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Cordouan Lighthouse

Hubert Austria - 16-Aug-21

I visited the Phare de Cordouan in July 2021, just one day before the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List. The ICOMOS evaluation was clearly positive, so I had no doubt that it would be the first new WHS on my trip through the South West of France.
Different from Els, I opted for a boat tour from Royan. I pre-booked a spot on the boat of La Sirène Cruises. Clyde reported some inconveniences with La Sirène in his review below, but things have obviously changed over the years. In 2021, booking online was easy and convenient with secure payment by credit card, no phone call required, you only have to give your phone number in case the tour has to be cancelled.

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Ljubljana

Hubert Austria - 16-Jul-21

When the Advisory Body Evaluations (ABE) of the 2020/2021 nominations were published a few weeks prior to the WHC meeting, I was surprised to see that Ljubljana received a clear positive recommendation from the ICOMOS experts. According to the ABE, inscription is justified because the architecture of Jože Plečnik transformed a provincial town of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire into a modern and prestigious capital.However, ICOMOS also had some concerns. They considered that the proposed criterion (i) (a masterpiece of human creative genius) was not met

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Pirin National Park

Hubert Austria - 15-Jun-21

“Bulgaria? Why do you go to Bulgaria to hike in a region that looks exactly like the Alps here in Austria?” This was the question my Austrian friends asked me when I showed them my photos of Pirin National Park. Of course, the answer is clear, at least for members of this community: it is a World Heritage Site. But in fact, the similarities are undeniable.Pirin National Park encompasses the northern part of the Pirin Mountains. Most of the inscribed area is above an altitude of 2000 metres, including Vihren, the highest peak at 2914 metres. The national park is best accessed at the town of Bansko on the north-eastern side. And it is here that you can see the biggest threat to the WHS and the national park, the ski area

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Alcala de Henares

Hubert Austria - 13-Jun-21

The Old University and Miguel de Cervantes are the keywords that characterize this World Heritage site. Too little to make Alcalá de Henares an overwhelming site, but enough for a pleasant day trip from Madrid or, as I did, one day with an overnight stay.The Universidad Complutense is remarkable because Alcalá de Henares was the first planned university town in the world. The façade of its main building is the showpiece of the town, although the Plateresque decoration is less exuberant than in Salamanca. When you step through the portal, you are standing in the first and most representative of the three courtyards. The rest of the complex can be visited with a guided tour. You can see the other two courtyards, the auditorium and some other rooms

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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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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

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 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

Bordeaux 3

Canal du Midi 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 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

Saint-Emilion 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

Vézère Valley 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

Dutch Water Defence Lines 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

Great Spa Towns of Europe 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

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 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

ShUM Sites 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

The Prosecco Hills 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

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

The Porticoes of Bologna 2

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 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

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Danube Limes 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

Ljubljana 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

Lower German Limes 1

Madara Rider 1

Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park 1

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 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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