This is hardly a representative review, but given that there is no other so far for this tentative serial property, I surmise that something is better than nothing. While vacationing …
Ilya Burlak
United States of America \ Member since January 2017
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I only started prioritizing visiting World Heritage sites a few years ago, and with my limited US-based corporate-warrior time-off allocation and family obligations, I can only add a handful to a dozen in any given year. I look forward to visiting them all after I retire...
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Recent Visits
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01July 11, 2025Greece: Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea
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25Dec. 4, 2024Hungary: Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System, Hollókö, Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom ...
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51May 14, 2024Peru: Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima ...
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About Ilya Burlak
- Member since
- January 2017
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #312
- WHS
- 179
- Tentative Sites
- 36
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 123
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 5.0
- Cordoba 5.0
- Segovia 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Ravenna 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Siena 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Loire Valley 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Versailles 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Bryggen 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Assisi 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Seville 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- San Gimignano 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- L'viv 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Chartres Cathedral 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Alto Douro 4.0
- Urbino 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Machu Picchu 4.0
- Drottningholm 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 4.0
- Albi 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Tarraco 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- Ferrara 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Vézère Valley 3.0
- Masada 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Hollókö 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Odesa 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Schokland 2.5
- Beemster Polder 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Wadden Sea 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Bethlehem 2.5
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 2.5
- Neolithic Orkney 2.5
- Belize Barrier Reef 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 1.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Ellis Island
- Central Park
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Iznik
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Orvieto
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Jerusalem
- Volterra
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Network of fortresses of Carcassonne
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex
- Caesarea
- Makhteshim Country
- Ein Karem
- Degania & Nahalal
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Amalienborg and its district
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Stolac
- The archeological site of Tanais
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Reviews by Ilya Burlak

Ancient Towers of the Aegean … (On tentative list)
Cheimarros Tower

Versailles (Inscribed)
Versailles
In my humble opinion, Versailles is a must-see in one's lifetime, even though it has its drawbacks. First of all, the palace is frequently unbearably overcrowded. And, being the early …

Paris, Banks of the Seine (Inscribed)
Paris, Banks of the Seine
I love Paris. It is one of the first places that comes to my mind in the context of "there is no other place I'd rather be". We've been to …

Westminster (Inscribed)
Westminster
I've been to the Westminster Abbey for the first time as far back as 2000, and then at least a couple of times while living in London in the later …

Tower of London (Inscribed)
Tower of London
The Tower is awfully expensive and terribly overcrowded. There is hardly a better indicator of the worth of a tourist attraction visit than the economics of exorbitant entrance fees not …

Hollókö (Inscribed)
Hollókö
Visited in November of 2024. Something that is 300 years old and deliberately well-preserved always piques my interest, even if it has a reconstructed-for-museum-purposes feel. In any case, Hollókő is …

Royal Seats in Esztergom, Vis… (On tentative list)
Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
I visited Esztergom and its castle in November of 2024 on a day trip from Budapest by car. The direct driving distance between Budapest and Esztergom is a little bit …

Pannonhalma (Inscribed)
Pannonhalma
I visited Pannonhalma in November of 2024 by car from Budapest - the drive is about an hour and a half long. The only other visitors that I eventually saw …

Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (On tentative list)
Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
While in Budapest in November of 2024, I stopped by two of the locations of this serial submission.
Aquincum archaeological site marks the location of the capital of the …

Caves of the Buda Thermal Kar… (On tentative list)
Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
I visited Pál-völgyi Cave during my stay in Budapest in November 2024. I did not plan to see more than one cave in this serial submission, and based on my …

Ödön Lechner's independent pr… (On tentative list)
Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
All of my research ahead of the trip to Budapest last November suggested that you cannot visit either the Postal Saving Bank or the State Geological Institute. The Museum of …

Budapest (Inscribed)
Budapest
Visited in November 2024, fifteen years-plus since the first visit.
I love how impressive examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco are found on practically every block in Central …

Qhapaq Ñan (Inscribed)
Qhapaq Ñan
This hardly qualifies as a review, since my experience with Qhapaq Ñan is limited to the central Cuzco in May of 2024. But since this experience contains a couple of …

Cuzco (Inscribed)
Cuzco
I visited Cuzco in May of 2024. Echoing the previous reviewers, it is a lovely living town with a visible exceptional blend of pre-Columbian and Colonial design, boasting a number …

Salt Mines of Maras (On tentative list)
Salt Mines of Maras
Possibly because I have never toured a salt flats site before, Maras saltineras impressed me a lot. The deceptive simplicity of the process, coupled with the visuals of hundreds - …

Machu Picchu (Inscribed)
Machu Picchu
I visited Machu Picchu in May of 2024. I suspect it is one of the most obvious bucket-list destinations for anyone who's ever been bitten by the travel bug, so …

Arequipa (Inscribed)
Arequipa
I visited Arequipa in May of 2024, possibly very close to the time that Dennis was there as well, and truth be told, I have little to add to his …

Lima (Inscribed)
Lima
My trip to Peru in May 2024 had two full-day bookends in Lima, which gave me plenty of time to explore the historic center. I share the opinion that you …

Belize Barrier Reef (Inscribed)
Belize Barrier Reef
I visited the South Water Caye component in December of 2023. In line with most of the reviews below, I am not a diver, not an underwater photographer, and at …

Tikal National Park (Inscribed)
Tikal National Park
I visited Tikal in December of 2023 on a day trip from Western Belize. Echoing the past reviewers, the huge site well deserves various superlatives. The Grand Plaza is the …