Argo

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We had always liked travelling, thought we really started collecting WHS in 2006. Then came the children, making the collection more challenging, as our goal is to visit these sites together as a family. Fortunately, living in Europe gives many opportunities of reasonable trips with two young children: we try to cover Europe in the most complete way, leaving long haul trips for later.

Our alias “Argo” relates to the name of the mythological ship which was used by Jason and companions for their trips, including the famous Golden Fleece quest – thus a good name for our own quest of WHS!

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About Argo

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Reviews by Argo

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Hangar Y by Argo

Hangar Y (On tentative list)

Hangar Y

Things have changed a lot at Hangar Y since our visit in September 2014, so it was time for a new visit and review. The Hangar has been fully refurbished …

Ville de Lixus by Argo

Ville de Lixus (On tentative list)

Ville de Lixus

Lixus is claimed one of the oldest settlements of the western Mediterranean antique world – although just “off” the Gibraltar straight, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It was first a Phoenician …

East Atlantic Flyway by Argo

East Atlantic Flyway (On tentative list)

East Atlantic Flyway

Large areas of England East Coast have recently been chosen to make up a new TWHS focusing on migratory birds, as part of the East Atlantic Flyway. Although there is …

Birkenhead Park by Argo

Birkenhead Park (Nominated)

Birkenhead Park

We visited Birkenhead Park in June 2022. The park is open 24h a day, 7 days a week, free of charge. You can easily park your car (for free as …

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble  by Argo

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (Part of Nomination)

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble

We visited the cable station in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, Canada, in August 2023. This was a nice detour of approximately 100km and 1h50 on our way from Gander to Saint …

Negotinske Pivnice by Argo

Negotinske Pivnice (On tentative list)

Negotinske Pivnice

It seems the tradition of growing vine and making wine around Negotin, a small town in the East of Serbia bordering Bulgaria and Romania, dates back from Roman times. This …

Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie by Argo

Les sites à fossiles néandert… (On tentative list)

Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie

We managed to visit three of the four caves proposed under the name “Neanderthal fossil caves in Wallonia” in April 2023 : Spy, Scladina and Goyet.

Spy cave was …

Church St. George Kurbinovo by Argo

Church St. George Kurbinovo (On tentative list)

Church St. George Kurbinovo

Both our French guidebook and our English guidebook were indicating that the key to open Saint George church was to be collected at a house in the village of Kurbinovo …

Church of San Salvador de Valdediós by Argo

Church of San Salvador de Val… (On tentative list)

Church of San Salvador de Valdediós

This tiny church is proposed as an extension of the six already inscribed “Asturian Monuments” in and around Oviedo in Northern Spain. The first three inscribed ones were the most …

Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Penins by Argo

Group of Mozarabic buildings … (On tentative list)

Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Penins

We have so far visited four of the buildings of this TWHS, scattered across Spain. Visigoths ruled Iberia after the collapse of the Roman Empire; they converted to Christianity and …

Cíes Islands–Atlantic Islands of Galicia National  by Argo

Cíes Islands–Atlantic Islands… (On tentative list)

Cíes Islands–Atlantic Islands of Galicia National

Visiting the national park of Galician Atlantic Islands requires a little bit of anticipation. It is made of four groups of islands ashore the Rias of Galicia, but only two …

The Lofoten islands by Argo

The Lofoten islands (On tentative list)

The Lofoten islands

We spent several days in Lofoten islands in summer 2016, and this was one of the highlights of our Norway trip (a country which is one of the best – …

Rabati Malik Caravanserai by Argo

Rabati Malik Caravanserai (On tentative list)

Rabati Malik Caravanserai

Uzbekistan has nominated 18 locations both individually and combined as one single serial nomination under the name “Silk roads in Uzbekistan”. Reading a recent review (by Els) about Bahoutdin complex, …

Vila Viçosa by Argo

Vila Viçosa (Nominated)

Vila Viçosa

Vila Vicosa was a pleasant stop on our way from Lisbon airport to Elvas WHS. It is a pretty and small town with white houses as you can find dozens …

Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus by Argo

Mausoleum and Sacred area of … (On tentative list)

Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus

The Mausoleum of Hecatomnus archaeological site lays in the middle of the modern city of Milas. While you may well go around the city when driving the main road from …

Archaeological Site of Priene by Argo

Archaeological Site of Priene (On tentative list)

Archaeological Site of Priene

The archaeological site of Priene in Western Turkey is the opportunity to visit a middle size Hellenistic city from the last centuries BCE. There are no outstanding monuments like in …

Creswell Crags by Argo

Creswell Crags (Removed from tentat…)

Creswell Crags

Creswell Crags is a small gorge in England Midlands, with several caves on both North and South edges. Bottom of the gorge was turned into a boating lake by the …

The Flow Country by Argo

The Flow Country (Inscribed)

The Flow Country

Flow country is the name given to a large area of bog in the very northern part of mainland Scotland. We visited that region during our “tour of Scotland” in …

Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof by Argo

Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarls… (On tentative list)

Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof

Three different sites make this TWHS. Two are easily accessible, south of Shetland Mainland along the main road to Sumburgh lighthouse, and under one-hour drive from Lerwick, the “capital” of …

Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument by Argo

Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (On tentative list)

Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument

Several areas with “standing stones” (Pobiti Kamani in Bulgarian) can be found immediately West of Varna city. The main area of interest is easily accessible by car and can …

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