Zominthos was the surprise nominee when minoan palatial centres were inscribed in summer 2025. Greece had hesitated for years on that nomination between a single site (Cnossos) or a group …
Argo
France \ Member since February 2018
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We had always liked travelling, thought we really started collecting WHS in 2006. Then came the children, making the collection more challenging, as our goal is to visit these sites together as a family. Fortunately, living in Europe gives many opportunities of reasonable trips with two young children: we try to cover Europe in the most complete way, leaving long haul trips for later.
Our alias “Argo” relates to the name of the mythological ship which was used by Jason and companions for their trips, including the famous Golden Fleece quest – thus a good name for our own quest of WHS!
Recent Visits
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10Nov. 8, 2025Minoan Palatial Centres
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22Aug. 20, 2025Stari Grad Plain, Ston, The historic town of Korcula, Vjetrenica Cave
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1010Aug. 3, 2025Alba Julia, Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu, Churches of Moldavia, Curtea de Arges Churches, …
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About Argo
- Member since
- February 2018
- Country of Origin
- France
Visits
- Rank
- #50
- WHS
- 549
- Tentative Sites
- 180
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 40
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Isole Eolie 5.0
- Selimiye Mosque 5.0
- Aleppo 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Palmyra 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Cordoba 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Meteora 5.0
- Megaliths of Carnac 5.0
- Damascus 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 4.5
- Teide National Park 4.5
- Churches of Moldavia 4.5
- Palenque 4.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Vézère Valley 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Pergamon 4.5
- Great Barrier Reef 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Saint Catherine Area 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Statue of Liberty 4.5
- Ephesus 4.5
- Cuzco 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- St. Kilda 4.0
- Nasca Lines 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Bukhara 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Bosra 4.0
- Samarkand 4.0
- Xochicalco 4.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Rapa Nui 4.0
- Masada 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Bethlehem 4.0
- Island of Patmos 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Potosi 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 4.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 4.0
- Sydney Opera House 4.0
- Syracuse 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Val di Noto 4.0
- Danube Delta 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 4.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.0
- Agrigento 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Dolomites 4.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 4.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Crac des Chevaliers 4.0
- Gros Morne National Park 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Studenica Monastery 4.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 4.0
- Ohrid Region 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- Naples 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Las Medulas 4.0
- Asturian Monuments 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Tallinn 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Elvas 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Modernist Kaunas 3.5
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.5
- Cuenca 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.5
- The Four Lifts 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Vienna 3.5
- Caceres 3.5
- Belfries 3.5
- Mostar 3.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Garajonay 3.5
- Itchan Kala 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Stevns Klint 3.5
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.5
- Mistaken Point 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Monticello 3.5
- Budapest 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Guanajuato 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Via Appia 3.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5
- Tiwanaku 3.5
- Evora 3.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.5
- Choirokoitia 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Paphos 3.5
- Dacian Fortresses 3.5
- Angra do Heroismo 3.5
- Struve Geodetic Arc 3.5
- Altamira Cave 3.5
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5
- Uluru 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Chaîne des Puys 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Thessalonika 3.5
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.5
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Rabat 3.5
- Palmeral of Elche 3.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.5
- Aphrodisias 3.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.5
- Biblical Tells 3.5
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Bryggen 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Matera 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Vézelay 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.5
- Sceilg Mhichíl 3.5
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- Visby 3.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.0
- Sucre 3.0
- Mérida 3.0
- Hortobágy 3.0
- Pienza 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- Mount Athos 3.0
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Aachen Cathedral 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Curonian Spit 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Centennial Hall 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Gulf of Porto 3.0
- The Flow Country 3.0
- Pico Island 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Trebic 3.0
- Cordouan Lighthouse 3.0
- Cesky Krumlov 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Le Havre 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Malbork Castle 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Kairouan 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Durmitor National Park 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Urnes Stave Church 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.0
- Medina Azahara 3.0
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 3.0
- Miguasha National Park 3.0
- Laponian Area 3.0
- Lyon 3.0
- Old City of Acre 3.0
- Minoan Palatial Centres 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.0
- Zamość 3.0
- Heritage of Mercury 3.0
- Salzburg 3.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Zacatecas 3.0
- Rock Art of Alta 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Puebla 3.0
- Burgos Cathedral 3.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 2.5
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 2.5
- Hospicio Cabañas 2.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 2.5
- Vall de Boi 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Lake District 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 2.5
- Chaco Culture 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.5
- Causses and Cévennes 2.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 2.5
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Aquileia 2.5
- Albi 2.5
- Churches of Peace 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Reichenau 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Fontainebleau 2.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- University of Coimbra 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Vilnius 2.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 2.5
- Kinderdijk 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Nice 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2.5
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.5
- Eisinga Planetarium 2.5
- Medina of Tétouan 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Sighisoara 2.5
- Domus de janas Sardinia 2.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Potsdam 2.5
- Røros 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Bardejov Town 2.5
- Old City of Berne 2.5
- Abbey of St Gall 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Rila Monastery 2.5
- Nessebar 2.5
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2.5
- Epidaurus 2.5
- Banska Stiavnica 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.0
- Independence Hall 2.0
- Urbino 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 2.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 2.0
- Abu Mena 2.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Tarraco 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Burgundy 2.0
- Wartburg Castle 2.0
- Quedlinburg 2.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 2.0
- Torun 2.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.0
- Møns Klint 2.0
- Yaroslavl 2.0
- Dacian Limes 2.0
- Lima 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.0
- Muskauer Park 2.0
- Gammelstad 2.0
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.0
- Wadi Rum 2.0
- Saint-Emilion 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Castel del Monte 2.0
- Donana National Park 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.0
- Atapuerca 2.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 2.0
- Sewell Mining Town 2.0
- Boyana Church 2.0
- Shakhrisyabz 2.0
- Vlkolinec 2.0
- Pirin National Park 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Southern Öland 2.0
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 2.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 2.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.0
- Canterbury 2.0
- Quseir Amra 2.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- El Escurial 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Carthage 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Kutna Hora 2.0
- Wadden Sea 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Graz 2.0
- Champagne 2.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 2.0
- Vjetrenica Cave 2.0
- Nancy 2.0
- Classical Weimar 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 2.0
- Genoa 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 2.0
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.0
- Medina of Tunis 2.0
- Meknes 2.0
- Grand Pré 1.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 1.5
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Tokaji Wine Region 1.5
- Camino Real 1.5
- Pannonhalma 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 1.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.5
- Old Rauma 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 1.5
- Madara Rider 1.5
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.5
- Tequila 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 1.5
- City of Luxembourg 1.5
- Karlskrona 1.5
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 1.5
- Drottningholm 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 1.5
- Holasovice 1.5
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 1.5
- Hollókö 1.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Litomysl Castle 1.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Kuldiga 1.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 1.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 1.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 1.5
- Monte San Giorgio 1.0
- Messel Pit 1.0
- Mafra 1.0
- Battir 1.0
- Holy Trinity Column 1.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 1.0
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.0
- Beemster Polder 1.0
- Bamberg 1.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 1.0
- Danube Limes 1.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 0.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 0.5
- Schokland 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (CAN)
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Mesta Livestock trails
- Archaeological Site of Priene
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Two neolithic dwellings
- Degania & Nahalal
- Bet She'an
- Hangar Y
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Mount Vernon
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Apamee
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantin
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Ellis Island
- The Murge of Altamura
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Maaloula
- Great City of Chicomostoc-La Quemada
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene
- Rural Temples of Cusco
- Ebla
- Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia
- Noréas de Hama
- The Lofoten islands
- Sacred Titicaca Lake
- Baptism Site “Eshria’a” (Al-Maghtas)
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan
- Rostov Kremlin
- The royal necropolis of Seuthopolis
- Church of San Salvador de Valdediós
- Cies Islands–Atlantic Islands of Galicia NP
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
- Lake Titicaca
- Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud
- Aalto Works
- Sbeïtla
- Kokino Archaeo-astronomical Site
- Church St. George Kurbinovo
- Pic du Midi
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines
- Aqaba Marine Reserve
- Mothia Island and Lilibeo
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Patzcuaro
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- Evidence of Italo-Greek Culture
- Olympic Park Munich
- Le Charolais-Brionnais
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Egyptian Museum
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Alexandria
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- L'église de Densus
- Alba Julia
- Royal Residences of Sinaia
- Former Communist Prisons in Romania
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- The State of the Pyrenees
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
- Princely religious foundations Wallachia, Moldavia
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery
- Shaubak Castle
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Jerash Archaeological City
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track
- Old Town of Jakarta
- East Atlantic Flyway
- Via Francigena
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
- Sites of Great Moravia
- Bouches de Bonifacio
- Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape
- Ston
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Churches of the Altiplano
- Sajama National Park
- Sites of Great Moravia: Mikulcice - Kopcani
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park
- Orvieto
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Le Monastère de Neamt
- San Francisco Church and Convent
- Loarre Castle
- The Rise of Systematic Biology
- Trakai Historical National Park
- The historic town of Korcula
- Vila Viçosa
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Rabati Malik Caravanserai
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Chor-Bakr
- Bahoutdin Architectural Complex
- Chashma-Ayub Mausoleum
- Pombaline Lisbon
- La Moneda Palace
- Klirou Bridge
- Cascata delle Marmore
- El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage
- Sidi Bou Saïd
- Les coules de Petite Valachie
- Sinpetru (site paleontologique)
- Rouen
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- The Ancient Plovdiv
- Volterra
- Rundāle Palace Ensemble
- Central Park
- Amalienborg and its district
- Sea of Galilee
- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area
- The historic urban site of Pocitelj
- Green Belt
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Alexandrovo Thracian Tomb
- Agioi Varnavas and Ilarion at Peristerona
- Djerdap National Park
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Markovi Kuli
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Marais salants de Guérande
- Kosice
- Negotinske Pivnice
- Hala Sultan Tekke and Larnaka Salt Lake Complex
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Oasis of Fayoum
- Domaine de Fontainebleau
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- La Camargue
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Baroque Temples of Collao
- Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragor
- Sulcis Iglesiente
- Workers' Assembly Halls
- Ville de Lixus
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- The Silver Route
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- San Juan de Ulua
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- Chott El Jerid
- Mausoleum of Hecatomnus
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Birkenhead Park
- Rade de Marseille
- Arsenal de Rochefort
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo
- City of York
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
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Reviews by Argo
Royal Residences of Sinaia (On tentative list)
A visit to Peles castle
The union of Wallachia and Moldova principalities in the second half of the 19th century was the starting point of modern Romania. A German prince was elected as head of …
Sinpetru (site paleontologiqu… (On tentative list)
Sinpetru Dinosaurs Valley
Let’s go straight to the point : it would be extremely unlikely for this site, lingering on Romania’s Tentative list since 1991 (since ever ?) to be inscribed one day. …
Former Communist Prisons in R… (On tentative list)
Memorial in Sighetu Marmatiei
As we toured Romania northern region of Maramures this summer, looking for the wooden churches WHS, we found ourselves in Sighetu Marmatiei (“Sighet”), a border town where we visited the …
Le Charolais-Brionnais (On tentative list)
Le Charolais-Brionnais
We explored the Charolais-Brionnais area (a “pays”, in French) during a sunny week-end in May 2024. Charolaises cows (together with Bazadaises, from the South-West of France) are very well known …
Hangar Y (On tentative list)
Hangar Y
Things have changed a lot at Hangar Y since our visit in September 2014, so it was time for a new visit and review. The Hangar has been fully refurbished …
Ville de Lixus (On tentative list)
Ville de Lixus
Lixus is claimed one of the oldest settlements of the western Mediterranean antique world – although just “off” the Gibraltar straight, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It was first a Phoenician …
East Atlantic Flyway (On tentative list)
East Atlantic Flyway
Large areas of England East Coast have recently been chosen to make up a new TWHS focusing on migratory birds, as part of the East Atlantic Flyway. Although there is …
Birkenhead Park (Nominated)
Birkenhead Park
We visited Birkenhead Park in June 2022. The park is open 24h a day, 7 days a week, free of charge. You can easily park your car (for free as …
Transatlantic Cable Ensemble … (On tentative list)
Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (CAN)
We visited the cable station in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, Canada, in August 2023. This was a nice detour of approximately 100km and 1h50 on our way from Gander to Saint …
Negotinske Pivnice (On tentative list)
Negotinske Pivnice
It seems the tradition of growing vine and making wine around Negotin, a small town in the East of Serbia bordering Bulgaria and Romania, dates back from Roman times. This …
Les sites à fossiles néandert… (On tentative list)
Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
We managed to visit three of the four caves proposed under the name “Neanderthal fossil caves in Wallonia” in April 2023 : Spy, Scladina and Goyet.
Spy cave was …
Danube Limes (Serbia) (On tentative list)
Danube Limes (Serbia)
As we already know, these serial locations in Serbia will be inscribed one day as an extension of the WHS that Germany, Austria and Slovakia already share. Without any surprise, …
Church St. George Kurbinovo (On tentative list)
Church St. George Kurbinovo
Both our French guidebook and our English guidebook were indicating that the key to open Saint George church was to be collected at a house in the village of Kurbinovo …
Church of San Salvador de Val… (On tentative list)
Church of San Salvador de Valdediós
This tiny church is proposed as an extension of the six already inscribed “Asturian Monuments” in and around Oviedo in Northern Spain. The first three inscribed ones were the most …
Group of Mozarabic buildings … (On tentative list)
Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
We have so far visited four of the buildings of this TWHS, scattered across Spain. Visigoths ruled Iberia after the collapse of the Roman Empire; they converted to Christianity and …
Cies Islands–Atlantic Islands… (On tentative list)
Cies Islands–Atlantic Islands of Galicia NP
Visiting the national park of Galician Atlantic Islands requires a little bit of anticipation. It is made of four groups of islands ashore the Rias of Galicia, but only two …
Ribeira Sacra Waterscape (Nominated)
Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
Ribeira Sacra is the official candidate site for Spain in 2021. The name could translate into “Sacred river bank” for the high number of churches and monasteries that were built …
The Lofoten islands (On tentative list)
The Lofoten islands
We spent several days in Lofoten islands in summer 2016, and this was one of the highlights of our Norway trip (a country which is one of the best – …
Rabati Malik Caravanserai (On tentative list)
Rabati Malik Caravanserai
Uzbekistan has nominated 18 locations both individually and combined as one single serial nomination under the name “Silk roads in Uzbekistan”. Reading a recent review (by Els) about Bahoutdin complex, …