Segovia has long been on my wish list, also because of some raving reviews on this website. On my first afternoon in the city I started with the three famous …
Caspar Dechmann
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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 Dechmann
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World Heritage Sites
- Vézère Valley 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Taputapuātea 5.0
- Versailles 4.5
- Potsdam 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Altamira Cave 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Ferrara 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Olympia 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Burgos Cathedral 3.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- St. Kilda 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- City of Luxembourg 2.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- Forth Bridge 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
- Fagus Factory 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Stevns Klint 1.5
- Messel Pit 1.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5
- Cologne Cathedral 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Poblet Monastery 1.5
- Hiraizumi 1.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Bauhaus Sites 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Djerba 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.0
- The Flow Country 1.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.0
- Tarraco 1.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 1.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Medina Azahara 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Rouen
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Central Park
- Ellis Island
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- City of York
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Ancient Kamakura
- The Episcopal See of Egara
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Coastal Cliffs
- Pombaline Lisbon
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries
- Mining Historical Heritage
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- 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
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- The Wine in Iberia
- Mediterranean Wind Mills
- Birkenhead Park
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Carmona’s cultural landscape
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Italica
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Creation of the Co-Principality of Andorra
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Cascata delle Marmore
- Citadel of Alessandria
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- Hiraizumi (extension)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Sp
- Orvieto
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées
- Massif du Mont-Blanc
- Leuven
- Amalienborg and its district
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbo
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Reviews by Caspar Dechmann


Avila (Inscribed)
Avila
I visited Avila in March 2019 after spending a couple of days in Segovia and found the first impression quite stunning. The city walls in the evening sun are quite …

Stourhead (Removed from tentat…)
Stourhead
This is probably one of the most iconic gardens in England if not in the World. Like all great gardens it is staged with so much work and artistry that …

Caerleon legionary fortress (Removed from tentat…)
Caerleon legionary fortress
We visited this former tentative site on the drive from Bath to Blaenavon. It is a nice visit with the totally overgrown amphitheater, the outlines of a legionary fortress and …
Lacock (Removed from tentat…)
Lacock
We visited Lacock in July 2018 from Avebury. Lacock is a very nice well-kept village that has been used in many films and series including Harry Potter. When you walk …

Dorset and East Devon Coast (Inscribed)
Dorset and East Devon Coast
I was quite taken by the Dorset Coast. We spent there two days and could have easily spent more. Our first walk was to Old Harry Rock. Beautiful white cliffs …

Cornwall and West Devon Minin… (Inscribed)
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
This site is hard to grasp since it is so wide spread, perhaps too wide. When I was traveling SW England this summer I wanted to see a representable part …

Abbatiale de Tournus (Removed from tentat…)
Abbatiale de Tournus
I travelled around Burgundy in 2016 and I was a bit surprised how important a cultural and religious center this area was in the middle ages. The famous reform order …

Beauvais (Removed from tentat…)
Beauvais
I visited this church on a trip from Reims to Le Havre. It has a very interesting history and we decided to make a stop there. The church has the …

Djerba (Inscribed)
Djerba
I visited Djerba for holidays in February of 2009. I was very surprised now when I saw that it was to be nominated as a WHS since I found the …

Würzburg Residence (Inscribed)
Würzburg Residence
I visited this palace in August 2011. Obviously it was forbidden to take pictures since I have only one picture of the famous staircase. While this residence does not rival …

Paris, Banks of the Seine (Inscribed)
Paris, Banks of the Seine
There is no perfect way do determine the exact boundaries of a city WHS. And while there are cities like Quito that seem to have no boundaries at all or …

Pombaline Lisbon (On tentative list)
Pombaline Lisbon
From the four tentativ sites within the city of Lisbon this seems to me the one with the best perspectives. It is a nice area to walk around though you …

Historical Lisbon, Global City (Removed from tentat…)
Historical Lisbon, Global City
This nomination certainly overlaps with the nomination of Pombaline Lisbon but includes additionally all the other areas of the older city center. When the text for Pombaline Lisbon seems already …

Aguas Livres Aqueduct (On tentative list)
Aguas Livres Aqueduct
I visited the Aguas Livres Aqueduct, namely its most famous arches over the Alcântara Valley in Lisbon. It is an impressiv structure that crosses a large valley Full of streets …

The timeless, humanistic arch… (Removed from tentat…)
The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Pleč
I often wonder how there can be so many tentative sites in the middle of Europe without a review on this website despite the fact that they are easy to …

Chaîne des Puys (Inscribed)
Chaîne des Puys
I visited the Chaîne des Puys during a trip along the enchanting Dordogne. We drove up the highest peak of the chain, the Puy de Dôme. From there you have …

Strasbourg (Inscribed)
Strasbourg
I visited Strasbourg a couple of weeks ago during my holidays in the Alsace. As always when I visit a UNESCO site I tried to figure out the exact parts …

Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)
Luis Barragán House and Studio
I visited this house during my one day in Mexico City flying home from Yucatán. The required reservation over the website did not work, therefore I just went there and …

Campeche (Inscribed)
Campeche
The walls of Campeche are nice but not complete and Not all original. I cannot imagine that there were not several similar or even more impressive even in the new …