Ian Cade

United Kingdom \ Member since December 2005

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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/

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    Welterbetag 2025: Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
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    Cilento and Vallo di Diano, Naples, Pompei, Royal Palace at Caserta
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    Sept. 13, 2024
    Eisinga Planetarium
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About Ian Cade

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Ian
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Reviews by Ian Cade

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Hahoe and Yangdong by Ian Cade

Hahoe and Yangdong (Inscribed)

Hahoe and Yangdong

I must admit when I first arrived at Yangdong I was distinctly unimpressed. Bus 203 dropped me off in a rather muddy car park and I was left looking through …

Imperial Palace by Ian Cade

Imperial Palace (Inscribed)

Imperial Palace

I must admit I wasn't especially looking forward to this visit; it had more of a feeling of something I should do rather than wanted to do. However after a …

Temple of Heaven by Ian Cade

Temple of Heaven (Inscribed)

Temple of Heaven

Fresh off the plane I went for an early morning stroll around the Temple of Heaven and the surrounding park, which provided the best possible start to my 5 days …

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple by Ian Cade

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa… (Inscribed)

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple

These two sites were a rather pleasant way to start my exploration of South Korea. I started at the small Seokguram Grotto, I was impressed by the quality of the …

Grimeton Radio Station by Ian Cade

Grimeton Radio Station (Inscribed)

Grimeton Radio Station

From looking at the positive reviews from some of my most trusted commentators on this site, I already knew that this was going to be a little more interesting than …

Rock Carvings in Tanum by Ian Cade

Rock Carvings in Tanum (Inscribed)

Rock Carvings in Tanum

Most aspects of the site have already been covered in the reviews here, and I am in agreement that this was a really nice site to visit for my first …

Edinburgh by Ian Cade

Edinburgh (Inscribed)

Edinburgh

To my mind this is Britain’s finest World Heritage Site, both in terms of what there is to see and also the visiting experience.

I knew that Edinburgh was a …

Gwynedd Castles by Ian Cade

Gwynedd Castles (Inscribed)

Gwynedd Castles

These have to rank as some of the best places I have visited in Britain. At the start of November 2006 we visited the Castle at Beaumaris and spent a …

Dinosaur Ichnite Sites of the Iberian Peninsula by Ian Cade

Dinosaur Ichnite Sites of the… (Removed from tentat…)

Dinosaur Ichnite Sites of the Iberian Peninsula

Whilst I was visiting the cave of Tito Bustillo in Ribadesella I took the opportunity to have a bit of a hike to see this potential World Heritage site. There …

The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow by Ian Cade

The Twin Monastery of Wearmou… (Removed from tentat…)

The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow

On the long drive back from Hadrian's Wall I decided to make a quick detour to have a view of the UK's next prospective WHS. So on a very quiet …

Frontiers of the Roman Empire by Ian Cade

Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Inscribed)

Frontiers of the Roman Empire

I had previously resisted the temptation to tick off this site by visiting the remnants of Hadrian’s Wall in suburban Tyneside, so to do the site some justice I decided …

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier by Ian Cade

The Architectural Work of Le … (Inscribed)

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier

When looking at this proposal I said I would only count it once I had visited one of the four major works of le Corbusier, for me these were: Villa …

Mantua and Sabbioneta by Ian Cade

Mantua and Sabbioneta (Inscribed)

Mantua and Sabbioneta

There is a real wow factor when approaching Mantua from road over ponte San Girgio, especially at night. The Castle and Palace were magnificently lit up as we crossed the …

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles by Ian Cade

Padua’s fourteenth-century fr… (Inscribed)

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles

Magnificent!

This was the single highlight of my trip around the Veneto, and the finest site I have visited from the tentative list. It could easily make it onto the …

Saint-Emilion by Ian Cade

Saint-Emilion (Inscribed)

Saint-Emilion

I really enjoyed this visit, I spent a couple of hours aimless wandering the hilly cobbled streets in the centre of the medieval town, poking my head into the smattering …

Fontainebleau by Ian Cade

Fontainebleau (Inscribed)

Fontainebleau

I did enjoy my trip out to the palace and it was a rewarding visit. It didn't feel quite as cripplingly oppressive as Versailles and was a more manageable place …

Bordeaux by Ian Cade

Bordeaux (Inscribed)

Bordeaux

I found Bordeaux to be a great, medium sized European city, though it has some lovely buildings there are no real stand out monuments. The large uniform buildings do not …

Verona by Ian Cade

Verona (Inscribed)

Verona

I really enjoyed my brief visit to Verona. There were plenty of impressive buildings to visit however we had most fun just walking along the busy streets eating ice creams …

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus by Ian Cade

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Inscribed)

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

I love travelling by train, and I also have a love of architecture; as such entering train stations is always a special sensation for me. I decided to throw myself …

Venice and its Lagoon by Ian Cade

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Venice and its Lagoon

There are reasons why some sites are so famous; Venice is a case in point. This really is a unique and magnificent city, and really justified as being one of …

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