Once upon a time, two centuries and a bit, The German world was split in two, the Hapsburg Slavic lands and and the archduchess and kingdoms that would wind up …
Eric Lurio
Member since April 2014
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My most impressive site: Uluru (it looks like a giant chunk of chocolate just after sunset
My proposal for a new site: The Kaaba.
Recent Visits
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140Sept. 15, 2024Bamberg, Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust, Central University City Campus of the UNAM, Cologne Cathedral, …
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03Jan. 1, 2024Visit nominated site: Central Park, Old Town of Jakarta, The Palaces of King Ludwig II
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01Jan. 1, 2020Wooded meadows
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About Eric Lurio
- Member since
- April 2014
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #280
- WHS
- 193
- Tentative Sites
- 34
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 17
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Sabratha 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Samarkand 5.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 5.0
- Persepolis 5.0
- Copán 5.0
- Würzburg Residence 5.0
- Victoria Falls 5.0
- Uluru 4.5
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Leptis Magna 4.5
- Serengeti 4.5
- Palenque 4.5
- Kathmandu Valley 4.5
- Gros Morne National Park 4.5
- Monticello 4.5
- Quirigua 4.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 4.0
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Baalbek 4.0
- Mountain Railways of India 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 4.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.0
- Altamira Cave 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Crac des Chevaliers 4.0
- Regensburg 4.0
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 4.0
- Damascus 4.0
- Bukhara 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Timbuktu 4.0
- Curonian Spit 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- Cliff of Bandiagara 4.0
- Yazd 4.0
- Saint Catherine Area 4.0
- Djenné 4.0
- Gulf of California 4.0
- Bamberg 3.5
- St. George, Bermuda 3.5
- Aleppo 3.5
- Palmyra 3.5
- Belize Barrier Reef 3.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.5
- Cahokia Mounds 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Sian Ka'an 3.5
- Ngorongoro 3.5
- Pasargadae 3.5
- Ghadames 3.5
- Persian Garden 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Pergamon 3.5
- Antigua Guatemala 3.5
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 3.5
- Tikal National Park 3.5
- Walled City of Baku 3.5
- Baroque Churches 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Red Fort 3.5
- Bethlehem 3.5
- Old Havana 3.5
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
- Danube Limes 3.5
- San Antonio Missions 3.0
- Fort Jesus 3.0
- Land of Frankincense 3.0
- Lumbini 3.0
- Burgos Cathedral 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Glacier parks 3.0
- Mammoth Cave 3.0
- Lake Turkana 3.0
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria 3.0
- Cyrene 2.5
- Pearling 2.5
- Gobustan Rock Art 2.5
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 2.5
- Redwood 2.5
Tentative Sites
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Central Park
- Mount Vernon
- Thingvellir National Park
- Historic Lighthouses of The Bahamas
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National
- Ellis Island
- Jerusalem
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Sea of Galilee
- Casablanca
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
- The Maasai Mara
- City of Granada and its natural environment
- Egyptian Museum
- Marine Protected Areas of American Samoa
- The Core of the Mayan Area
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar
- California Current Conservation Complex
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- Grenadines Island Group
- Old Town of Jakarta
- Cathédrale de Bamako
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
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Reviews by Eric Lurio


Schönbrunn (Inscribed)
Schönbrunn
When his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Franz Josef the 1st, by the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and …

Budapest (Inscribed)
Budapest
AS to the capital of Hungary, it’s not as old as it’s supposed to be. Budapest, pronounced Buda-Pescht, only dates to 1873, and most of the oldest architecture …

Early Chicago Skyscrapers (On tentative list)
Early Chicago Skyscrapers
I'm not too sure about this one. They're mostly nondescript office buildings (okay, one has apartments) which I checked out after the Democratic convention. There are three of them right …

Burgos Cathedral (Inscribed)
Burgos Cathedral
I went there last week, as we were on a different tour and had some time, we stopped by and we had enough people to get a discount.
As …

Old Havana (Inscribed)
Old Havana
¡¡¡Silenc-YO!!!
The crowd at the Castle of the Three Kings of the Orient is larger than one would expect for a daily event, but the evening is lovely and there’s …

Dubrovnik (Inscribed)
Dubrovnik
Once upon a time there was a land called Yugoslavia. It was full of enchanted forests and beautiful scenery and was ruled by an enlightend despot named Joseph Broz Tito. …

Old City of Jerusalem (Inscribed)
Old City of Jerusalem
Jerusalem is too damn holy for it’s own good. I’m not saying everyone who lives there is nuts, that’s obviously not the case, but it just seems that way. But …

Independence Hall (Inscribed)
Independence Hall
In the spring of 1799, the city of Philadelphia, PA was bureaucrat heaven. The State, Local and Federal governments were for the most part sharing the same space, and the …

Stone Town of Zanzibar (Inscribed)
Stone Town of Zanzibar
This was written in 1989, when I was first starting out....
Mr.Mitu's Botanical Safaris
By Eric Lurio
Zanzibar. You start with a name. Everybody's heard of it somewhere. A mythical …

Persepolis (Inscribed)
Persepolis
The pre-Islamic heritage of the middle east and central Asia hasn't always been as appreciated by Moslems as it is now, note the notorious destruction of the Giant Buddha's in …

Pasargadae (Inscribed)
Pasargadae
On our way from Shiraz to Istfahan, we stopped at the tomb of Cyrus in Parsagad. there were some bas reliefs of a guy in a fish suit and a …

Québec (Inscribed)
Québec
I've been to Quebec twice, the second time I got lost and nearly missed the cruise ship. The first time, in 2001, there was a war going on....
The 2001 …

Timbuktu (Inscribed)
Timbuktu
Let's just call it the third pole. Timbuktu was one of those places of legend that it was impossible to get to. That is until the turn of the 19th …

Statue of Liberty (Inscribed)
Statue of Liberty
As far as national icons go, Frédéric Bartholdi’s Liberty Enlightening the World is the ultimate. It is a symbol of what this nation is supposed to stand for, for the …

Vatican City (Inscribed)
Vatican City
One of the coolest things that a tourist can do is to see an entire foreign country…All of it…From one end of the other.
This is activity that can literally …

Venice and its Lagoon (Inscribed)
Venice and its Lagoon
Among the weirdest cities in the World, Venice, Italy must rank among the top five. I don’t mean this in a BAD way actually, but the place is completely so …