Jarek Pokrzywnicki

Poland \ Member since December 2010

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My most impressive site: Rome, Machu Picchu, Canaima, Los Glaciares, Ha Long Bay, Komodo, Tikal, Kathmandu Valley

My proposal for a new site: Defensive network along Danube river in Serbia (Bac, Golubac, Smederevo, Petrovaradin), Toro Muerto - Peru, Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia), Pierrefonds castle (France), Svalbard archipelago (Norway), Tetovo, North Macedonia - former Turkish monuments (painted mosque, Arabati Baba Tekke, Isa Beg hammam), Debre Damo monastery, Danakil Depression (Ethiopia)

Recent Visits

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Mecklenburg: Green Belt, Schwerin Residence Ensemble
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June 22, 2025

Europe short trip: European Paper Mills, Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of …
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Bale Mountains National Park, Gedeo Cultural landscape, Konso, Lower Valley of the Awash, Lower Valley …

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- Green Belt
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble
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- European Paper Mills
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
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- The Typical Crernozem Soils of the Balti Steppe
- The Underground Wineries of Moldova
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- The rural settlement of Fikardou
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- The archaeological site of the city of Dvin
- The monastery of Noravank and the upper Amaghou Va
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- The Medieval Town of Tansen
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- Amalienborg and its district
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbo
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- Svalbard Archipelago
- The Lofoten islands
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- Spice Trade Route on XIII-XVIII AD
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- The forts of Rostaq and al-Hazm
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- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains
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- The Cultural Heritage of Yeha
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- L'amphitheatre de Durres
- The Ancient City of Apollonia
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- Tenzug - Tallensi settlements
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- Sya
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- Susha
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- Silk Roads Sites in Tajikistan
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- Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace
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- Seruwila to Sri Pada pilgrim route
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- Sacred Titicaca Lake
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- Meanders of the Upper Daugava
- Rundāle Palace Ensemble
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- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Pombaline Lisbon
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- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- Palais de la Culture, Rio de Janeiro
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- Kerman
- Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab
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- Jerash Archaeological City
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- Ciudad Bolivar
- Hacienda Chuao
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- Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk
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- Caesarea
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- Black River Gorges National Park
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- Baltic Klint
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- Panamá City
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- Archaeo-astronomical Site Kokino
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- Varazdin - Historic Nucleus and Old Town (the Cast
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- Trakai Historical National Park
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About

Member since: December 2010

Country of Origin: Poland

Visits

Rank: #19

WHS: 737

Tentative Sites: 192

Website Participation

Reviews: 111

Ratings Ratings World Heritage Sites Mystras 5.0 Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 5.0 Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 5.0 Auschwitz Birkenau 5.0 Warsaw 5.0 Malbork Castle 5.0 Białowieża Forest 5.0 Centennial Hall 5.0 Kraków 5.0 Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 5.0 Muskauer Park 5.0 Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 5.0 Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 5.0 L'viv 5.0 Luther Memorials 5.0 Darien National Park 5.0 Los Katios National Park 5.0 Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 5.0 Grand Canyon 5.0 Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5.0 Yellowstone 5.0 Yosemite National Park 5.0 Lalibela 5.0 Torun 5.0 Zamość 5.0 Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 4.5 Maymand 4.0 Djoudj 4.0 Nesvizh 4.0 Coiba National Park 4.0 Coro and its Port 4.0 Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0 Valparaiso 3.5 Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5 Saloum Delta 3.5 Mycenae and Tiryns 3.0 Site of Xanadu 3.0 Copán 3.0 Saryarka 3.0 Holasovice 2.5 Walled City of Baku 2.0 Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.0 Le Havre 1.5 Gobustan Rock Art 1.5 Island of Saint-Louis 1.0 Tentative Sites Garni and the ‘Basalt Organ’ Columnar Joint Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve Pereslavl-Zalessky The wider area of Mount Olympus Capital Fortifications of Hanyang European Paper Mills Martin Brod - Una National Park The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbo The Underground Wineries of Moldova Dirre Sheik Hussein Religious, Cultural and Histor Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu Archaeological Complex of Toro Muerto Svalbard Archipelago Tbilisi Historic District Malleco Viaduct Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) Gdynia Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) Le Monastère de Neamt Plovdiv L'église de Densus The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) Maltese Catacomb Complexes Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan Rundāle Palace Ensemble Meanders of the Upper Daugava Rostov Kremlin Sites of Great Moravia Silk Roads Sites in Tajikistan Íznik Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities Two neolithic dwellings The Historical City of Maybod Kerman Marais salants de Guérande Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region Lake Tana Island Monasteries and Wetland Rijal Almaa National Theater of Guatemala The Lofoten islands California Current Conservation Complex VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Route of the Franciscan Evangelisation Ancient City of Aspendos Harran and Sanliurfa Orheiul Vechi Aalto Works Cuetzalan Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia Gemer and Abov churches Les « coules » de Petite Valachie Archaeological site of Ancient Messene Manama Historic Center of Qoqon The rural settlement of Fikardou Tenzug - Tallensi settlements Susha The Typical Crernozem Soils of the Balti Steppe Sinpetru (site paleontologique) Maaloula Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: 45 63

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Reviews by Jarek Pokrzywnicki

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Talamanca Range-La Amistad Re… (Inscribed)

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves

Site visited during Panama – Costa Rica trip (November, 2017) – since Els carefully described Costa Rican part of this serial heritage I will focus on Panamanian side. Technically, this …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 22/05/21

Gdynia (Nominated)

Gdynia

Just visited (April, 2021) or to be specific revisited after several other visits in the past. This time I solely focused my stay on the modernistic aspect of central part …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 17/04/21

Les Alpes de la Méditerranée … (On tentative list)

Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)

Visited in August, 2018. It is quite strange that nobody has ever described the places so far as all they look as very popular tourist destinations. From UNESCO heritage point …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 18/03/21

Mountain Railways of India (Inscribed)

Mountain Railways of India

As the majority of other reviews described Nilgiri or Darjeeling mountain railways I will focus of Kalka Shimla Railway (KSR). Visited March, 2019, one of highlights of my Indian tour.

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Keep reading Jarek Pok… 16/03/21

Pergamon (Inscribed)

Pergamon

Site just visited (December, 2020), not an easy time to visit Turkey during covid-pandemic restrictions. As all other reviews are focused on main component and the most spectacular part of …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 30/12/20

Ribeira Sacra Waterscape (Nominated)

Ribeira Sacra Waterscape

Site visited in September, 2020. I am very much in favour of inscription of this area. Landscape is pretty spectacular, while monastic monuments are well maintained and preserved even while …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 10/11/20

Curonian Spit (Inscribed)

Curonian Spit

As everybody described Lithuanian part of Curonian Spit I will focus on Russian part of this cultural heritage site. Visited in July, 2019, while it was possible to visit Kaliningrad …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 13/10/20

Pereslavl-Zalessky (On tentative list)

Pereslavl-Zalessky

Site visited in October, 2007. This time it was not even on the TL. Due to climatic reasons, October months are not perfect period of time to visit these areas …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 11/06/20

Malleco Viaduct (On tentative list)

Malleco Viaduct

Site visited in November, 2006. Easy stop if you drive a car on Panamericana. It is located around 600 km south of Santiago de Chile, near the town of Collipulli. …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 19/05/20

Ciudad Bolivar (On tentative list)

Ciudad Bolivar

Site visited in March, 2011. Ciudad Bolivar is a perfect place to start exploration of Canaima National Park (at least the western part around Canaima village and Auyan-Tepui). From Ciudad …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 15/05/20

Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya … (Nominated)

Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor

Visited in July, 2017. Due to some unexpected turbulences I managed to see only one component of Kazachstan Silk Road sites – Ancient settlement of Turkestan (Yassy). Easy to combine …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 01/05/20

Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum… (Inscribed)

Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor

Site visited in April, 2010. It is still on the Tentative list as a separate site but also as a group of monuments to be included as Uzbekistan part of …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 29/04/20

Ancient Termiz (On tentative list)

Ancient Termiz

Site visited in April, 2010. Public transport - marszrutka, shared taxi, taken from Samarkanda.

Area rich of historical monuments but traces are scattered in many different places all around …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 27/04/20

Bam Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)

Bam Cultural Landscape

Site visited in May, 2010. No doubt one of world wonders and certainly a must-see place while visiting Iran (together with many others). Once considered the biggest adobe (clay-based) building …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 14/04/20

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx (Inscribed)

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx

Site visited in March 2020. As Walter described all the aspects of the site I would focus more on practical issues.

It is a nice place, fully deserved to …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 10/04/20

Valongo Wharf (Inscribed)

Valongo Wharf

Site visited just recently, March 2020. As it was already fully described by others I will add just one thing that was not underlined. Whoever visited that place prior 2011 …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 02/04/20

Island of Saint-Louis (Inscribed)

Island of Saint-Louis

Site visited in April, 2018. Located some 300 km from Dakar to the north, close to Mauritanian border. From Dakar Gare Routiere there are mini buses (stand is located in …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 20/01/20

Archaeological Complex of Tor… (On tentative list)

Archaeological Complex of Toro Muerto

Site visited in November, 2013. Finally it has been added to tentative places. One of the best petroglyph site I have ever seen, can be compared only with Tamgaly in …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 16/09/19

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage … (Inscribed)

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto

Site visited in August, 2019, Just a few weeks after inscription. Nice surprise. I managed to see 2 components out of 3: coal storage facilities located in Padang (port of …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 10/09/19

Krzemionki prehistoric flint … (Inscribed)

Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines

Site visited in early 90ties and revisited shortly after inscription (July 2019).

I must say I really like this place. Comparing to Spiennes it is better preserved and much …

Keep reading Jarek Pok… 27/07/19