My visit to Ein Karem was not too extensive in November of 2019. Yad Vashem is nearby, as is Abbell Synagogue of Hadassah Ein Karem with windows painted by Marc …
Ilya Burlak
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I only started prioritizing visiting World Heritage sites a few years ago and with my limited US-based corporate-warrior time-off allocation and family obligations I can only add a handful to a dozen in any given year. Looking forward to visiting them all after I am able to retire...
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About Ilya Burlak
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World Heritage Sites
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Cordoba 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- Segovia 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 5.0
- Loire Valley 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Assisi 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Potsdam 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.5
- San Gimignano 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.5
- Bryggen 4.5
- Stonehenge 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Seville 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Albi 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Urbino 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- L'viv 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Machu Picchu 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Chartres Cathedral 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Tarraco 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- Ferrara 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Belfries 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Odesa 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Masada 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Hollókö 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Belize Barrier Reef 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Wadden Sea 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Bethlehem 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Neolithic Orkney 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- Schokland 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Stećci 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 1.5
- Mount Carmel Caves 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 1.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- Volterra
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Orvieto
- Ellis Island
- Central Park
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Jerusalem
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Íznik
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Degania & Nahalal
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Amalienborg and its district
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Stolac
- The archeological site of Tanais
- Pombaline Lisbon
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Caesarea
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Makhteshim Country
- Ein Karem
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Reviews by Ilya Burlak


Makhteshim Country (On tentative list)
Makhteshim Country
If you are driving on Route 40 to Eilat, you will go through Makhtesh Ramon, the largest and most well-known of makhteshim. In Mitzpe Ramon on its northern edge …

Caesarea (On tentative list)
Caesarea
By the time I came to Caesarea, I was already having a mild case of archaeology overload from my time in Israel over two weeks in November of 2019, so …

Old City of Acre (Inscribed)
Old City of Acre
I recognize that Acre did not get a fair shake from me on my trip to Israel in November of 2019. I initially planned to visit it with a guide, …

Bahá’i Holy Places (Inscribed)
Bahá’i Holy Places
The World Heritage inscription of the Baha’i Holy Places emphasizes their deep spiritual value and the tradition of pilgrimage in the Baha’i faith. I am not convinced that it counts …

Masada (Inscribed)
Masada
The legend of Masada - the mass suicide of several thousand members of the Jewish revolt in 73 AD who chose death over slavery when the fortress was about to …

Incense Route of the Negev (Inscribed)
Incense Route of the Negev
I visited Mamshit and Avdat on my trip to Israel in November 2019. Unlike the Biblical Tels, the archaeological sites of the Nabatean towns offer enough of standing remains to …

Bethlehem (Inscribed)
Bethlehem
I arranged for a private half-day guided tour of Bethlehem in November of 2019, which included not just the Church of Nativity, but also a drive through the governorate countryside, …

Jerusalem (On tentative list)
Jerusalem
When in Jerusalem, Mount of Olives and Mount Zion are practically unmissable parts of the itinerary, both for the historic and religious sites situated on them, and in case of …

Old City of Jerusalem (Inscribed)
Old City of Jerusalem
I spent about a day and a half in Jerusalem’s Old City on my trip to Israel in November 2019. That appears to be enough to see all of the …

Biblical Tells (Inscribed)
Biblical Tells
I visited two of the three inscribed tels on my tour around Israel in November of 2019. The biggest and the most popular of them is Megiddo, in the Lower …

The Crusader Fortresses (On tentative list)
The Crusader Fortresses
While in Israel in November of 2019, I stopped by the Jordan Star National Park (Kokhav HaYarden, in Hebrew) which is centered on the Belvoir crusader castle high above the …

Early Synagogues in the Galil… (On tentative list)
Early Synagogues in the Galilee
On my travels around Israel in November of 2019, I stopped by Bet Alpha National Park, which ended up one of my favorite ancient sites in the country (including many …

Necropolis of Bet She'arim (Inscribed)
Necropolis of Bet She'arim
Not many people who are neither students of Jewish history nor WH chasers will prioritize seeing Bet She'arim on their visit to Israel, but it has to be said that …

Mount Carmel Caves (Inscribed)
Mount Carmel Caves
Nahal Me’arot may represent half a million years of human evolution, but they are a clear contender for the title of one of the least impressive paid-entry sights that I …

Degania & Nahalal (On tentative list)
Degania & Nahalal
The original moshav and the earliest kibbutz may have non-trivial meaning to students of sociology, but I can't imagine that Nahalal and/or Degania ever become a WH site. Israel's withdrawal …

White City of Tel-Aviv (Inscribed)
White City of Tel-Aviv
As the WH inscription itself suggests, the highest concentration of examples of Bauhaus Movement architecture (interestingly, the inscription never uses the term "Bauhaus", instead preferring fuzzier "modern") is around Dizengoff …

Nuruosmaniye Complex (On tentative list)
Nuruosmaniye Complex
I made a 15-minute stop at Nuruosmaniye Mosque on my tour around Istanbul in November 2019. The mosque is located outside one of the entrances to the Grand Bazaar, well …

Istanbul (Inscribed)
Istanbul
Previous reviewers have already covered the main points of visiting Istanbul, so I'll stick to the specific angle of visiting the city on an intraday layover. In November of 2019, …

Semmering Railway (Inscribed)
Semmering Railway
In a burst of fairly unusual spontaneity, I traversed the length of the WH-inscribed portion of Semmering Railway twice in both directions on consecutive days in December of 2016. I …