Since no one has reviewed Valença yet, I thought I might. I cycled around the area on the last day of August 2021. Valença is a fortified city on the …
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- Albania: Butrint Ohrid Region Berat and Gjirokastra
- Argentina: Iguazu National Park
- Armenia: Haghpat and Sanahin Monastery of Geghard Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Australia: Great Barrier Reef Uluru Wet Tropics of Queensland Royal Exhibition Building Sydney Opera House
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- Bulgaria: Madara Rider Nessebar Rila Monastery Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo Srebarna Nature Reserve Thracian tomb of Kazanlak Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
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- Finland: Fortress of Suomenlinna Old Rauma Sammallahdenmäki Struve Geodetic Arc
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- Georgia: Mtskheta
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- Latvia: Riga Struve Geodetic Arc Kuldiga
- Lithuania: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Madagascar: Andrefana Dry Forests Ambohimanga Rainforests of the Atsinanana La Haute Ville d’Antananarivo Ancien site industriel de Mantasoa Eglise catholique d'Ambodifotatra de Sainte Marie
- Malta: Hal Saflieni Hypogeum Valletta
- Moldova: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Monaco: Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Montenegro: Kotor Venetian Works of Defence
- Morocco: Medina of Fez Medina of Marrakesh Meknes Volubilis Medina of Essaouira Rabat
- North Macedonia: Ohrid Region
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- Granada 5.0
- Istanbul 4.5
- Ohrid Region 4.5
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 4.0
- Ambohimanga 4.0
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana 4.0
- Island of Patmos 4.0
- Andrefana Dry Forests 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Rabat 4.0
- Churches of Moldavia 4.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.0
- Haghpat and Sanahin 4.0
- Monastery of Geghard 4.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 4.0
- Medina of Fez 3.5
- Salvador de Bahia 3.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5
- Rila Monastery 3.5
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3.5
- Mtskheta 3.5
- Thessalonika 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.5
- Nessebar 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Kuldiga 3.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Medina of Essaouira 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Meknes 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 2.5
- Madara Rider 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 2.5
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 2.0
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 2.0
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2.0
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