The Myvatn lake in northern iceland is aptly named "midge lake", as it is home to clouds of annoying flies, at least in summer. The flies can be a real …
Ralf Regele
Germany \ Member since January 2017
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My most impressive site: Angkor
My proposal for a new site: Empire State & Chrysler Building
Recent Visits
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80Oct. 10, 2025Indonesia25: Bali Subak system, Borobudur, FRIM Selangor ...
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10Sept. 12, 2025Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
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20June 2, 2025Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt, Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
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About Ralf Regele
- Member since
- January 2017
- Country of Origin
- Germany
Visits
- Rank
- #112
- WHS
- 362
- Tentative Sites
- 67
Website Participation
- Reviews
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World Heritage Sites
- Florence 5.0
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 5.0
- Seville 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Masada 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Chavin 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Aachen Cathedral 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.5
- Ayutthaya 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Cuzco 4.5
- Chan Chan 4.5
- Qutb Minar 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 4.5
- Chaco Culture 4.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Angkor 4.5
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Kathmandu Valley 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Urnes Stave Church 4.0
- Bryggen 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Yellowstone 4.0
- Redwood 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Uxmal 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 4.0
- Namhansanseong 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Caral-Supe 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Lübeck 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Te Wahipounamu 4.0
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5
- Nubian Monuments 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Iguacu 3.5
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Iguazu National Park 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Wadi Rum 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- Jelling 3.5
- Imperial Tombs 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Summer Palace 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Stevns Klint 3.5
- Agrigento 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Rock Art of Alta 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Budapest 3.5
- San Antonio Missions 3.5
- South China Karst 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Jantar Mantar 3.5
- Red Fort 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Horyu-ji Area 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Chichen-Itza 3.5
- Palenque 3.5
- Calakmul 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5
- Granada 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Monastery of Horezu 3.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.5
- Cape Floral Region 3.5
- New Lanark 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3.5
- Grand Canyon 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Carlsbad Caverns 3.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.5
- Meknes 3.5
- Cambodian Memorial Sites 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Brugge 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Pantanal 3.0
- Rio de Janeiro 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Ahmadabad 3.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 3.0
- Beemster Polder 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Tongariro National Park 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 3.0
- Saltaire 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Yosemite National Park 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Muskauer Park 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Assisi 3.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Causses and Cévennes 3.0
- Northern Martinique 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Taos Pueblo 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
- Monte San Giorgio 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Donana National Park 2.5
- Dacian Fortresses 2.5
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 2.5
- Sighisoara 2.5
- Arles 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Puebla 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Fagus Factory 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Aquileia 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 2.5
- Chitwan National Park 2.5
- Al Ain 2.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5
- Robben Island 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Zollverein 2.0
- Brasilia 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Major Town Houses 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Schokland 2.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.0
- Ouro Preto 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Wadden Sea 2.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.0
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 1.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Dacian Limes 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Modernist Kaunas 1.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Lower German Limes 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.0
- The Prosecco Hills 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 1.0
- Par force hunting landscape 1.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Ancient Kamakura
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Les coules de Petite Valachie
- Big Bend National Park
- Dzongs
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo
- City of York
- Orvieto
- The Turf House Tradition
- Lake Titicaca
- The Lofoten islands
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Olympic Park Munich
- The historic town of Korcula
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Orchha
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Siwa archaeological area
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Abydos
- Chiang Mai
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Thingvellir Viking Sites
- Mothia Island and Lilibeo
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadows
- Great Desert Landscapes
- Egyptian Museum
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- White Sands National Monument
- Ellis Island
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Ngwenya Mines
- Gdynia
- Leuven
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Pretzien Weir
- Site of the Schöningen Spears
- Torgau Castle Chapel
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Coastal Cliffs
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Qasr Al-Mushatta
- Shaubak Castle
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Al Qastal
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Amalienborg and its district
- City of Trujillo
- Caesarea
- Baha'i House of Worship at New Delhi
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Yangtze Gorges Scenic Spot
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- Mývatn and Laxá
- Archaeological Site of Nikopolis
- Sites of Saytagrah, India's non-violent freedom mo
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Tamzhing Monastery
- Khor Dubai
- Central Park
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Reviews by Ralf Regele
The Aniene valley and Villa G… (On tentative list)
The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
The "Villa" Gregoriana is actually not a villa, not even a building. Despite the naming and marketing, it is mainly the name for a hiking trail going through the valley …
Archaeological Site of Nikopo… (On tentative list)
Archaeological Site of Nikopolis
Nikopolis is the ruin of a roman city north of Preveza, on the western coast of Greece. Surprisingly for such a little known site, the ruins are quite large - …
Baha'i House of Worship at Ne… (On tentative list)
Baha'i House of Worship at New Delhi
The Lotus temple in New Delhi is a Bahai temple built in modern style - something special in a land where almost all places of worship are built in a …
Hedeby and Danevirke (Inscribed)
Hedeby and Danevirke
I visited the Hedeby site, which is well developed for tourists, with a museum (closed at the moment for refurbishment), walking pathes and reconstructed houses. Hedeby (or Haithabu in German) …
Venetian Works of Defence (Inscribed)
Venetian Works of Defence
I visited the two north italian sites in 2014. Luckily, they are close together and can be combined easily.
Bergamo is a very beautiful city by itself. The old city …
Schwerin Residence Ensemble (Inscribed)
Schwerin Residence Ensemble
Schwerin castle may be a bit overlooked, but its beauty is undeniable. It is the kind of fairy-tale castle that is nowadays more associated with disney than with real historical …
Chiang Mai (Nominated)
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is a major tourist hub in northern thailand, especially for the backpacking crowd. Luckily, it is also very beautiful, with lots and lots of temples and ruins scattered …
Sites of Saytagrah, India's n… (On tentative list)
Sites of Saytagrah, India's non-violent freedom mo
I only visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmadabad, which is a well-developed tourist site with a nice ghandi museum and the barracks of the ashram itself. The site seems to …
Rani-ki-Vav (Inscribed)
Rani-ki-Vav
This is a really nice site - a spectacular building with a rich history, off the beaten tourist tracks but well-developed for a visit. The fact it was buried for …
Ahmadabad (Inscribed)
Ahmadabad
Ahmadabad is not exactly a beautiful city, with the historical buildings intertwined with all kind of modern ramshackle buildings and the typical indian street chaos. It's dirty and dusty and …