I mainly want to give an update about the renovations taking place at the cathedral of Tournai. As of December 2023, the scaffoldings on the outside are mostly removed, so …
Ralf Regele
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My most impressive site: Angkor
My proposal for a new site: Empire State & Chrysler Building
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20June 2, 2025Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt, Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
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40May 3, 2025Mining Sites of Wallonia, Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes, Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, The …
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10Nov. 2, 2024Malbork Castle
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World Heritage Sites
- Great Wall 5.0
- Chavin 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Seville 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Masada 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Imperial Palace 5.0
- Istanbul 4.5
- Cuzco 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Ayutthaya 4.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Qutb Minar 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 4.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.5
- Aachen Cathedral 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
- Angkor 4.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Chan Chan 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Chaco Culture 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Kathmandu Valley 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Uxmal 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Stonehenge 4.0
- Te Wahipounamu 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 4.0
- Namhansanseong 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Bryggen 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Caral-Supe 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Lübeck 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Urnes Stave Church 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4.0
- Redwood 4.0
- Yellowstone 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Nubian Monuments 3.5
- Monastery of Horezu 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Jelling 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Stevns Klint 3.5
- Budapest 3.5
- Jantar Mantar 3.5
- Red Fort 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Horyu-ji Area 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.5
- Iguacu 3.5
- Chichen-Itza 3.5
- Palenque 3.5
- Calakmul 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5
- Granada 3.5
- Cape Floral Region 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- New Lanark 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Grand Canyon 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.5
- Meknes 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3.5
- Imperial Tombs 3.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3.5
- Iguazu National Park 3.5
- Summer Palace 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Wadi Rum 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- Carlsbad Caverns 3.5
- South China Karst 3.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.5
- San Antonio Missions 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Rock Art of Alta 3.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Agrigento 3.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.0
- Brugge 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.0
- Causses and Cévennes 3.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Northern Martinique 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 3.0
- Muskauer Park 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park 3.0
- Dong Phayayen 3.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Tongariro National Park 3.0
- Pantanal 3.0
- Rio de Janeiro 3.0
- Saltaire 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Assisi 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Taos Pueblo 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Beemster Polder 3.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 3.0
- Yosemite National Park 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.0
- Ahmadabad 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Fagus Factory 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Puebla 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Donana National Park 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Al Ain 2.5
- Chitwan National Park 2.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Aquileia 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
- Monte San Giorgio 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Dacian Fortresses 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Sighisoara 2.5
- Arles 2.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.5
- Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites 2.5
- Robben Island 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 2.5
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.0
- Zollverein 2.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Brasilia 2.0
- Wadden Sea 2.0
- Schokland 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Ouro Preto 2.0
- Major Town Houses 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 1.5
- Modernist Kaunas 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Dacian Limes 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1.5
- Lower German Limes 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Par force hunting landscape 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- The Prosecco Hills 1.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 1.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Ancient Kamakura
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Jerash Archaeological City
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna
- Lake Titicaca
- The Turf House Tradition
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan
- Orchha
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious autho
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo
- Orvieto
- The Lofoten islands
- Cambodian Memorial Sites
- Brooklyn Bridge
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Siwa archaeological area
- Abydos
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Carnac
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie
- Big Bend National Park
- City of York
- Olympic Park Munich
- The historic town of Korcula
- Archaeological Site of Nikopolis
- Sites of Saytagrah, India's non-violent freedom mo
- Leuven
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Tamzhing Monastery
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Khor Dubai
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- White Sands National Monument
- Central Park
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National
- Ellis Island
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island
- Pretzien Weir
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Coastal Cliffs
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Great Desert Landscapes
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Qasr Al-Mushatta
- Shaubak Castle
- Ngwenya Mines
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Al Qastal
- Egyptian Museum
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Site of the Schöningen Spears
- Torgau Castle Chapel
- Amalienborg and its district
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt
- City of Trujillo
- Caesarea
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la Fra
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- Gdynia
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Yangtze Gorges Scenic Spot
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- Mývatn and Laxá
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Reviews by Ralf Regele

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tourn… (Inscribed)
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai

Big Bend National Park (On tentative list)
Big Bend National Park
I was initially skeptical if the Big Bend National Park is a good travel choice, let alone a good choice for a world heritage site. It is never mentioned as …

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Inscribed)
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
I mainly want to give an update about the accessability of the WHS area. In Flims, the old cable cars are replaced by a new system called "Flims Express", which …

Les « coules » de Petite Vala… (On tentative list)
Les « coules » de Petite Valachie
Some reviewers have already noted that the 'coules de petite valachie' TWHS is quite close to the already inscribed Horezu monastry WHS. So is this just a minor sidestep on …

Ensemble de grottes à concrét… (On tentative list)
Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la Fra
On the way towards the Mont Perdu WHS from the french side, I made a visit to the "Gouffre D'Esparros" cave, which is part of the obscure TWHS "Ensemble de …

Mothia and Lilibeo Island (On tentative list)
Mothia and Lilibeo Island
I visited Lilibeo, which is an archeological area in Marsala at the westmost edge of sicily. It is easier to reach than Mothia, as there is no ferry needed. Despite …

Dzongs: the centre of tempora… (On tentative list)
Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious autho
Now these sites are really screaming to be a WHS. The dzongs of Bhutan are iconic buildings, they are of critical importance for the history of Bhutan, they are a …

Tamzhing Monastery (On tentative list)
Tamzhing Monastery
Tamzhing monastery is a rather small temple in the Bumthang region of central Bhutan - a region that contains a lot of other temples, monasteries and holy places. Its claim …

Orchha (Nominated)
Orchha
When making travel plans, Orchha might seem to be one of the lesser sightseeing spots of northern India - more temples and another palace of a dubious princely state. However, …

Victoria Lines Fortifications (On tentative list)
Victoria Lines Fortifications
To make it clear from the start: I think the Victoria Lines are a bad idea for a WHS. For my visit, I drove up to the Targa Batteries (which …

Maltese Catacomb Complexes (On tentative list)
Maltese Catacomb Complexes
The catacombs in Malta have everything a true catacomb should have: A proud roman/christian origin,an underground labyrinth and a slightly creepy athmosphere. I have visited the St Pauls and the …

Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (On tentative list)
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
The Cittadella is a tiny walled city in the center of Victoria, the main city on the island of Gozo. However, most houses inside the walls have been abandoned and …

Coastal Cliffs (On tentative list)
Coastal Cliffs
This nomination needs more focus. From the description, it is not clear which cliffs and coasts are included and which are not (and why). The super generic name doesn't help …

Qawra/Dwejra (On tentative list)
Qawra/Dwejra
Dwejra lies on the western coast of Malta's sister island Gozo. The rock cliffs are especially rugged and picturesque here, with various spectacular natural attractions, like the "Inland-sea" lagoon, the …

Knights Fortifications around… (On tentative list)
Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt
This is a confusing nomination. It concentrates on the fortifications around the grand harbour of Valletta, yet the old city of Valletta is already a WHS on its own, and …

Al Qastal (On tentative list)
Al Qastal
Now this site is currently hard to find. There are absolutely no street signs, Google Maps does not know it, my car GPS does not know it. I ended up …

The Turf House Tradition (On tentative list)
The Turf House Tradition
Turf houses were actually the primary (and almost solely) form of housing in iceland from the viking ages till the 19th century. Trees and timber were in very short supply …

Vatnajökull National Park (Inscribed)
Vatnajökull National Park
The Vatnajökull National Park area is a bit unusual, as it includes the Jökulsargljufur National Park, which has no borders to the rest of the park, creating a second location …

Mývatn and Laxá (On tentative list)
Mývatn and Laxá
The Myvatn lake in northern iceland is aptly named "midge lake", as it is home to clouds of annoying flies, at least in summer. The flies can be a real …

The Aniene valley and Villa G… (On tentative list)
The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
The "Villa" Gregoriana is actually not a villa, not even a building. Despite the naming and marketing, it is mainly the name for a hiking trail going through the valley …