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 …
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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01Oct. 9, 2025Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
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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
Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)
Luis Barragán House and Studio
L'oeuvre architecturale d'Hen… (On tentative list)
L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
I am always taken by the buildings by Henry van der Velde: I visited several of them by chance: the magnificent museum Kröller-Möller, the buildings in Weimar and Gent. First …
The Ahuehuete Tree of Santa M… (Removed from tentat…)
The Ahuehuete Tree of Santa Maria del Tule
On the way from Oaxaca to Mitla, both impressive WTS in their on right, we visited this incredible tree. Once a Zapotec sacred site, it is now adopted by the …
Zone de monuments de Puebla e… (Removed from tentat…)
Zone de monuments de Puebla et Cholula
I visited this site during my trip to Mexico in 2009 and found it fascinating: Just the largest pyramid in the world is an impressiv fact. But it is hidden …
Flemish Béguinages (Inscribed)
Flemish Béguinages
During my summer vacation in Brussels I visited several Beguinages.
The most beautiful for me was the one Leuven. It is large, full of red brick buildings, has several bridges …
Le Palais de Justice de Bruxe… (On tentative list)
Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
The Palais de Justice is impressive in many ways. First its pure size. Then its pomp with golden dome with a crown on top. Then the rather odd mix of …
Major Town Houses (Inscribed)
Major Town Houses
During my summer vacation in Brussels I visited the four inscribed Horta houses. The Horta Museum is lovely and nicely overwhelming. An absolut must. Since the other three houses are …
Olympia (Inscribed)
Olympia
We arrived by boat in Katalokon and since we missed a bus we rented a car at the port and drove quite easily to Olympia in about half an hour. …