Just a short drive from the hustle and bustle of Miami, the Everglades are a true wonderland of nature. The ecosystem covers a large part of southern Florida, but the …
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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About Klaus Freisinger
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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


Bauhaus Sites (Inscribed)
Bauhaus Sites
As much as I liked the classical sites of Weimar, I was not overly impressed with the Bauhaus sites in this town. I took a look inside the Bauhaus University …

Classical Weimar (Inscribed)
Classical Weimar
For a city of its size (only about 60,000 people), Weimar has an unusually rich assortment of attractions due to its extremely important place in German history and culture. Goether, …

Wartburg Castle (Inscribed)
Wartburg Castle
The Wartburg is the iconic German castle, known worldwide for its association with Martin Luther. Even though it was constructed in the 11th century, today's appearance largely dates to the …

Vézère Valley (Inscribed)
Vézère Valley
This is a site I had long wanted to visit, but it is rather difficult without your own transport. The solution was a well-organized day trip run by a tour …

Canal du Midi (Inscribed)
Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi was one of Europe’s major construction projects prior to the Industrial Revolution, and even though it never really fulfilled its promise of being a major artery …

Fortified City of Carcassonne (Inscribed)
Fortified City of Carcassonne
Carcassonne is the classic medieval city in France, and probably even in Western Europe, and the immense crowds of visitors (as well as the popular board game of the same …

Albi (Inscribed)
Albi
Albi is mostly famous for its red brick cathedral, which is really quite impressive from every direction, and is interesting for the contrast between the lavish interior decorations (especially the …

Pont du Gard (Inscribed)
Pont du Gard
The Pont du Gard is one of the iconic masterpieces of Roman architecture and engineering, and one of France’s most famous and recognizable landmarks. It is the highest of all …

Arles (Inscribed)
Arles
To most people, Arles seems to be best known for its association with Van Gogh, but of course, for those with an interest in ancient and medieval history, the city …

Plantin-Moretus Museum (Inscribed)
Plantin-Moretus Museum
This museum is really a hidden treasure that the crowds that flock to Antwerp's cathedral and market square, which are really just a few steps away, often overlook. It has …

Flemish Béguinages (Inscribed)
Flemish Béguinages
In the course of a long weekend in Flanders, I visited 6 béguinages in 5 cities - the one in Lier (quite nice, but nothing special), Ter Hoyen in Gent …

Van Nellefabriek (Inscribed)
Van Nellefabriek
As this site can now be easily visited with a guided tour on the weekends (one tour each on Saturday and Sunday), I decided to extend a long weekend in …

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lor… (Inscribed)
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
This must be one of the tiniest WH sites in the world - it basically consists of just one rather small building in the centre of the pretty town of …

Messel Pit (Inscribed)
Messel Pit
On a pleasant spring day, I took the train from Frankfurt to Darmstadt and on to Messel to see the well-known (at least among paleontologists and WH collectors) Messel Pit. …

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (Inscribed)
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
Villa Adriana, the summer residence of Emperior Hadrian (used when he didn't travel across his vast empire and had walls built along its borders to protect it), is located a …

Villa d'Este (Inscribed)
Villa d'Este
Tivoli is a relatively short train ride from Rome and has been a popular destination for excursions and a countryside residence for Romans since ancient times. While the Villa Adriana …

Toledo (Inscribed)
Toledo
Toledo is one of Spain's classic travel destinations, and certainly one of the most interesting ones - a great combination of culture, history and architecture that has few rivals anywhere. …

Santa Maria de Guadalupe (Inscribed)
Santa Maria de Guadalupe
The Iberian peninsula is full of historic monasteries, with a large number of them inscribed on the WH list, and the one in the small village of Guadalupe in Extremadura …

Mérida (Inscribed)
Mérida
Mérida was, in Roman times, the capital of the large province of Lusitania, which stretched across parts of southern Spain and most of Portugal. It was one of the most …