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 …
Caspar
Switzerland \ Member since May 2012
#185 269 57 7
My most impressive site: Venice
My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park
Recent Visits
-
01Oct. 9, 2025Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
-
00Oct. 8, 2025Los Barruecos de Malpartida, Cáceres
-
01Oct. 8, 2025Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
Top 10 Missing
About Caspar
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
Visits
- Rank
- #185
- WHS
- 269
- Tentative Sites
- 57
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 68
-
Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Granada 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Taputapuātea 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Vézère Valley 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Potsdam 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Altamira Cave 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Rhodes 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Ferrara 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- St. Kilda 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Burgos Cathedral 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- City of Luxembourg 2.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Mérida 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- Forth Bridge 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.0
- Caceres 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5
- Hiraizumi 1.5
- Bauhaus Sites 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 1.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
- Fagus Factory 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 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
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.0
- The Flow Country 1.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 1.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.0
- Djerba 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Tarraco 1.0
- Medina Azahara 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Ancient Kamakura
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Rouen
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- 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
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Coastal Cliffs
- Central Park
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Ellis Island
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Empuries Greek Archaeological ensemble
- Mining Historical Heritage
- Turo 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)
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo
- The Silver Route
- 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 CL
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Orvieto
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées
- Massif du Mont-Blanc
- Leuven
- Amalienborg and its district
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragor
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- 275 71
- Locations
- 0
- Zones
- 0
Reviews by Caspar
Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)
Luis Barragán House and Studio
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 …
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 …
Zone de monuments de Puebla e… (Removed from tentat…)
Zone de monuments de Puebla et Cholula
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …