You can spend many pleasant hours wandering around this huge complex, a mixture of a castle and a monastery. It was founded in the 12th century by the Knights Templar, …
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
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- #173
- WHS
- 277
- Tentative Sites
- 0
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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
Evora (Inscribed)
Evora
Évora has received some mixed reviews on this site, and, although I had a pleasant visit (admittedly a quite short one), I also thought the town was a bit overrated …
Elvas (Inscribed)
Elvas
Today, the border between Spain and Portugal is hardly visible, but in centuries past, it was heavily fortified and fought over. There is a fair number of fortified border towns …
Aranjuez (Inscribed)
Aranjuez
My expectations for Aranjuez were not too high - another royal palace close to a big capital -, but it's very easy to reach by commuter rail from Madrid, and …
Alcala de Henares (Inscribed)
Alcala de Henares
Alcalá is just a short train ride from Madrid and makes a very interesting half-day trip from the capital. Even though I visited on a Monday afternoon, which meant that …
Cuenca (Inscribed)
Cuenca
Cuenca makes a good stopover between the Mediterranean coast and Madrid, and the location of the Old Town is quite spectacular. Apart from that, though, I have to say that …
Studley Royal Park (Inscribed)
Studley Royal Park
This is a site I went to with rather low expectations, but which turned out to be very interesting - and the fact that I visited on a gloriously warm …
Liverpool (Delisted)
Liverpool
I arrived in Liverpool by night ferry from Belfast, and spent a whole day walking around the city. Apart from the Beatles and its 2 football teams, the city is …
Saltaire (Inscribed)
Saltaire
One of a whole bunch of industrial sites in the UK, Saltaire has the advantage of being just a 15-minute train ride from Leeds, and the station is right in …
Vilnius (Inscribed)
Vilnius
Even though it doesn't have any standout attractions, Vilnius is a very pretty and clean city with a well-preserved old town and a large number of historic buildings. The many …
Giant's Causeway (Inscribed)
Giant's Causeway
I visited the Giant's Causeway as a daytrip by train and bus from (London)derry via Coleraine. You arrive at a huge new visitor centre, and then you can set off …
Kernavė (Inscribed)
Kernavė
Everything that can be said about Kernave has already been mentioned on this site - it is a reasonably interesting site that makes for a nice excursion from Vilnius and …
Forth Bridge (Inscribed)
Forth Bridge
There is not much to add to the reviews about the Forth Bridge - it's one of Scotland's most recognizable landmarks, and if you are lucky on your approach to …
New Lanark (Inscribed)
New Lanark
This is really quite an interesting site because of its good state of preservation - you can easily imagine yourself being a millworker (or owner) in the early 19th century. …
Le Havre (Inscribed)
Le Havre
I visited Le Havre as a day trip from Paris on a hot summer day during the EURO 2016, as a distraction after watching a poor performance by the Austrian …
Speyer Cathedral (Inscribed)
Speyer Cathedral
Neither Germany in particular nor Europe in general suffer from a lack of WH-listed cathedrals, but the one in Speyer was one of the first on the list, and for …
Ferrara (Inscribed)
Ferrara
Ferrara is certainly one of the most livable cities in Italy, being the country's bicycle capital and having many green spaces. Its historic centre is quite interesting and pleasant, as …
Ravenna (Inscribed)
Ravenna
In my opinion, Ravenna is one of the finest and most interesting WH sites not just in Italy, but in all of Europe. The remains from the late Roman/early Byzantine …
La Fortaleza and San Juan (Inscribed)
La Fortaleza and San Juan
Founded in 1521, San Juan is the second-oldest European city still existing in the Americas, only a few years behind Santo Domingo. It soon became important as the first port …
Santo Domingo (Inscribed)
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo's place in history is assured by being the oldest European town in the New World, founded in 1498 by Bartolomeo Colón, brother of Christopher Columbus. It was built …