I couldn't help but compare the style and layout here to sites like Angkor. Interestingly, there are some links between the sites, in terms of architecture an diplomacy.

However, while …

Weimar is a pretty town (and also has an element of a second WHS - Bauhaus - which makes it doubly as interesting).

There are quite a few places within …

Although you can get up to the castle and see the outside of it for free, it’s only possible to go inside with regular guided tours. Inside the castle, the …

The main part of the building is free for visitors but it’s worth paying the admission fee to see the Imperial Hall above the main entrance with its large artwork …

Muskauer Park straddles the border of Germany and Poland with large parts of the garden in both countries. It’s a testament to cross-country cooperation that there is a smooth synergy …

What a wonderful site to just wander around and explore. It's enormous and feels almost like its been abandoned, the way much of it has just been left the way …

I absolutely loved this site - but I'm always a fan of the industrial heritage. It's been preserved really well (although I did prefer Volklingen for its aesthetics, I have …

The best way to really see this WHS is to travel along the river (although I did see a few people cycling the roads along the bank - also a …

More than two million people a year visit Potsdam but, luckily, there’s enough to see that it doesn’t feel too crowded. The whole area is about 500 hectares large and …

It is easy to explore Bamberg by foot and, if you start at the train station and head towards the cathedral, you will pass through each of the different sections. …

An awesome site - really interesting and quite unique. I don't know how famous it is, but I'm surprised there aren't more visitors.

While it may be a ‘museum’ these …

This is a slightly odd WHS - a bunch of apartment buildings, you ask? But they are actually surprisingly interesting. I quite enjoy sites that are still living parts of …

I was a bit surprised that Lubeck wasn't included as a single site with Wismar and Stralsund - there are a lot of similarities and such a common history. But, …

The site was add to the World Heritage List in 2014 while I was in Germany, doing a trip to see all of the WHS's, so it was good timing …

You could easily spend days looking through the museums here on the island in Berlin - and I wish that I could have. Instead, I only had one day to …

This is one of those WHS's where the reason for inscription is actually more about something that is hard to physicalise... so they just create a reason to use some …

I didn't really have any expectations for Quedlinburg and so was extremely impressed when I finally saw the place. The old town has been preserved so well and the whole …

What is so incredible about this site is to think that it was all basically destroyed in the Second World War and then painstakingly restored to exactly how it was …

This is a stunning site - not just for the scale but for all the detail inside.

One of the first things that hits you about Cologne Cathedral is its …

Considering how far they are from Rome, these ancient Roman ruins are really impressive and it must have been quite a grand outpost they had here in Morocco. As the …