On our itinerary around Portugal in April of 2019 we covered all of the monasteries in the "triangle" north of Lisbon. Alcobaça is the unflashiest of the three, but also …
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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- Ilya
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- January 2017
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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
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Reviews by Ilya Burlak


The Palaces of King Ludwig II (Nominated)
The Palaces of King Ludwig II
I visited two of the three castles in this serial property ages ago. They likely deserve full WH recognition purely on the strength of the world-wide fame of Neuschwanstein. Just …

Paseo del Prado and Buen Reti… (Inscribed)
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
I've been to Madrid many times over the years and on each occasion I take time to walk the length of Paseo del Prado from Plaza de Cibeles to the …

The Karlstejn Castle (On tentative list)
The Karlstejn Castle
My one and only visit to Karlštejn Castle took place nearly a decade ago, but seeing that there are no other reviews for it, even a dated one might be …

Medici Villas and Gardens (Inscribed)
Medici Villas and Gardens
I have not yet been prioritizing visits to the WH sites when I last was in Tuscany, so my familiarity with this serial property is limited to Boboli Gardens. Even …

Volterra (On tentative list)
Volterra
It is hard to compete with such illustrious neighbors as Siena or San Gimignano, so Volterra probably deserves its second-tier billing when it comes to Tuscan destinations. The historic town …

The Historic City of Dublin (Removed from tentat…)
The Historic City of Dublin
I visited Dublin a couple of times, most recently in 2017, and set aside some time for exploring, but the reality is that there is little to explore there that …

Ellis Island (On tentative list)
Ellis Island
Ellis Island has been an entry point for over 12 million immigrants to the United States over the course of 60-plus years. The descendants of those immigrants nowadays make over …

Brooklyn Bridge (On tentative list)
Brooklyn Bridge
Among the industrial-age technological monuments, Brooklyn Bridge has few equals in terms of innovation and impact. When built, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, and it employed …

Ancient Greek Theatres (On tentative list)
Ancient Greek Theatres
While touring Greece in the summer of 2018, I stopped by a number of its World Heritage sites, and had a chance to see theaters at Delos, Acropolis (called Dionysos …

Late Medieval Bastioned Forti… (On tentative list)
Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
My visit to this site was rather marginal. During a stay in central Crete in the summer of 2018, I explored Heraklion for about half a day. Included in the …

Centre ancien de Sarlat (On tentative list)
Centre ancien de Sarlat
I spent time in Sarlat-la-Canéda, frequently called simply Sarlat, in the late spring of 2018 as part of a week-long stay in Périgord. Its charming medieval core is a maze …

Giant's Causeway (Inscribed)
Giant's Causeway
I visited Giant's Causeway in the spring of 2017 by driving half the island of Eire from Dublin to see the unique natural phenomenon. The Causeway is the result of …

Stoclet House (Inscribed)
Stoclet House
There is very little that I can add to what the other reviewers said before me about this underwhelming site. The optics of bestowing a World Heritage designation on something …

Mantua and Sabbioneta (Inscribed)
Mantua and Sabbioneta
The towns of Mantua (Mantova in Italian) and Sabbioneta are paired into a single World Heritage site on the basis of representing two different facets of Renaissance city planning: …

Poblet Monastery (Inscribed)
Poblet Monastery
My frequently professed affinity for sacred architecture did not translate into surpassing appreciation of Poblet Monastery. I saw an impressive enough complex which I could not call extraordinary. The historical …

Pienza (Inscribed)
Pienza
The historic center of the Pienza is inscribed on UNESCO List because it occupies a seminal position in the development of the concept of the planned “ideal town”, but you …

Reims (Inscribed)
Reims
My visit to Reims took place nearly a decade ago, but the buildings recognized on this site's inscription have stood for centuries, so I expect that my impressions remain relevant.
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Tarraco (Inscribed)
Tarraco
An attractive city to the south-west of Barcelona, Tarragona’s claim to UNESCO recognition revolves around its Roman past, as evidenced by a significant number of architectural remains in and around …

Minoan Palatial Centres (Nominated)
Minoan Palatial Centres
During a stay on Crete in the summer of 2018 I visited two of the properties of this serial site. One of them, Knossos Palace is the most visited tourist …