Ten years after my first visit to Quedlinburg, I traveled to Sachsen-Anhalt again in August 2019. I wanted to see not only the town of Quedlinburg but also other interesting …
Matejicek
Member since November 2018
#367 146 47

I love exploring everything around me - thus, it is not surprising I am a scientist. The important aspect of doing good science is to travel...
All in all, I am traveling quite a lot, mostly around Europe. Since I like bustling cities and quiet historical towns as well as nature, the list of my visited sites is diverse.
My most impressive site: Prague, Assisi, Bauhaus, Primeval beech forests
My proposal for a new site: Ještěd transmitter, Lecce, Burren landscape, Sligo megalithic landscape, Carnac megalithic landscape, Tainan temples in Taiwan
Recent Visits
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20Aug. 2, 2024Moravian Church Settlements, Via Appia
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05Jan. 1, 2020La Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio, Nuragic monuments of Sardinia, Orvieto, Salento and …
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010Jan. 1, 2020Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills, Geyser in Herlany, Karst Valleys of Slovakia, Kosice, Natural and …
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About Matejicek
- First name
- Matejicek
- Member since
- November 2018
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #367
- WHS
- 146
- Tentative Sites
- 47
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 139
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 5.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Assisi 4.5
- Teide National Park 4.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Telc 4.0
- Dolomites 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Tallinn 4.0
- Granada 4.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 4.0
- Isole Eolie 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Giant's Causeway 3.5
- Modena 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- University of Coimbra 3.5
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
- Lake District 3.5
- Stoclet House 3.5
- Trebic 3.5
- Thessalonika 3.5
- Brugge 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Belfries 3.5
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Bardejov Town 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Via Appia 3.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
- Ferrara 3.5
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Banska Stiavnica 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Pienza 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Budapest 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Edinburgh 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Salzburg 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 3.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0
- Vlkolinec 2.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 2.5
- Syracuse 2.5
- Old City of Berne 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Orange 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 2.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Classical Weimar 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Holasovice 1.5
- Nice 1.5
- Lower German Limes 1.5
- Litomysl Castle 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Tokaji Wine Region 1.0
- Luther Memorials 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 1.0
Tentative Sites
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- The wider area of Mount Olympus
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Domus de Janas
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ješt
- Villas of the Papal Nobility
- Rade de Marseille
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Carnac
- Gemer and Abov churches
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
- La Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Via Francigena
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Leuven
- Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region
- Kosice
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Álvaro Siza’s Architecture
- The Spa at Luhacovice
- Orvieto
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava
- The Fortress of Terezín
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Saint-Honorat
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Enclos paroissiaux du Finistère
- European Paper Mills
- Alanya
- Amalienborg and its district
- Cetinje Historic Core
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj
- Geyser in Herlany
- La Camargue
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice
- Sites of Great Moravia
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains
- Tokaj Wine Region
- Sites of Great Moravia: Mikulcice - Kopcani
- Bouches de Bonifacio
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
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Reviews by Matejicek


Trebic (Inscribed)
Trebic
I grew up in Jihlava town, which is some 30 km Nord-West from Třebíč. Thus, I have been there many times. There is a rivalry between citizens of Jihlava and …

Avignon (Inscribed)
Avignon
Avignon is quite touristy site but there is a good reason for that. Provence region is simply beautiful and Palais des Papes together with Pont d`Avignon is must-see for every …

Maison Carrée of Nîmes (Inscribed)
Maison Carrée of Nîmes
Updates 2021: The state party of France wisely decided to shrink the nomination of Nimes to a single building: Maison Carrée. The new proposal will be under consideration in 2023. …

Arles (Inscribed)
Arles
After my second visit to Arles, I can say that I have visited all the inscribed structures and now I fully understand its OUV: (1) Amphitheatre – very impressive, and …

Ferrara (Inscribed)
Ferrara
Ferrara was a surprise for me. I expected just another WHS Italian town, but it can be described as a flat urban landscape stuffed with monuments such as Duomo, Castello …

Modena (Inscribed)
Modena
I spent a week in Modena in June 2019 and did short trips to other interesting places around (Parma, Mantova, Bologna, Ferrara, etc.). Despite warnings and quite low ratings by …

Mantua and Sabbioneta (Inscribed)
Mantua and Sabbioneta
I visited Mantua two times already, first, as a stop during the trip from the Garda Lake in direction to Tuscany and Umbria. My first impression from historical town located …

Historic Centre of Parma (Removed from tentat…)
Historic Centre of Parma
Prior to my visit to Parma, I heart already about the ensemble of Tower, Baptistery and Duomo with Romanesque façade and Baroque decoration of the dome by Corregio, and, of …

The Porticoes of Bologna (Inscribed)
The Porticoes of Bologna
Bologna is very interesting town, and it reminds me a blend of Milan and Florence. The Piazza Maggiore with all the historical buildings with S Petronio basilica and Fountain of …

Mining Cultural Landscape Erz… (Inscribed)
Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
From the TWHS “Ore Mountains mining landscape” that has a great chance to be inscribed on the list this year, I visited historical center of Freiberg on the German side, …

The Karlstejn Castle (On tentative list)
The Karlstejn Castle
Karlštejn castle is one of the top tourist destinations in Czechia, frequently visited also by locals due to the popularity of emperor Charles IV, the founder of Karlštejn. Thus, the …

Fishpond Network in the Trebo… (On tentative list)
Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
Třeboňsko fishpond landscape is one of very few cultural landscapes in Central Europe that would deserve the WHS status. Třeboňsko region, now protected natural area and the UNESCO Biospheric reservation, …

Kladruby nad Labem (Inscribed)
Kladruby nad Labem
Though I like nature, horses or animal farms have never been a target of my interest. The reason I visited Kladruby nad Labem this weekend was the nomination of “the …

Wooden Churches of the Slovak… (Inscribed)
Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
The uniqueness of this ensemble of wooden churches - There are at least 4 other similar WHS! - can be found in the broad variety of styles given by co-existence …

Žatec – Landscape of Hops (Inscribed)
Žatec – Landscape of Hops
Historical core of Žatec belongs to one of the well-preserved medieval town structures with history over 1000 years. It was only partly modified in modern times. It does not disappoint …

Plečnik's Ljubljana (Inscribed)
Plečnik's Ljubljana
The work of Jože Plečnik emanates a special spirit for me, though I am not able to exactly explain what it is and why it is so. I know his …

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst (Inscribed)
Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
Slovak and Aggtelek Karst belongs to landscapes that I had opportunity to explore several times, from both undergound and surface aspects. I visited not only 3 caves opened to public …

Sites of Globalization (Removed from tentat…)
Sites of Globalization
I visited Funchal couple of years ago. It is lively town located on slowly ascending southern coast of Madeira that is otherwise very rare in this rocky island. The town …

Via Francigena (Nominated)
Via Francigena
This nomination should make me happy, because it includes several sites that I like and visit at every opportunity if I am in Italy such as Siena and Viterbo. However, …