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 …
Ilya Burlak
United States of America \ Member since January 2017
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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. I look forward to visiting them all after I retire...
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Recent Visits
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01July 11, 2025Greece: Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea
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25Dec. 4, 2024Hungary: Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System, Hollókö, Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom ...
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51May 14, 2024Peru: Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima ...
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About Ilya Burlak
- Member since
- January 2017
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #319
- WHS
- 179
- Tentative Sites
- 37
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 123
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Cordoba 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- Loire Valley 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Segovia 5.0
- Kraków 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Bryggen 4.5
- Assisi 4.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Seville 4.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- San Gimignano 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- L'viv 4.0
- Machu Picchu 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Chartres Cathedral 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 4.0
- Urbino 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Albi 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Ferrara 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Tarraco 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Hollókö 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Masada 3.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Odesa 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Neolithic Orkney 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
- Bethlehem 2.5
- Belize Barrier Reef 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Schokland 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Wadden Sea 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 1.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Ellis Island
- Central Park
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Iznik
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Orvieto
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Jerusalem
- Volterra
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex
- Caesarea
- Makhteshim Country
- Ein Karem
- Degania & Nahalal
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Amalienborg and its district
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Stolac
- The archeological site of Tanais
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Reviews by Ilya Burlak
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 …