Philipp Peterer Profile

Since 2008 visiting WHS is my primary obsession. I started with about 40 sites I had seen without particular knowledge of their world heritage status and managed to boost this number since. It helped that I started to work for the national airline in 2010 and I had a few years where I could travel intensely. In 2012 I had my personal record year, visiting 60 sites. Between December 2010 and March 2013 I was able to visit 1 or more sites every single month. In March 2013 my son was born, so currently I’m reduced to a much slower pace and the occasional weekend escape on my own.

I really like the diversity of the list. I favor medieval related sites, industrial sites and Greek/Roman remains, if they are clearly visible. On the rear end are modern architecture and fossil sites. The true spirit of our common hobby reveals itself to me each time I visit a place I would have never dreamed of if it wasn’t for the list and turns out to be amazing, such as Sceilg Mhichíl, the Wadi Al Hitan or the Ajanta Caves.

Switzerland Last Update 15.10.19 518 WHS Visited 48 Reviews 518 WHS Rated 152 TWHS Visited

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Medina of Sousse

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 03-Sep-19

Visit: April 2018. Sousse was certainly less touristy than I expected it to be, considering its position right in the all inclusive holiday zone of Tunisia. I assume it gets its fair share of tourists during high season, but mostly in form of tour groups. As individual travellers me and my son were the only western tourists during our morning visit. The highlights were the town wall and the fort (Riba) where you can climb all the towers to get a good view. I also enjoyed the Archaeological Museum (Kasbah) with a vast display of mosaics and the rather clean narrow streets of the old town. No hassling was going on, but this might have been caused by our (too) early arrival. I certainly liked Sousse more than the nearby boring Kairouan

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Primošten Vineyards (T)

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 02-Sep-19

The Primosten vineyards are apparently special because they manually removed rocks to cultivate the land. I doubt this will ever be a WHS. Croatia already has its fair share of boring agricultural landscape WHS with the Stari Grad Plain. What you will see is some vineyards that are not only indifferent from the other vineyards in this region, but also inaccessible. The hills where you can see the transformation are private property and you can only “admire” them from a certain distance. Not that you would miss much from getting closer.

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Anjar

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 02-Sep-19

Visit: January 2019. I arrived in Anjar from Baalbek and had to rely entirely on my preloaded (I was not able to get mobile internet in Lebanon) Google Maps directions. I couldn’t find any signs pointing towards this WHS. Even within Anjar itself there is no clear signage. It is quite a shame how low key this place is, as in international comparison it is a very nice and deserving WHS.

Once arrived, there is free parking right in front of the entrance. Opening times are as generous as in most places around Lebanon (one more reason to like this country), so I didn’t have to worry about that.

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Byblos

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 02-Sep-19

Visit: January 2019. Byblos is a good place to start a Lebanon WHS trip. I arrived at night, after an easy 45min drive from Beirut airport. Be aware that the same trip during the day can take 2-3 times longer due to heavy traffic in and around Beirut. To add another bonus, accommodation in Byblos was also cheaper and I could park my car in front of the hotel, close to the core zone.

The site opened at 8am and I must say I really liked it. As usual, I was the first visitor on site and enjoyed unspoiled views over the area. I can’t add much about what to see within the archeological zone. It’s a mix of remains from different cultures and times with the Crusader Castle as the dominant feature. It took me around 2 hours to see it all.

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Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System form Peru (RNSIIPG) (T)

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 24-Aug-19

This nomination includes a large amount of islands and I am not sure if all would be inscribed, if that ever happens. I visited the one place that would surely be the heart of this nomination: the Islas Ballestas. The islands are an easy day trip from Paracas. It is not allowed to land, but the boat drives by very close so you can spot the abundance of wild life. We saw sea lions, penguins, pelicans, and many other birds. You can clearly see and scent the guano all around the island. Truly an unforgettable experience and highly recommendable if you are in the region.

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Ajanta Caves 5

Angkor 5

Baalbek 5

Elephanta Caves 5

Ellora Caves 5

Fatehpur Sikri 5

Granada 5

Komodo National Park 5

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 5

Loire Valley 5

Machu Picchu 5

Meteora 5

Mont-Saint-Michel 5

Palenque 5

Petra 5

Rome 5

Sceilg Mhichíl 5

Segovia 5

Sintra 5

Summer Palace 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5

Brugge 4.5

Bryggen 4.5

Cesky Krumlov 4.5

Chavin 4.5

Chichen-Itza 4.5

Costiera Amalfitana 4.5

Cracow 4.5

Cuzco 4.5

Dong Phayayen 4.5

Florence 4.5

Grand Canyon 4.5

Great Wall 4.5

Gwynedd Castles 4.5

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5

Huascaran National Park 4.5

Imperial Palace 4.5

Kremlin and Red Square 4.5

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5

Mount Etna 4.5

Nasca Lines 4.5

Oporto 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Plitvice Lakes 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.5

Prague 4.5

Pyramids (Memphis) 4.5

Rila Monastery 4.5

Salamanca 4.5

Siena 4.5

Sigiriya 4.5

Taj Mahal 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

The trulli of Alberobello 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Wadi Al-Hitan 4.5

Wadi Rum 4.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5

Yosemite National Park 4.5

Yungang Grottoes 4.5

Abbey of St Gall 4

Agrigento 4

Altamira Cave 4

Amiens Cathedral 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Archaeological Site of Delphi 4

Assisi 4

Avignon 4

Avila 4

Bali Subak system 4

Bamberg 4

Belem 4

Blenheim Palace 4

Budapest 4

Byblos 4

Cape Floral Region 4

Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4

Chan Chan 4

Churches of Peace 4

City of Bath 4

City of Luxembourg 4

Convent of Christ in Tomar 4

Cordoba 4

Cuenca 4

Dacian Fortresses 4

Danube Delta 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

Dubrovnik 4

Edinburgh 4

Elvas 4

Ephesus 4

Etruscan Necropolises 4

Everglades 4

Evora 4

Falun Great Copper Mountain 4

Fontainebleau 4

Fortified City of Carcassonne 4

Gamzigrad-Romuliana 4

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4

Guanajuato 4

Guimarães 4

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4

Heritage of Mercury 4

Humayun's Tomb 4

Independence Hall 4

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 4

Isole Eolie 4

Istanbul 4

Kinabalu Park 4

Kotor 4

Kyiv 4

La Fortaleza 4

Las Medulas 4

Le Morne 4

Luang Prabang 4

Manu National Park 4

Masada 4

Mostar 4

Mountain Resort, Chengde 4

Mycenae and Tiryns 4

Mystras 4

Naples 4

Ohrid Region 4

Old City of Jerusalem 4

Paphos 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Polonnaruva 4

Potsdam 4

Preah Vihear Temple 4

Qhapaq Ñan 4

Quedlinburg 4

Qutb Minar 4

Rammelsberg and Goslar 4

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4

Reims 4

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 4

Rhodes 4

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 4

Salzburg 4

San Marino and Mount Titano 4

San Miguel de Allende 4

Sanchi 4

Santa Maria delle Grazie 4

Seville 4

Skocjan Caves 4

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 4

Split 4

Studenica Monastery 4

Studley Royal Park 4

Sukhothai 4

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4

Syracuse 4

Teide National Park 4

Telc 4

The Four Lifts 4

Toledo 4

Trier 4

Trinity Sergius Lavra 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Vall de Boi 4

Vienna 4

Villa Romana del Casale 4

Vilnius 4

Wachau Cultural Landscape 4

Warsaw 4

Wartburg Castle 4

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4

Xochicalco 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Albi 3.5

Alto Douro 3.5

Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5

Anjar 3.5

Antequera Dolmens Site 3.5

Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5

Aranjuez 3.5

Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5

Atlantic Forest South-East 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Bardejov Town 3.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5

Biblical Tells 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Brimstone Hill Fortress 3.5

Burgos Cathedral 3.5

Caceres 3.5

Camino Real 3.5

Canterbury 3.5

Caral-Supe 3.5

Castel del Monte 3.5

Chartres Cathedral 3.5

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5

Curonian Spit 3.5

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5

Dolomites 3.5

Donana National Park 3.5

El Escurial 3.5

Epidaurus 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5

Garajonay 3.5

Giant's Causeway 3.5

Grand Place, Brussels 3.5

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5

Incense Route of the Negev 3.5

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5

Jantar Mantar 3.5

Kandy 3.5

Keoladeo National Park 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Kronborg Castle 3.5

La Lonja de la Seda 3.5

Lima 3.5

Liverpool 3.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Lübeck 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Matera 3.5

Maulbronn Monastery 3.5

Mazagan 3.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5

Medina of Tétouan 3.5

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5

Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5

Muskauer Park 3.5

Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.5

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.5

Neolithic Orkney 3.5

Novodevichy Convent 3.5

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 3.5

Old City of Acre 3.5

Old City of Berne 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Orange 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.5

Poblet Monastery 3.5

Pont du Gard 3.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5

Popocatepetl monasteries 3.5

Provins 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Querétaro 3.5

Ravenna 3.5

Rhaetian Railway 3.5

Rio de Janeiro 3.5

Robben Island 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Royal Palace at Caserta 3.5

San Gimignano 3.5

Santa Maria de Guadelupe 3.5

Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Schönbrunn 3.5

Sighisoara 3.5

Sinharaja Forest 3.5

Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.5

Statue of Liberty 3.5

Stevns Klint 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine 3.5

Tarraco 3.5

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.5

Temple of Heaven 3.5

Tower of London 3.5

Trebic 3.5

Trogir 3.5

Tyre 3.5

University of Coimbra 3.5

Urbino 3.5

Val di Noto 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.5

Verona 3.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5

Villa d'Este 3.5

Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5

Vizcaya Bridge 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Vézère Valley 3.5

Völklingen Ironworks 3.5

West Norwegian Fjords 3.5

Westminster 3.5

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3.5

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.5

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Würzburg Residence 3.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5

Acropolis 3

Agra Fort 3

Anuradhapura 3

Aphrodisias 3

Arequipa 3

Arles 3

Asturian Monuments 3

Bahá’i Holy Places 3

Ban Chiang 3

Belfries 3

Bellinzone 3

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3

Bethlehem 3

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3

Bordeaux 3

Botanical Garden, Padua 3

Boyana Church 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Campeche 3

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3

Centennial Hall 3

Chaîne des Puys 3

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3

Choirokoitia 3

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3

Classical Weimar 3

Cologne Cathedral 3

Crespi d'Adda 3

Defence Line of Amsterdam 3

Derwent Valley Mills 3

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3

Fortress of Suomenlinna 3

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3

Gorham's Cave Complex 3

Graz 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 3

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3

Historic Cairo 3

Ibiza 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

Le Havre 3

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Longobards in Italy 3

Macao 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Meknes 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Mexico City and Xochimilco 3

Modena 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Mérida 3

Nessebar 3

New Lanark 3

Old Rauma 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Palau de la Musica Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau 3

Pannonhalma 3

Pearling 3

Pienza 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pitons Management Area 3

Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3

Qadisha Valley 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Quseir Amra 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Saint-Emilion 3

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3

Saltaire 3

Selimiye Mosque 3

Semmering Railway 3

Serra de Tramuntana 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Skogskyrkogarden 3

Stralsund and Wismar 3

Thessalonika 3

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3

Um er-Rasas 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Vicenza 3

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai 3

Vredefort Dome 3

Wadden Sea 3

Zollverein 3

Alcala de Henares 2.5

Aquileia 2.5

Burgundy 2.5

Causses and Cévennes 2.5

Central Highlands 2.5

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.5

Drottningholm 2.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5

Forth Bridge 2.5

Fortifications of Vauban 2.5

Genoa 2.5

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5

Imperial Tombs 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Kairouan 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Maritime Greenwich 2.5

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 2.5

Medina of Fez 2.5

Medina of Marrakesh 2.5

Medina of Sousse 2.5

Medina of Tunis 2.5

Monastery of Horezu 2.5

Morelia 2.5

Nancy 2.5

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.5

Palmeral of Elche 2.5

Panamá 2.5

Peking Man Site 2.5

Petäjävesi Old Church 2.5

Puebla 2.5

Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 2.5

Red Fort 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.5

Roman Walls of Lugo 2.5

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5

Site of Carthage 2.5

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5

Stećci 2.5

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5

Vézelay 2.5

Úbeda and Baeza 2.5

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2

Birka and Hovgarden 2

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2

Fagus Factory 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Fossil Hominid Sites 2

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2

Holasovice 2

Hollókö 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Ichkeul National Park 2

Ivrea 2

Jodrell Bank Observatory 2

Kerkuane 2

Lake District 2

Land of Frankincense 2

Medina Azahara 2

Mount Carmel Caves 2

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2

Primeval Beech Forests 2

Reichenau 2

Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin 2

Roskilde Cathedral 2

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2

San Cristobal de La Laguna 2

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga 2

Speyer Cathedral 2

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2

Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2

Tokaji Wine Region 2

Tugendhat Villa 2

Val d'Orcia 2

Aflaj irrigation system 1.5

Al Ain 1.5

Atapuerca 1.5

Bahla Fort 1.5

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Bridgetown 1.5

Canal du Midi 1.5

Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5

Corvey 1.5

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5

Flemish Béguinages 1.5

Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5

Luther Memorials 1.5

Major Town Houses 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Monte San Giorgio 1.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 1.5

Stari Grad Plain 1.5

Van Nellefabriek 1.5

Aapravasi Ghat 1

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1

Al Zubarah 1

Christiansfeld 1

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 1

Dilmun Burial Mounds 1

Jelling 1

Kernavë 1

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1

Messel Pit 1

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1

Sammallahdenmäki 1

Schokland 1

Srebarna Nature Reserve 1

The Prosecco Hills 1

Water Management System of Augsburg 1

White City of Tel-Aviv 1

Battir 0.5

Beemster Polder 0.5

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5

Hortobágy 0.5

Lenggong Valley 0.5

Madara Rider 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Stoclet House 0.5

Struve Geodetic Arc 0.5

Valongo Wharf 0.5

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