This was one of the original group of UK entries to the list, the site is essentially the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. It was here that coke was first …
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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- December 2005
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
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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


Greater Blue Mountains (Inscribed)
Greater Blue Mountains
The Blue Mountains provide a great break from Sydney, and it really does not take long to get out to them. It was about two hours if I remember correctly …

Rock Art of the Mediterranean… (Inscribed)
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
Having just looked at the inscription in more detail I have discovered that it is made up of a whopping 727 seperate sites!!.
This is one of the strangest inscriptions …

Cahokia Mounds (Inscribed)
Cahokia Mounds
The site is actually the largest Pre-Colombian city north of Mexico and formerly had a population of around 15,000, the main aspect of the park are the 69 man made …

Val di Noto (Inscribed)
Val di Noto
I spent a morning in the town of Noto, and enjoyed strolling along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, sitting in café’s and taking in the great façade’s. There was still a lot …

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen (Inscribed)
Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
I really enjoyed my visit to Bremen, it turned out to be a very charming city, with much to warrant a visit.
The World heritage site itself I am still …

Sydney Opera House (Inscribed)
Sydney Opera House
I was very happy to see the Opera House added to the World Heritage list, it is an exceptional and highly identifiable building with an outstanding setting, in a great …

City of Luxembourg (Inscribed)
City of Luxembourg
Luxembourg is a real treat. I was not expecting much of it but it turned out to be one of my favourite European capitals so good I decided to go …

City of Bath (Inscribed)
City of Bath
I have visited Bath on several occasions now and it is a really lovely city to visit, quintessentially English, but famous for its Roman roots. The whole city is made …

Potsdam (Inscribed)
Potsdam
I visited the Sansouci Park on a morning trip from Berlin, unfortunately the Sansouci Palace itself was closed, (the curse of Monday closures hit for the first and definitely not …

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum (Inscribed)
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
The Hypogeum is tucked away on a fairly unremarkable street in the suburbs of Valletta. From the outside it looks just like another house, however what lies below is very …

Saltaire (Inscribed)
Saltaire
I must admit that sometimes I have to really motivate myself to visit the Industrial sites on the list, after a few dull visits I wasn’t imagining this one to …

Thingvellir (Inscribed)
Thingvellir
This was a really interesting and rewarding place to visit and as Paul Tanner states is an essential part of any trip to Iceland. We visited on a beautiful late …

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) (Inscribed)
Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
This group of museums at the end of an Island in the Spree are one of the premier attractions of Berlin. The reason for its inclusion on the list is …

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
We only had a brief visit to the Georgium park in Dessau, which is just across the road from the Bauhaus Mastershouses. We had a brief walk through the park …

Bauhaus Sites (Inscribed)
Bauhaus Sites
If your idea of a good World Heritage site is a historic city centre, then this is perhaps not the best place to visit as arriving from the train station …

Drottningholm (Inscribed)
Drottningholm
As already stated the Palace closes down for a few weeks in mid December – January so I didn’t actually get to visit the inside of the Palace. I must …

Medina of Tunis (Inscribed)
Medina of Tunis
The Medina of Tunis is perhaps the best Medina in the country, whilst the sites are nothing spectacular, and you can walk straight past them if you do not keep …

Skogskyrkogarden (Inscribed)
Skogskyrkogarden
This probably isn’t top of most people’s lists of Stockholm’s ‘must sees’, even down to the name which I thought I had managed to get my tongue around until the …

Megalithic Temples of Malta (Inscribed)
Megalithic Temples of Malta
These seven temples are distributed across Malta and its sister island of Gozo. They consist of some of the oldest freestanding buildings in the world, providing an insight into some …