I guess most WHS travellers take interest in knowing a bit about the history of the sites they visit, and you can’t visit Romania, without understanding a little bit about …
Jan-Willem
Netherlands \ Member since April 2014
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Every now and then, I like to learn about the world just by seeing it :) But no big fan of long flights, so it's mostly done by road tripping.
Recent Visits
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10July 15, 2025Megaliths of Carnac
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agra Fort
- Ajanta Caves
- Albi
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Thebes
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Arles
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bamberg
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Bordeaux
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Brugge
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Burgundy
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Çatalhöyük
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Cesky Krumlov
- Champagne
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Curonian Spit
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Limes
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Edinburgh
- Eisinga Planetarium
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- Ephesus
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Garajonay
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genoa
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Gwynedd Castles
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Heritage of Mercury
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Holasovice
- Holy Trinity Column
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ivrea
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Kathmandu Valley
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Kinderdijk
- Kraków
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lower German Limes
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- Major Town Houses
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Messel Pit
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Modena
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Nancy
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Orkney
- New Lanark
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Nubian Monuments
- Old City of Berne
- Orange
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palmeral of Elche
- Paphos
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Quedlinburg
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Ravenna
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Risco Caido
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rome
- Roșia Montană
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salzburg
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Semmering Railway
- Serra de Tramuntana
- ShUM Sites
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Skocjan Caves
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Split
- Statue of Liberty
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- St. Petersburg
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Taj Mahal
- Tallinn
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Prosecco Hills
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Thingvellir
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urnes Stave Church
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Vienna
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Willemstad
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Yogyakarta
- Zollverein
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- Central Park
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- Network of fortresses of Carcassonne
- Old Town of Jakarta
- Orchha
- Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
- Via Francigena
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Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.72
- Machu Picchu 4.63
- Petra 4.61
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.51
- Yellowstone 4.49
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Tikal National Park 4.46
- Great Wall 4.45
Completed Countries
Country visits
- Albania: Primeval Beech Forests
- Argentina: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Austria: Salzburg Semmering Railway Graz Hallstatt-Dachstein Schönbrunn Wachau Cultural Landscape Vienna Fertö/Neusiedlersee Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Danube Limes Great Spa Towns of Europe Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- Belarus: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Belgium: Belfries Brugge Flemish Béguinages Grand Place, Brussels Major Town Houses Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai The Four Lifts Plantin-Moretus Museum Primeval Beech Forests Stoclet House Mining Sites of Wallonia Colonies of Benevolence The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Great Spa Towns of Europe Funerary and memory sites of the First World War Hoge Kempen Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes Les citadelles mosanes Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Bosnia Herzegovina: Primeval Beech Forests
- Bulgaria: Primeval Beech Forests
- Croatia: Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik Euphrasian Basilica in Porec Split Trogir Primeval Beech Forests Venetian Works of Defence Primosten Vineyards Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Cyprus: Choirokoitia Painted Churches in the Troödos Region Paphos Hala Sultan Tekke and Larnaka Salt Lake Complex Troodos, Mt.Olympus
- Czechia: Holy Trinity Column Cesky Krumlov Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz Holasovice Kutna Hora Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Litomysl Castle Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk Prague Telc Trebic Tugendhat Villa Primeval Beech Forests Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge Great Spa Towns of Europe Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin The Karlstejn Castle
- Denmark: Kronborg Castle Roskilde Cathedral Wadden Sea Amalienborg and its district
- Egypt: Ancient Thebes Nubian Monuments Bird Migration Routes Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Estonia: Tallinn Struve Geodetic Arc Kuressaare Fortress Wooded meadows
- Finland: Struve Geodetic Arc
- France: Belfries Loire Valley Arles Chartres Cathedral Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay Fontainebleau Orange Mont-Saint-Michel Paris, Banks of the Seine Reims Strasbourg Vézelay Versailles Vézère Valley Amiens Cathedral Avignon Bourges Cathedral Canal du Midi Fortified City of Carcassonne Nancy Pont du Gard Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans Saint-Emilion Saint-Savin sur Gartempe Provins Le Havre Bordeaux Fortifications of Vauban Primeval Beech Forests Causses and Cévennes Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Albi Burgundy Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin Champagne The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944 Great Spa Towns of Europe Funerary and memory sites of the First World War Megaliths of Carnac Network of fortresses of Carcassonne Domaine de Fontainebleau Centre ancien de Sarlat Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas La Camargue Massif du Mont Blanc Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Speyer Cathedral Würzburg Residence Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Pilgrimage Church of Wies Bamberg Bauhaus Sites Classical Weimar Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz Luther Memorials Maulbronn Monastery Messel Pit Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Quedlinburg Rammelsberg and Goslar Wartburg Castle Völklingen Ironworks Frontiers of the Roman Empire Upper Middle Rhine Valley Zollverein Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Primeval Beech Forests Wadden Sea Fagus Factory Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Corvey Margravial Opera House Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Caves and Ice Age Art Danube Limes Great Spa Towns of Europe Hedeby and Danevirke Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Naumburg Cathedral Lower German Limes ShUM Sites Water Management System of Augsburg Aachen Cathedral Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes Site of the Schöningen Spears Trier
- Greece: Acropolis
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Budapest Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Iceland: Thingvellir Vatnajökull National Park Torfajökull Volcanic System / Fjallabak Reserve Thingvellir National Park Mývatn and Laxá The Turf House Tradition
- India: Fatehpur Sikri Khajuraho Group of Monuments Taj Mahal Churches and Convents of Goa Ellora Caves Ajanta Caves Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Jantar Mantar Hill Forts of Rajasthan The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai Jaipur City, Rajasthan Orchha Agra Fort Mandu Varanasi
- Indonesia: Borobudur Prambanan Old Town of Jakarta Yogyakarta
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Verona Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Rock Drawings in Valcamonica Costiera Amalfitana Crespi d'Adda Botanical Garden, Padua Ferrara Modena Pompei Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands Ravenna Residences of the Royal House of Savoy San Gimignano Siena Vicenza and the Palladian Villas Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy Dolomites Genoa Mantua and Sabbioneta Primeval Beech Forests Longobards in Italy Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Medici Villas and Gardens Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont Venetian Works of Defence Great Spa Towns of Europe The Prosecco Hills Ivrea Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles The Porticoes of Bologna Via Francigena Evaporitic Karst and Caves Via Appia Early Medieval Benedictine settlements Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands The Marble Basin of Carrara Volterra Citadel of Alessandria Massif du Mont-Blanc Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley Cilento and Vallo di Diano Rome Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Japan: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Latvia: Riga Struve Geodetic Arc Rundāle Palace Ensemble
- Lithuania: Vilnius Curonian Spit Struve Geodetic Arc Trakai Historical National Park
- Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg
- Malta: Megalithic Temples of Malta Valletta Qawra/Dwejra Coastal Cliffs Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta Mdina (Citta Vecchia) Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Moldova: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Montenegro: Venetian Works of Defence
- Nepal: Kathmandu Valley Chitwan National Park
- Netherlands: Dutch Water Defence Lines Kinderdijk Schokland Beemster Polder Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal Willemstad Wadden Sea Van Nellefabriek Colonies of Benevolence Eisinga Planetarium Lower German Limes Plantations in West Curacao Amsterdam Canal Ring Rietveld Schröderhuis
- North Macedonia: Primeval Beech Forests
- Norway: Bryggen Rock Art of Alta Urnes Stave Church Struve Geodetic Arc West Norwegian Fjords Rjukan / Notodden Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago
- Poland: Kraków Warsaw Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska Primeval Beech Forests The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains
- Portugal: Belem Laurisilva of Madeira Sintra Convent of Christ in Tomar Evora Monastery of Alcobaça Monastery of Batalha Pombaline Lisbon
- Romania: Dacian Fortresses Sighisoara Villages with Fortified Churches Wooden Churches of Maramures Primeval Beech Forests Roșia Montană Dacian Limes Former Communist Prisons in Romania The Historic Centre of Sibiu Curtea de Arges Churches L'église de Densus Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia Massif du Retezat Sinpetru (site paleontologique) Princely religious foundations Wallachia, Moldavia
- Russia: St. Petersburg Curonian Spit Struve Geodetic Arc
- San Marino: San Marino and Mount Titano
- Singapore: Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Slovakia: Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Primeval Beech Forests Danube Limes Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Slovenia: Skocjan Caves Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Heritage of Mercury
- Spain: Palmeral of Elche Atapuerca Roman Walls of Lugo Asturian Monuments Avila Burgos Cathedral Garajonay El Escurial La Lonja de la Seda Las Medulas Route of Santiago de Compostela San Cristobal de La Laguna Santiago de Compostela Primeval Beech Forests Teide National Park Vizcaya Bridge Serra de Tramuntana Tower of Hercules Heritage of Mercury Antequera Dolmens Site Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro Risco Caido Ribeira Sacra Waterscape Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Sp Romanesque Cultural Enclave Mining Historical Heritage Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage Mesta Livestock trails Ancares - Somiedo Altamira Cave
- Sweden: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Switzerland: Bellinzone Old City of Berne Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces Primeval Beech Forests Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona Prehistoric Pile Dwellings The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Abbey of St Gall
- Turkiye: Göreme NP and Cappadocia Xanthos-Letoon Hierapolis-Pamukkale Çatalhöyük Ephesus Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia The Historical Port City of Izmir Ancient City of Kaunos Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization Ancient City of Aspendos Kekova Seljuk Caravanserais from Denizli to Dogubeyazit Archaeological Site of Priene
- Ukraine: Struve Geodetic Arc Primeval Beech Forests
- United Kingdom: Canterbury City of Bath Durham Castle and Cathedral Edinburgh Frontiers of the Roman Empire Gwynedd Castles Stonehenge and Avebury Neolithic Orkney Tower of London Westminster Dorset and East Devon Coast New Lanark Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Forth Bridge Great Spa Towns of Europe Lake District The Flow Country The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- United States of America: Statue of Liberty Grand Canyon Central Park Brooklyn Bridge California Current Conservation Complex
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About Jan-Willem
- Member since
- April 2014
- Country of Origin
- Netherlands
Visits
- Rank
- #166
- WHS
- 278
- Tentative Sites
- 82
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 11
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Eisinga Planetarium 5.0
- Neolithic Orkney 5.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 5.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 5.0
- Çatalhöyük 5.0
- Ellora Caves 5.0
- Vienna 4.5
- Forth Bridge 4.5
- Willemstad 4.5
- Urnes Stave Church 4.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 4.0
- Dacian Fortresses 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 4.0
- Atapuerca 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Trogir 4.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.5
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- The Flow Country 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
Tentative Sites
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- L'église de Densus
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Kuressaare Fortress
- Kekova
- Thingvellir National Park
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia
- Volterra
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Central Park
- Orchha
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley
- Old Town of Jakarta
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Site of the Schöningen Spears
- Ancares - Somiedo
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- Citadel of Alessandria
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Reviews by Jan-Willem
Curtea de Arges Churches (On tentative list)
Curtea de Arges Churches
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Jan-Willem
27/12/24
Cathedral of Gurk (Removed from tentat…)
Cathedral of Gurk
We visited the Burg Hochosterwitz (also TWHS) and the Dom of Gurk by taking a little detour between Graz and the Hohe Tauern park. Gurk is a small town with …
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Jan-Willem
20/12/24
Atapuerca (Inscribed)
Atapuerca
The last reviews date already from some years ago, so I thought: ‘why not add a new impression?’, because I was very lucky to have a different way to enjoy …
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Jan-Willem
15/11/24
Ancares - Somiedo (On tentative list)
Ancares - Somiedo
I hesitated a bit before writing this contribution, because I do not have a lot to tell. And I’m only doing it, because there’s no other review for this TWHS, …
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Jan-Willem
05/11/24
Kuressaare Fortress (On tentative list)
Kuressaare Fortress
Kuressaara Fortress (or Episcopal Castle) is a well-restored fortress outside the lovely town of Kuressaara. If I understand well, even though many restorations have taken place, the basic structure still …
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Jan-Willem
09/09/24
Eocene Marine Biodiversity of… (On tentative list)
Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley
Originally planned for 2020, you can guess why we had to postpone our road trip through Northern Italy to 2021. But that gave us the opportunity to add the new …
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Jan-Willem
05/08/24
Site of the Schöningen Spears (On tentative list)
Site of the Schöningen Spears
A road trip from Holland to Berlin was already planned last weekend and that was a good opportunity to make a stop to view the Schöningen spears, as they just …
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Jan-Willem
01/05/24
Colonies of Benevolence (Inscribed)
Colonies of Benevolence
I was in Frederiksoord just two weeks ago. It's certainly not very spectacular to see, but I found the story behind it very interesting. I may be a bit biased …
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Jan-Willem
05/08/21
Dacian Fortresses (Inscribed)
Dacian Fortresses
Visited Sarmizegetusa Regia and Piatra Rosie in 2016 during a 4-night stay in the Pensiunea Ulpia Traiana in Sarmizegetusa, which - as the name may already indicate, has the Roman …
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Jan-Willem
02/09/19
Mandu (On tentative list)
Mandu
Visited this ghost city during a trip in December 1989. Nobody seemed to take care of the place back then. The area was open, and no fees needed to be …
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Jan-Willem
15/07/19
Rjukan / Notodden (Inscribed)
Rjukan / Notodden
I visited this site in August 2015, together with a friend who lived in Norway then, and I haven't much to add to Els's review about the WHS itself.
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Jan-Willem
06/05/19