Kromeriz is a very pretty and quiet town close to Olomouc, and is very well worth the trip to get there. I skipped the tour of the palace interior (minimum …
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
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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
Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz (Inscribed)
Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
Litomysl Castle (Inscribed)
Litomysl Castle
Well, this is another typically Central European palace, nice, but nothing extraordinary. It takes a while to get to this town by public transport, and once you have reached the …
Drottningholm (Inscribed)
Drottningholm
I have been to Drottningholm twice now, and I can't really say I enjoyed this place. The first time I did a bus tour of Stockholm that included a brief …
Visby (Inscribed)
Visby
A few years ago I did a short cruise of the Baltic Sea, and I chose a particular cruise because it included Visby. I did spend a few hours walking …
Plitvice Lakes (Inscribed)
Plitvice Lakes
These lakes in central Croatia are justly famous for their natural beauty and wildlife. A classic karst landscape, the lakes are separated by dams and waterfalls. You can walk among …
Regensburg (Inscribed)
Regensburg
I agree with the other reviewers here - Regensburg is really a beautiful town with a fascinating history. The old town is very compact and wonderfully preserved, luckily having escaped …
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal S… (Inscribed)
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
As most of the other reviewers, I enjoyed my tour through the Wieliczka mine. Sure, some parts are very kitschy, but the guided tour gives you a very interesting overview …
Auschwitz Birkenau (Inscribed)
Auschwitz Birkenau
It's hard to add anything meaningful to the other posts. This is really an incredible place, and even if you have been to other concentration camps before (like Mauthausen), Auschwitz …
Kraków (Inscribed)
Kraków
Cracow is a wonderful, well-preserved city and one of the jewels of Central Europe, definitely on a par with Prague. Although I only had a half day to explore the …
Aquileia (Inscribed)
Aquileia
It's hard to believe that this is the first review for Aquileia. There were many other visitors when I was there, and the site is very close to Venice and …
Kinderdijk (Inscribed)
Kinderdijk
On a typically Dutch June day (cool and rainy) I did a pleasant boat trip out of Rotterdam to the mills at Kinderdijk. This is really a classic Dutch landscape …
Skocjan Caves (Inscribed)
Skocjan Caves
Less famous than the renowned Postojna caves, the caves at Skocjan in southwestern Slovenia near the coast are certainly no less impressive and more important from a scientific point of …
Euphrasian Basilica in Porec (Inscribed)
Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
Porec is beautiful small town on the west coast of Istria and today overrun with tourists for six months of the year. It does have an interesting history, though, and …
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Land… (Inscribed)
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
The cultural landscape around the southern Moravian castles of Lednice (Eisgrub) and Valtice (Feldsberg) is one of Europe's largest, the product of centuries of care by the Liechtenstein family. Both …
Belfries (Inscribed)
Belfries
Formerly known as the Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia and now called the Belfries of Belgium and France after 23 such buildings in the north of France were added to …
Bourges Cathedral (Inscribed)
Bourges Cathedral
As far as medieval, Gothic cathedrals are concerned, the one at Bourges (St-Etienne) is definitely one of the best, and located as it is in the very pretty town of …
Routes of Santiago de Compost… (Inscribed)
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
The historic and religious importance of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela, whether in Spain, France, or beyond, is obvious - what is unique to the French site is that …
Amiens Cathedral (Inscribed)
Amiens Cathedral
Like some other reviewers here, I´ve seen my share of big cathedrals, and sometimes they seem to blur in memory. What´s unique about the one in Amiens ? Not that …
Epidaurus (Inscribed)
Epidaurus
Undeservedly little known to many people, the site of Epidaurus is really one of the nicest and most interesting places to visit in Greece. The amphitheatre boasts great acoustics and …
Assisi (Inscribed)
Assisi
Assisi is a pretty touristy place, but justifiably so. The location on a hill is just amazing (especially coming from the west, i.e. Perugia), and the town itself is beautiful …