Segovia has long been on my wish list, also because of some raving reviews on this website. On my first afternoon in the city I started with the three famous …
Caspar
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My most impressive site: Venice
My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park
Recent Visits
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30May 6, 2025Kew Gardens, Maritime Greenwich, The Flow Country
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10Feb. 21, 2025Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
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10Nov. 10, 2024Úbeda and Baeza
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- May 2012
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- Switzerland
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- #188
- WHS
- 261
- Tentative Sites
- 53
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Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Vézère Valley 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Taputapuātea 5.0
- Versailles 4.5
- Potsdam 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Altamira Cave 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Ferrara 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Olympia 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Burgos Cathedral 3.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- St. Kilda 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- City of Luxembourg 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Bauhaus Sites 1.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
- Fagus Factory 1.5
- Hiraizumi 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Stevns Klint 1.5
- Messel Pit 1.5
- Cologne Cathedral 1.5
- Poblet Monastery 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.0
- Djerba 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.0
- Tarraco 1.0
- The Flow Country 1.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
- Medina Azahara 0.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Ellis Island
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Ancient Kamakura
- Network of fortresses of Carcassonne
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Rouen
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- City of York
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- The Episcopal See of Egara
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Central Park
- Coastal Cliffs
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbo
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries
- Mining Historical Heritage
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Via Francigena
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- The Wine in Iberia
- Mediterranean Wind Mills
- Birkenhead Park
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Carmona’s cultural landscape
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Italica
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Cascata delle Marmore
- Citadel of Alessandria
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- Hiraizumi (extension)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Sp
- Orvieto
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées
- Massif du Mont-Blanc
- Leuven
- Amalienborg and its district
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
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Reviews by Caspar


Avila (Inscribed)
Avila
I visited Avila in March 2019 after spending a couple of days in Segovia and found the first impression quite stunning. The city walls in the evening sun are quite …

Stourhead (Removed from tentat…)
Stourhead
This is probably one of the most iconic gardens in England if not in the World. Like all great gardens it is staged with so much work and artistry that …

Caerleon legionary fortress (Removed from tentat…)
Caerleon legionary fortress
We visited this former tentative site on the drive from Bath to Blaenavon. It is a nice visit with the totally overgrown amphitheater, the outlines of a legionary fortress and …

Dorset and East Devon Coast (Inscribed)
Dorset and East Devon Coast
I was quite taken by the Dorset Coast. We spent there two days and could have easily spent more. Our first walk was to Old Harry Rock. Beautiful white cliffs …
Lacock (Removed from tentat…)
Lacock
We visited Lacock in July 2018 from Avebury. Lacock is a very nice well-kept village that has been used in many films and series including Harry Potter. When you walk …

Cornwall and West Devon Minin… (Inscribed)
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
This site is hard to grasp since it is so wide spread, perhaps too wide. When I was traveling SW England this summer I wanted to see a representable part …

Beauvais (Removed from tentat…)
Beauvais
I visited this church on a trip from Reims to Le Havre. It has a very interesting history and we decided to make a stop there. The church has the …

Abbatiale de Tournus (Removed from tentat…)
Abbatiale de Tournus
I travelled around Burgundy in 2016 and I was a bit surprised how important a cultural and religious center this area was in the middle ages. The famous reform order …

Djerba (Inscribed)
Djerba
I visited Djerba for holidays in February of 2009. I was very surprised now when I saw that it was to be nominated as a WHS since I found the …

Würzburg Residence (Inscribed)
Würzburg Residence
I visited this palace in August 2011. Obviously it was forbidden to take pictures since I have only one picture of the famous staircase. While this residence does not rival …

Paris, Banks of the Seine (Inscribed)
Paris, Banks of the Seine
There is no perfect way do determine the exact boundaries of a city WHS. And while there are cities like Quito that seem to have no boundaries at all or …

Pombaline Lisbon (On tentative list)
Pombaline Lisbon
From the four tentativ sites within the city of Lisbon this seems to me the one with the best perspectives. It is a nice area to walk around though you …

Historical Lisbon, Global City (Removed from tentat…)
Historical Lisbon, Global City
This nomination certainly overlaps with the nomination of Pombaline Lisbon but includes additionally all the other areas of the older city center. When the text for Pombaline Lisbon seems already …

Aguas Livres Aqueduct (On tentative list)
Aguas Livres Aqueduct
I visited the Aguas Livres Aqueduct, namely its most famous arches over the Alcântara Valley in Lisbon. It is an impressiv structure that crosses a large valley Full of streets …

Chaîne des Puys (Inscribed)
Chaîne des Puys
I visited the Chaîne des Puys during a trip along the enchanting Dordogne. We drove up the highest peak of the chain, the Puy de Dôme. From there you have …

The timeless, humanistic arch… (Removed from tentat…)
The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Pleč
I often wonder how there can be so many tentative sites in the middle of Europe without a review on this website despite the fact that they are easy to …

Strasbourg (Inscribed)
Strasbourg
I visited Strasbourg a couple of weeks ago during my holidays in the Alsace. As always when I visit a UNESCO site I tried to figure out the exact parts …

Campeche (Inscribed)
Campeche
The walls of Campeche are nice but not complete and Not all original. I cannot imagine that there were not several similar or even more impressive even in the new …

Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)
Luis Barragán House and Studio
I visited this house during my one day in Mexico City flying home from Yucatán. The required reservation over the website did not work, therefore I just went there and …