Victoria has a few things going for it: Firstly the view from the elevated citadel all over Gozo and beyond is spectacular. The is, when you enter the town walls, …
Caspar
Switzerland \ Member since May 2012
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My most impressive site: Venice
My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park
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About Caspar
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
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- #184
- WHS
- 269
- Tentative Sites
- 56
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Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Taputapuātea 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Vézère Valley 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Potsdam 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Altamira Cave 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Ferrara 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- Burgos Cathedral 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- St. Kilda 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.5
- Seville 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Campeche 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- City of Luxembourg 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Mérida 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Caceres 2.0
- Forth Bridge 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Poblet Monastery 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Messel Pit 1.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Bauhaus Sites 1.5
- Fagus Factory 1.5
- Hiraizumi 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Stevns Klint 1.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Cologne Cathedral 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- The Flow Country 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Tarraco 1.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Djerba 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5
- Medina Azahara 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Central Park
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Ancient Kamakura
- The Episcopal See of Egara
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- City of York
- Rouen
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Coastal Cliffs
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
- Ellis Island
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Empuries Greek Archaeological ensemble
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Via Francigena
- The Wine in Iberia
- Mediterranean Wind Mills
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Birkenhead Park
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Italica
- Carmona’s cultural landscape
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine CL
- Hiraizumi (extension)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Cascata delle Marmore
- Citadel of Alessandria
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Orvieto
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Massif du Mont-Blanc
- Leuven
- Amalienborg and its district
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragor
- Turo de la Seu Vella de Lleida
- Mining Historical Heritage
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Reviews by Caspar
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (On tentative list)
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
Birkenhead Park (Nominated)
Birkenhead Park
If you are in the Liverpool area, an excursion to Birkenhead is a must: It grew rapidly in the 19th century as an extension of Liverpool in the industrial revolution …
City of York (Nominated)
City of York
Most countries can only envy England with their tradition and ability to preserve its rich heritage. There are certainly dozens of well-preserved medieval towns her and only Belgium, the Netherlands …
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
This may well be the most underrated site in Germany if you look at the ratings on this website and indeed, it is a site that reveals its extraordinary value …
Maltese Catacomb Complexes (On tentative list)
Maltese Catacomb Complexes
The catacombs on Malta are surprisingly numerous and the highest concentration can be found in Rabat where you find four that are accessible to visitors. I visited two of them: …
Knights Fortifications around… (Nominated)
Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
There is no doubt that his should have been part of the Valletta inscription from the start. While the inscribed town is very nice, it is certainly not as spectacular …
Coastal Cliffs (On tentative list)
Coastal Cliffs
Beside the extension of Valletta, that should have been inscribed decades ago, the Coastal Cliffs are certainly the most interesting tentative site of Malta but, as Ralf writes, it needs …
Abbey of St Gall (Inscribed)
Abbey of St Gall
This is a site with rather strange OUV which you can partially excuse or explain because it was such an early nomination:
Like the Reichenau this was one of …
Reichenau (Inscribed)
Reichenau
This site is rather hard to grasp: The undoubtedly enormous religious, political and artistic importance of this monastery is comprehensible only in traces by the three churches left on the …
Luther Memorials (Inscribed)
Luther Memorials
This is a hard one. There is no doubt that the reformation had a huge effect on European and World history, not only changing religious practices but the society, education, …
Medina Azahara (Inscribed)
Medina Azahara
Medina Azahara must have been a wonder of the age: a palace city, splendid rooms with precious ornaments with no equal at the time, at least in Europe. So, expectations …
Carmona’s cultural landscape (On tentative list)
Carmona’s cultural landscape
For many years the Spanish tentative site included the “Casco antiguo de Cadiz” which has now been removed. When I visited western Andalucía in February 2024 I visited Cadiz, supposedly …
Stralsund and Wismar (Inscribed)
Stralsund and Wismar
I visited Wismar and Stralsund during a two-week trip around northeastern Germany in October 2023. In both cities I stayed one and a half or two days to see its …
Italica (Nominated)
Italica
I spent about four days in Seville. Its WHS may be seen within a day but the city has a lot to offer beyond the splendid Alcazar and the cathedral …
Yuso and Suso Monasteries (Inscribed)
Yuso and Suso Monasteries
I visited this site in 2006 when I didn't think a lot about WHSs yet and hadn't seen many sites. Even then we found it surprising if not ridiculous that …
Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (On tentative list)
Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
When you take the relatively short way from the centre of Paris to Saint-Denis you are not sure if you really went the right way. You are still very much …
Viking Age Ring Fortresses (Inscribed)
Viking Age Ring Fortresses
There may have been a time when viking sites were underrepresented on the world heritage list but by now I think they are already overrepresented. Firstly the viking period is …
Mediterranean Wind Mills (On tentative list)
Mediterranean Wind Mills
I visited the Molino viejo de Zabala, west of Cartagena. It is indicated on this website as one of the locations of this nomination though I didn't find out why …
Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)
Primeval Beech Forests
This is a hard site to rate: There is no doubt at all that these areas should be protected. But this site has been so "successful" with its many extensions …
Moravian Church Settlements (Inscribed)
Moravian Church Settlements
I visited this little town in the summer of 2021 when I covered all the inscribed sites on Denmark proper and a few tentative sites. I decided to stay overnight …