I visited this site during my trip to Mexico in 2009 and found it fascinating: Just the largest pyramid in the world is an impressiv fact. But it is hidden …
Caspar
Switzerland \ Member since May 2012
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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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About
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
Visits
- Rank
- #188
- WHS
- 261
- Tentative Sites
- 53
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 67
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Ratings
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

Zone de monuments de Puebla e… (Removed from tentat…)
Zone de monuments de Puebla et Cholula

The Ahuehuete Tree of Santa M… (Removed from tentat…)
The Ahuehuete Tree of Santa Maria del Tule
On the way from Oaxaca to Mitla, both impressive WTS in their on right, we visited this incredible tree. Once a Zapotec sacred site, it is now adopted by the …

L'oeuvre architecturale d'Hen… (On tentative list)
L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
I am always taken by the buildings by Henry van der Velde: I visited several of them by chance: the magnificent museum Kröller-Möller, the buildings in Weimar and Gent. First …

Flemish Béguinages (Inscribed)
Flemish Béguinages
During my summer vacation in Brussels I visited several Beguinages.
The most beautiful for me was the one Leuven. It is large, full of red brick buildings, has several bridges …

Major Town Houses (Inscribed)
Major Town Houses
During my summer vacation in Brussels I visited the four inscribed Horta houses. The Horta Museum is lovely and nicely overwhelming. An absolut must. Since the other three houses are …

Le Palais de Justice de Bruxe… (On tentative list)
Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
The Palais de Justice is impressive in many ways. First its pure size. Then its pomp with golden dome with a crown on top. Then the rather odd mix of …

Olympia (Inscribed)
Olympia
We arrived by boat in Katalokon and since we missed a bus we rented a car at the port and drove quite easily to Olympia in about half an hour. …