James Bowyer

Member since April 2020

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From the North of England, became interested in World Heritage Sites just before all international travel was banned in early 2020 - what luck!

My most impressive site: Rome/Vatican City

My proposal for a new site: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone/Polesie State Radioecological Reserve

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    Caves and Ice Age Art
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    Botanical Garden, Padua, Longobards in Italy, Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles, Venice and its Lagoon, Verona …
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    Istanbul
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About James Bowyer

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Reviews by James Bowyer

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Valletta by James Bowyer

Valletta (Inscribed)

Valletta

Other reviewers have spoken about the highlights of Valletta: the magnificent interior of St John’s Co-Cathedral (despite its plain exterior), the hilly grid layout with many Baroque buildings, and the …

Megalithic Temples of Malta by James Bowyer

Megalithic Temples of Malta (Inscribed)

Megalithic Temples of Malta

Whilst Malta may bear many cultural and linguistic similarities to nearby Italy and North Africa respectively, prices seem to be more influenced by the period of British rule than their …

Gorham's Cave Complex by James Bowyer

Gorham's Cave Complex (Inscribed)

Gorham's Cave Complex

Before I was ensnared by World Heritage Sites, the geographic and cultural list that most intrigued me were the British Overseas Territories. Unfortunately, these last small vestiges of the empire …

Etruscan Necropolises by James Bowyer

Etruscan Necropolises (Inscribed)

Etruscan Necropolises

I have only visited one of the two components to this site, Tarquinia, and I picked it only because it was closer to a train station than Cerveteri. There was …

Champagne by James Bowyer

Champagne (Inscribed)

Champagne

I do not drink wine regularly and champagne even less so; I’m fairly sure I could count the occasions on my fingers. Therefore, I was not particularly looking forward to …

Val d'Orcia by James Bowyer

Val d'Orcia (Inscribed)

Val d'Orcia

Can I tick off this site? A philosophical question I’m sure every World Heritage traveller has asked themselves at some point. For myself and Val d’Orcia, I would say technically …

Pienza by James Bowyer

Pienza (Inscribed)

Pienza

Having sworn off guided coach tours after a poor experience in Poland, I somehow had lapse in judgement and ended up booking myself on one from Rome up to Tuscany …

Fontainebleau by James Bowyer

Fontainebleau (Inscribed)

Fontainebleau

Having already been to Versailles and the apartments of Napoleon III in the Louvre earlier that week, palace fatigue for my week in Paris was starting to set in as …

Lake District by James Bowyer

Lake District (Inscribed)

Lake District

The Lake District is a place of superlatives for England – it’s biggest and most visited national park, it’s tallest mountain (Scafell Pike), it’s deepest lake (Wastwater), it’s largest lake …

Maritime Greenwich by James Bowyer

Maritime Greenwich (Inscribed)

Maritime Greenwich

I have been to Greenwich twice now and greatly enjoyed both visits. It is readily accessible from two of London’s other WHS and, appropriately for a maritime site, the quickest …

Dorset and East Devon Coast by James Bowyer

Dorset and East Devon Coast (Inscribed)

Dorset and East Devon Coast

This was almost certainly the first World Heritage Site I ever visited, on a family holiday to Devon aged two. Therefore, I have always ticked it off on my list …

Saltaire by James Bowyer

Saltaire (Inscribed)

Saltaire

Prior to 2001, somebody had clearly identified there was a gap on the list of World Heritage Sites for model villages for workers of the Industrial Revolution. I say this …

New Lanark by James Bowyer

New Lanark (Inscribed)

New Lanark

The easiest way to reach New Lanark is through the old Lanark, which apparently dates back to at least 1140 as a market town during the reign of King David …

Warsaw by James Bowyer

Warsaw (Inscribed)

Warsaw

It isn’t too difficult to imagine a world in which the reconstruction of Warsaw after World War II was done in such a way to make the city centre indistinguishable …

Blenheim Palace by James Bowyer

Blenheim Palace (Inscribed)

Blenheim Palace

As of April 2022, the price to enter Blenheim Palace stands at £31 per person, expensive even by the standards of the south of England. Whilst I found the interior …

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal  by James Bowyer

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Can… (Inscribed)

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal

As other reviewers have noted, the name of this site is somewhat misleading as there is no such thing as the ‘Pontcysyllte Canal’. Rather then Pontcysyllte Aqueduct forms part of …

Plantin-Moretus Museum by James Bowyer

Plantin-Moretus Museum (Inscribed)

Plantin-Moretus Museum

I arrived into Antwerp from Brussels on the train and was immediately in love with the station. Ascending from the underground through platforms on enormous escalators into the cavernous space …

Torun by James Bowyer

Torun (Inscribed)

Torun

I did not especially enjoy my time in Toruń but that was not the city’s fault. Instead, it was our coach on a day trip from Warsaw that took a …

Sighisoara by James Bowyer

Sighisoara (Inscribed)

Sighisoara

Sighișoara is a small Medieval fortified city, home to an array of churches, townhouses, and defensive works. The Clock Tower is the iconic structure of the city, guarding the main …

Villages with Fortified Churches by James Bowyer

Villages with Fortified Churc… (Inscribed)

Villages with Fortified Churches

Both this site and the city of Sighișoara owe much of their existence to King Géza II of Hungary who, in the 12th Century, invited Saxon settlers to migrate to …

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