Just a short drive from the hustle and bustle of Miami, the Everglades are a true wonderland of nature. The ecosystem covers a large part of southern Florida, but 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
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- #173
- WHS
- 277
- Tentative Sites
- 0
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- Reviews
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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
Bauhaus Sites (Inscribed)
Bauhaus Sites
As much as I liked the classical sites of Weimar, I was not overly impressed with the Bauhaus sites in this town. I took a look inside the Bauhaus University …
Classical Weimar (Inscribed)
Classical Weimar
For a city of its size (only about 60,000 people), Weimar has an unusually rich assortment of attractions due to its extremely important place in German history and culture. Goether, …
Wartburg Castle (Inscribed)
Wartburg Castle
The Wartburg is the iconic German castle, known worldwide for its association with Martin Luther. Even though it was constructed in the 11th century, today's appearance largely dates to the …
Vézère Valley (Inscribed)
Vézère Valley
This is a site I had long wanted to visit, but it is rather difficult without your own transport. The solution was a well-organized day trip run by a tour …
Canal du Midi (Inscribed)
Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi was one of Europe’s major construction projects prior to the Industrial Revolution, and even though it never really fulfilled its promise of being a major artery …
Fortified City of Carcassonne (Inscribed)
Fortified City of Carcassonne
Carcassonne is the classic medieval city in France, and probably even in Western Europe, and the immense crowds of visitors (as well as the popular board game of the same …
Albi (Inscribed)
Albi
Albi is mostly famous for its red brick cathedral, which is really quite impressive from every direction, and is interesting for the contrast between the lavish interior decorations (especially the …
Pont du Gard (Inscribed)
Pont du Gard
The Pont du Gard is one of the iconic masterpieces of Roman architecture and engineering, and one of France’s most famous and recognizable landmarks. It is the highest of all …
Arles (Inscribed)
Arles
To most people, Arles seems to be best known for its association with Van Gogh, but of course, for those with an interest in ancient and medieval history, the city …
Plantin-Moretus Museum (Inscribed)
Plantin-Moretus Museum
This museum is really a hidden treasure that the crowds that flock to Antwerp's cathedral and market square, which are really just a few steps away, often overlook. It has …
Flemish Béguinages (Inscribed)
Flemish Béguinages
In the course of a long weekend in Flanders, I visited 6 béguinages in 5 cities - the one in Lier (quite nice, but nothing special), Ter Hoyen in Gent …
Van Nellefabriek (Inscribed)
Van Nellefabriek
As this site can now be easily visited with a guided tour on the weekends (one tour each on Saturday and Sunday), I decided to extend a long weekend in …
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lor… (Inscribed)
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
This must be one of the tiniest WH sites in the world - it basically consists of just one rather small building in the centre of the pretty town of …
Messel Pit (Inscribed)
Messel Pit
On a pleasant spring day, I took the train from Frankfurt to Darmstadt and on to Messel to see the well-known (at least among paleontologists and WH collectors) Messel Pit. …
Villa d'Este (Inscribed)
Villa d'Este
Tivoli is a relatively short train ride from Rome and has been a popular destination for excursions and a countryside residence for Romans since ancient times. While the Villa Adriana …
Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (Inscribed)
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
Villa Adriana, the summer residence of Emperior Hadrian (used when he didn't travel across his vast empire and had walls built along its borders to protect it), is located a …
Toledo (Inscribed)
Toledo
Toledo is one of Spain's classic travel destinations, and certainly one of the most interesting ones - a great combination of culture, history and architecture that has few rivals anywhere. …
Santa Maria de Guadalupe (Inscribed)
Santa Maria de Guadalupe
The Iberian peninsula is full of historic monasteries, with a large number of them inscribed on the WH list, and the one in the small village of Guadalupe in Extremadura …
Mérida (Inscribed)
Mérida
Mérida was, in Roman times, the capital of the large province of Lusitania, which stretched across parts of southern Spain and most of Portugal. It was one of the most …