I visited Kotor area in July of this year on a day-trip from Dubrovnik. I first drove along practically entire perimeter of the uniquely-shaped bay to the town of Kotor, …
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


Dubrovnik (Inscribed)
Dubrovnik
In July 2019 Dubrovnik acted as a base for my exploration of its WHS "hotspot". I spent only one full day in Dubrovnik proper but returned every evening for a …

Stolac (On tentative list)
Stolac
In July of 2019, I visited Stolac area with the focus on nearby stećci sites, Radimlja and Boljuni. Both are included on the Stolac ensemble tentative submission, in addition to …

Stećci (Inscribed)
Stećci
I visited two of the properties of this serial site in July of 2019 on the way from Mostar to Dubrovnik. One of the best preserved and best known of …

Mostar (Inscribed)
Mostar
Mostar left probably the most vivid impression for me from the entire July 2019 trip to Dubrovnik and Split WHS hotspots. I have had so far very limited exposure on …

Trogir (Inscribed)
Trogir
The historic center of Trogir sits on a tiny island – roughly 500 meters long and 250 meters wide – which can be fairly closely explored in the matter of …

Cathedral of St. James in Sib… (Inscribed)
Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
Somewhat uniquely for a grand church in a town with uneven topography, Cathedral of Saint James does not occupy a commanding highest point. Stairways run up from the cathedral square …

Split (Inscribed)
Split
I had a base in Split for nearly a week on a recent trip to Croatia. Only a single day was budgeted for exploring the town, but I also returned …

Evora (Inscribed)
Evora
The capital of the Alentejo region, Évora, is a city with more than twenty centuries of history. But its profile is much lower than that of other points of interest …

Sintra (Inscribed)
Sintra
Sintra is one of the most impressive and attractive places to visit in all of Portugal. It is also one of the most maddeningly overcrowded. We were there in late …

Pombaline Lisbon (On tentative list)
Pombaline Lisbon
It is rather curious that there are two tentative submissions for Lisbon, dated with the same exact day, of which one happens to entirely encompass the other. Pombaline Lisbon is …

Historical Lisbon, Global City (Removed from tentat…)
Historical Lisbon, Global City
Both the description and the OUV justification on the tentative WH submission for Lisbon outline with significant detail the uniqueness of the city history and its importance in the Age …

Belem (Inscribed)
Belem
I visited the WHS in Belém on a Portuguese national holiday in April, which was obviously not the best day for sightseeing. There is a corollary of Murphy’s Law, formulated …

Convent of Christ in Tomar (Inscribed)
Convent of Christ in Tomar
The Convent of Christ in Tomar is the oldest in the Portuguese World Heritage monastic triangle (the other two are Alcobaça and Batalha), founded in the 12th century. It has …

Monastery of Batalha (Inscribed)
Monastery of Batalha
Batalha Monastery is a masterpiece of Gothic and Manueline art. I visited all three WH monastic complexes in the Centro Region of Portugal in April of 2019, and the contrast …

Guimarães (Inscribed)
Guimarães
The first capital of Portugal way back in the 12th century, Guimarães is recognized on the World Heritage list as an authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement …

Bom Jesus do Monte (Inscribed)
Bom Jesus do Monte
The sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte is comparatively young for a religious site – the pilgrimage church dates only from the 17th century, and the current ensemble was fully …

Alto Douro (Inscribed)
Alto Douro
Alto Douro is the part of the river valley where natural conditions conspired to create a unique environment for wine production that dates back over 2,000 years. Fortified wine – …

Oporto (Inscribed)
Oporto
Porto is a colorful city that has become an instant favorite. Although its core area is fairly compact, it is not for weak walkers: the city is built into hillsides, …

University of Coimbra (Inscribed)
University of Coimbra
Coimbra University, founded in 1290, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the Portuguese-speaking world. Its recognition as a WHS links it to the city as an example of …