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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
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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

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Inscribed)
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

Oporto (Inscribed)
Oporto
It was a dull and grey day that I was in Porto, and it fit the atmosphere of the city so well. This is not the most aesthetically appealing of …

Brugge (Inscribed)
Brugge
I had heard a lot about Brugge before I went there and was not disappointed in what I saw. There were a lot of other tourists there but if you …

Belfries (Inscribed)
Belfries
I have now seen many of the Belfries inscribed, 15 I think. Perhaps the most impressive is the Belfry of Onze Lieve Vrowkathedraal in Antwerpen (pictured) which contains four major …

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal S… (Inscribed)
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
The Salt mines at Wieliczka are impressive, the initial climb down is a little harrowing it is a very long way! But the complex is fascinating. The initial parts seem …

Kraków (Inscribed)
Kraków
Krakow is a fantastic place, I really loved my visits here, and the centre is very well preserved and oozes history. The main square and Wawel hill complex are highlights …

Grand Place, Brussels (Inscribed)
Grand Place, Brussels
As a square, there are few more beautiful examples in the world. La Grande Place/Grotemark is hemmed in by exceptionally attractive buildings, the highlight of which is the Hotel de …

Blenheim Palace (Inscribed)
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace is the quintessential English stately home, with vast landscaped grounds and a central building dripping with extravagance. I must admit palaces bore me rigid as they remind me …

Auschwitz Birkenau (Inscribed)
Auschwitz Birkenau
This is not a place that should be visited light heartedly, I was a little distressed to see that some people had come here just as casual tourists; it really …

Kew Gardens (Inscribed)
Kew Gardens
Over the years Kew has been one of the World Heritage Sites I have visited most regularly. Moving from a place I enjoyed for chasing ducks as a child, through …

Trier (Inscribed)
Trier
I liked Trier and was surprised by the amount of high quality monuments in the city. The Porta Negra is very impressive, the Dom is stunning for its importance and …

Valletta (Inscribed)
Valletta
The small capital of Malta is a great place to visit and I was happy to make this World Heritage Site visit number 100!
The city sits at the end …

Syracuse (Inscribed)
Syracuse
The ancient port city of Siracusa was the main target for our all too brief excursion to South Eastern Sicily, and it was well worth the effort to get there. …