Since it is practically impossible for Westerners to visit the holy sites of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Kairouan is the closest most people can get to an introduction to the …
Klaus Freisinger
Austria \ Member since December 2005
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I like the concept of World Heritage, and I like to travel, so combining these two is very enjoyable. However, I don't travel outside of Europe that often, so my ultimate goal would be to visit all WH sites in Europe.
My most impressive site: Rome and Grand Canyon
My proposal for a new site: Mount Vesuvius and Phlegreian Fields, Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge, Windsor Castle, Death Valley National Park, Old Town of Hall in Tirol and Schwaz Silver Mines, Historic Centre of Innsbruck and Ambras Castle, Bavarian Royal Castles, Moon Landing Sites: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center and Houston/Johnson Space Center (Mission Control)
Recent Visits
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10Oct. 4, 2025Talayotic Menorca
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10Sept. 3, 2025Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
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10Sept. 2, 2025Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
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About Klaus Freisinger
- Member since
- December 2005
- Country of Origin
- Austria
Visits
- Rank
- #173
- WHS
- 277
- Tentative Sites
- 0
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 256
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Vatican City 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Ancient Thebes 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Monticello 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Carthage 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Belem 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Santo Domingo 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Everglades 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Mount Athos 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Castel del Monte 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 4.0
- Trier 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Luther Memorials 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Medina Azahara 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Visby 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Plitvice Lakes 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Skocjan Caves 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5
- Assisi 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Mérida 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Talayotic Menorca 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Dolomites 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Dubrovnik 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Malbork Castle 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Semmering Railway 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.5
- Southern Öland 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Classical Weimar 3.5
- Cahokia Mounds 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Elvas 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Caceres 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- St. George, Bermuda 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Ibiza 3.0
- Palmeral of Elche 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 3.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Bourges Cathedral 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Tarraco 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Matera 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Danube Limes 3.0
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Torun 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Medina of Sousse 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Albi 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Ferrara 2.5
- Karlskrona 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.5
- Saint-Emilion 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.0
- Banska Stiavnica 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Durmitor National Park 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Warsaw 2.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Centennial Hall 2.0
- Litomysl Castle 2.0
- Villa d'Este 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Bardejov Town 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 2.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5
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Reviews by Klaus Freisinger
Verona (Inscribed)
Verona
Verona is one the greatest cities in Italy, very important both historically and culturally. Several Shakespeare plays are set there, and the balcony from Romeo and Juliet is always a …
Medina of Sousse (Inscribed)
Medina of Sousse
Sousse is an important port and tourist centre on the central Tunisian coast. Its old town and fortress are very nice to explore, although I'm not sure they are so …
Amphitheater of El Jem (Inscribed)
Amphitheater of El Jem
Now a small town in the middle of nowhere (well, at the edge of the desert), El Jem, the ancient Roman town of Thysdrus, was formerly a crossroads of the …
Wachau Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)
Wachau Cultural Landscape
The Wachau Valley stretches for over 30 km along the Danube River between the towns of Melk and Krems in Lower Austria, west of Vienna. It is certainly one of …
Uluru (Inscribed)
Uluru
The day I was there was cool, rainy, and foggy (and I had thought I was in the desert), but still the mountain exudes a magical charm and is a …
Graz (Inscribed)
Graz
Austria's second-largest city has a beautiful centre with lots of interesting sites (the Zeughaus has the world's largest medieval armoury), but without the hordes of tourists that crowd Vienna or …
Fertö/Neusiedlersee (Inscribed)
Fertö/Neusiedlersee
Lake Neusiedl is a popular tourist destination for Austrians, the so-called "Sea of the Viennese" for all kinds of water sports and other recreational activities. It is also a cultural …
Granada (Inscribed)
Granada
The Alhambra of Granada is a true work of art and reminiscent of a time in history few people know about - when Arabs ruled much of Europe. I have …
Aachen Cathedral (Inscribed)
Aachen Cathedral
This is probably the most important WH site in Germany and the most significant religious building north of the Alps, and it is no wonder that it was the first …
Monticello (Inscribed)
Monticello
To be in the Washington area and not to take the relatively short trip to Charlottesville, Virginia, is really to miss a great sight. Monticello is one of the most …
Trebic (Inscribed)
Trebic
Trebic is a pretty, but relatively little-known city west of Brno that hasn´t seen much tourism before it was added to the WH List in 2003. The reason for that …
Sydney Opera House (Inscribed)
Sydney Opera House
Next to the Ayers Rock, the Sydney Opera is the most identifiable and well-known Australian landmark, and probably the best-known opera house worldwide, at least in terms of its design. …
Corfu (Inscribed)
Corfu
The island of Corfu is mostly known as a holiday destination for its beaches and its green environment, which is quite unlike most other Greek islands. Its history is also …
Telc (Inscribed)
Telc
Telc is a historic city in the south of the Czech Republic, close to the Austrian border, and one of the country's main tourist attractions. It's really very small, not …
Holasovice (Inscribed)
Holasovice
Holasovice has been on my to-do list for a while, but to be honest, if this place were not on the WH list, hardly anybody would ever go there. It´s …