Just back from our trip to Azerbeidzjan and Georgia (end of sept.2012).The Rock Art in Gobustan National Park is widely spread over a huge area. Valcamonica and Tanum are more …
Alfons And Riki Verstraeten
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We are a married couple, senior citizens, very interested in visiting World Heritage Sites.
Our interest started after visiting Schokland(NL), twenty years ago.
I'm planning and organizing our trips, my wife is the photographer
My most impressive site: Iguacu(BR) / Iguazu(ARG)
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3870Aug. 23, 2017Aachen Cathedral, Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Abbey of St Gall, Acropolis, Aflaj irrigation system …
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3870Aug. 23, 2017
- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Albi
- Alcala de Henares
- Alto Douro
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Thebes
- Antigua Guatemala
- Anuradhapura
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Aranjuez
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arles
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Avignon
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Bahla Fort
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Brugge
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Burgundy
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Butrint
- Caceres
- Camagüey
- Campeche
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Carthage
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Central Highlands
- Cesky Krumlov
- Champagne
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chichen-Itza
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Peace
- Cienfuegos
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cuenca
- Curonian Spit
- Dengfeng
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Dougga/Thugga
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Edinburgh
- El Escurial
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Gammelstad
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gelati Monastery
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Gobustan Rock Art
- Golestan Palace
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Guanacaste
- Gwynedd Castles
- Haghpat and Sanahin
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Historic Cairo
- Holasovice
- Hortobágy
- Humayun's Tomb
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ironbridge Gorge
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park
- Istanbul
- Itchan Kala
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jelling
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Kairouan
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Kandy
- Kerkuane
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kinderdijk
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kutna Hora
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laponian Area
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- León Cathedral
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longmen Grottoes
- Longobards in Italy
- Lower German Limes
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- Lyon
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masjed-e Jâme'
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Meknes
- Mérida
- Meteora
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Modena
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Geghard
- Monte San Giorgio
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Mostar
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Etna
- Mtskheta
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Nancy
- Naples
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nessebar
- New Lanark
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Nubian Monuments
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Berne
- Old Havana
- Old Rauma
- Old Town of Galle
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Olympia
- Orange
- Ouro Preto
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palenque
- Pantanal
- Paphos
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Pergamon
- Persepolis
- Persian Garden
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Ping Yao
- Pirin National Park
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plitvice Lakes
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Rabat
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ravenna
- Red Fort
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rideau Canal
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rome
- Røros
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Pedro de la Roca Castle
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Seville
- Shakhrisyabz
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Sintra
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Statue of Liberty
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Studley Royal Park
- Sukhothai
- Summer Palace
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Tallinn
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- Temple of Heaven
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Persian Qanat
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Tikal National Park
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Toledo
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Trogir
- Troy
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urnes Stave Church
- Uxmal
- Val d'Orcia
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Viñales Valley
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Vlkolinec
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Walled City of Baku
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Yazd
- Yosemite National Park
- Yungang Grottoes
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zollverein
Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.71
- Machu Picchu 4.62
- Galapagos Islands 4.62
- Petra 4.60
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.48
- Yellowstone 4.48
- Ancient Kyoto 4.44
- Bagan 4.44
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.42
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Walled City of Baku (Inscribed)
Walled City of Baku
The Walled City of Baku was the other WHS in Azerbeidzjan we visited, including Shrivanshah's Palace and the Maiden Tower. Pity, the restauration activities made the tower almost invisible.
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Alfons an… 13/10/12

Gelati Monastery (Inscribed)
Gelati Monastery
After visiting Azerbeidzjan, we continued our trip to Georgia. Wonderful Mtskheta and in Kutaisi: Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery. The construction inside Bagrati Cathedral to restore the building is perfect, …
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Alfons an… 13/10/12