The Site of Xanadu is a remarkable testament to the Mongol Empire’s grandeur, where nomadic traditions met Chinese urban planning. I was struck by the vastness of the site, with …
Xiquinho Silva
Member since April 2014
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Sun worshiper. World traveler. Dog walker. Prolific shutterbug.
My most impressive site: Rome, Angkor
My proposal for a new site: Grand Palace, Bangkok
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About Xiquinho Silva
- First name
- Xiquinho
- Member since
- April 2014
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- #58
- WHS
- 491
- Tentative Sites
- 55
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World Heritage Sites
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Rio de Janeiro 5.0
- Ancient Nara 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Chartres Cathedral 5.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.5
- Huanglong 4.5
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 4.5
- Hubei Shennongjia 4.5
- Xinjiang Tianshan 4.5
- Fontainebleau 4.5
- Matera 4.5
- Walled City of Baku 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 4.5
- Nikko 4.5
- Masada 4.5
- Brasilia 4.5
- Yin Xu 4.5
- Yosemite National Park 4.5
- Summer Palace 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 4.5
- Villa d'Este 4.5
- Macao 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 4.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 4.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 4.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 4.5
- Würzburg Residence 4.5
- Fray Bentos 4.5
- Iguazu National Park 4.5
- Los Glaciares 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Great Wall 4.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Mogao Caves 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Sydney Opera House 4.5
- Pienza 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- ShUM Sites 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Mount Wuyi 4.0
- Mountain Resort, Chengde 4.0
- Wulingyuan 4.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 4.0
- Nalanda 4.0
- Church of Atlántida 4.0
- Fanjingshan 4.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 4.0
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex 4.0
- Mount Sanqingshan 4.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 4.0
- Tusi Sites 4.0
- Lushan National Park 4.0
- Cartagena 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Agrigento 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Istanbul 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- El Tajin 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- L'viv 4.0
- Fujisan 4.0
- Kii Mountain Range 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Haeinsa Temple 4.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 4.0
- Shiretoko 4.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 4.0
- Goias 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Pampulha 4.0
- Hospicio Cabañas 4.0
- Kulangsu 4.0
- Potala Palace 4.0
- Yungang Grottoes 4.0
- Tiwanaku 4.0
- Ouro Preto 4.0
- Biblical Tells 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 4.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 4.0
- Gyeongju 4.0
- Old City of Acre 4.0
- Beijing Central Axis 4.0
- Castel del Monte 4.0
- My Son 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Fagus Factory 4.0
- Monticello 4.0
- Reichenau 4.0
- Val d'Orcia 4.0
- Le Havre 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 4.0
- Bellinzone 4.0
- Luang Prabang 4.0
- Mafra 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 4.0
- Uxmal 4.0
- Quedlinburg 4.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Urbino 4.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 4.0
- Margravial Opera House 4.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 4.0
- Wartburg Castle 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Champagne 4.0
- Aranjuez 4.0
- Bali Subak system 4.0
- Genbaku Dome 4.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 4.0
- Val di Noto 4.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 4.0
- Avila 4.0
- Classical Weimar 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 4.0
- Modena 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Guimarães 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Hoi An 4.0
- Imperial Tombs 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Zollverein 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Blenheim Palace 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Evora 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Reims 4.0
- Thessalonika 4.0
- University of Coimbra 4.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Syracuse 4.0
- Bordeaux 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Genoa 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Everglades 4.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 4.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Speyer Cathedral 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- El Escurial 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Arles 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Regensburg 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Old City of Berne 4.0
- Trier 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Independence Hall 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Imperial Palace 4.0
- Kew Gardens 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Warsaw 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- City of Luxembourg 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 4.0
- Stonehenge 4.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 4.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.5
- Hué 3.5
- El Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.5
- Canterbury 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3.5
- Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art 3.5
- Orange 3.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 3.5
- Okinoshima Island 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Atlantic Forest South-East 3.5
- Cerrado Protected Areas 3.5
- Diamantina 3.5
- Gaya Tumuli 3.5
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 3.5
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site 3.5
- Hiraizumi 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.5
- Pantanal 3.5
- Congonhas 3.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.5
- Fujian Tulou 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 3.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 3.5
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3.5
- Zacatecas 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 3.5
- Morelia 3.5
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 3.5
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3.5
- Sucre 3.5
- Xidi and Hongcun 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Vall de Boi 3.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Tequila 3.5
- Potosi 3.5
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 3.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 3.5
- Thang Long 3.5
- Dong Phayayen 3.5
- Dengfeng 3.5
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 3.5
- Ping Yao 3.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Boyana Church 3.5
- Mount Taishan 3.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 3.5
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3.5
- Seville 3.5
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Cordoba 3.5
- San Miguel de Allende 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Old Town of Lijiang 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.5
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
- Namhansanseong 3.5
- China Danxia 3.5
- Rila Monastery 3.5
- Jeju 3.5
- Camino Real 3.5
- Baroque Churches 3.5
- Canal du Midi 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.5
- Carthage 3.5
- Elvas 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Lyon 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Meknes 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Ohrid Region 3.5
- Mérida 3.5
- Saint-Emilion 3.5
- San Antonio Missions 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- The Four Lifts 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Caceres 3.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
- Rideau Canal 3.5
- Via Appia 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- West Lake 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Bauhaus Sites 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Jantar Mantar 3.5
- Nice 3.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Tarraco 3.5
- Kremlin and Red Square 3.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 3.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5
- Grand Canal 3.5
- Koguryo Kingdom 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Abbey of St Gall 3.5
- Melaka and George Town 3.5
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3.5
- Western Tien-Shan 3.5
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 3.5
- Pearling 3.5
- Shakhrisyabz 3.5
- Sulaiman-Too 3.5
- Turaif Quarter 3.5
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.5
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3.5
- Ferrara 3.5
- Altamira Cave 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Red Fort 3.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.5
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- Chengjiang Fossil Site 3.5
- Wudang Mountains 3.5
- Site of Xanadu 3.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Borobudur 3.5
- ESMA Site Museum 3.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Gobustan Rock Art 3.0
- Peking Man Site 3.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 3.0
- Ivrea 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Crespi d'Adda 3.0
- Atapuerca 3.0
- Kandy 3.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Quanzhou 3.0
- Hopewell 3.0
- Rabat 3.0
- Baekje Historic Areas 3.0
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Kathmandu Valley 3.0
- Mammoth Cave 3.0
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Masjed-e Jâme' 3.0
- Quito 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- Mazagan 3.0
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 3.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Medina of Fez 3.0
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx 3.0
- Champaner-Pavagadh 3.0
- Agra Fort 3.0
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 3.0
- Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China 3.0
- Yogyakarta 3.0
- Trang An 3.0
- Hani Rice Terraces 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Golestan Palace 3.0
- Huangshan 3.0
- Kinabalu Park 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Campeche 3.0
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 3.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 3.0
- Monte San Giorgio 3.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 3.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.0
- Discovery Coast 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 3.0
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Valongo Wharf 2.5
- Danube Limes 2.5
- Al-Ahsa Oasis 2.5
- Ahmadabad 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Tanbaly 2.5
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 2.5
- Qinghai Hoh Xil 2.5
- Sarazm 2.5
- Qutb Minar 2.5
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 2.5
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.5
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Taos Pueblo 2.0
- Bethlehem 1.5
- Messel Pit 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Hamad Town Tumuli Moundfield
- Álvaro Siza’s Architecture
- Real Felipe Fortress of Callao
- Cambodian Memorial Sites
- Sanxingdui
- Condominio theatres of Central Italy
- Creation of the Co-Principality of Andorra
- Bussaco cultural landscape
- Ellis Island
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Casablanca
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Jerusalem
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Sarajevo
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Baroque Churches of the Philippines (Extension)
- White Sands National Monument
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Caesarea
- San Francisco Church and Convent
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road
- Sites for Liquor Making in China
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Central Park
- Peruvian Central Railway
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Old Town of Jakarta
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Manama
- Creation of the Co-Principality of Andorra
- Egyptian Museum
- The Padang Civic Ensemble
- Puebla (extension)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National P
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- University City of Bogotá
- Naganeupseong
- Xixia Imperial Tombs
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Vila Viçosa
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural
- Hiraizumi (extension)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de M
- The Four Sacred Mountains
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Sea of Galilee
- La Moneda Palace
- Alexandria
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road
- FRIM
- Surakhany, Atashgyakh
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento
- Fenghuang Ancient City
- Baku Stage Mountain
- The Caspian Shore Defensive Constructions
- Lok-Batan Mud Cone
- The Oil Industrial Heritage in Saudi Arabia
- 470 84
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Reviews by Xiquinho Silva


Chengjiang Fossil Site (Inscribed)
Chengjiang Fossil Site
The Chengjiang Fossil Site, in Yunnan Province, is a must-visit for paleontology enthusiasts and those fascinated by the Cambrian Explosion, a pivotal moment in Earth’s history 520 million years ago.
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