Bergamo is a kind of town that invariably leaves a positive impression on any visitor without tipping the scales on the exceptional side. I visited it in November of 2018. …
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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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


Residences of the Royal House… (Inscribed)
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
While in Turin for a single day in November of 2018, I managed to see Palazzo Madama, walked around Zona di Commando, and stopped by Palazzo Reale and Palazzo Carignano …

Venetian Works of Defence (Inscribed)
Venetian Works of Defence
I visited Bergamo in November of 2018 and Zadar and Kotor in July of 2019, each time focusing on the respective city as a whole. I frequently profess my admiration …

Santa Maria delle Grazie (Inscribed)
Santa Maria delle Grazie
The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is a curious specimen on the World Heritage list. It is not altogether unremarkable, but also not in any sense surpassing to warrant …

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra (Inscribed)
Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
I have been to Kiev many times in my childhood, but those visits never included any sightseeing. Decades later, I found myself in Kiev on a business trip. It was …

Assisi (Inscribed)
Assisi
I visited Assisi in the summer of 2014. At that point, the town easily vaulted towards the top of my personal list of the most impressive day-trip destinations, having hosted …

Mycenae and Tiryns (Inscribed)
Mycenae and Tiryns
I visited Mycenae in July 2018. The city was the center of the Late Bronze Age civilization that was the main precursor to the classical Ancient Greek culture. Mycenaeans’ period …

Archaeological Site of Delphi (Inscribed)
Archaeological Site of Delphi
Delphi was the sacred center of the world for the Ancient Greeks and undoubtedly a remarkable achievement of purposeful architecture, a sanctuary built into the challenging landscape to inspire awe …

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea… (Inscribed)
Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
Of the three geographically dispersed monasteries inscribed together as this WH site, we could only fit one into our Greek itinerary in July of 2018, and our choice fell on …

Acropolis (Inscribed)
Acropolis
I always find myself awed by grandiose edifices. Beholding the Parthenon up close, unfailingly grandiose despite its ruined state blended with a construction site, made the visit to Acropolis instantly …

Delos (Inscribed)
Delos
Delos archaeological site is vast and is among the most impressive of its kind. Ancient ruins everywhere require a non-trivial application of imagination to see beyond the piles of stones …

The Architectural Work of Le … (Inscribed)
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
I saw Villa Savoye in June of 2018. The villa is considered a prime example of Le Corbusier's architectural manifesto with all five principles on display: pilotis, free façade …

Vézère Valley (Inscribed)
Vézère Valley
If you are spending time in the department of Dordogne, it is possible with the right planning to see 3-to-5 locations of this WH site in one day.
My …

Works of Antoni Gaudí (Inscribed)
Works of Antoni Gaudí
I have made multiple visits to the five accessible Gaudí properties in Barcelona over the course of the last 15 years. They are all worth visiting. My personal ranking order …

Canal du Midi (Inscribed)
Canal du Midi
One could argue that you can do Canal du Midi justice only by renting a boat to navigate a portion of it. On the other hand, the canal itself is …

Routes of Santiago de Compost… (Inscribed)
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
I visited two properties that are part of this serial site in August of 2017 and three more in June of 2018.
In an otherwise nondescript Rabastens, Notre-Dame-du-Bourg may …

Albi (Inscribed)
Albi
Albi is an attractive town that does not exactly rise to exceptional, but it is entirely worth a visit just for its cathedral. The huge church (it claims the …

Rock Art of the Mediterranean… (Inscribed)
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
I only have a sample size of one, but I suspect that only a small portion of the locations that comprise this WHS offer any rock art that is worth …

Fortifications of Vauban (Inscribed)
Fortifications of Vauban
I visited Villefranche-de-Conflent in August 2017. The town is awfully picturesque (it is also on the register of the Most Beautiful Villages in France) and very tiny, literally two streets …