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
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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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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (On tentative list)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
To me as a musician Gulbenkian meant until recently a Portuguese Orchestra. For most visitors of Lisbon probably means one of the best museums in the capital. Behind both of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …