Assif

Member since April 2008

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My most impressive site: Pompeii

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About Assif

First name
Assif
Member since
April 2008
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#378
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Reviews by Assif

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L'viv by Els Slots

L'viv (Inscribed)

L'viv

Lviv (Lvov, Lemberg) is a beautiful Central European city, but you shouldn't expect a grand majestic city like Prague, Budapest or Cracow. It is much more intimate in character. Its …

Zagori Cultural Landscape by Assif

Zagori Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)

Zagori Cultural Landscape

We visited Zagori, another name for Zagorochoria, in Summer 2020 during the Corona pandemic and spent three days exploring the area. We felt it was enough time to grasp the …

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City of Tigre and its rowing … (On tentative list)

City of Tigre and its rowing clubs

Tigre was established as a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. It is popular among tourists, but mostly as a hub for trips to the Paraná delta. Tigre had its heyday …

Nice by Els Slots

Nice (Inscribed)

Nice

The recently published ICOMOS working documents show that a big portion of Nice is to be included in this nomination and not only its waterfront promenade. Nice is a major …

Wadden Sea by Els Slots

Wadden Sea (Inscribed)

Wadden Sea

I think that in order to appreciate the Wadden Sea you have to go on a mudflat hike. Living in Hamburg, I have been to several ones, and I always …

Early Medieval Monastic Sites by Nan

Early Medieval Monastic Sites (Removed from tentat…)

Early Medieval Monastic Sites

From the proposed sites I have only visited Glendalough (May 2017). As Nan has already pointed out, it is a fairly easy day-trip from Dublin, although we chose to stay …

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Hanbury botanical gardens (On tentative list)

Hanbury botanical gardens

Giardini Hanbury (with an N) are a historical botanic garden from the 19th century named after their former English owner. It was planted along a 100 metre descent to the …

Verona by Els Slots

Verona (Inscribed)

Verona

For me the main reason to visit Verona is its marvelous mediaeval churches. I would recommend buying the Verona Card which allows you entry to the five top churches - …

La Rambla  de la Cité de Montevideo by Stanislaw Warwas

La Rambla de la Cité de Mont… (On tentative list)

La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo

La Rambla is a 22 km long promenade along the Rio de la Plata in Montevideo and is claimed to be one of the longest in the world. It features …

Thessalonika by Els Slots

Thessalonika (Inscribed)

Thessalonika

I only had half a day to visit the inscribed sites in Thessaloniki so I had to carefully plan my visit. First I picked the churches I wanted to visit …

Brú na Bóinne by Els Slots

Brú na Bóinne (Inscribed)

Brú na Bóinne

When visiting the complex of Bru na Boinne xI was impressed how well preserved the site was. It was not something I had expected from a site that old. I …

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Palace Cave (Removed from tentat…)

Palace Cave

The Palace Cave is a small cave with an exceptional formation looking like an open structure with multiple pillars. It is located about two and a half hours drive away …

Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de M by Stanislaw Warwas

Architecture Moderne du XX si… (On tentative list)

Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de M

I found it extremely difficult to find out what is exactly meant to be included in this proposed nomination: the most obvious candidates - the Art Deco ensemble in the …

Church of Atlántida by Stanislaw Warwas

Church of Atlántida (Inscribed)

Church of Atlántida

As I wrote in the forum, it still remains to be determined which ones of Dieste's works in Uruguay are going to be included in the nomination, but two of …

Quartier de Peñarol by Roman Bruehwiler

Quartier de Peñarol (On tentative list)

Quartier de Peñarol

Peñarol is mostly known as the national Uruguayan football club, but it takes its name from the historical railway quarter built by the Brits. It was there that the Brits …

Fray Bentos by Frédéric M

Fray Bentos (Inscribed)

Fray Bentos

When I first made up my mind to use my long holiday in Uruguay visiting my parents in law to visit Fray Bentos I couldn't resist the annoying thought of …

Strasbourg by Luis Filipe Gaspar

Strasbourg (Inscribed)

Strasbourg

This proposed extension should incorporate the historicist architecture of imperial Prussia into the Straßburg WHS. The area is adjacent to the Grande-Ile, but its style is inherently different. The architecture …

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District by Els Slots

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus … (Inscribed)

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District

Both parts of the nomination, the Speicherstadt and the Kontorhausviertel, are easily covered by foot and can be visited in a short few hours. I started my tour with the …

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Cambridge Colleges and Backs (Removed from tentat…)

Cambridge Colleges and Backs

During a conference held at one of the colleges in Cambridge I tried to use one of the breaks I had to go through some of the more famous colleges: …

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Danube Valley CL around Regen… (Removed from tentat…)

Danube Valley CL around Regensburg inc Walhalla

Walhalla is probably one of the most iconic representation of Romanticism as well as Neoclassicism. It is the German equivalent to the French Pantheon in a huge Parthenon like building …

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