You can spend many pleasant hours wandering around this huge complex, a mixture of a castle and a monastery. It was founded in the 12th century by the Knights Templar, …
Klaus Freisinger
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I like the concept of World Heritage, and I like to travel, so combining these two is very enjoyable. However, I don't travel outside of Europe that often, so my ultimate goal would be to visit all WH sites in Europe.
My most impressive site: Rome and Grand Canyon
My proposal for a new site: Mount Vesuvius and Phlegreian Fields, Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge, Windsor Castle, Death Valley National Park, Old Town of Hall in Tirol and Schwaz Silver Mines, Historic Centre of Innsbruck and Ambras Castle, Bavarian Royal Castles, Moon Landing Sites: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center and Houston/Johnson Space Center (Mission Control)
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World Heritage Sites
- Uluru 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Stonehenge 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Cordoba 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Belem 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Castel del Monte 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Mount Athos 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Trier 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Santo Domingo 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Everglades 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Carthage 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Luther Memorials 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Medina Azahara 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Monticello 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Plitvice Lakes 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Skocjan Caves 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Assisi 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Mérida 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Semmering Railway 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Dolomites 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Dubrovnik 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Southern Öland 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Classical Weimar 3.5
- Cahokia Mounds 3.5
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Elvas 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3.0
- Caceres 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- St. George, Bermuda 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Ibiza 3.0
- Palmeral of Elche 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 3.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Bourges Cathedral 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Tarraco 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Matera 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Danube Limes 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Medina of Sousse 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Albi 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Ferrara 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Saint-Emilion 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Karlskrona 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Durmitor National Park 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Warsaw 2.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.0
- Centennial Hall 2.0
- Villa d'Este 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.0
- Litomysl Castle 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Bardejov Town 2.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.0
- Banska Stiavnica 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5
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Reviews by Klaus Freisinger


Evora (Inscribed)
Evora
Évora has received some mixed reviews on this site, and, although I had a pleasant visit (admittedly a quite short one), I also thought the town was a bit overrated …

Elvas (Inscribed)
Elvas
Today, the border between Spain and Portugal is hardly visible, but in centuries past, it was heavily fortified and fought over. There is a fair number of fortified border towns …

Aranjuez (Inscribed)
Aranjuez
My expectations for Aranjuez were not too high - another royal palace close to a big capital -, but it's very easy to reach by commuter rail from Madrid, and …

Alcala de Henares (Inscribed)
Alcala de Henares
Alcalá is just a short train ride from Madrid and makes a very interesting half-day trip from the capital. Even though I visited on a Monday afternoon, which meant that …

Cuenca (Inscribed)
Cuenca
Cuenca makes a good stopover between the Mediterranean coast and Madrid, and the location of the Old Town is quite spectacular. Apart from that, though, I have to say that …

Studley Royal Park (Inscribed)
Studley Royal Park
This is a site I went to with rather low expectations, but which turned out to be very interesting - and the fact that I visited on a gloriously warm …

Liverpool (Delisted)
Liverpool
I arrived in Liverpool by night ferry from Belfast, and spent a whole day walking around the city. Apart from the Beatles and its 2 football teams, the city is …

Saltaire (Inscribed)
Saltaire
One of a whole bunch of industrial sites in the UK, Saltaire has the advantage of being just a 15-minute train ride from Leeds, and the station is right in …

Giant's Causeway (Inscribed)
Giant's Causeway
I visited the Giant's Causeway as a daytrip by train and bus from (London)derry via Coleraine. You arrive at a huge new visitor centre, and then you can set off …

Vilnius (Inscribed)
Vilnius
Even though it doesn't have any standout attractions, Vilnius is a very pretty and clean city with a well-preserved old town and a large number of historic buildings. The many …

Kernavė (Inscribed)
Kernavė
Everything that can be said about Kernave has already been mentioned on this site - it is a reasonably interesting site that makes for a nice excursion from Vilnius and …

New Lanark (Inscribed)
New Lanark
This is really quite an interesting site because of its good state of preservation - you can easily imagine yourself being a millworker (or owner) in the early 19th century. …

Forth Bridge (Inscribed)
Forth Bridge
There is not much to add to the reviews about the Forth Bridge - it's one of Scotland's most recognizable landmarks, and if you are lucky on your approach to …

Le Havre (Inscribed)
Le Havre
I visited Le Havre as a day trip from Paris on a hot summer day during the EURO 2016, as a distraction after watching a poor performance by the Austrian …

Speyer Cathedral (Inscribed)
Speyer Cathedral
Neither Germany in particular nor Europe in general suffer from a lack of WH-listed cathedrals, but the one in Speyer was one of the first on the list, and for …

Ferrara (Inscribed)
Ferrara
Ferrara is certainly one of the most livable cities in Italy, being the country's bicycle capital and having many green spaces. Its historic centre is quite interesting and pleasant, as …

Ravenna (Inscribed)
Ravenna
In my opinion, Ravenna is one of the finest and most interesting WH sites not just in Italy, but in all of Europe. The remains from the late Roman/early Byzantine …

La Fortaleza and San Juan (Inscribed)
La Fortaleza and San Juan
Founded in 1521, San Juan is the second-oldest European city still existing in the Americas, only a few years behind Santo Domingo. It soon became important as the first port …

Santo Domingo (Inscribed)
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo's place in history is assured by being the oldest European town in the New World, founded in 1498 by Bartolomeo Colón, brother of Christopher Columbus. It was built …