Ian Cade Profile

I discovered the World Heritage list whilst studying in the Czech city of Olomouc in 2003, and since then I have spent a fair bit of my time visiting the sites and boring people with information about them. World Heritage Sites provide a great way to hunt out the best bits of countries and can give you a look at some great parts of a destination that you would otherwise not see. A few of my favourite sites have been the ones that I have made a special effort to get to see because of their place on the list; Sceilg Mhichíl, Guanajuato and Preah Vihear

I mostly take short trips around Europe, making the most of budget airlines special offers, seeing some of the continent's great cities, visiting friends and dragging them to some pretty obscure places.
I try to travel outside Europe at least once a year and hope to tick off a few of the places on my wish list when money, politics and time enable this.

It's not about the shark!:
Whilst the World Heritage Sites themselves are the focus of my travels, they are more a means to an end, the real joy of travelling comes from interacting with people, waiting for trains at hitherto unknown corners of the world then eating and drinking the tasty (and not so tasty) delights on offer.

UK Last Update 07.07.19 293 WHS Visited 308 Reviews 293 WHS Rated 90 TWHS Visited

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The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)

Ian Cade UK - 21-Mar-19

The three locations I visited from this nomination were railway infrastructure sites in the town of Nova Gorica, right up against the Italian border. The nomination is focused on the sites role in the First World War, and how the militarisation of the landscape and redrawing of the boundaries in the area left a tangible effect on the natural environment, something which was continued thirty years later as the Iron curtain fell across the same corner of Europe.

I have a hazy knowledge of the Isonzo Front and knew it was relevant to this area, even reading the notice boards around the station

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Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region

Ian Cade UK - 07-Mar-19

My first visit to one of the plethora of small wooden churches in this corner of Europe that provide three separate World Heritage Sites, was a rather enjoyable, if short experience, in a town that I would otherwise have no real reason to be in.

I hadn’t planned to visit this site, but an early landing at Lviv’s new airport and very swift passport control meant I was curbside about an hour before I thought I would be. Off the cuff I looked at the map on my phone I realised that the Tserkva of the Holy Trinity in Zhovkva was only about 45 minutes away, all that time our coommunity put into plotting sites on a map suddenly paid off!

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Forth Bridge

Ian Cade UK - 21-Sep-18

Having arrived on the overnight train from London, I found myself with a couple of hours before I had to be at a meeting, as such it was time to get a proper tick and travel across the bridge, some seven years after first exploring the structure from South Queensferry. All in all it is an hour return from Waverly station to Inverkeithing Station.

I don’t have much else to add to the reviews already here, on the way north I got the excitement of crossing the bridge for the first time, however you can’t really see much of the bridge itself.

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Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)

Ian Cade UK - 21-Aug-18

First off a bit of a warning, Copacabana Fort isn't part of this proposal, more on that later.

This is a proposal that encompasses a large array of forts around Brazil though mostly on the Atlantic coast, built by Europeans in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. My attempted visits focused on three around Rio de Janeiro, and it seems not all of them are part of the proposal.

Attempt one: Santa Cruz da Barra Fort

Well the focus of this little side trip wasn't really to get inside the fort in Niteroi, rather it was to [...]

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Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai

Ian Cade UK - 03-Jul-18

Focused on the southern tip of the city centre around the Fort area and the waterfront along Marine Drive near Chowpatty Beach there is a surprisingly dense cluster of Art Deco buildings in the city, but without having my eyes peeled for the details, this mostly passed me by on my visit in 2010. However the Victorian Gothic aspects sat very prominently in my memory.

Sitting on the Oval Maidan, which forms the core of the nominated area, watching innumerable cricket matches the main impression I had was of English influenced metropolitan architecture, particularly the large brick Neo-Gothic buildings which felt like the logical continuation after my arrival at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus which is built in a similar style.

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Name: Ian Cade
Country: UK
Most Impressive: Angkor
Proposal: Major Buildings of the Chicago School of Architecture/ Scorvegni Chapel (Padua)
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Angkor 5

Bauhaus Sites 5

Grand Canyon 5

Mexico City and Xochimilco 5

Rome 5

Yellowstone 5

Ajanta Caves 4.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5

Brasilia 4.5

Chaco Culture 4.5

Ellora Caves 4.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.5

Grimeton Radio Station 4.5

Guanajuato 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Mesa Verde 4.5

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.5

Prague 4.5

Sceilg Mhichíl 4.5

Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Vienna 4.5

Aquileia 4

Bamberg 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

Edinburgh 4

Granada 4

Great Wall 4

Gwynedd Castles 4

Kyiv 4

Luis Barragán House and Studio 4

Medina of Marrakesh 4

Mostar 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Pampulha 4

Preah Vihear Temple 4

Salzburg 4

Segovia 4

Split 4

Summer Palace 4

Tallinn 4

Vatican City 4

Yosemite National Park 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5

Bordeaux 3.5

Budapest 3.5

Churches of Peace 3.5

Cordoba 3.5

Cracow 3.5

El Escurial 3.5

Everglades 3.5

Florence 3.5

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5

Gammelstad 3.5

Graz 3.5

Hwaseong Fortress 3.5

Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.5

L'viv 3.5

Major Town Houses 3.5

Medina of Fez 3.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 3.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5

Puebla 3.5

Quedlinburg 3.5

Rabat 3.5

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5

Regensburg 3.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5

Riga 3.5

Rio de Janeiro 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Saint-Emilion 3.5

Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Sydney Opera House 3.5

Syracuse 3.5

Temple of Heaven 3.5

Teotihuacan 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Tugendhat Villa 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5

Würzburg Residence 3.5

Xochicalco 3.5

Altamira Cave 3

Amiens Cathedral 3

Amphitheater of El Jem 3

Avignon 3

Belem 3

Belfries 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3

City of Bath 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 3

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3

Fagus Factory 3

Gyeongju 3

Haeinsa Temple 3

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Heritage of Mercury 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Imperial Palace 3

Ironbridge Gorge 3

Kerkuane 3

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3

Kunta Kinteh Island 3

Lake District 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Lyon 3

Malbork Castle 3

Maritime Greenwich 3

Medina of Tunis 3

Meknes 3

Mont-Saint-Michel 3

Monticello 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3

Oporto 3

Orange 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Plitvice Lakes 3

Pont du Gard 3

Popocatepetl monasteries 3

Primeval Beech Forests 3

Querétaro 3

Reims 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

San Miguel de Allende 3

Seville 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3

Statue of Liberty 3

Stone Circles of Senegambia 3

Stonehenge 3

Studley Royal Park 3

Sukhothai 3

Taos Pueblo 3

Telc 3

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3

University of Coimbra 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Val di Noto 3

Van Nellefabriek 3

Verona 3

Versailles 3

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai 3

Vilnius 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Warsaw 3

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3

Zollverein 3

Aachen Cathedral 2.5

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.5

Arles 2.5

Asturian Monuments 2.5

Ayutthaya 2.5

Beemster Polder 2.5

Brugge 2.5

Canterbury 2.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5

Centennial Hall 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 2.5

Classical Weimar 2.5

Elephanta Caves 2.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5

Flemish Béguinages 2.5

Fontainebleau 2.5

Forth Bridge 2.5

Gorham's Cave Complex 2.5

Grand Canal 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5

Kairouan 2.5

Kew Gardens 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Laponian Area 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Luther Memorials 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 2.5

Medina of Essaouira 2.5

Medina of Sousse 2.5

Megalithic Temples of Malta 2.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.5

New Lanark 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5

Rideau Canal 2.5

Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.5

Saltaire 2.5

Santiago de Compostela 2.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 2.5

Site of Carthage 2.5

Stari Grad Plain 2.5

Stevns Klint 2.5

Toledo 2.5

Torun 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

Trier 2.5

Trogir 2.5

Vicenza 2.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 2.5

Alcala de Henares 2

Antequera Dolmens Site 2

Aranjuez 2

Avila 2

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2

Cahokia Mounds 2

Camino Real 2

Chartres Cathedral 2

Cologne Cathedral 2

Dong Phayayen 2

Dorset and East Devon Coast 2

Drottningholm 2

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2

Giant's Causeway 2

Greater Blue Mountains 2

Jelling 2

Kernavë 2

Kinderdijk 2

La Lonja de la Seda 2

Le Havre 2

Messel Pit 2

Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2

Nesvizh 2

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2

Palmeral of Elche 2

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2

Roman Walls of Lugo 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Royal Joseon Tombs 2

Schönbrunn 2

Semmering Railway 2

Skogskyrkogarden 2

Speyer Cathedral 2

Stoclet House 2

Stralsund and Wismar 2

Tower of London 2

Trebic 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5

Defence Line of Amsterdam 1.5

Donana National Park 1.5

Falun Great Copper Mountain 1.5

Fortifications of Vauban 1.5

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5

Holasovice 1.5

Imperial Tombs 1.5

Independence Hall 1.5

Kronborg Castle 1.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 1.5

Liverpool 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Modena 1.5

Morelia 1.5

Muskauer Park 1.5

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 1.5

Peking Man Site 1.5

Potsdam 1.5

Stećci 1.5

Tower of Hercules 1.5

Valongo Wharf 1.5

Venetian Works of Defence 1.5

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 1

Birka and Hovgarden 1

Blenheim Palace 1

Christiansfeld 1

Corvey 1

Derwent Valley Mills 1

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1

Hahoe and Yangdong 1

Jongmyo Shrine 1

Mir Castle 1

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1

Struve Geodetic Arc 1

The Four Lifts 1

Wadden Sea 1

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Schokland 0.5

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The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region

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Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai

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