Catching an early bus outside Agrigento station I reached the Valley of the Temples just as the gates opened. This enabled me to make a tour of the temples of …
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My most impressive site: Lava Tubes, Jeju Island, South Korea
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5030April 3, 2014Aachen Cathedral, Aapravasi Ghat, Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Abbey of St Gall, Acropolis ...
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
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- Aquileia
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- Archaeological Site of Delphi
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- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
- Avignon
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- Ayutthaya
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bahla Fort
- Bali Subak system
- Bamberg
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- Bardejov Town
- Baroque Churches
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Bauhaus Sites
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- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Białowieża Forest
- Biblical Tells
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Boyana Church
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Burgos Cathedral
- Butrint
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- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Cesky Krumlov
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chief Roi Mata's Domain
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Moldavia
- Churches of Peace
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
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- Cuenca
- Curonian Spit
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Delta
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Delos
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Dolomites
- Donana National Park
- Dong Phayayen
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- El Escurial
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Fraser Island
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Gammelstad
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Wall
- Great Zimbabwe
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Guimarães
- Gulf of Porto
- Gunung Mulu
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Gwynedd Castles
- Gyeongju
- Haeinsa Temple
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Heritage of Mercury
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Hoi An
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hortobágy
- Horyu-ji Area
- Hué
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Ibiza
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Imperial Palace
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Island of Patmos
- Isole Eolie
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Jantar Mantar
- Jeju
- Jelling
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Kakadu National Park
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Kandy
- Karlskrona
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinabalu Park
- Kinderdijk
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Lagoons of New Caledonia
- Lake Baikal
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Land of Frankincense
- Laponian Area
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Le Morne
- Lenggong Valley
- Levuka
- Litomysl Castle
- Liverpool
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- Lyon
- Macao
- Madara Rider
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Matobo Hills
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Mazagan
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Tétouan
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Mérida
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Modena
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Horezu
- Monte San Giorgio
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Mostar
- Mount Athos
- Mount Carmel Caves
- Mount Etna
- Mtskheta
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Mystras
- Namhansanseong
- Nancy
- Naples
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nessebar
- New Lanark
- Ngorongoro
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- Ningaloo Coast
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Nubian Monuments
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Rauma
- Old Town of Galle
- Olympia
- Oporto
- Orange
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palmeral of Elche
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Petra
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Pirin National Park
- Pitons of Reunion
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plitvice Lakes
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Purnululu National Park
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
- Quedlinburg
- Qutb Minar
- Rabat
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ravenna
- Red Fort
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhaetian Railway
- Rhodes
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Røros
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint Catherine Area
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Gimignano
- Sangiran Early Man Site
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Selimiye Mosque
- Semmering Railway
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Serra de Tramuntana
- Seville
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Shiretoko
- Siena
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- Sigiriya
- Sintra
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- Split
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- St. Petersburg
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- Studley Royal Park
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- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
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- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Temple of Heaven
- Te Wahipounamu
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- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
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- Tokaji Wine Region
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- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
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- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Tugendhat Villa
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Uluru
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Val di Noto
- Val d'Orcia
- Vall de Boi
- Vallée de Mai
- Valletta
- Valparaiso
- Vatican City
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- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victoria Falls
- Vienna
- Vigan
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Visby
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Vlkolinec
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willandra Lakes
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
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- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
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- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.42
- Serengeti 4.41
- Persepolis 4.37
- Los Glaciares 4.35
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Reviews by john booth


San Marino and Mount Titano (Inscribed)
San Marino and Mount Titano
There are no railways in San Marino, but there is a frequent bus service from in front of Rimini's train station to the Porta San Francesco. I travelled in the …

Naples (Inscribed)
Naples
My visit to Naples coincided with the rubbish collector's strike, so I was greeted by foul smelling mounds of rubbish littering the streets. This was particularly acute in the narrow …

Cilento and Vallo di Diano (Inscribed)
Cilento and Vallo di Diano
This site covers a huge area, including a wealth of coastal, rural and mountain scenery. Besides this I took trains to find the ancient Greek enclave of Velia (near Ascea …

Costiera Amalfitana (Inscribed)
Costiera Amalfitana
The scenery around this coast is simply stunning, so to enjou it I took the bus from Salerno to Sorrento, stopping off at Cetara, Amalfi and Positano en route. The …

Assisi (Inscribed)
Assisi
The train arrives at the village of Santa Maria dei Angeli, from where buses run to various points around Assisi. I alighted at Piazza Matteotti, the highest point, and close …

Pompei (Inscribed)
Pompei
The excavations of Pompei are huge, so I devoted a half day to walking the streets, starting at the amphitheatre and finishing at the Villa of Mysteries. I stopped off …

Rome (Inscribed)
Rome
Having visited Rome previously on several occasions and seen all the prominent tourist sights, this year I decided to seek out the more obscure sites included in the WHS inscription.
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Etruscan Necropolises (Inscribed)
Etruscan Necropolises
With careful planning I found that I could reach both Cerveteri and Tarquinia by public transport on a day trip from Rome. I took a train to Cerveteri-Ladispoli which connected …

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (Inscribed)
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
After visiting Villa d'Este I returned to Tivoli's Piazza Garibaldi and caught a #4 bus to Villa Adriana, 6 kms away. Although the villa is in ruins I was surprised …

Villa d'Este (Inscribed)
Villa d'Este
This villa clearly receives the larger share of visitors to Tivoli. The gardens seem to be the main attraction of course with their flowing waterfalls and fountains. Few visitors seemed …

Bahla Fort (Inscribed)
Bahla Fort
Whilst the restoration work still continues, I am glad to say much progress has been made, and the day will come when the last of the scaffolding is removed. It …

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn (Inscribed)
Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
It is essential to have your own transport to visit these sites. We drove from Al Ain (UAE) to Ibri and took the road viaAd Dariz to Bat where we …

Selimiye Mosque (Inscribed)
Selimiye Mosque
Edirne (known as Adrianople until the Ottoman period) is easily accessible by bus from Istanbul and Canakkale.
This fine example of Muslim architecture is regarded as Mimar Koca Sinan's master …

Al Ain (Inscribed)
Al Ain
The listed locations of this site are to be found within as well as in the areas surrounding the modern city of Al Ain. Jebel Hafeet, a huge monolith stands …

Vall de Boi (Inscribed)
Vall de Boi
This was my favourite WHS on the Iberian Peninsular. The churches and their locations were spectacular, and the interior frescoes stunningly beautiful.
I started out from Poble de Segur and …

Tarraco (Inscribed)
Tarraco
I agree that the listed sites within the city are nothing spectacular compared to Merida so I went to search out the sites on the periphery of the city.
The …

Karlskrona (Inscribed)
Karlskrona
Perhaps because I had a fine day for my visit to Karlskrona I left with a better impression than Paul. I found the new museum on Stumholmen very interesting, and …

Poblet Monastery (Inscribed)
Poblet Monastery
This monastery was well worth a visit. I discovered that certain buses operating between Tarragona and Lleida detour via the entrance to the monastery, and that it was possible to …

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley (Inscribed)
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
I visited Andorra in July 2008, and also found little information about accessing the WHS at the Tourist Office. But I did find a minibus that went from Escaldes to …