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Cuenca

Hubert Austria - 28-May-21

Old towns often perch on hills. But Cuenca has taken it to the extreme. Cuenca was built on a narrow rocky plateau between two ravines, one of them with vertically sloping walls. Space was sparse, so over the centuries the houses grew together into a nested whole, several storeys high or deep. Some of these houses were even extended with oriel windows and balconies that overhang the edge of the slope. And so the Casas Colgadas (Hanging Houses) have become the city's landmark. A creative way of dealing with a lack of space.

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Aranjuez

Hubert Austria - 23-May-21

'Die schönen Tage in Aranjuez sind nun zu Ende.' The drama Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller starts with these words. I am not sure whether Schiller is historically correct when describing the reign of Philip II in his play. Correct is that Philip II declared Aranjuez a 'Real Sitio' in 1560, and that he commissioned the construction of the Palacio Real in the same year. My impression was also that the best days for Aranjuez are gone when I visited the site in May 2019. But not because the palace and gardens were in bad condition (on the contrary, everything was nice and well maintained). It was rather because the area around the palace was almost deserted on that weekday morning.

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Toledo

Hubert Austria - 18-May-21

Toledo was the World Heritage site I was most looking forward to before I left for my trip through central Spain in May 2019. And I was not disappointed. Toledo is an intriguing city. Three religions have left their mark in the old town. Christians, Muslims and Jews lived here together more or less peacefully for centuries, until 1492. A Gothic cathedral, numerous other Christian churches, a former mosque and two former synagogues can be found close to each other. The city's architectural ensemble has remained almost unchanged over the last five centuries.

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Santa Maria de Guadelupe

Hubert Austria - 12-May-21

Given the rather remote location of Guadalupe, one might expect that only a few people visit the monastery. But quite the contrary, it is extremely popular. The monastery is associated with two significant historic events: the Reconquista and the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The Catholic monarchs Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon received Christopher Columbus here several times before he set out on his journey. Later, it became a tradition that conquistadors prayed to Our Lady of Guadelupe for support for their raids. And thus, the Black Madonna became the symbol of the Christianisation of Latin America and is a popular pilgrimage destination for Spaniards and all Christians from Spanish-speaking countries until today.

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Salamanca

Hubert Austria - 08-May-21

Salamanca is certainly the most elegant and glamorous of all the historic city centres on the Spanish World Heritage List. This is mainly due to its harmonious townscape. Almost all the historic buildings are made of the golden-yellow sandstone from the nearby village of Villamyor. And the Plateresque style of many buildings also contributes to the extravagant look of the city. Plateresque means the elaborate and detailed ornamentation that is applied to the façades, mostly to decorate the main portal. Salamanca is a hotspot of this late Gothic/early Renaissance style, you will find it everywhere in the historic centre. The façades of the University and the Catedral Nueva are two of the best examples.

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Rome 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Bauhaus Sites 4.5

Cracow 4.5

Dubrovnik 4.5

Florence 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Old City of Jerusalem 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Sintra 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Nara 4

Auschwitz Birkenau 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Convent of Christ in Tomar 4

Dolomites 4

Granada 4

Loire Valley 4

Maritime Greenwich 4

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4

Neolithic Orkney 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Plitvice Lakes 4

Prague 4

Rila Monastery 4

Toledo 4

Tugendhat Villa 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Versailles 4

Vienna 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Acropolis 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Arles 3.5

Budapest 3.5

City of Bath 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Cordoba 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

Elvas 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Masada 3.5

Matera 3.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Naples 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5

Ravenna 3.5

Riga 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Selimiye Mosque 3.5

Seville 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

Siena 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Teide National Park 3.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5

The trulli of Alberobello 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vicenza 3.5

Vilnius 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Zollverein 3.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3

Albi 3

Alto Douro 3

Assisi 3

Avignon 3

Bamberg 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Belem 3

Canal du Midi 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cuenca 3

Curonian Spit 3

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3

Etruscan Necropolises 3

Fontainebleau 3

Forth Bridge 3

Fortifications of Vauban 3

Graz 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Himeji-jo 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Jodrell Bank Observatory 3

Kew Gardens 3

Kii Mountain Range 3

Kinderdijk 3

Major Town Houses 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Medina of Tétouan 3

Mystras 3

Pont du Gard 3

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

Salamanca 3

Salzburg 3

San Gimignano 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Split 3

Strasbourg 3

Telc 3

Trier 3

Vall de Boi 3

Villa d'Este 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3

Amiens Cathedral 2.5

Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.5

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Bryggen 2.5

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5

Causses and Cévennes 2.5

Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5

Centennial Hall 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chartres Cathedral 2.5

Churches of Peace 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Defence Line of Amsterdam 2.5

El Escurial 2.5

Flemish Béguinages 2.5

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5

Fujisan 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Heritage of Mercury 2.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Lake District 2.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5

Le Havre 2.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.5

Mérida 2.5

Naumburg Cathedral 2.5

Nessebar 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5

Pirin National Park 2.5

Poblet Monastery 2.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5

Québec 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5

Speyer Cathedral 2.5

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 2.5

Statue of Liberty 2.5

Stevns Klint 2.5

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2.5

Tower of London 2.5

Trogir 2.5

University of Coimbra 2.5

Urbino 2.5

Val d'Orcia 2.5

Van Nellefabriek 2.5

Venetian Works of Defence 2.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5

Wadden Sea 2.5

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.5

Würzburg Residence 2.5

Zamosc 2.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2

Alcala de Henares 2

Avila 2

Belfries 2

Bom Jesus do Monte 2

Bourges Cathedral 2

Burgundy 2

Caceres 2

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2

Chaîne des Puys 2

Christiansfeld 2

Crespi d'Adda 2

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2

Evora 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Gorham's Cave Complex 2

Hedeby and Danevirke 2

Kernavë 2

Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining region 2

Liverpool 2

Medici Villas and Gardens 2

Medina Azahara 2

Messel Pit 2

Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2

Mining Sites of Wallonia 2

Muskauer Park 2

New Lanark 2

Old City of Berne 2

Orange 2

Pienza 2

Primeval Beech Forests 2

Provins 2

Reims 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Royal Palace at Caserta 2

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2

San Cristobal de La Laguna 2

Santa Maria de Guadelupe 2

Schönbrunn 2

Semmering Railway 2

Stralsund and Wismar 2

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2

Tomioka Silk Mill 2

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2

Úbeda and Baeza 2

Abbey of St Gall 1.5

Aranjuez 1.5

Bardejov Town 1.5

Blenheim Palace 1.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5

Donana National Park 1.5

Fortress of Suomenlinna 1.5

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5

Genoa 1.5

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 1.5

Jelling 1.5

Kronborg Castle 1.5

Litomysl Castle 1.5

Luther Memorials 1.5

Modena 1.5

Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun 1.5

Nancy 1.5

Pannonhalma 1.5

Quedlinburg 1.5

Reichenau 1.5

Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 1.5

Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5

Stoclet House 1.5

Studley Royal Park 1.5

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine 1.5

Tarraco 1.5

Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 1.5

Trebic 1.5

Vlkolinec 1.5

Vézelay 1.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Beemster Polder 1

Corvey 1

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1

Holasovice 1

Hollókö 1

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1

Madara Rider 1

Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park 1

Saltaire 1

Schokland 1

Struve Geodetic Arc 1

Hortobágy 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Tokaji Wine Region 0.5

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