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 …
Assif
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My most impressive site: Pompeii
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About Assif
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- April 2008
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- WHS
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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
- Matera 3.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 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
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans 2.5
- Thessalonika 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- L'viv 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 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
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Old City of Berne 2.0
- Fray Bentos 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Stecci 1.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Nice 1.0
- Vlkolinec 1.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.0
- Fagus Factory 1.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Flemish Béguinages 1.0
- Jelling 0.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 0.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 0.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 0.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan
- Station écologique de Taim
- Degania & Nahalal
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Olympic Park Munich
- Timna
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- La Leche Valley
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Rijal Almaa
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Rouen
- Jerusalem
- The Crusader Fortresses
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- The Hula
- 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
- Ston
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Danube Natural and Cultural Landscape
- 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
- Battlefield of Ayacucho
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Liftah
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Bet She'an
- Green Belt
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Kosice
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy)
- Caesarea
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Hoge Kempen
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana
- Kizilirmak Delta Wetland and Bird Sanctuary
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Arbel
- Ein Karem
- Horvat Minnim
- Makhteshim Country
- Sea of Galilee
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Reviews by Assif
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Danube Valley CL around Regen… (Removed from tentat…)
Danube Valley CL around Regensburg inc Walhalla
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19/10/15
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Kezmarok Wooden Articular Chu… (Removed from tentat…)
Kezmarok Wooden Articular Church and city center
As I have already reviewed this special church under the WHS entry I would now like to focus on the rest of the historic centre of Kezmarok that was left …
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Assif
08/06/15
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Athens (Removed from tentat…)
Athens
At first Greece intended to nominate a much larger area of Athens than just the Acropolis which included ancient monuments (by no way confined to the Acropolis alone) as well …
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Assif
08/06/15
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt (Inscribed)
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
We have already got a connection "Art colonies", however, Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt will probably become the first site the OUV of which lies in its function as such, unless Cubanacan …
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Assif
18/04/15
Spandau Citadel (Removed from tentat…)
Spandau Citadel
A major fort from 1594, Spandau is considered among the best examples of military Renaissance architecture in Europe. The complex is large and quite impressive. It can easily be visited …
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24/03/15
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Berlin Philharmonic Concert H… (Removed from tentat…)
Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall
I was not aware that this modern monument opened in 1963 was ever under consideration for WHS. Being an icon of concert buildings, certainly among the best in its category, …
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24/03/15
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Kourion (Removed from tentat…)
Kourion
Kourion is yet another Roman city on the Mediterranean shore. Even Cyprus itself has two other similar sites to offer: Paphos and Salamis, the latter currently being located in the …
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Assif
15/03/15
Duomo di Milano (Removed from tentat…)
Duomo di Milano
Yet another Gothic cathedral is surely not what the WH list needs. The Cathedral of Milan prides in being one of the largest churches in the world, the third largest …
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15/03/15
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Ville Vesuviane (Removed from tentat…)
Ville Vesuviane
When visiting Naples I visited the two most famous villas: Reggia di Portici and Villa Campolieto. As far as I know, these are also the only ones among the 122 …
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10/03/15
Budapest Ghetto and 4 synagog… (Removed from tentat…)
Budapest Ghetto and 4 synagogues
As far as I could find out, the Jewish ghetto has three famous synagogues, not four. They are even called the Jewish Triangle: at the Dohany st., Kazinczi st. and …
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10/03/15
Munich - Ludwigstrasse, Odeon… (Removed from tentat…)
Munich - Ludwigstrasse, Odeonplatz, Feldherrenhall
The centre of Munich features several impressive squares from the 19th century, all with bombastic Neoclassical design, which most reminds me of Vienna. The ensemble of Ludwigstraße, Königsplatz and Odeonplatz …
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05/03/15
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Monastery of Eberbach (Removed from tentat…)
Monastery of Eberbach
Eberbach stands quite near to the WHS Middle Rhine Valley in a touristy area called the Rheingau. It could have easily entered the list as a part of that nomination …
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05/03/15
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Goethe Haus Frankfurt (Removed from tentat…)
Goethe Haus Frankfurt
Currently living next to Frankfurt I have naturally been to Goethe Haus. The interior reflects how richly burgher families lived during the 18th century and shows the intellectual environment in …
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05/03/15
Passau old town (Removed from tentat…)
Passau old town
Passau is famous for its old town situated at the estuary of the Danube with two of its tributaries: Ilz and Inn. This makes the setting special. Historically, Passau was …
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05/03/15
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lor… (Inscribed)
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
I recently visited Lorsch upon its opening after lengthy renovations. I would like to give some information regarding some new developments there.
The Carolingian Königshalle has been now completely renovated …
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Assif
25/10/14
Great Spa Towns of Europe (Inscribed)
Great Spa Towns of Europe
Currently residing in Bad Homburg, I was pleased to learn that it is planned to be included as a part of this transnational proposal. If successful, this would make small …
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25/10/14
Le Palais de Justice de Bruxe… (On tentative list)
Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
An enormous Neoclassical building that was considered pompous even for its time! It is a very big and impressive building that you can visit for free at the normal opening …
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Assif
25/08/13
Les passages de Bruxelles (On tentative list)
Les passages de Bruxelles
This is the first shopping passage in the world and the predecessor of the modern shopping mall. It's ajacent to the only inscribed Grand Place and might be considered as …
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Assif
25/08/13
Stecci (Inscribed)
Stecci
Radimilja is a small cemetery near the road leading to Stolac. It is the most famous Mediaeval cemetery in Herzegovina and has some nice tombstones. It often features on touristic …
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Assif
17/04/13
Mount Carmel Caves (Inscribed)
Mount Carmel Caves
The Carmel caves are the only site where both Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals have been found side by side. Despite its historical significance there is really not much to see …
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15/09/12
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