Florence was a lovely place to spend two days. I really enjoyed just wandering around between the huge, if austere (showing that Florence’s developmental roots in medieval Europe), palazzo and …
Ian Cade
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I discovered the World Heritage list whilst studying in the Czech city of Olomouc in 2003, and since then I have spent a fair bit of my time visiting the sites and boring people with information about them. World Heritage Sites provide a great way to hunt out the best bits of countries and can give you a look at some great parts of a destination that you would otherwise not see. A few of my favourite sites have been the ones that I have made a special effort to get to see because of their place on the list; Sceilg Mhichíl, Guanajuato and Preah Vihear
I mostly take short trips around Europe, making the most of budget airlines special offers, seeing some of the continent's great cities, visiting friends and dragging them to some pretty obscure places.
I try to travel outside Europe at least once a year and hope to tick off a few of the places on my wish list when money, politics and time enable this.
It's not about the shark!:
Whilst the World Heritage Sites themselves are the focus of my travels, they are more a means to an end, the real joy of travelling comes from interacting with people, waiting for trains at hitherto unknown corners of the world then eating and drinking the tasty (and not so tasty) delights on offer.
My most impressive site: Angkor
My proposal for a new site: Major Buildings of the Chicago School of Architecture
Check out my website: https://letterboxd.com/meltwaterfalls/
Recent Visits
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10June 7, 2025Welterbetag 2025: Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
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40Feb. 23, 2025Cilento and Vallo di Diano, Naples, Pompei, Royal Palace at Caserta
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10Sept. 13, 2024Eisinga Planetarium
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About Ian Cade
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World Heritage Sites
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Bauhaus Sites 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Prague 4.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Ajanta Caves 4.5
- Sceilg Mhichíl 4.5
- Chaco Culture 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.5
- Grimeton Radio Station 4.5
- Ellora Caves 4.5
- Brasilia 4.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5
- Guanajuato 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 4.0
- Zollverein 4.0
- Yosemite National Park 4.0
- Stonehenge 4.0
- Granada 4.0
- Pampulha 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Aquileia 4.0
- Tallinn 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Great Wall 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Preah Vihear Temple 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Naples 4.0
- Dougga/Thugga 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 4.0
- Le Havre 4.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Budapest 3.5
- Saint-Emilion 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Kraków 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Cordoba 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Beijing Central Axis 3.5
- Medina of Fez 3.5
- Rabat 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Rio de Janeiro 3.5
- Abbey of St Gall 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Teotihuacan 3.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5
- Churches of Peace 3.5
- Gammelstad 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5
- Tugendhat Villa 3.5
- L'viv 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Florence 3.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Temple of Heaven 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Oporto 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Brú na Bóinne 3.0
- Versailles 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Taos Pueblo 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.0
- Kerkuane 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Lyon 3.0
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.0
- Stone Circles of Senegambia 3.0
- Kunta Kinteh Island 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- Studley Royal Park 3.0
- Altamira Cave 3.0
- Sukhothai 3.0
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3.0
- Verona 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Malbork Castle 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Heritage of Mercury 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Meknes 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Querétaro 3.0
- Popocatepetl monasteries 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.0
- Imperial Palace 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Plitvice Lakes 3.0
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Stoclet House 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Toledo 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Laponian Area 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.5
- Saltaire 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Gorham's Cave Complex 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Torun 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Reichenau 2.5
- Burgundy 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Giant's Causeway 2.5
- Potsdam 2.5
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Stevns Klint 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Fontainebleau 2.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.5
- Grand Canal 2.5
- Elephanta Caves 2.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 2.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5
- Ayutthaya 2.5
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Santiago de Compostela 2.5
- Luther Memorials 2.5
- Lübeck 2.5
- Asturian Monuments 2.5
- Medina of Essaouira 2.5
- Arles 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 2.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- Medina of Sousse 2.5
- Kairouan 2.5
- Carthage 2.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 2.5
- Canterbury 2.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.5
- Trier 2.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 2.0
- Dong Phayayen 2.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Avila 2.0
- Aranjuez 2.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.0
- Nesvizh 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Kinderdijk 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Chartres Cathedral 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Schönbrunn 2.0
- Tower of London 2.0
- Camino Real 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.0
- Palmeral of Elche 2.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.0
- Kernavė 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Speyer Cathedral 2.0
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Drottningholm 2.0
- The Four Lifts 2.0
- Cologne Cathedral 2.0
- Cahokia Mounds 2.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Valongo Wharf 1.5
- Morelia 1.5
- Schokland 1.5
- Holasovice 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Kronborg Castle 1.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 1.5
- Stećci 1.5
- Imperial Tombs 1.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 1.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 1.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 1.5
- Donana National Park 1.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 1.5
- Muskauer Park 1.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 1.5
- Modena 1.5
- Blenheim Palace 1.5
- Tower of Hercules 1.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 1.5
- Hahoe and Yangdong 1.5
- Peking Man Site 1.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5
- Independence Hall 1.5
- Mafra 1.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.0
- Corvey 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 1.0
- Mir Castle 1.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.0
- Wadden Sea 1.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 1.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 1.0
- Danube Limes 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Par force hunting landscape 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Phnom Kulen
- Palais de la Culture, Rio de Janeiro
- The Archeological complex of Banteay Chhmar
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Leuven
- Oasis de Gabes
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
- Ellis Island
- Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie (Tunisia)
- Via Francigena
- Thingvellir National Park
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Pont sur la gorge du Salgina
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches
- City of York
- Rouen
- Olympic Park Munich
- The Rise of Systematic Biology
- California Current Conservation Complex
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Central Park
- Trakai Historical National Park
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Médina de Sfax
- Domaine de Fontainebleau
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Les citadelles mosanes
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National
- Coastal Cliffs
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Amalienborg and its district
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Primošten Vineyards
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Aire du Dragonnier Ajgal
- Astronomical Observatories of Ukraine
- Le complexe hydraulique romain de Zaghouan-Carthag
- Álvaro Siza’s Architecture
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
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Reviews by Ian Cade


Rome (Inscribed)
Rome
Very few cities in the world can claim to be a capital of their cultural sphere, even fewer have something left to show for it. Rome can claim to be …

Modena (Inscribed)
Modena
The Cathedral and tower sit on the Piazza Grande so they can all be seen in one go. The Cathedral is the main sight and is a fine piece of …

Santa Maria delle Grazie (Inscribed)
Santa Maria delle Grazie
The Last Supper (Canacolo) is such a famous image and I have seen versions of it at many other UNESCO sites made from many materials (salt and iron stand out …

Plantin-Moretus Museum (Inscribed)
Plantin-Moretus Museum
This is a truly fantastic site, sometimes I wonder about the merits of later and more esoteric additions to the list; however this place fully warrants its inclusion.
The building …

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spie… (Inscribed)
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
After hearing about how tricky it can be to gain access to this site, I figured it should be my aim to get to them as I visit Belgium pretty …

Aachen Cathedral (Inscribed)
Aachen Cathedral
Even with what people have said here I was still surprised to see how small the cathedral actually was. The restoration work on the outside seems to be coming to …

Castles of Augustusburg and F… (Inscribed)
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
After visiting a fair few mediocre palaces whilst UNESCO hunting, these came as a welcome surprise, they were a lot more lavish than I expected them to be, and the …

The Four Lifts (Inscribed)
The Four Lifts
This was a pleasant place to walk around on a nice autumn day. Unfortunately Lift No1 was being heavily restored (by Eiffel) whilst I visited. This was the result of …

Cologne Cathedral (Inscribed)
Cologne Cathedral
As said in many of the other entries the most striking thing about the cathedral is it’s size, it dominates the centre of the city, it is also Germany’s largest …

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tourn… (Inscribed)
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
The cathedral is right in the centre of town and can be seen from most places. It is a fine example of Romanesque architecture. I was impressed by the design …

Dresden Elbe Valley (Delisted)
Dresden Elbe Valley
I visited the historic centre of Dresden which is the focus of this entry on a fantastic August day. The main building of interest for me was the Frauenkirche which …

Litomysl Castle (Inscribed)
Litomysl Castle
This was one of my favourite trips in the Czech Republic. The interior of the palace is nothing remarkable; however the exterior and the town itself were very rewarding.
The …

Trebic (Inscribed)
Trebic
The Jewish quarter here is quite small but uniform. It doesn't seem too different to many other older outskirts of Czech towns, but the subtle Jewish historical aspects are all …

Telc (Inscribed)
Telc
In a country that has plenty of pretty town squares this one has to take the prize for the prettiest. The town centre is small and as said below is …

Pilgrimage Church of St. John… (Inscribed)
Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
The church here is the work of the architect Jan Santini, who developed his own style mostly based on baroque but with gothic influences. The church is on a hill …

Grand Canyon (Inscribed)
Grand Canyon
As said below this is Awesome in the proper sense of the word. I was lucky enough to be able to fly to the canyon from Las Vegas. The flight …

Holy Trinity Column (Inscribed)
Holy Trinity Column
Central Europe's hidden treasure; Olomouc has thus far avoided all the pitfalls of Prague, Cesky Krumlov and Krakow. Despite being beautiful it is as yet off of most tourists itineraries. …

Le Havre (Inscribed)
Le Havre
The first thing you can see when approaching from the sea is the tall tower of St Joesph church, this was one of the key projects that Perret designed himself, …

Liverpool (Delisted)
Liverpool
The main part of the WHS is the riverside area Pier Head and Albert Docks, the Pierhead area (pictured) has the most famous building ensemble in the Royal Liver, Cunard …