Last review of the Great Wall on this site is from 2016 so I guess it's good to update how things look like at the wall in the 2020s. I …
Tony H.
Finland \ Member since March 2010
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I got interested of World Heritage Sites when I first learned about them as a teenager back in the early 2000's. For me it was funny that in my home country of Finland there was an old factory that was protected by the UNESCO and it made me more curious of what World Heritage Sites were about.
Nowadays I try to visit as many sites as I can during my travels but I don't plan my trips just around WHS collecting. But the WHS collecting has brought me to places I would have never visited otherwise, and even if those random sites aren't the most spectacular, the journey and experience to visit e.g. a tiny wooden Slovak church in a remote small village feels even more special.
My travels have so far concentrated on Europe and Asia, but hopefully in the future there will be more visits to the Americas and Africa.
My most impressive site: Great Pyramids of Giza, Old City of Jerusalem, Taj Mahal
Recent Visits
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02July 5, 2025Day in Lisbon: Aguas Livres Aqueduct, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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30July 3, 2025Convent of Christ in Tomar, Monastery of Batalha, University of Coimbra
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02June 21, 2025Iles volcaniques de Sao Tomé et Principe, Les roças de Monte Café, Agua-lzé e Sundy
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About Tony H.
- Member since
- March 2010
- Country of Origin
- Finland
Visits
- Rank
- #272
- WHS
- 201
- Tentative Sites
- 58
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 43
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Vatican City 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Ephesus 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Mountain Railways of India 5.0
- Persepolis 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Nemrut Dag 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Great Wall 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Haghpat and Sanahin 4.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.5
- L'viv 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Ancient Nara 4.5
- Upper Svaneti 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Imperial Palace 4.5
- Riga 4.5
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Beijing Central Axis 4.0
- Central Highlands 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Yazd 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Vilnius 4.0
- Curonian Spit 4.0
- Tallinn 4.0
- Qutb Minar 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4.0
- Gelati Monastery 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- Churches of Moldavia 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4.0
- Nancy 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.0
- Trang An 4.0
- Hegra 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Acropolis 3.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.5
- Cordoba 3.5
- Boyana Church 3.5
- Warsaw 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Banska Stiavnica 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Agra Fort 3.5
- Persian Garden 3.5
- Vlkolinec 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Old City of Acre 3.5
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Hué 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Mostar 3.5
- Borobudur 3.5
- University of Coimbra 3.5
- Selimiye Mosque 3.0
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Golestan Palace 3.0
- Çatalhöyük 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 3.0
- Old Rauma 3.0
- Göbekli Tepe 3.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.0
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Butrint 3.0
- Monastery of Geghard 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Białowieża Forest 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Québec 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Ohrid Region 3.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Brú na Bóinne 3.0
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 3.0
- Bardejov Town 3.0
- Troy 3.0
- Safranbolu 3.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Hoi An 3.0
- My Son 3.0
- Hattusha 3.0
- Anuradhapura 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.0
- Nikko 3.0
- Kernavė 3.0
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Red Fort 3.0
- Masjed-e Jâme' 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Bethlehem 3.0
- Møns Klint 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Kinderdijk 2.5
- Genbaku Dome 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 2.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Mtskheta 2.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Pasargadae 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Historic Jeddah 2.5
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.5
- Nice 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Erbil Citadel 2.0
- Kandy 2.0
- Grand Canal 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 2.0
- Nesvizh 2.0
- Belem 2.0
- Yogyakarta 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2.0
- Bali Subak system 2.0
- Thang Long 2.0
- Turaif Quarter 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Thessalonika 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- Bryggen 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Mir Castle 2.0
- Stoclet House 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Schokland 1.5
- Holasovice 1.5
- The Persian Qanat 1.5
- Lower German Limes 1.5
- Persian Caravanserai 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Lalish Temple
- Orheiul Vechi
- Ancient Kamakura
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road: Land Routes
- The Underground Water Structures in Gaziantep
- The Underground Wineries of Moldova
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- St. Paul Church
- The Ancient Plovdiv
- Les roças de Monte Café, Agua-lzé e Sundy
- Sarajevo
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer
- Aalto Works
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Haci Bayram District
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Amalienborg and its district
- Mattanchery Palace
- Historic Town of Beypazarı
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Kosice
- Yıldız Palace Complex
- Srirangapatna
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- The Historical Village of Abyaneh
- Lake Tuz
- Old Town of Jakarta
- Tbilisi Historic District
- The historic urban site of Pocitelj
- Hejaz Railway
- The Bodrum Castle
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Casablanca
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Reviews by Tony H.


Dutch Water Defence Lines (Inscribed)
Dutch Water Defence Lines
Visited in April 2024. When I was preparing for my trip to the Netherlands I realised that I've visited this site already on all my previous trips to the country. …

Historic Jeddah (Inscribed)
Historic Jeddah
Visited in February 2024. Walking around the historical Jeddah during noon on a weekday, you'll get the place all for yourself. Not much local life here during the daytime, which …

Hegra (Inscribed)
Hegra
Visited in February 2024. Visiting Hegra and the nearby town of Al Ula is a reminder that Saudi Arabia is not yet ready for the mass tourism that it's hoping …

Turaif Quarter (Inscribed)
Turaif Quarter
Visited in February 2024. Things are changing fast in Saudi Arabia and At-Turaif Quarter is not an exception to that. I visited At-Turaif (also known as Diriyah) on a weekday …

Haci Bayram District (On tentative list)
Haci Bayram District
Turkey still has some World Heritage status worthy entries on its T-list. But what is probably bothering Turkish politicians, is the fact that Turkey's capital is plain boring when it …

Upper Svaneti (Inscribed)
Upper Svaneti
I'm little surprised that Upper Svaneti is one of the least visited sites in Europe on this website. I'm surprised because it is not anymore these days hard place to …

Istanbul (Inscribed)
Istanbul
I feel myself lucky as I've been able to call Istanbul my home for one year. It has given me the possibility to explore the city slowly and especially it's …

Bursa and Cumalikizik (Inscribed)
Bursa and Cumalikizik
2 months after it's inscription to World Heritage List Bursa hasn't experienced yet big tourists masses. Actually I didn't meet any other western tourists than myself but many Arab tourists …

Central Highlands (Inscribed)
Central Highlands
I was part of a field course which we conducted in Sri Lanka. During our course we visited in Meemure village which is located in Knuckles Range inside the World …

Bethlehem (Inscribed)
Bethlehem
I visited in Bethlehem in January 2011 and of course the main site there is the Church of the Nativity. When I entered the church (through very small door) there …

Amalienborg and its district (On tentative list)
Amalienborg and its district
Unfortunately I don't see any reasons why this should be a World Heritage site. Amalienborg is a beautiful palace and the district around it is full of nice buildings but …

Old Rauma (Inscribed)
Old Rauma
My last visit to Rauma was when I was child and only memory from there was shop selling moustache wax so it was time to go back and visit the …

Struve Geodetic Arc (Inscribed)
Struve Geodetic Arc
If you want to choose one point to visit Struve Geodetic Arc the best place is probably the Tartu old observatory. The observatory is located on a hill next to …

Bahá’i Holy Places (Inscribed)
Bahá’i Holy Places
I had bad luck with my visit to Baha'i gardens and the Shrine of the Bab in Haifa. Gardens are closed if it's rainy day (because the stairs are really …
The Rock paintings of Astuvan… (Removed from tentat…)
The Rock paintings of Astuvansalmi at Ristiina
It's hard to miss this place when you're driving around eastern Finland. There are roadsigns to this site from all the main roads and it's good thing because these rock …

Fortress of Suomenlinna (Inscribed)
Fortress of Suomenlinna
You have to visit Suomenlinna "the Gibraltar of the North" when you're in Helsinki. But if you're visiting Helsinki in winter then you can leave it out because everything is …

Seville (Inscribed)
Seville
One of the best things are that these 3 sites are next to each others so you can visit them in one day if you want. I visited only in …

Granada (Inscribed)
Granada
I think that everything is said about this site. You should definitely book tickets to Alhambra in advance. When I visited this site in June it was +36 Celsius and …

Cordoba (Inscribed)
Cordoba
I visited the Mezquita and the architecture of the former mosque was amazing. It is also good place to hide hot weather. It was +41 celsius outside but inside the …