2
    Yogyakarta 2
    Lower German Limes 1.5
    Stoclet House 1.5
    The Persian Qanat 1.5
    Persian Caravanserai 1
    1. Amalienborg and its district (T)
    2. Ancient City of Korykos (T)
    3. Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
    4. Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
    5. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
    6. Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
    7. Central Park (T)
    8. Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
    9. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
    10. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
    11. Haci Bayram Mosque and its Surrounding Area (the Haci Bayram District) (T)
    12. Harran and Sanliurfa (T)
    13. Hejaz Railway (T)
    14. Historic Town of Beypazarı (T)
    15. Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
    16. Jerusalem (T)
    17. Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization (T)
    18. Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
    19. Lake Tuz Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA) (T)
    20. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
    21. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
    22. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    23. Mattanchery Palace, Ernakulam, Kerala (T)
    24. Monuments of Srirangapatna Island Town (T)
    25. Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab (T)
    26. Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
    27. Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
    28. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    29. Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
    30. Sites along the Uttarapath, Badshahi Sadak, Sadak-e-Azam, Grand Trunk Road (T)
    31. St. Paul Church, St. Pauls Well and surrounding historic quarters (T)
    32. Syrian Hajj Road (T)
    33. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
    34. Tbilisi Historic District (T)
    35. Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
    36. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
    37. The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
    38. The Bodrum Castle (T)
    39. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
    40. The historic urban site of Počitelj (T)
    41. The Historical City of Maybod (T)
    42. The Historical Port City of Izmir (T)
    43. The Historical Village of Abyaneh (T)
    44. The Historical-Cultural Axis of Fin, Sialk, Kashan (T)
    45. The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
    46. The natural and architectural ensemble of Blagaj (T)
    47. The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
    48. The Underground Water Structures in Gaziantep; Livas and Kastels (T)
    49. Thingvellir National Park (T)
    50. Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
    51. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    52. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
    53. Yıldız Palace Complex (T)

    Reviewed TWHS

    Top 50 Missing Sites

    1. Amritsar
    2. Andaman Islands
    3. Bagan
    4. Band E Amir
    5. Chernobyl
    6. City of Herat
    7. Communist heritage of Volgograd
    8. Cultural Landscape of Santorini
    9. Ephesus
    10. Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
    11. Hollywood Studios & Movie Palaces
    12. Major Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright
    13. Mecca, Kaaba
    14. Petrified Forest National Park
    15. Rainforests of Polynesia
    16. Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
    17. The Archaeological Site of Göbeklitepe
    18. Ur
    19. Varanasi
    20. Vers une architecture: Major Buildings of Le Corbusier

    Top 200 WHS

    1. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
    2. Laponian Area
    3. Acropolis
    4. Butrint
    5. Ephesus
    6. Pompei
    7. Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    8. Historic Cairo
    9. Potala Palace
    10. Borobudur
    11. Bamiyan Valley
    12. Pyramids (Memphis)
    13. Taj Mahal
    14. Göreme NP
    15. Thessalonika
    16. Bethlehem
    17. Vatican City
    18. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
    19. Saint Catherine Area
    20. Mont-Saint-Michel
    21. Cologne Cathedral
    22. Churches of Moldavia
    23. Kremlin and Red Square
    24. Curonian Spit
    25. Great Zimbabwe
    26. Melaka and George Town
    27. Bali Subak system
    28. Costiera Amalfitana
    29. Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
    30. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
    31. Virunga National Park
    32. Central University City Campus of the UNAM
    33. Ancient Thebes
    34. Nubian Monuments
    35. Grand Canyon
    36. Uluru
    37. Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
    38. Ancient Kyoto
    39. Prambanan
    40. Temple of Heaven
    41. Selimiye Mosque
    42. Mexico City and Xochimilco
    43. West Norwegian Fjords
    44. Rock Islands
    45. Great Barrier Reef
    46. Granada
    47. Dubrovnik
    48. Brugge
    49. Budapest
    50. Tallinn
    51. Seville
    52. Kotor
    53. Fortress of Suomenlinna
    54. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
    55. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
    56. Sagarmatha National Park
    57. Kilimanjaro National Park
    58. Machu Picchu
    59. Meteora
    60. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
    61. Great Himalayan National Park
    62. Mount Kenya
    63. Dolomites
    64. Simien National Park
    65. Petra
    66. Nemrut Dag
    67. Rapa Nui
    68. Imperial Palace
    69. Versailles
    70. Potsdam
    71. Amsterdam Canal Ring
    72. Florence
    73. St. Petersburg
    74. Paris, Banks of the Seine
    75. Mostar
    76. Grand Place, Brussels
    77. Riga
    78. Stonehenge
    79. Rietveld Schröderhuis
    80. Central Amazon Conservation Complex
    81. Kenya Lake System
    82. Victoria Falls
    83. Lake Baikal
    84. Okavango Delta
    85. Plitvice Lakes
    86. Altamira Cave
    87. Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
    88. Vézère Valley
    89. Angkor
    90. Anuradhapura
    91. Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
    92. Qhapaq Ñan
    93. Venice and its Lagoon
    94. Istanbul
    95. Rome
    96. Old City of Jerusalem
    97. Prague
    98. L'viv
    99. Cordoba
    100. Volcanoes of Kamchatka