Before I really start my "review" of this site I have to anticipate that I am a great fan of rock art sites. I think they are sometimes among the …
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
Recent Visits
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01Oct. 9, 2025Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
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00Oct. 8, 2025Los Barruecos de Malpartida, Cáceres
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01Oct. 8, 2025Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
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About Caspar
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
Visits
- Rank
- #184
- WHS
- 269
- Tentative Sites
- 56
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 68
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Ratings
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
Rock Art of the Mediterranean… (Inscribed)
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
The Episcopal See of Egara (On tentative list)
The Episcopal See of Egara
Tarragona is an easy and interesting day trip from Barcelona and one day is just about the time to see it all. Beside the three churches of the episcopal see …
Turo de la Seu Vella de Lleida (On tentative list)
Turo de la Seu Vella de Lleida
I visited Lleida as a detour traveling from Tarragona to Barcelona. I takes about one and a half hours from both cities. I arrived in the afternoon and when I …
Mining Historical Heritage (On tentative list)
Mining Historical Heritage
I visited the neolithic Mines of Gavà from Barcelona. Gava train station is easy and frequently to reach by regional train from Barcelona. From there you can walk for 20 …
Empuries Greek Archaeological… (On tentative list)
Empuries Greek Archaeological ensemble
Empuries is about one hour by bus from Gerona. I found only one connection that made sense which left Gerona around 9am and returned from L'Escala around 2pm which gives …
Bulwarked Frontier Fortificat… (On tentative list)
Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
I visited Gerona as a day trip from Barcelona in February 2022. This is a city with a lot of history: it was one of the most important jewish cities …
Popocatepetl monasteries (Inscribed)
Popocatepetl monasteries
I visited this site around New Years 16/17 during a visit to friends in Cuernavaca. It is not an easy site to visit thoroughly since there are many monasteries and …
Plečnik's Ljubljana (Inscribed)
Plečnik's Ljubljana
I visited Ljubljana after Christmas 2019 to spend New Years with friends who own an apartment in the city. Already then, before inscription, the town was overrun with tourists, mainly …
The Maritime Heritage of Drag… (On tentative list)
The Maritime Heritage of Dragor
I based myself this summer 2021 for ten days in Copenhagen. Of those ten days I spent about half the time in the City with some great museums and the …
Jomon Prehistoric Sites (Inscribed)
Jomon Prehistoric Sites
I played in May 2014 a concert in the big modern concert hall of Hachinohe. During my stay in that city for rehearsals I had plenty of spare time and …
ShUM Sites (Inscribed)
ShUM Sites
This site is used everywhere around Rheinland Pfalz to promote tourism. While the Jewish communities in those towns may have been of great importance for the European Jews the main …
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarls… (On tentative list)
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
Following our stay on the Orkneys in Summer 2019 we spent around four days on the Shetland Islands. We took the ferry, which was rather expensive. Mainly for our rental …
The Flow Country (Inscribed)
The Flow Country
On our trip around the northern coast of Scotland in summer 2019 we crossed also the area of Flow Country. The main argument about this site seems the size of …
The Palaces of King Ludwig II… (Inscribed)
The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
I think these three castles make a very nice group for a WHT nomination. Of the three I have only visited Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee. I will certainly try to visit …
Neolithic Orkney (Inscribed)
Neolithic Orkney
Since I had read „At home“ by Bill Bryson with its great chapter on Skara Brae I had dreamed to visit the Orkneys. And when I planned my trip to …
Heritage of Mercury (Inscribed)
Heritage of Mercury
Idrija is full of surprises: We drove there as a day trip from Ljubljana. It is about a one-hour drive through gorges and on curvy streets and then you arrive …
Great Spa Towns of Europe (Inscribed)
Great Spa Towns of Europe
I have been to several of the nominated towns and while I find the topic very interesting and most towns worth a visit I feel that the nomination is to …
Rietveld Schröderhuis (Inscribed)
Rietveld Schröderhuis
The Rietveld Schröder House is one of those really nice sites that make an interesting visit but that are at the same time so small that you can see them …
Dutch Water Defence Lines (Inscribed)
Dutch Water Defence Lines
If you look at our rating the Amsterdam Defence Line is not a popular WHS. In any case it offers a rather unique and interesting story which is inextricably connected …
Kutna Hora (Inscribed)
Kutna Hora
On this trip to the Czech Republic I had planned to see beside the treasure trove of Prague one new WHS and one new TWHS: The Villa Tugendhat in Brno …