Visited the site and was not impressed...
I really wonder why this site is on the tentative list of Unesco World Heritage... Must say that the site is important to …
Michiel Dekker
Member since March 2010 \ Inactive
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When I was young my parents used to drag me along to all these boring towns in France and Belgium. Somehow this exposure to culture did manage to rub off on me and now I'm doing the same to my daughter.
I managed to do two around the world trips during which I visited many heritage sites. It started out as an innocent way to visit the places that are considered important by the country itself, but it has evolved into an obsessive hobby! ;)
It seems that the quest to visit all world heritage sites will be near impossible, but nevertheless my wife, my daughter and me battle on bravely.
Recent Visits
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01Jan. 1, 2020Sacred Titicaca Lake
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06Jan. 1, 2020La Camargue, Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées, Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise, Les villes …
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010Jan. 1, 2020Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications, Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, Jaén Cathedral , Mediterranean Wind Mills, Mining …
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- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries
- Jaén Cathedral
- Mediterranean Wind Mills
- Mining Historical Heritage
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Sp
- The Silver Route
- The Wine in Iberia
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida
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- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Leuven
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
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3290March 23, 2010
- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Acropolis
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agrigento
- Al Ain
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Altamira Cave
- Al Zubarah
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Thebes
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arequipa
- Arles
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
- Avignon
- Bahla Fort
- Bamberg
- Bardejov Town
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Biblical Tells
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Bourges Cathedral
- Boyana Church
- Brugge
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Burgos Cathedral
- Burgundy
- Caceres
- Calakmul
- Camagüey
- Campeche
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Causses and Cévennes
- Centennial Hall
- Chaîne des Puys
- Champagne
- Chan Chan
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chavin
- Chichen-Itza
- Churches of Peace
- Cienfuegos
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Cologne Cathedral
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cuenca
- Cuzco
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Desembarco del Granma National Park
- Dolomites
- Donana National Park
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Edinburgh
- Eisinga Planetarium
- El Fuerte de Samaipata
- Elvas
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- First Coffee Plantations
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Galapagos Islands
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Giant's Causeway
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Gwynedd Castles
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Historic Cairo
- Holy Trinity Column
- Huascaran National Park
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Isole Eolie
- Istanbul
- Jelling
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- Karlskrona
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kinderdijk
- Kraków
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Las Medulas
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Le Havre
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Liverpool
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- Lyon
- Machu Picchu
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medina Azahara
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Mérida
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Modernist Kaunas
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monte San Giorgio
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Mostar
- Mount Athos
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Mystras
- Nancy
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Nikko
- Ningaloo Coast
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Havana
- Olympia
- Orange
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmeral of Elche
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pirin National Park
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plitvice Lakes
- Poblet Monastery
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potosi
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Purnululu National Park
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Quedlinburg
- Quito
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rapa Nui
- Reims
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Rila Monastery
- Robben Island
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint Catherine Area
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- San Gimignano
- San Pedro de la Roca Castle
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Semmering Railway
- Seville
- Shark Bay
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sintra
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Stari Grad Plain
- Stećci
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- St. Petersburg
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studley Royal Park
- Sucre
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Tarraco
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Teotihuacan
- The Four Lifts
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Tiwanaku
- Toledo
- Tongariro National Park
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trier
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Uluru
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Viñales Valley
- Visby
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Vlkolinec
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Westminster
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zagori Cultural Landscape
- Zollverein
Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.71
- Petra 4.61
- Yellowstone 4.48
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Tikal National Park 4.46
- Ancient Kyoto 4.45
- Great Wall 4.44
- Bagan 4.44
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.42
- Serengeti 4.41
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About Michiel Dekker
- First name
- Michiel
- Member since
- March 2010
- Country of Origin
- None
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- Tentative Sites
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World Heritage Sites
- Shark Bay 5.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.0
- El Fuerte de Samaipata 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Monte San Giorgio 4.0
- Bellinzone 4.0
- Desembarco del Granma National Park 3.0
- Stećci 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 2.0
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Reviews by Michiel Dekker
Ephesus (Inscribed)
Ephesus
Beautiful site with a lot of history. Also the site of one of the seven wonders of the world; the Temple of Artemis (eventhough not much remains of this site).
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