I am probably highly biased towards this site. I grew up in an area rich in fossils and have spent many hours of my life in damp quarries sifting through …
Sturuss
United Kingdom \ Member since January 2025
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I am an avid nature lover and history enthusiast, who spends most of their time either out in nature looking for niche plants and weird insects or reading history books. It is probably therefore predictable that UNESCO sites are of interest to me. They are not so much of an object of obsession in themselves (I am unlikely to visit a site only because it is on the list) but they form a solid and relevant basis from which to plan my adventures.
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10Nov. 23, 2025Maritime Greenwich
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10Nov. 16, 2025Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
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10Nov. 15, 2025Messel Pit
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About Sturuss
- Member since
- January 2025
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
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- #588
- WHS
- 78
- Tentative Sites
- 0
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World Heritage Sites
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 5.0
- Wartburg Castle 5.0
- Sigiriya 5.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 5.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 5.0
- Central Highlands 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 5.0
- Sinharaja Forest 5.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Kronborg Castle 4.5
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 4.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 4.5
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Anuradhapura 4.0
- Old Town of Galle 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 4.0
- Messel Pit 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Ngorongoro 4.0
- Serengeti 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Guimarães 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 4.0
- ShUM Sites 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Teide National Park 3.5
- Kandy 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Brugge 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Giant's Causeway 3.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.5
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Belem 2.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 2.5
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.5
- Corvey 1.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5
- Blenheim Palace 1.0
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ShUM Sites
I visited 3 out of 4 of the ShUM sites in May 2025 and was very impressed by my experiences. Prior to my visit I was tangentially aware of various …
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Sturuss
22/05/25