Wojciech Fedoruk Profile

Travelling is my biggest passion. I try to spend every day of my vacation time (unfortunately, limited to 26 days a year) travelling. I travel mostly with my family and sometimes solo. I love going to remote places and always plan visiting as many WH sites as possible. Although sometimes they are not rewarding, in most cases visiting WHS gives me much better understanding of the region I visit.

I find this site very helpful in planning my trips to more difficult WHS and want to share my reviews especially on rarely visited ones.

Poland Last Update 07.05.19 336 WHS Visited 70 Reviews 336 WHS Rated 154 TWHS Visited

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Early Period of Anatolian Turkish Heritage: Niksar, The Capital of Danishmend Dynasty (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 12-Jun-19

Niksar is one of the latest additions to enormous Turkish Tentative list, which may cause suspicion that it might be pushed for inscription soon. Nonetheless, we wouldn’t have visited it if it was not on our long way back from Ani to Istanbul. Visiing Niksar requires a short detour from main road E80 linking Istanbul and Iran.

Before the visit I studied the description on UNESCO site to know what to expect

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Historic Guild Town of Mudurnu (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 11-Jun-19

Mudurnu was a must during my family trip to Turkey in early May 2019 as it was proposed for inscription this year. Unfortunately for me, similar to Kizilirmak delta, a couple of days after my return Turkey withdrew the nomination, most probably after negative ICOMOS assessment. Luckily it did not require a long detour – it is only one hour by car from Istanbul-Ankara highway.

According to nomination file, Mudurnu was a town that played an important role in the Turkification of Anatolia and was an important market town, laying at the crossroads of the Silk Road (from Constantinople to Iran) and Crimean Road (from Damascus to Black Sea coast). Based on what I read, Mudurnu seemed a bit similar to already inscribed town of Safranbolu. And indeed, when we arrived there, the similarity was quite obvious. But Turkey did not admit that – they compared Mudurnu not to Safranbolu, but to some other 'guild towns' in Europe and Asia, such as Visby, Spissky Hrad or Tabriz. This is because Turkey based its nomination on the Ahi Order, merchants' solidarity organization and guild system that was present in Mudurnu almost since its beginning in XIIIth centtury

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Safranbolu

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 09-Jun-19

Safranbolu was our first stop during our trip to Turkey in late April / early May 2019. Going there by car is quite easy, from Istanbul it takes around 4 hours, mostly on highway Istanbul-Ankara. Proximity of Istanbul makes Safranbolu a popular site – there were quite many tourists on Saturday afternoon, but mostly Turkish and only a few foreigners.

Safranbolu was inscribed for well preserved center, being a good example of a typical Ottoman city of pre-industrial era. And indeed it seems really authentic and most of the buildings saved their original shape with white walls and brown wooden frames. Many of them serve as restaurants, guest houses or handicraft shops

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Hattusha

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 08-Jun-19

Sometimes this site surprises me – some sites, even remote ones from T-list, have plenty of reviews, where the others, much easier to visit, barely have any. The latter is the case of Hattusa, where until now there were only a few sentences. And the site is not remote and was visited by more than 60 travellers, which places it in upper half of most visited Turkish WHS.

Hattusa is archeological area which served as capital of Hittite empire from 15th to 11th century BC. There are many well preserved remainings, such as ruins of palaces, temples, city walls with well preserved gates and underground passages. Relative proximity of Cappadocia makes this site quite popular among tourists, including international groups. Sometimes there were even queues to the most popular parts. I had a problem with Hattusa – although most of the site is undoubtedly original, I think some of the monuments – including the most popular sculptures, are replicas (or, to be precise, modern reconstructions). Apart from this, we enjoyed our visit, even my children found it interesting, especially city walls with Yerkapi rampart

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Kızılırmak Delta Wetland and Bird Sanctuary (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 06-Jun-19

I visited this site with my family in late April '19, to have a tick in case it would be inscribed this year. Now we know the nomination was withdrawn by the state party, most probably after negative assessment by Advisory Body. Bad luck, as it was quite a detour, but I cannot say it was a complete waste of time.

Kizilirmak is the longest river in Turkey and in ancient [...]

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Name: Wojciech Fedoruk
Country: Poland
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Proposal: Khor Virap

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Angkor 5

Cracow 5

Florence 5

Ilulissat Icefjord 5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 5

Persepolis 5

Rock Islands 5

Rome 5

Vatican City 5

Ancient Nara 4.5

Bam Cultural Landscape 4.5

Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest 4.5

Chola Temples 4.5

Fontainebleau 4.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5

Gunung Mulu 4.5

Göreme NP 4.5

Ha Long Bay 4.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.5

Kii Mountain Range 4.5

Kizhi Pogost 4.5

Lut Desert 4.5

Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4.5

Meteora 4.5

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5

Old City of Jerusalem 4.5

Petra 4.5

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4.5

Ravenna 4.5

Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 4.5

St. Petersburg 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 4.5

Vienna 4.5

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.5

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 4.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4

Albi 4

Amiens Cathedral 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Kyoto 4

Ani 4

Arles 4

Auschwitz Birkenau 4

Avignon 4

Bourges Cathedral 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Calakmul 4

Causses and Cévennes 4

Chartres Cathedral 4

Churches of Peace 4

Convent of Christ in Tomar 4

Giant's Causeway 4

Golestan Palace 4

Göbekli Tepe 4

Hampi 4

Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 4

Hoi An 4

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4

Lake Baikal 4

Loire Valley 4

Mahabalipuram 4

Malbork Castle 4

Margravial Opera House 4

Masada 4

Mont-Saint-Michel 4

Nancy 4

Nemrut Dag 4

Palenque 4

Pattadakal 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Polonnaruva 4

Pont du Gard 4

Potsdam 4

Prague 4

Quedlinburg 4

Rammelsberg and Goslar 4

Reims 4

San Gimignano 4

Shushtar 4

Siena 4

Sinharaja Forest 4

Speyer Cathedral 4

Strasbourg 4

Tchogha Zanbil 4

Uxmal 4

Venice and its Lagoon 4

Versailles 4

Vilnius 4

Wachau Cultural Landscape 4

Warsaw 4

Westminster 4

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4

Würzburg Residence 4

Xochicalco 4

Zamosc 4

Abbey of St Gall 3.5

Agadez 3.5

Anuradhapura 3.5

Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5

Assisi 3.5

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.5

Belem 3.5

Bordeaux 3.5

Brú na Bóinne 3.5

Burgundy 3.5

Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3.5

Chichen-Itza 3.5

Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5

Cologne Cathedral 3.5

Crespi d'Adda 3.5

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5

El Tajin 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Ferapontov Monastery 3.5

Fortifications of Vauban 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Himeji-jo 3.5

Itsukushima Shrine 3.5

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3.5

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.5

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.5

Kazan Kremlin 3.5

Luther Memorials 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Medina of Fez 3.5

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Monastery of Geghard 3.5

Old Town of Galle 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Orange 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5

Querétaro 3.5

Riga 3.5

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.5

Saint-Emilion 3.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5

Salzburg 3.5

Schönbrunn 3.5

Sigiriya 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Solovetsky Islands 3.5

Sviyazhsk 3.5

Torun 3.5

Tower of London 3.5

University of Coimbra 3.5

Urbino 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Völklingen Ironworks 3.5

Wadi Rum 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.5

Aasivissuit - Nipisat 3

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 3

Archaeological Site of Aigai 3

Bahla Fort 3

Bamberg 3

Bellinzone 3

Biblical Tells 3

Bolgar 3

Canal du Midi 3

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3

Chaîne des Puys 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Classical Weimar 3

Corfu 3

Divrigi 3

Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens 3

Elephanta Caves 3

Elvas 3

Evora 3

Ferrara 3

Genoa 3

Golden Temple of Dambulla 3

Guanajuato 3

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Hué 3

Kew Gardens 3

Kiev 3

Kronborg Castle 3

L'viv 3

Le Havre 3

Luis Barragán House and Studio 3

Masjed-e Jâme' 3

Medina of Tétouan 3

Meknes 3

Mount Athos 3

Mtskheta 3

Naumburg Cathedral 3

Novgorod 3

Paphos 3

Pasargadae 3

Persian Garden 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Popocatepetl monasteries 3

Quseir Amra 3

Rabat 3

Reichenau 3

Rhaetian Railway 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Safranbolu 3

San Marino and Mount Titano 3

San Miguel de Allende 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Shahr-i Sokhta 3

Soltaniyeh 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine 3

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3

Tequila 3

The Persian Qanat 3

Thessalonika 3

Trier 3

Um er-Rasas 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai 3

Virgin Komi Forests 3

Vézelay 3

Walled City of Baku 3

White City of Tel-Aviv 3

Yaroslavl 3

Yazd 3

Alto Douro 2.5

Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5

Bahá’i Holy Places 2.5

Bardejov Town 2.5

Bauhaus Sites 2.5

Belfries 2.5

Bisotun 2.5

Camino Real 2.5

Central Highlands 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 2.5

Gonbad-e Qâbus 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Guimarães 2.5

Hattusha 2.5

Hollókö 2.5

Incense Route of the Negev 2.5

Land of Frankincense 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 2.5

Maymand 2.5

Mazagan 2.5

Medina of Essaouira 2.5

Medina of Marrakesh 2.5

Mexico City and Xochimilco 2.5

Modena 2.5

Morelia 2.5

My Son 2.5

Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 2.5

Puebla 2.5

Québec 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5

Sassanid Archaeological Landscape 2.5

Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.5

Stralsund and Wismar 2.5

Susa 2.5

Tabriz Bazaar 2.5

Takht-e Soleyman 2.5

Telc 2.5

Thang Long 2.5

Tlacotalpan 2.5

Tokaji Wine Region 2.5

Vlkolinec 2.5

Zacatecas 2.5

Aflaj irrigation system 2

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2

Bethlehem 2

Campeche 2

Caves and Ice Age Art 2

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2

Flemish Béguinages 2

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2

Kandy 2

Kinabalu Park 2

Maulbronn Monastery 2

Melaka and George Town 2

Messel Pit 2

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2

Old Town Lunenburg 2

Rideau Canal 2

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 2

Sian Ka'an 2

The Four Lifts 2

Vézère Valley 2

Centennial Hall 1.5

Cidade Velha 1.5

Genbaku Dome 1.5

Gobustan Rock Art 1.5

Grand Pré 1.5

Hospicio Cabañas 1.5

Ivrea 1.5

Jelling 1.5

Major Town Houses 1.5

Miguasha Park 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Monte San Giorgio 1.5

Old City of Acre 1.5

Provins 1.5

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 1.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5

Yagul and Mitla 1.5

Battir 1

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1

Choirokoitia 1

Kernavë 1

Mount Carmel Caves 1

Qalhat 1

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 0.5

Christiansfeld 0.5

Lenggong Valley 0.5

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 0.5

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 0.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 0.5

Stoclet House 0.5

Struve Geodetic Arc 0.5

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Early Period of Anatolian Turkish Heritage: Niksar, The Capital of Danishmend Dynasty (T)

Historic Guild Town of Mudurnu (T)

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Hattusha

Kızılırmak Delta Wetland and Bird Sanctuary (T)

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