Lüneburg's town hall is considered one of the best examples of secular Mediaeval architecture north of the Alps. Unfortunately, no photos are allowed inside and you can only visit with …
Assif
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My most impressive site: Pompeii
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01Aug. 15, 2025Workers' Assembly Halls
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00Aug. 13, 2025Stourhead
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00Aug. 1, 2025Athens, Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, Budapest Ghetto and 4 synagogues, Buenos Aires – La Plata, …
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About Assif
- Member since
- April 2008
- Country of Origin
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- Rank
- #396
- WHS
- 141
- Tentative Sites
- 43
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 110
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World Heritage Sites
- Vienna 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Acropolis 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Budapest 4.5
- Brú na Bóinne 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Paphos 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Tugendhat Villa 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Bauhaus Sites 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Masada 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Wadden Sea 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- Bamberg 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Cesky Krumlov 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Biblical Tells 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Quedlinburg 2.5
- Thessalonika 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans 2.5
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- L'viv 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.0
- Old City of Acre 2.0
- Church of Atlántida 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 2.0
- Fray Bentos 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Old City of Berne 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Stecci 1.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 1.5
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.0
- Vlkolinec 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Flemish Béguinages 1.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.0
- Fagus Factory 1.0
- Nice 1.0
- Jelling 0.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 0.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 0.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 0.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Rijal Almaa
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina
- Degania & Nahalal
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan
- Station écologique de Taim
- Rouen
- La Leche Valley
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley
- Jerusalem
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Olympic Park Munich
- Timna
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy)
- Ein Karem
- Horvat Minnim
- Makhteshim Country
- Sea of Galilee
- The Crusader Fortresses
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- The Hula
- Liftah
- White Mosque in Ramle
- Chamangá: A Rock Paintings Area
- Quartier de Peñarol
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Blagaj
- Stolac
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Ston
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Danube Natural and Cultural Landscape
- Kosice
- Green Belt
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Hanbury botanical gardens
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- The historic urban site of Pocitelj
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Battlefield of Ayacucho
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Hoge Kempen
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Bet She'an
- Kizilirmak Delta Wetland and Bird Sanctuary
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Arbel
- Caesarea
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
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Reviews by Assif
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L'viv (Inscribed)
L'viv
Lviv (Lvov, Lemberg) is a beautiful Central European city, but you shouldn't expect a grand majestic city like Prague, Budapest or Cracow. It is much more intimate in character. Its …
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Assif
16/03/22
Zagori Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)
Zagori Cultural Landscape
We visited Zagori, another name for Zagorochoria, in Summer 2020 during the Corona pandemic and spent three days exploring the area. We felt it was enough time to grasp the …
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Assif
18/02/22
City of Tigre and its rowing … (On tentative list)
City of Tigre and its rowing clubs
Tigre was established as a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. It is popular among tourists, but mostly as a hub for trips to the Paraná delta. Tigre had its heyday …
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Assif
29/07/20
Nice (Inscribed)
Nice
The recently published ICOMOS working documents show that a big portion of Nice is to be included in this nomination and not only its waterfront promenade. Nice is a major …
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Assif
25/07/20
Wadden Sea (Inscribed)
Wadden Sea
I think that in order to appreciate the Wadden Sea you have to go on a mudflat hike. Living in Hamburg, I have been to several ones, and I always …
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Assif
23/07/20
Early Medieval Monastic Sites (Removed from tentat…)
Early Medieval Monastic Sites
From the proposed sites I have only visited Glendalough (May 2017). As Nan has already pointed out, it is a fairly easy day-trip from Dublin, although we chose to stay …
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Assif
21/07/20
Hanbury botanical gardens (On tentative list)
Hanbury botanical gardens
Giardini Hanbury (with an N) are a historical botanic garden from the 19th century named after their former English owner. It was planted along a 100 metre descent to the …
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Assif
18/07/20
Verona (Inscribed)
Verona
For me the main reason to visit Verona is its marvelous mediaeval churches. I would recommend buying the Verona Card which allows you entry to the five top churches - …
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Assif
16/07/20
La Rambla de la Cité de Mont… (On tentative list)
La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
La Rambla is a 22 km long promenade along the Rio de la Plata in Montevideo and is claimed to be one of the longest in the world. It features …
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Assif
15/07/20
Thessalonika (Inscribed)
Thessalonika
I only had half a day to visit the inscribed sites in Thessaloniki so I had to carefully plan my visit. First I picked the churches I wanted to visit …
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Assif
15/08/18
Brú na Bóinne (Inscribed)
Brú na Bóinne
When visiting the complex of Bru na Boinne xI was impressed how well preserved the site was. It was not something I had expected from a site that old. I …
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Assif
24/06/17
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Palace Cave (Removed from tentat…)
Palace Cave
The Palace Cave is a small cave with an exceptional formation looking like an open structure with multiple pillars. It is located about two and a half hours drive away …
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Assif
29/03/16
Modern Architecture of Montev… (On tentative list)
Modern Architecture of Montevideo
I found it extremely difficult to find out what is exactly meant to be included in this proposed nomination: the most obvious candidates - the Art Deco ensemble in the …
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Assif
29/03/16
Church of Atlántida (Inscribed)
Church of Atlántida
As I wrote in the forum, it still remains to be determined which ones of Dieste's works in Uruguay are going to be included in the nomination, but two of …
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Assif
22/03/16
Quartier de Peñarol (On tentative list)
Quartier de Peñarol
Peñarol is mostly known as the national Uruguayan football club, but it takes its name from the historical railway quarter built by the Brits. It was there that the Brits …
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Assif
22/03/16
Fray Bentos (Inscribed)
Fray Bentos
When I first made up my mind to use my long holiday in Uruguay visiting my parents in law to visit Fray Bentos I couldn't resist the annoying thought of …
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Assif
14/03/16
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Cambridge Colleges and Backs (Removed from tentat…)
Cambridge Colleges and Backs
During a conference held at one of the colleges in Cambridge I tried to use one of the breaks I had to go through some of the more famous colleges: …
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Assif
19/10/15
Strasbourg (Inscribed)
Strasbourg
This proposed extension should incorporate the historicist architecture of imperial Prussia into the Straßburg WHS. The area is adjacent to the Grande-Ile, but its style is inherently different. The architecture …
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Assif
19/10/15
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Danube Valley CL around Regen… (Removed from tentat…)
Danube Valley CL around Regensburg inc Walhalla
Walhalla is probably one of the most iconic representation of Romanticism as well as Neoclassicism. It is the German equivalent to the French Pantheon in a huge Parthenon like building …
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Assif
19/10/15
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