This is hardly a representative review, but given that there is no other so far for this tentative serial property, I surmise that something is better than nothing. While vacationing …
Ilya Burlak
United States of America \ Member since January 2017
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I only started prioritizing visiting World Heritage sites a few years ago, and with my limited US-based corporate-warrior time-off allocation and family obligations, I can only add a handful to a dozen in any given year. I look forward to visiting them all after I retire...
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Recent Visits
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01July 11, 2025Greece: Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea
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25Dec. 4, 2024Hungary: Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System, Hollókö, Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom ...
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51May 14, 2024Peru: Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima ...
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About Ilya Burlak
- Member since
- January 2017
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #314
- WHS
- 179
- Tentative Sites
- 36
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 123
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Cordoba 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- Loire Valley 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Segovia 5.0
- Kraków 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Bryggen 4.5
- Assisi 4.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Seville 4.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- San Gimignano 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- L'viv 4.0
- Machu Picchu 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Chartres Cathedral 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 4.0
- Urbino 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Albi 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Ferrara 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Tarraco 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Hollókö 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Masada 3.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Odesa 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Neolithic Orkney 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
- Bethlehem 2.5
- Belize Barrier Reef 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Schokland 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Wadden Sea 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 1.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Ellis Island
- Central Park
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Iznik
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Orvieto
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Jerusalem
- Volterra
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex
- Caesarea
- Makhteshim Country
- Ein Karem
- Degania & Nahalal
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Amalienborg and its district
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Stolac
- The archeological site of Tanais
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Reviews by Ilya Burlak

Ancient Towers of the Aegean … (On tentative list)
Cheimarros Tower

Versailles (Inscribed)
Versailles
In my humble opinion, Versailles is a must-see in one's lifetime, even though it has its drawbacks. First of all, the palace is frequently unbearably overcrowded. And, being the early …

Paris, Banks of the Seine (Inscribed)
Paris, Banks of the Seine
I love Paris. It is one of the first places that comes to my mind in the context of "there is no other place I'd rather be". We've been to …

Westminster (Inscribed)
Westminster
I've been to the Westminster Abbey for the first time as far back as 2000, and then at least a couple of times while living in London in the later …

Tower of London (Inscribed)
Tower of London
The Tower is awfully expensive and terribly overcrowded. There is hardly a better indicator of the worth of a tourist attraction visit than the economics of exorbitant entrance fees not …

Hollókö (Inscribed)
Hollókö
Visited in November of 2024. Something that is 300 years old and deliberately well-preserved always piques my interest, even if it has a reconstructed-for-museum-purposes feel. In any case, Hollókő is …

Royal Seats in Esztergom, Vis… (On tentative list)
Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
I visited Esztergom and its castle in November of 2024 on a day trip from Budapest by car. The direct driving distance between Budapest and Esztergom is a little bit …

Pannonhalma (Inscribed)
Pannonhalma
I visited Pannonhalma in November of 2024 by car from Budapest - the drive is about an hour and a half long. The only other visitors that I eventually saw …

Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (On tentative list)
Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
While in Budapest in November of 2024, I stopped by two of the locations of this serial submission.
Aquincum archaeological site marks the location of the capital of the …

Caves of the Buda Thermal Kar… (On tentative list)
Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
I visited Pál-völgyi Cave during my stay in Budapest in November 2024. I did not plan to see more than one cave in this serial submission, and based on my …

Ödön Lechner's independent pr… (On tentative list)
Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
All of my research ahead of the trip to Budapest last November suggested that you cannot visit either the Postal Saving Bank or the State Geological Institute. The Museum of …

Budapest (Inscribed)
Budapest
Visited in November 2024, fifteen years-plus since the first visit.
I love how impressive examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco are found on practically every block in Central …

Qhapaq Ñan (Inscribed)
Qhapaq Ñan
This hardly qualifies as a review, since my experience with Qhapaq Ñan is limited to the central Cuzco in May of 2024. But since this experience contains a couple of …

Cuzco (Inscribed)
Cuzco
I visited Cuzco in May of 2024. Echoing the previous reviewers, it is a lovely living town with a visible exceptional blend of pre-Columbian and Colonial design, boasting a number …

Salt Mines of Maras (On tentative list)
Salt Mines of Maras
Possibly because I have never toured a salt flats site before, Maras saltineras impressed me a lot. The deceptive simplicity of the process, coupled with the visuals of hundreds - …

Machu Picchu (Inscribed)
Machu Picchu
I visited Machu Picchu in May of 2024. I suspect it is one of the most obvious bucket-list destinations for anyone who's ever been bitten by the travel bug, so …

Arequipa (Inscribed)
Arequipa
I visited Arequipa in May of 2024, possibly very close to the time that Dennis was there as well, and truth be told, I have little to add to his …

Lima (Inscribed)
Lima
My trip to Peru in May 2024 had two full-day bookends in Lima, which gave me plenty of time to explore the historic center. I share the opinion that you …

Belize Barrier Reef (Inscribed)
Belize Barrier Reef
I visited the South Water Caye component in December of 2023. In line with most of the reviews below, I am not a diver, not an underwater photographer, and at …

Tikal National Park (Inscribed)
Tikal National Park
I visited Tikal in December of 2023 on a day trip from Western Belize. Echoing the past reviewers, the huge site well deserves various superlatives. The Grand Plaza is the …