Having muscled through the traffic of central Dehli to the southern suburbs, I found myself at the Qtub Minar, the 73 meter high minaret and one of the true landmarks …
Christer Sundberg
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For 25 years I've visited World Heritage Sites and at every site there is always an interesting story to learn, regardless if it is a pyramid in Egypt or a small runic stone in Denmark.
Up until today I've visited 255 sites and can't wait until I can hop on a train or a plane and go visit a few more.
My most impressive site: The Pyramid Fields (Egypt), Petra (Jordan), Venice (Italy), Taj Mahal (India), Ellora Caves (India)
My proposal for a new site:
Recent Visits
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2550Nov. 1, 2016Aachen Cathedral, Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Acropolis, Aggtelek and Slovak Karst, Agra Fort ...
Visits
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2550Nov. 1, 2016
- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agra Fort
- Ajanta Caves
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Thebes
- Aquileia
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arles
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Białowieża Forest
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Butrint
- Canterbury
- Carthage
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Centennial Hall
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Churches of Peace
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Corfu
- Curonian Spit
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Delos
- Dougga/Thugga
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Gammelstad
- Garajonay
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Giant's Causeway
- Gobustan Rock Art
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Historic Cairo
- Holy Trinity Column
- Humayun's Tomb
- Ichkeul National Park
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Istanbul
- Jelling
- Kairouan
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Karlskrona
- Keoladeo National Park
- Kerkuane
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Kinderdijk
- Kizhi Pogost
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- Land of Frankincense
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Litomysl Castle
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- L'viv
- Lyon
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mir Castle
- Modena
- Mount Athos
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Mystras
- Nancy
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nesvizh
- New Lanark
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Nubian Monuments
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Rauma
- Olympia
- Orange
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Pannonhalma
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Pompei
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Quedlinburg
- Quseir Amra
- Qutb Minar
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Ravenna
- Red Fort
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
- Rome
- Røros
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Saint Catherine Area
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- Sammallahdenmäki
- Sanchi
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Gimignano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Siena
- Sintra
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Solovetsky Islands
- Southern Öland
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Statue of Liberty
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studley Royal Park
- Taj Mahal
- Tallinn
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- The Four Lifts
- Thessalonika
- Thingvellir
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Um er-Rasas
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Valletta
- Vatican City
- Vegaøyan
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Vilnius
- Visby
- Vlkolinec
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Zamość
- Zollverein
Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.72
- Machu Picchu 4.63
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Yellowstone 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Tikal National Park 4.46
- Great Wall 4.45
- Bagan 4.44
- Ancient Kyoto 4.44
Completed Countries
Country visits
- Albania: Butrint
- Austria: Salzburg Semmering Railway Graz Hallstatt-Dachstein Schönbrunn Wachau Cultural Landscape Vienna
- Azerbaijan: Walled City of Baku Gobustan Rock Art
- Belarus: Białowieża Forest Mir Castle Nesvizh Struve Geodetic Arc
- Belgium: Brugge Flemish Béguinages Grand Place, Brussels Major Town Houses Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai The Four Lifts Plantin-Moretus Museum Stoclet House Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- China: Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Croatia: Dubrovnik Split Trogir
- Czechia: Holy Trinity Column Cesky Krumlov Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz Kutna Hora Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Litomysl Castle Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk Prague Telc Trebic Tugendhat Villa
- Denmark: Kronborg Castle Jelling Roskilde Cathedral
- Egypt: Ancient Thebes Historic Cairo Nubian Monuments Pyramids (Memphis) Saint Catherine Area
- Estonia: Tallinn Struve Geodetic Arc
- Finland: High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Fortress of Suomenlinna Old Rauma Petäjävesi Old Church Sammallahdenmäki Verla Groundwood and Board Mill Struve Geodetic Arc
- France: Arles Chartres Cathedral Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay Fontainebleau Orange Paris, Banks of the Seine Reims Strasbourg Versailles Avignon Bourges Cathedral Fortified City of Carcassonne Lyon Nancy
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Speyer Cathedral Würzburg Residence Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Pilgrimage Church of Wies Bamberg Bauhaus Sites Classical Weimar Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz Luther Memorials Maulbronn Monastery Messel Pit Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Quedlinburg Rammelsberg and Goslar Reichenau Wartburg Castle Völklingen Ironworks Stralsund and Wismar Upper Middle Rhine Valley Zollverein Muskauer Park Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Regensburg Fagus Factory Aachen Cathedral Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch Trier
- Greece: Archaeological Site of Delphi Delos Epidaurus Meteora Mount Athos Mycenae and Tiryns Mystras Olympia Rhodes Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae Thessalonika Corfu Acropolis
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs Budapest Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Pannonhalma Tokaji Wine Region
- Iceland: Thingvellir
- India: Fatehpur Sikri Khajuraho Group of Monuments Taj Mahal Keoladeo National Park Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves Humayun's Tomb Qutb Minar Sanchi Ajanta Caves Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Red Fort Agra Fort
- Ireland: Brú na Bóinne
- Israel: Old City of Jerusalem Masada Old City of Acre White City of Tel-Aviv
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Aquileia Botanical Garden, Padua Ferrara Modena Pompei Ravenna Residences of the Royal House of Savoy San Gimignano Siena Urbino Vicenza and the Palladian Villas Villa Adriana (Tivoli) Villa d'Este Rome Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Jordan: Petra Quseir Amra Um er-Rasas Wadi Rum
- Latvia: Riga Struve Geodetic Arc
- Lithuania: Vilnius Curonian Spit Kernavė Struve Geodetic Arc
- Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg
- Malta: Hal Saflieni Hypogeum Megalithic Temples of Malta Valletta
- Moldova: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Netherlands: Dutch Water Defence Lines Kinderdijk Schokland Beemster Polder Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal Amsterdam Canal Ring Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Norway: Bryggen Rock Art of Alta Røros Urnes Stave Church Struve Geodetic Arc Vegaøyan West Norwegian Fjords
- Oman: Land of Frankincense
- Poland: Białowieża Forest Kraków Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Malbork Castle Torun Warsaw Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines Zamość Churches of Peace Muskauer Park Centennial Hall Auschwitz Birkenau
- Portugal: Belem Sintra
- Russia: Kremlin and Red Square Kizhi Pogost St. Petersburg Curonian Spit Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye Novgorod Solovetsky Islands Trinity Sergius Lavra Struve Geodetic Arc
- Slovakia: Bardejov Town Banska Stiavnica Spissky Hrad and Levoca Vlkolinec Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Spain: Segovia Works of Antoni Gaudí Avila Garajonay El Escurial Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau San Cristobal de La Laguna Teide National Park
- Sweden: Drottningholm High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Karlskrona Skogskyrkogarden Southern Öland Visby Birka and Hovgarden Engelsberg Ironworks Rock Carvings in Tanum Falun Great Copper Mountain Grimeton Radio Station Struve Geodetic Arc Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Gammelstad
- Switzerland: Old City of Berne
- Tunisia: Ichkeul National Park Carthage Dougga/Thugga Kairouan Kerkuane Medina of Sousse Medina of Tunis Amphitheater of El Jem
- Turkiye: Istanbul
- Ukraine: Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra L'viv Struve Geodetic Arc
- United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Blenheim Palace Canterbury City of Bath Durham Castle and Cathedral Edinburgh Giant's Causeway Maritime Greenwich Stonehenge and Avebury Neolithic Orkney Tower of London Westminster Kew Gardens New Lanark Saltaire Studley Royal Park
- United States of America: Independence Hall Statue of Liberty
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Taj Mahal (Inscribed)
Taj Mahal
At first light of dawn, when a cool breeze fills the air and the morning sun shines on the palace, Taj Mahal is at its height of beauty. Set against …
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Gobustan Rock Art (Inscribed)
Gobustan Rock Art
An early start and a roadside breakfast together with some locals Azeri’s who’ve probably never met a Scandinavian traveler before, was the start of my visit to Gobustan. After some …
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01/05/05
Humayun's Tomb (Inscribed)
Humayun's Tomb
Bustling and busy Dehli can prove to be quite a challenge for the first time visitor so entering the gates of Humayun’s Tomb felt like quite a nice relief from …
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01/05/05
Elephanta Caves (Inscribed)
Elephanta Caves
If you have overloaded your senses and need to get out of Mumbai for a day, a slow cruise to the Elephanta Island and the Elephanta Caves is exactly what …
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01/05/05
Ajanta Caves (Inscribed)
Ajanta Caves
The Ajanta Caves, situated 105 km north of Aurangabad, dates back to 200 AD to 650 BC, predating both the Ellora and Elephanta Caves. The Ajanta Caves was, similar to …
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Ellora Caves (Inscribed)
Ellora Caves
The Ellora caves reflects the three faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism between 350 AD and to 700 AD. There are 34 temples but only 12 of them are belongs …
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Red Fort (Inscribed)
Red Fort
Lal Qila – The Red Fort – with its mighty red walls that extends for over 2 km is for sure the most important and majestic of all sights in …
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01/05/05
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka (Inscribed)
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
An hour’s drive, south of Bhopal in the Vindhyan Mountains are the 600 rock shelters of Bhimbetka. It’s a peaceful and beautiful area and the natural rock formations – massive …
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01/05/05
Sanchi (Inscribed)
Sanchi
North of Bhopal, on a small hilltop is some of the oldest and most interesting Buddhist sites in India – the monuments of Sanchi. History tells that when emperor Ashoka …
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01/05/05
Centennial Hall (Inscribed)
Centennial Hall
Sometimes you ask yourself what can really become a World Heritage Site? I certainly asked myself this question when I first laid my eyes on the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw …
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01/05/05
Hallstatt-Dachstein (Inscribed)
Hallstatt-Dachstein
Arriving Hallstatt in Salzkammergut by train is a small adventure in itself. It must be one of the few, if not the only town in the world, which has its …
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01/05/05
Litomysl Castle (Inscribed)
Litomysl Castle
The name Litomyšl goes back to the year 981 when a hill fort was first mentioned in a Bohemian Chronicle. Today’s Litomyšl is a friendly little Czech town just waiting …
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01/05/05
Churches of Peace (Inscribed)
Churches of Peace
It wasn’t easy to get to Swidnica but with some assistance from a few Polish bus companies I eventually found the small town at the foot of the Sudeten Mountains. …
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Tugendhat Villa (Inscribed)
Tugendhat Villa
Over the years the World Heritage List have taken me to a number of brilliant architectural sites - from the Bauhaus sites in Dessau and Weimar, the Rietveld Schröderhuis in …
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Holy Trinity Column (Inscribed)
Holy Trinity Column
Right in the middle of the town hall square stands the 35 meter high Holy Trinity Column, erected in honour of faith, God and gratitude for the ending of the …
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