Martina Rúčková

Member since August 2017

#34 635 110

My most impressive site: Jerusalem

My proposal for a new site: Oxford

Check out my website: https://blog.sme.sk/ruckova

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    May 9, 2025
    Eisinga Planetarium, Schwerin Residence Ensemble
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    Jan. 3, 2025
    Su Nuraxi di Barumini
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    Dec. 30, 2024
    Gulf of Porto
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About Martina Rúčková

First name
Martina
Member since
August 2017
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#34
WHS
635
Tentative Sites
110
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Reviews by Martina Rúčková

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Historic Jeddah by Martina Rúčková

Historic Jeddah (Inscribed)

Historic Jeddah

Jeddah is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia with a population of nearly five million. The country's commercial centre and the gateway for pilgrims to Mecca. Jeddah is also …

Hegra by Martina Rúčková

Hegra (Inscribed)

Hegra

Hegra is Saudi Arabia's paramount tourist attraction and one of the few boasting of an excellent infrastructure ready to handle mass tourism. Correction, it's actually the only place in Saudi …

Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region by Martina Rúčková

Zee Ain Heritage Village in A… (On tentative list)

Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region

Zee (also marked as Thee) Ain Heritage Village is a nice detour on the drive from Jeddah to Abha and we enjoyed our visit, I have to say more than …

Hejaz Railway by Martina Rúčková

Hejaz Railway (On tentative list)

Hejaz Railway

Hejaz Railway is an interesting nomination and I would say my favourite in Saudi out of the four large serial ones (the three others are pilgrimage hajj routes). It's a …

Syrian Hajj Road by Martina Rúčková

Syrian Hajj Road (On tentative list)

Syrian Hajj Road

Syrian Hajj road is another of the long-winded multi-site serial nomination to be inscribed, along with Dar Zubaydah (Saudi-Iraqi road) and Egyptian road. This pilgrimage route connected Mecca and Medina …

Egyptian Hajj Road by Martina Rúčková

Egyptian Hajj Road (On tentative list)

Egyptian Hajj Road

Another of the serial nominations for three pilgrimage roads to Mecca, and this one actually ends in Mecca, not Medina as Dar Zubaydah and Syrian Hajj road do. Egyptian Hajj …

Rock Art in the Hail Region by Martina Rúčková

Rock Art in the Hail Region (Inscribed)

Rock Art in the Hail Region

To see the rock art, we headed north from Buraydah, through the town of Ha'il to the smaller resort of Jubbah. There are two sites for the rock art: Jabal …

The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi) by Martina Rúčková

The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi) (On tentative list)

The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi)

Heading to the Rock Art in the Ha'il region from Buraydah, we had one of the monuments from this series nomination.These are monuments along the historical route from the Iraqi …

Al-Ahsa Oasis by Martina Rúčková

Al-Ahsa Oasis (Inscribed)

Al-Ahsa Oasis

The Al-Ahsa Oasis is listed on the World Cultural Heritage List as a place that has been inhabited for a long time since the Early Stone Age. This was helped …

Turaif Quarter by Martina Rúčková

Turaif Quarter (Inscribed)

Turaif Quarter

Ivan and I visited this WHS on our return trip from Al Ahsa Oasis, heading to Buraydah and Ha'il Rock Art, Riyadh being conveniently on our way. So we made …

Derbent by Martina Rúčková

Derbent (Inscribed)

Derbent

Derbent was the first and only part of Dagestan Ivan and I have managed to visit in our first year in Russia together. In 2013, Dagestan was still quite a …

Putorana Plateau by Martina Rúčková

Putorana Plateau (Inscribed)

Putorana Plateau

Two unvisited WHSs in Russia remained for us: Wrangel Island and Putorana Plateau. The former is still off as far as what we're willing to spend, the latter was doable, …

Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake by Martina Rúčková

Cultural Landscape of Kenozer… (Inscribed)

Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake

Kenozero National Park was the second tentative site we visited on our weekend stint via night train (for logistic details, have a look at my Lake Onega Petroglyphs review). As …

Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea by Martina Rúčková

Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega… (Inscribed)

Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea

After ticking off most WHSs in Russia, Ivan and I are trying to visit the most of the tentative sites that seem to be in for a subscription. And especially …

Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture by Martina Rúčková

Churches of the Pskov School … (Inscribed)

Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture

Ivan and I have visited Pskov and seen some of its churches many years ago, before it was inscribed - with Ivan's Dad. We made this town on the Estonian …

Landscapes of Dauria by Martina Rúčková

Landscapes of Dauria (Inscribed)

Landscapes of Dauria

Searching high and low for unvisited WHSs in Russia, we followed a visit to Sikhote-Alin to a visit to Dauria on the Russian side. From what we understood, the most …

Central Sikhote-Alin by Martina Rúčková

Central Sikhote-Alin (Inscribed)

Central Sikhote-Alin

Desperate times call for desperate measures. So when Ivan and I got stuck in Russia for a progressively longer and longer time, we started not only revisiting old Russian WHSs, …

The Memorial of Chatam Sófer by Martina Rúčková

The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (On tentative list)

The Memorial of Chatam Sófer

If there is a tentative site I would recommend Slovakia pushing for nomination, it would be the Chatam Sofer memorial, which for me combines several reasons of outstanding value: not …

Sambor Prei Kuk by Martina Rúčková

Sambor Prei Kuk (Inscribed)

Sambor Prei Kuk

We visited Sambor Prei Kuk on the second out of three days of our Siem Reap Stay. Starting early again it took us about two and half hours to reach …

Preah Vihear Temple by Martina Rúčková

Preah Vihear Temple (Inscribed)

Preah Vihear Temple

Fortunately, the visit to Preah Vihear nowadays is all a matter of arranging a driver and suffering through a bit of a rickety road from time to time. The worst …

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