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Aspasia
Member since June 2020
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My most impressive site: Persepolis
My proposal for a new site: Cold Desert Cultural Landscape of India
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30June 1, 2025Cesky Krumlov, Kutna Hora, Tugendhat Villa
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50April 21, 2025Ancient Thebes, Historic Cairo, Nubian Monuments, Pyramids (Memphis), Saint Catherine Area
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80April 6, 2025Australian Convict Sites, Great Barrier Reef, Royal Exhibition Building, Sydney Opera House, Tasmanian Wilderness ...
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About Aspasia
- First name
- Aspasia
- Member since
- June 2020
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #57
- WHS
- 492
- Tentative Sites
- 26
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 10
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Carthage 5.0
- Budapest 5.0
- Burgos Cathedral 5.0
- Mount Etna 5.0
- Persepolis 5.0
- Reims 5.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 5.0
- Churches of Moldavia 5.0
- Thingvellir 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 5.0
- Loire Valley 5.0
- Vatnajökull National Park 5.0
- Plitvice Lakes 5.0
- Tallinn 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Danube Delta 5.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 5.0
- Chartres Cathedral 5.0
- Warsaw 5.0
- Acropolis 5.0
- Trier 5.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 5.0
- Dubrovnik 5.0
- Kraków 5.0
- Visby 5.0
- Ayutthaya 5.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 5.0
- Cordoba 5.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Hué 5.0
- Santiago de Compostela 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Bourges Cathedral 5.0
- Agra Fort 5.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 5.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 5.0
- Meteora 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 5.0
- Agrigento 5.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 5.0
- Luang Prabang 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Masjed-e Jâme' 5.0
- Samarkand 5.0
- Amiens Cathedral 5.0
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 5.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 5.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 5.0
- Persian Garden 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5
- Assisi 4.5
- Medina of Tunis 4.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 4.5
- Golestan Palace 4.5
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4.5
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 4.5
- Yazd 4.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.5
- Hoi An 4.5
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.5
- Modena 4.5
- Jantar Mantar 4.5
- Medina of Marrakesh 4.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.5
- Ephesus 4.5
- Evora 4.5
- Independence Hall 4.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 4.5
- Kronborg Castle 4.5
- Mostar 4.5
- Old City of Berne 4.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 4.5
- Aleppo 4.5
- Abbey of St Gall 4.5
- Riga 4.5
- Major Town Houses 4.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.5
- Valletta 4.5
- Strasbourg 4.5
- Belem 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Salzburg 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Nancy 4.5
- Segovia 4.5
- Asturian Monuments 4.5
- Angkor 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Naples 4.0
- Mountain Railways of India 4.0
- Matera 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Boyana Church 4.0
- Vilnius 4.0
- Trogir 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 4.0
- Qutb Minar 4.0
- University of Coimbra 4.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Thessalonika 4.0
- Humayun's Tomb 4.0
- Elephanta Caves 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 4.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 4.0
- Bukhara 4.0
- Dougga/Thugga 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- Western Ghats 4.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 4.0
- Roșia Montană 4.0
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 4.0
- Ohrid Region 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Altamira Cave 4.0
- Albi 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Tarraco 4.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Arles 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Kew Gardens 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- Medina of Sousse 4.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Pasargadae 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Margravial Opera House 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Burgundy 3.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.5
- Canal du Midi 3.5
- Ahmadabad 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Itchan Kala 3.5
- Orange 3.5
- Poblet Monastery 3.5
- Toledo 3.5
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.5
- Monastery of Horezu 3.5
- Studenica Monastery 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.0
- Dacian Fortresses 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Aranjuez 3.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Sighisoara 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Salamanca 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Lyon 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Messel Pit 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Regensburg 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Le Havre 3.0
- L'viv 3.0
- Choirokoitia 3.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 3.0
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.0
- Chaîne des Puys 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Castel del Monte 3.0
- Mafra 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Rila Monastery 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Saint-Emilion 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Reichenau 2.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- Causses and Cévennes 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Bordeaux 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Quedlinburg 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5
- Lower German Limes 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Luther Memorials 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Lübeck 2.0
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- The Porticoes of Bologna 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.5
Tentative Sites
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- Torfajökull Volcanic System / Fjallabak Nature Res
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Padmanabhapuram Palace
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Rade de Marseille
- Classical Karst
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Ugrarit
- Noréas de Hama
- Tartus
- Cold Desert Cultural Landscape of India
- Sri Harimandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab
- Mattanchery Palace
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Pombaline Lisbon
- The Historical Port City of Izmir
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Aalto Works
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Reviews by Aspasia


Apamee (On tentative list)
Apamee
On the 1st of May 2024 Syria started issuing e-visas on condition the application went via a travel agency (otherwise the payment wouldn't go through) and this is how I …

Tartus (On tentative list)
Tartus
I have visited The Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa (since 1956 The National Museum of Tartus) during my visited with a guide/driver in May 2024. The building is impressive …

Danube Delta (Inscribed)
Danube Delta
Where's the pristine nature? Remoteness? Θάλασσα?
In May 2011 I had the exam session in front of me, so I told mom I would switch off the phone to …

Vézère Valley (Inscribed)
Vézère Valley
This is not a review about what you see, but about how to do it without a car. Since I don't drive, I knew from the beginning that I would …

Padmanabhapuram Palace (On tentative list)
Padmanabhapuram Palace
The trip started off the wrong foot. We had booked a tour through the tourist office in Trivandrum and as we got halfway, the minibus had a breakdown and all …

Val di Noto (Inscribed)
Val di Noto
''Less is more'', they say. To me it seemed feasible to cover Noto and Modica by train with enough time to return and sleep in Catania, but then I was …

Mount Etna (Inscribed)
Mount Etna
Mount Etna had been on my list for quite a while now, but some of the reviews here made me curious and disappointed at the same time: is it that …

Persepolis (Inscribed)
Persepolis
If I could give it 6 stars I would do it. The level of craftsmanship shown in the delegations at Apadana for me is simply mindblowing. I visited Angkor several …

Longobards in Italy (Inscribed)
Longobards in Italy
When I first saw the list of inscribed properties, I was surprised to see the south, since I was associating the longobards with the north of Italy (Lombardy). Only afterwards …