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I was born in Japan, lived most of my life in Los Angeles, CA, but am currently living in Poland.
Recent Reviews Tsunami
Epidaurus 31-Oct-18
Having discovered that the Robert Wilson production of Oedipus by Sophocles, which premiered in Pompei last summer and which I watched in Vicenza this month, will also be staged in Epidaurus next June (three World Heritage theaters! ) , I had to reminisce my absolutely unusual and even surreal experience I had when I visited Epidaurus.
The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T) 24-Oct-18
After visiting Ivrea from Torino in the morning I visited the Sacra di San Michele, one of the ten elements of this TWHS, in the afternoon.
Ivrea 22-Oct-18
I visited Ivrea from Torino by train on a Sunday morning and spent the first half of my 3 hours there walking around.
There is a map at http://www.ivreacittaindustriale.it/ as well as on sign posts around town. I did not visit all the elements in the map of this industrial city of the last century but tried to see some of the more interesting places.
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 20-Oct-18
Like other reviewers I was so impressed with Sacro Monte of Varese that I had been seeking opportunity to visit the Sacro Monte of Varallo, the first and most important of the 9 Sacri Monti. Between checking out the new production of Oedipus at the Teatro Olimpico in Palladian Vicenza and the new World Heritage Site of Ivrea this opportunity has finally come for me.
Vicenza 18-Oct-18
I had visited Palladian Vicenza before but went back there on the occasion of the Robert Wilson production of Oedipus by Sophocles at the Teatro Olimpico, originally designed by Palladio. Known as the oldest surviving indoor theater in the world, the Teatro opened with Oedipus in 1585, which makes this the 433 anniversary production. Why 433 anniversary? I don't know.
Profile data
Name: Tsunami
Country: Japan / USA / Poland
Visited WHS: 396
Most Impressive: Glacier Bay, Mt. Athos, Masada
Proposal New WHS: Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, USA; Coso Rock Art District, California, USA; University of California, Berkeley, USA; Jingu in Ise, Japan
Lists
- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agrigento
- Altamira Cave
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Aquileia
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arles
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Bauhaus Sites
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Biblical Tells
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Boyana Church
- Brugge
- Bryggen
- Brú na Bóinne
- Budapest
- Burgundy
- Butrint
- Cahokia Mounds
- Camino Real
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Centennial Hall
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champagne
- Chartres Cathedral
- Christiansfeld
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Churches of Moldavia
- Churches of Peace
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Cracow
- Crespi d'Adda
- Curonian Spit
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Delta
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
- Delos
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Dolomites
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Durmitor National Park
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- El Escurial
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Gammelstad
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Glacier parks
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Gulf of California
- Gwynedd Castles
- Göreme NP
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Heritage of Mercury
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hortobágy
- Horyu-ji Area
- Ibiza
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Isole Eolie
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Ivrea
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Jelling
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Karlskrona
- Kernavë
- Kew Gardens
- Kiev
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinderdijk
- Kotor
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- L'viv
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Lake District
- Laponian Area
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Le Havre
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Litomysl Castle
- Liverpool
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Luther Memorials
- Lyon
- Lübeck
- Madara Rider
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Mir Castle
- Modena
- Monastery of Horezu
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Monte San Giorgio
- Monticello
- Mostar
- Mount Athos
- Mount Etna
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Mystras
- Nancy
- Naples
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Nessebar
- Nesvizh
- New Lanark
- Nikko
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Rauma
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Orange
- Palau de la Musica Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau
- Pannonhalma
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Pirin National Park
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plitvice Lakes
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Quedlinburg
- Québec
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Ravenna
- Redwood
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhaetian Railway
- Rhodes
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Røros
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- San Gimignano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Seville
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Shiretoko
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Srebarna Nature Reserve
- St. Petersburg
- Stari Grad Plain
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stevns Klint
- Stećci
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studenica Monastery
- Studley Royal Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine
- Te Wahipounamu
- Telc
- Teotihuacan
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thessalonika
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
- Tikal National Park
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Trogir
- Troy
- Tugendhat Villa
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Val d'Orcia
- Val di Noto
- Vatican City
- Vegaøyan
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Villa d'Este
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Visby
- Vlkolinec
- Vézère Valley
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Westminster
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Zamosc
- Zollverein
- Epidaurus
- Ivrea
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Vicenza
- Kotor
- Castel del Monte
- Heritage of Mercury
- Plitvice Lakes
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Novgorod
- Luther Memorials
- Stevns Klint
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine
- Longobards in Italy
- Fujisan
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
- Srebarna Nature Reserve
- Madara Rider
- Danube Delta
- Churches of Peace
- Champagne
- Reims
- Edinburgh
- Pirin National Park
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Monastery of Horezu
- Forth Bridge
- New Lanark
- Dacian Fortresses
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Val d'Orcia
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Mount Athos
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- The Four Lifts
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Monte San Giorgio
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
- Holasovice
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Astronomical Observatories of Ukraine (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans (T)
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- Classical Karst (in Slovene language: Klasicni kras) (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Extension to the Joint World Heritage Property "Primeval Beech forests of the Carpathians (Slovak Republic and Ukraine) and the Ancient Beech forests of Germany (Germany)" (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Lower German Limes (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (extension) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (WHS FRE) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Croatian Limes (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Austria) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Czechia) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (France) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Italy) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Hikone-Jo (castle) (T)
- Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (extension) (T)
- Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa (T)
- Historic Centre of Tchernigov, 9th -13th centuries (T)
- Hydraulic Engineering and Hydropower, Drinking Water and Decorative Fountains in Augsburg (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Jômon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidô, Northern Tôhoku, and other regions (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'ensemble monumental de Tirgu Jiu (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom (T)
- Le massif forestier de Fontainebleau (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (T)
- Les grandes villes d'eaux d'Europe (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří (T)
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří (Czech) (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Kydonia) (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (T)
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun, Ancient Tumulus Clusters (T)
- Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nice, la ville neuve née du tourisme, ou l’invention de la Riviera (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Parco Nazionale della Sila - Sila, gran bosco d'Italia (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád with the former Royal Wood in the Pilis Mountain (T)
- Saimaa-Pielinen Lake System (T)
- Salento and the "Barocco Leccese" (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- The broader region of Mount Olympus (T)
- The Burren (T)
- The city of Bergamo (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai (T)
- The Holy place of worship of Ukonsaari by the Sami people at Inari (T)
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Laponian Area - Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Murge of Altamura (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Jajce (T)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (T)
- The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park. (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- The Tara National Park with the Drina River Canyon (T)
- The West Bohemian Spa Triangle (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Jelling mounds, runic stones, palisade area and church (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / The Trelleborg fortresses, Denmark (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries (T)
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland (Te Moana O Atawhenua) (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
- Zagorochoria - North Pindos National Park (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- The Murge of Altamura (T)
- Historic Centre of Tchernigov, 9th -13th centuries (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans (T)
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun, Ancient Tumulus Clusters (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- L'ensemble monumental de Tirgu Jiu (T)
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk (T)