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.

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Saviour Transfiguration Church and St. Sophia Cathedral in the town of Polatsk (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 10-Jul-19

This is a very strange nomination. Belarus proposed two churches that now have nothing in common except being in the same town of Polatsk. The first one – Saviour Transfiguration Church – is one of the oldest and most important churches in Belarus. Now it is part of the complex of the Monastery of Transfiguration and St. Euphrosine, a bit far from the center. Judging from the outside, the church is the least prominent building of the monastery (it is also the most distant from the entrance). Its real value is inside, as the whole interior is covered with original beautiful frescoes. During my visit (June 2019) the church was closed for renovation but you could look inside. The best frescoes were also presented on billboards around the church

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Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 13-Jul-19

I visited Pskov at the end of my trip to Russia in 2016. I did not expect anything special in Pskov, although wanted to visit this city, with links to the history of Poland and famous city walls. And indeed, massive city walls were the first thing that was outstanding in Pskov. The second one was its kremlin (here called Krom) which was very small comparing to Russian standards (where usually kremlins are quite broad) but one of the niciest. But honestly I had mixed feelings with the historical center – although overall it was fine, it lacked integrity and historical buildings were mixed with much newer ones. It did not help that the weather was rainy that day and at the end I got all wet.

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Íznik (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 18-Jun-19

Iznik now is a small and insignificant town not very far from Istanbul but centuries ago it was an important center of Byzantine empire and then, for a a short period, the capital of Ottoman empire. First soup kitchen in the world was founded in Iznik. Later Iznik became famous of its ceramic industry. For Western culture Iznik is much better known under its latin name Nicaea. It was this place that hosted the Counsils of Nicaea and creed that was adopted after The First Council of Nicaea is until now named the Nicene Creed and is used in Christian liturgy all over the world.

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Mount Harşena and the Rock-tombs of the Pontic Kings (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 17-Jun-19

Amasya was on our way from Ani to Istanbul and, considering it required only a short detour from main E80 road, I decided to go there. It was Saturday afternoon and the town was bustling with tourists. There is no doubt the town is worth its popularity – it was undisputedly one of the most beautiful places in Turkey we visited. The town, like many Turkish settlements, is located on the slope of Mount Harşena, along the river of Yeşilırmak and its city center is well preserved. The buildings just on the river bank are really picturesque. To fully admire the beauty of the town one has to climb up the mount Harşena. As a WHS fan I had to do it anyway because the mountain is on Turkish Tentative List. The uniqueness of Harşena stems from stone tombs carved in its slopes

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Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs (T)

Wojciech Fedoruk Poland - 14-Jun-19

Out of all proposed properties we visited only one – Yakutiye Madrasah in Erzurum. I did not read a description on UNESCO site so I did not realize there was another one in Eurzurum - Çifte Minareli Madrasah, very close to Yakutiye.

Yakutiye Madrasah is located in the very center of Erzurum, one of the biggest cities in the East of Turkey

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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

Kremlin and Red Square 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

Forth Bridge 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

Ancient ferrous metallurgy sites 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

Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture 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

Guanajuato 3

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Hué 3

Kew Gardens 3

Kronborg Castle 3

Kyiv 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

Neolithic Orkney 3

Nesvizh 3

New Lanark 3

Novgorod 3

Paphos 3

Pasargadae 3

Persian Garden 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Popocatepetl monasteries 3

Quseir Amra 3

Rabat 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 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

Trinity Sergius Lavra 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

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Derbent 2.5

Durham Castle and Cathedral 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

Mir Castle 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

Hyrcanian Forests 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

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga 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

Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park 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

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Yagul and Mitla 1.5

Battir 1

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1

Choirokoitia 1

Kernavë 1

Lake District 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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Saviour Transfiguration Church and St. Sophia Cathedral in the town of Polatsk (T)

Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture

Íznik (T)

Mount Harşena and the Rock-tombs of the Pontic Kings (T)

Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs (T)

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