As the WH inscription itself suggests, the highest concentration of examples of Bauhaus Movement architecture (interestingly, the inscription never uses the term "Bauhaus", instead preferring fuzzier "modern") is around Dizengoff …
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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61Nov. 30, 2025Italy 2025: Crespi d'Adda, Genoa, Ivrea ...
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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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About Ilya Burlak
- Member since
- January 2017
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #311
- WHS
- 185
- Tentative Sites
- 38
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 125
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Segovia 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 5.0
- Cordoba 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Loire Valley 5.0
- Sintra 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Seville 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.5
- Bryggen 4.5
- Assisi 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- San Gimignano 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.5
- Albi 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- Machu Picchu 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Urbino 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- L'viv 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Chartres Cathedral 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Genoa 3.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Tarraco 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 3.5
- Ferrara 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Masada 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Hollókö 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Odesa 3.0
- Neolithic Orkney 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Belize Barrier Reef 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Wadden Sea 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Schokland 2.5
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Bethlehem 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Longobards in Italy 1.5
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 1.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 1.0
- Ivrea 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Orvieto
- Iznik
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Jerusalem
- Volterra
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Central Park
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Ellis Island
- 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
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Olympic Park Munich
- 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
Nuruosmaniye Complex (On tentative list)
Nuruosmaniye Complex
I made a 15-minute stop at Nuruosmaniye Mosque on my tour around Istanbul in November 2019. The mosque is located outside one of the entrances to the Grand Bazaar, well …
Istanbul (Inscribed)
Istanbul
Previous reviewers have already covered the main points of visiting Istanbul, so I'll stick to the specific angle of visiting the city on an intraday layover. In November of 2019, …
Semmering Railway (Inscribed)
Semmering Railway
In a burst of fairly unusual spontaneity, I traversed the length of the WH-inscribed portion of Semmering Railway twice in both directions on consecutive days in December of 2016. I …
Kotor (Inscribed)
Kotor
I visited Kotor area in July of this year on a day-trip from Dubrovnik. I first drove along practically entire perimeter of the uniquely-shaped bay to the town of Kotor, …
Dubrovnik (Inscribed)
Dubrovnik
In July 2019 Dubrovnik acted as a base for my exploration of its WHS "hotspot". I spent only one full day in Dubrovnik proper but returned every evening for a …
Stolac (On tentative list)
Stolac
In July of 2019, I visited Stolac area with the focus on nearby stećci sites, Radimlja and Boljuni. Both are included on the Stolac ensemble tentative submission, in addition to …
Stecci (Inscribed)
Stecci
I visited two of the properties of this serial site in July of 2019 on the way from Mostar to Dubrovnik. One of the best preserved and best known of …
Mostar (Inscribed)
Mostar
Mostar left probably the most vivid impression for me from the entire July 2019 trip to Dubrovnik and Split WHS hotspots. I have had so far very limited exposure on …
Trogir (Inscribed)
Trogir
The historic center of Trogir sits on a tiny island – roughly 500 meters long and 250 meters wide – which can be fairly closely explored in the matter of …
Cathedral of St. James in Sib… (Inscribed)
Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
Somewhat uniquely for a grand church in a town with uneven topography, Cathedral of Saint James does not occupy a commanding highest point. Stairways run up from the cathedral square …
Zadar - Episcopal complex (On tentative list)
Zadar - Episcopal complex
Zadar is already on the World Heritage list, or at least its fortifications are as part of the Venetian Works of Defense serial site. Additionally, a collection of buildings and …
Split (Inscribed)
Split
I had a base in Split for nearly a week on a recent trip to Croatia. Only a single day was budgeted for exploring the town, but I also returned …
Evora (Inscribed)
Evora
The capital of the Alentejo region, Évora, is a city with more than twenty centuries of history. But its profile is much lower than that of other points of interest …
Sintra (Inscribed)
Sintra
Sintra is one of the most impressive and attractive places to visit in all of Portugal. It is also one of the most maddeningly overcrowded. We were there in late …
Pombaline Lisbon (On tentative list)
Pombaline Lisbon
It is rather curious that there are two tentative submissions for Lisbon, dated with the same exact day, of which one happens to entirely encompass the other. Pombaline Lisbon is …
Historical Lisbon, Global City (Removed from tentat…)
Historical Lisbon, Global City
Both the description and the OUV justification on the tentative WH submission for Lisbon outline with significant detail the uniqueness of the city history and its importance in the Age …
Belem (Inscribed)
Belem
I visited the WHS in Belém on a Portuguese national holiday in April, which was obviously not the best day for sightseeing. There is a corollary of Murphy’s Law, formulated …
Convent of Christ in Tomar (Inscribed)
Convent of Christ in Tomar
The Convent of Christ in Tomar is the oldest in the Portuguese World Heritage monastic triangle (the other two are Alcobaça and Batalha), founded in the 12th century. It has …
Monastery of Batalha (Inscribed)
Monastery of Batalha
Batalha Monastery is a masterpiece of Gothic and Manueline art. I visited all three WH monastic complexes in the Centro Region of Portugal in April of 2019, and the contrast …