Bourges was the first of five Gothic cathedrals on the WH list, that we visited on our trip to Northern France in August/September 2015. The others were Chartres, Reims, Amiens, …
Hubert
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My most impressive site: Old City of Jerusalem, Bauhaus
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About Hubert
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- October 2011
- Country of Origin
- Austria
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- WHS
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- Tentative Sites
- 91
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Rome 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Bauhaus Sites 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Prague 4.0
- Dolomites 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Granada 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Masada 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Fagus Factory 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5
- Selimiye Mosque 3.5
- Ferrara 3.5
- Ravenna 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Matera 3.5
- Brugge 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Classical Weimar 3.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
- Lyon 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- Elvas 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Hattusha 3.5
- Acropolis 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Cordoba 3.5
- Ephesus 3.5
- Seville 3.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
- Teide National Park 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
- Budapest 3.5
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.5
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Isole Eolie 3.0
- Salamanca 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Cartagena 3.0
- Mystras 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Assisi 3.0
- Asturian Monuments 3.0
- Castel del Monte 3.0
- Altamira Cave 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Old Rauma 3.0
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Aphrodisias 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Cordouan Lighthouse 3.0
- Curonian Spit 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Medina of Tétouan 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 3.0
- Salzburg 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Pergamon 3.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Safranbolu 3.0
- Banska Stiavnica 3.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Albi 3.0
- Kii Mountain Range 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Vall de Boi 3.0
- Himeji-jo 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Québec 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5
- Causses and Cévennes 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Chartres Cathedral 2.5
- Amiens Cathedral 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Le Havre 2.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5
- Van Nellefabriek 2.5
- Bryggen 2.5
- Churches of Peace 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.5
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 2.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Lübeck 2.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5
- University of Coimbra 2.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Stevns Klint 2.5
- Wadden Sea 2.5
- Boyana Church 2.5
- Nessebar 2.5
- Pirin National Park 2.5
- Zamość 2.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Mérida 2.5
- Lake District 2.5
- Fujisan 2.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5
- The Prosecco Hills 2.5
- Petäjävesi Old Church 2.5
- Tallinn 2.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 2.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Canterbury 2.5
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Thessalonika 2.5
- Troy 2.5
- Çatalhöyük 2.5
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2.5
- Gordion 2.5
- Via Appia 2.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Burgundy 2.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 2.0
- Burgos Cathedral 2.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- Tower of Hercules 2.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 2.0
- Schönbrunn 2.0
- Bellinzone 2.0
- Ivrea 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Bourges Cathedral 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.0
- Reims 2.0
- Orange 2.0
- Muskauer Park 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Modernist Kaunas 2.0
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.0
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Provins 2.0
- Medina Azahara 2.0
- Evora 2.0
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.0
- Avila 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2.0
- Xanthos-Letoon 2.0
- Old City of Berne 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.0
- Caceres 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Kernavė 2.0
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.0
- Palmeral of Elche 2.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 2.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 2.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 1.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Pannonhalma 1.5
- Vézelay 1.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 1.5
- Donana National Park 1.5
- Tarraco 1.5
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 1.5
- Vlkolinec 1.5
- Bardejov Town 1.5
- Abbey of St Gall 1.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 1.5
- Trebic 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Genoa 1.5
- Litomysl Castle 1.5
- Modena 1.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 1.5
- The Flow Country 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Atapuerca 1.5
- Blenheim Palace 1.5
- Studley Royal Park 1.5
- Monte San Giorgio 1.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 1.5
- Nancy 1.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 1.5
- Jelling 1.5
- Kronborg Castle 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 1.5
- Reichenau 1.5
- Quedlinburg 1.5
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 1.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.5
- Saltaire 1.0
- Madara Rider 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.0
- Hollókö 1.0
- Corvey 1.0
- Beemster Polder 1.0
- Mafra 1.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.0
- Holasovice 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- Lower German Limes 1.0
- Par force hunting landscape 0.5
- Tokaji Wine Region 0.5
- Hortobágy 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Seljuk Caravanserais from Denizli to Dogubeyazit
- City of York
- Iznik
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- Mountain-top Hotel Television Transmitter Ještěd
- Olympic Park Munich
- Aalto Works
- The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa
- Enclos paroissiaux du Finistère
- Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf (EXT)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Rade de Marseille
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization
- The wider area of Mount Olympus
- La Camargue
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège
- Hangar Y
- Kosice
- The historic town of Korcula
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana
- Ston
- Amalienborg and its district
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Bussaco cultural landscape
- Domaine de Fontainebleau
- Orvieto
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice
- Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadows
- The Spa at Luhacovice
- Jaen Cathedral
- Central Park
- Italica
- Franja Partisan Hospital
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- The Ancient Plovdiv
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
- The Silver Route
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Arsenal de Rochefort
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- The Fortress of Terezín
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage
- Valle Salado de Añana
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine CL
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
- Citadel of Alessandria
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- The Television Tower Stuttgart
- Pretzien Weir
- European Paper Mills
- European Paper Mills
- Archaeological site of Laodikeia
- St. Nicholas Church
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs
- Ancient City of Aspendos
- Archaeological Site of Assos
- Basilica Therma
- The Historical Port City of Izmir
- Mothia Island and Lilibeo
- European Paper Mills
- Empuries Greek Archaeological ensemble
- Odunpazari Historical Urban Site
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- The royal necropolis of Seuthopolis
- Vila Viçosa
- Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
- Leuven
- Volterra
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens
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Reviews by Hubert
Megaliths of Carnac (Inscribed)
Megaliths of Carnac
The first time that I saw pictures of the Carnac stones was in a textbook at school and I was instantly fascinated by these enigmatic alignments. Many years later, when …
Fortifications of Vauban (Inscribed)
Fortifications of Vauban
Vauban was a famous general during the reign of Louis XIV, but today he is better known for his achievements as a military engineer. He built and modernized countless fortifications …
Mont-Saint-Michel (Inscribed)
Mont-Saint-Michel
Even though I had seen many photos of Mont-Saint-Michel, it was a real wow-effect when I saw this pyramid for the first time. The Mont and the striking shape of …
D-Day Landing Beaches, Norman… (Nominated)
D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
The "Plagues du Débarquement" or D-Day beaches were added to the French T-list at the same day as the funeral sites and memorials of WWI. Two seemingly similar nomination, but …
Le Havre (Inscribed)
Le Havre
"Perret, la poétique du béton" (Perret, the poetics of concrete) was written on a poster at the Maison du Patrimoine in Le Havre. Well, that's certainly exaggerated and I can …
Jewish-Medieval heritage of E… (Inscribed)
Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
The subtitle sounds a bit overblown and boastful compared to what this T-list site actually includes, namely a synagogue, the ruins of a ritual bath and a secular building. The …
ShUM Sites (Inscribed)
ShUM Sites
The term ShUM is an acronym from the initial letters of the medieval names of Speyer, Worms and Mainz in Hebrew: Schin (Sh) for Schpira, Waw (U) for Warmaisa und …
Water Management System of Au… (Inscribed)
Water Management System of Augsburg
I am pretty sure most people in Augsburg did not realize that the historic water management has the potential for a WHS until it was proposed for the new German …
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt (Inscribed)
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
The Mathildenhöhe Artists' Colony is one of the most promising candidates on the new German tentative list, and it is also a site which I would like to see inscribed. …
Caves and Ice Age Art (Inscribed)
Caves and Ice Age Art
The paleontologists in Germany suffer a bit from the fact, that there are no sites of prehistoric rock art, not even simple scratches of arrows or circles, not to mention …
Speyer Cathedral (Inscribed)
Speyer Cathedral
Opinions on the Speyer Cathedral vary considerably: either a marvellous example of Romanesque architecture or a bare and austere interior without any spirit. I must admit that the atmosphere inside …
Maulbronn Monastery (Inscribed)
Maulbronn Monastery
The Maulbronn WHS is a perfect example of a medieval monastery, the special feature is that not only the monastic buildings have been preserved but also the entire ensemble of …
Early Christian Necropolis of… (Inscribed)
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
For World Heritage enthusiasts Pécs is located in the middle of nowhere, the next WHS is in a straight-line distance of 170 kilometres (Budapest), which is quite a lot on …
Hollókö (Inscribed)
Hollókö
Hollókõ is a fine example of vernacular architecture, which has remained virtually unchanged for centuries. Although the village was burned down several times, it was always restored in the style …
Tokaji Wine Region (Inscribed)
Tokaji Wine Region
The Hungarian World Heritage Sites never seemed very appealing to me (with the exception of Budapest), and it never crossed my mind to plan a trip to Eastern Hungary as …
Hortobágy (Inscribed)
Hortobágy
Puszta, a well-known term that is inseparably linked to Hungary. But what can be expected from this WHS? The last remains of an unspoilt cultural landscape with traces of the …
Aggtelek and Slovak Karst (Inscribed)
Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
The cave system of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst was inscribed mainly because of the high number of caves in a relatively small area and the variety of geological morphology, …
Bardejov Town (Inscribed)
Bardejov Town
Bardejov is a sleepy small town not far from the border with Poland, we visited the WHS in August 2014. The inscription is based on the almost completely preserved medieval …
Spissky Hrad and Levoca (Inscribed)
Spissky Hrad and Levoca
Without a doubt, Spissky hrad is a spectacular sight, the castle built of white travertine and towering on a green hill is a popular photo subject from every side and …