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Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
Hubert Austria - 24-Feb-21

Aqueduto das Águas Livres - Aquaduct of Free Waters – what a great name for a city's water supply. However, its construction in the 18th century was financed by additional taxes, including taxes on olive oil and wine. The result is impressive, as you can see when approaching Lisbon airport from the southwest. To your left, you can spot the centrepiece of the aqueduct, the section that spans the Alcantara Valley (a few minutes earlier you have a nice view of the Belem WHS). But the Águas Livres Aqueduct is more than that, the entire canal system has a length of 58 kilometres.
Read OnGreat Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
Hubert Austria - 07-Feb-21

The German part of this tentative site was reduced from the original six locations to three in the final nomination. And rightly so in my opinion. The remaining ones are: Bad Kissingen, Baden Baden and Bad Ems. I agree with Els that Bad Ems is not really impressive. So my review will focus on the other two German sites.
As in most of the other spa towns, the hot springs in Baden Baden were already used by the Romans. The remains of the Roman baths can be visited below the market square. The boom in the 19th century is closely linked to the granting of the casino licence. In summer, the high society frequented Baden Baden: Europe’s nobility, but also artists, composers and writers. Especially the Russians. Dostoyevsky fell out with Turgenev here. And Nikolai Gogol wrote about Baden Baden: "I only wanted to stay three days, but for three weeks now I can't break away. No one here is seriously ill. Everyone comes here to amuse themselves
Read OnSite of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
Hubert Austria - 26-Jan-21

Madrid is certainly the most prominent member of the club "European capitals without World Heritage Site". Spain is densely covered with WHS, almost every region and island has at least one site inscribed, but the capital has so far been left empty-handed. And after my three-day stay in Madrid I would say: rightly so. However, the Spanish authorities seem to disagree and nominated the Site of the Retiro and the Prado for decision at the WHC in 2020, postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic.
For centuries, the proposed area was outside the city walls, today it is the green heart of Madrid. The Parque del Buen Retiro emerged from the grounds of the Buen Retiro Palace built by the Habsburg dynasty. The palace was destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars and never rebuilt, in the 19th century the gardens were opened to the public. The rectangular artificial lake is the centre of El Retiro and also one of only a few remains from the time of the royal palace. I liked the Palacio de Cristal best (photo), it reminded me of the wonderful greenhouses at Kew Gardens in London. But in Madrid are no plants on display; the building is used for temporary art exhibitions
Read OnCaceres
Hubert Austria - 16-Jan-21

The Old Town of Cáceres is also called Ciudad Monumental - the Monumental City. A little exaggerated from today's perspective, as the historic centre is well hidden in the middle of the modern city. You only realise that you have reached your destination when you stand in front of the old city wall at the Plaza Mayor (photo). This was certainly different in the Middle Ages, when the city wall and the massive towers were visible from afar.
The Plaza Mayor is the bustling centre of modern Cáceres with plenty of shops and bars. But the atmosphere changes as soon as you walk through the Arco de la Estrella and enter the core zone of the WHS, the intramuros town. The old town has been preserved almost unchanged as it was in the 16th century, there are almost no signs of modernization. It is like a journey back in time to the Middle Ages. One inevitably wonders how many people still live there today. And when I walked along the massive walls of the Renaissance palaces and looked up at the huge towers, I understood why it is called monumental
Read OnMérida
Hubert Austria - 11-Jan-21

Under the Roman name Emerita Augusta, Mérida was an important centre on the Via de la Plata (Silver Road), the connection between Seville in Andalusia and Astorga in the north. The ancient city had about 50,000 inhabitants, quite large for the time. Today, Mérida is only slightly larger than it was in Roman times, a cosy and leisurely town compared to other sites in Spain.I visited Mérida in May 2019 on a trip through central Spain, it was the southernmost of eleven WHS on this tour. The WHS consists of 22 locations, most of which are within walking distance of the city centre, only a few are located in the countryside outside of Mérida. The combined ticket mentioned in Els' review now costs 15 euros, still a reasonable price for five sites
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Rating StatsRome 5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Bauhaus Sites 4.5Cracow 4.5Dubrovnik 4.5Florence 4.5Istanbul 4.5Pompei 4.5Sintra 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Vatican City 4.5Granada 4Prague 4Toledo 4Vienna 4Acropolis 3.5Aquileia 3.5Arles 3.5Budapest 3.5City of Bath 3.5Classical Weimar 3.5Cordoba 3.5Edinburgh 3.5Elvas 3.5Fagus Factory 3.5Ferrara 3.5Lyon 3.5Masada 3.5Matera 3.5Naples 3.5Nikko 3.5Oporto 3.5Potsdam 3.5Ravenna 3.5Riga 3.5Segovia 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Seville 3.5Siena 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Verona 3.5Vicenza 3.5Vilnius 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Westminster 3.5Zollverein 3.5Albi 3Assisi 3Avignon 3Bamberg 3Belem 3Cuenca 3Graz 3Mystras 3Salzburg 3Split 3Telc 3Trier 3Amiens Cathedral 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Bryggen 2.5Centennial Hall 2.5Champagne 2.5El Escurial 2.5Fujisan 2.5Ironbridge Gorge 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Lake District 2.5Le Havre 2.5Lübeck 2.5Mérida 2.5Nessebar 2.5Poblet Monastery 2.5Québec 2.5Regensburg 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Tower of London 2.5Trogir 2.5Urbino 2.5Val d'Orcia 2.5Van Nellefabriek 2.5Wadden Sea 2.5Zamosc 2.5Avila 2Belfries 2Burgundy 2Caceres 2Evora 2Kernavë 2Orange 2Pienza 2Provins 2Reims 2Abbey of St Gall 1.5Bardejov Town 1.5Blenheim Palace 1.5Genoa 1.5Jelling 1.5Kronborg Castle 1.5Litomysl Castle 1.5Luther Memorials 1.5Modena 1.5Nancy 1.5Pannonhalma 1.5Quedlinburg 1.5Reichenau 1.5Stoclet House 1.5Tarraco 1.5Trebic 1.5Vlkolinec 1.5Vézelay 1.5Aranjuez 1Corvey 1Hollókö 1Saltaire 1Hortobágy 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Caceres
- Mérida
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun
- Nikko
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Fujisan
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Kii Mountain Range
- Himeji-jo
- Horyu-ji Area
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Alto Douro
- Guimarães
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Oporto
- University of Coimbra
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Chaîne des Puys
- Sintra
- Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park
- Florence
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Margravial Opera House
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Granada
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Amiens Cathedral
- Champagne
- Reims
- Provins
- Fontainebleau
- Versailles
- Chartres Cathedral
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Loire Valley
- Bourges Cathedral
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Le Havre
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Speyer Cathedral
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Hollókö
- Hortobágy
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Bardejov Town
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Churches of Peace
- Centennial Hall
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Cracow
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Banska Stiavnica
- Vlkolinec
- Vatican City
- Rome
- Cesky Krumlov
- Holasovice
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Poblet Monastery
- Tarraco
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Vall de Boi
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Albi
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Canal du Midi
- Arles
- Avignon
- Pont du Gard
- Orange
- Causses and Cévennes
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Lyon
- Pannonhalma
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Split
- Trogir
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Dubrovnik
- Plitvice Lakes
- Cologne Cathedral
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Zollverein
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Aachen Cathedral
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Messel Pit
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Heritage of Mercury
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Holy Trinity Column
- Litomysl Castle
- Telc
- Trebic
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Tugendhat Villa
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Wartburg Castle
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Ravenna
- Ferrara
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Kew Gardens
- Maritime Greenwich
- Westminster
- Tower of London
- Teide National Park
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Vienna
- Quedlinburg
- Potsdam
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Bauhaus Sites
- Luther Memorials
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Vicenza
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Dolomites
- Aquileia
- Margravial Opera House
- Classical Weimar
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Fagus Factory
Visited TWHS
- Abbey of Kremsmünster (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Bulwarked Fortifications (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- Bussaco cultural landscape (T)
- Cathedral of Gurk (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centro Storico di Lucca (T)
- Centro storico di Parma (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Creswell Crags (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Salt Towns (T)
- Darmstadt Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France (T)
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Franja Partisan Hospital (T)
- Lower German Limes (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Austria) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Austria) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Czechia) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Italy) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Hangar Y (T)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
- Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone (extension) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
- Hochosterwitz Castle (T)
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
- Kaunas 1919-1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement (T)
- Koloniën van Weldadigheid (agricultural pauper colony) (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Les grandes villes d'eaux d'Europe (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana paysage agricole de la montagne méditerranéenne (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The city of Bergamo (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- The Silver Route (T)
- The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
- The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Plečnik (T)
- The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (T)
- The West Bohemian Spa Triangle (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (T)
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (T)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Lower German Limes (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Czechia) (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone (extension) (T)
- Bussaco cultural landscape (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Hangar Y (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Darmstadt Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe (T)
- Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana paysage agricole de la montagne méditerranéenne (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- Schwetzingen, castle and castle gardens (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Amritsar
- Bagan
- Chicago School of Architecture
- Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
- Lena Delta
- Middle and Upper Sepik
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
- Nan Madol
- Okavango Delta
- Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
- Salisbury Plains, Grytviken
- Scrovegni's Chapel
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Ur
- Varanasi
- Westhoek: places of memory and monuments of the Great War
Top 200 WHS
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Teide National Park
- Brasilia
- Shibam
- Toledo
- Sana'a
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Ellora Caves
- Moenjodaro
- Sukhothai
- Angkor
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Altamira Cave
- Plitvice Lakes
- Iguazu National Park
- The Sundarbans
- Okavango Delta
- Lake Baikal
- Victoria Falls
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Kenya Lake System
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Tugendhat Villa
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Nasca Lines
- Çatalhöyük
- Stonehenge
- Chichen-Itza
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Chan Chan
- Mesa Verde
- Chaco Culture
- San Agustín
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Site of Carthage
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Lower Valley of the Awash
- Potsdam
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- Palmyra
- Nemrut Dag
- Petra
- Hatra
- Persepolis
- Tchogha Zanbil
- Samarra
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Machu Picchu
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Castel del Monte
- Great Wall
- Himeji-jo
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Gwynedd Castles
- Agra Fort
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Budapest
- Brugge
- Vienna
- Cracow
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Lübeck
- Maritime Greenwich
- Great Barrier Reef
- Rock Islands
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Cuzco
- Ha Long Bay
- Gunung Mulu
- South China Karst
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Qutb Minar
- Fraser Island
- Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Temple of Heaven
- Sun Temple, Konarak
- Prambanan
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Chola Temples
- Los Glaciares
- Te Wahipounamu
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Yosemite National Park
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Redwood
- Cape Floral Region
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Aldabra Atoll
- Komodo National Park
- Gulf of California
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Vredefort Dome
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- Bauhaus Sites
- Jantar Mantar
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Lorentz National Park
- Virunga National Park
- Namib Sand Sea
- Air and Téneré
- Rio de Janeiro
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Uluru
- Bali Subak system
- Persian Garden
- Wadi Rum
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Thingvellir
- Cartagena
- Potosi
- Québec
- Ouro Preto
- Puebla
- Meroe
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Sydney Opera House
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Amiens Cathedral
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Mount Athos
- Westminster
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Saint Catherine Area
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Bethlehem
- Kizhi Pogost
- Lalibela
- Aachen Cathedral
- Göreme NP
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Mogao Caves
- Borobudur
- Potala Palace
- Sigiriya
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Ajanta Caves
- Fujian Tulou
- Kathmandu Valley
- Bukhara
- Ping Yao
- Samarkand
- Kairouan
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Damascus
- Historic Cairo
- Aleppo
- Pont du Gard
- Leptis Magna
- Baalbek
- Pompei
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Acropolis
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Olympia
- Laponian Area
- Pico Island
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Timbuktu
- Koutammakou
- Djenné
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Aksum
- Giant's Causeway