Profile Alfons and Riki Verstraeten

We are a married couple, senior citizens, very interested in visiting World Heritage Sites.
Our interest started after visiting Schokland(NL), twenty years ago.

I'm planning and organizing our trips, my wife is the photographer


Visited WHS:

  1. Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
  2. Acropolis
  3. Agra Fort
  4. Agrigento
  5. Alcala de Henares
  6. Alto Douro
  7. Amiens Cathedral
  8. Amphitheater of El Jem
  9. Amsterdam Canal Ring
  10. Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
  11. Antigua Guatemala
  12. Aranjuez
  13. Archaeological Site of Delphi
  14. Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
  15. Arles
  16. Assisi
  17. Auschwitz Birkenau
  18. Avignon
  19. Avila
  20. Ayutthaya
  21. Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
  22. Bamberg
  23. Banska Stiavnica
  24. Bardejov Town
  25. Bauhaus Sites
  26. Beemster Polder
  27. Belem
  28. Belfries
  29. Bellinzone
  30. Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
  31. Blenheim Palace
  32. Bordeaux
  33. Botanical Garden, Padua
  34. Bourges Cathedral
  35. Brugge
  36. Bryggen
  37. Budapest
  38. Bukhara
  39. Caceres
  40. Camagüey
  41. Campeche
  42. Canal du Midi
  43. Canterbury
  44. Cape Floral Region
  45. Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
  46. Cesky Krumlov
  47. Chartres Cathedral
  48. Chichen-Itza
  49. Cienfuegos
  50. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
  51. City of Bath
  52. Classical Weimar
  53. Colonia del Sacramento
  54. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
  55. Costiera Amalfitana
  56. Cracow
  57. Crespi d'Adda
  58. Curonian Spit
  59. Defence Line of Amsterdam
  60. Dengfeng
  61. Derwent Valley Mills
  62. Dolomites
  63. Dorset and East Devon Coast
  64. Dougga/Thugga
  65. Dubrovnik
  66. Edinburgh
  67. El Escurial
  68. Engelsberg Ironworks
  69. Epidaurus
  70. Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
  71. Evora
  72. Falun Great Copper Mountain
  73. Fatehpur Sikri
  74. Ferrara
  75. Fertö/Neusiedlersee
  76. Flemish Béguinages
  77. Florence
  78. Fontainebleau
  79. Fortifications of Vauban
  80. Fortified City of Carcassonne
  81. Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  82. Gammelstad
  83. Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
  84. Giant's Causeway
  85. Gobustan Rock Art
  86. Granada
  87. Grand Canyon
  88. Grand Place, Brussels
  89. Great Wall
  90. Gwynedd Castles
  91. Hierapolis-Pamukkale
  92. High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
  93. Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
  94. Historic Cairo
  95. Holasovice
  96. Hortobágy
  97. Humayun's Tomb
  98. Iguacu
  99. Iguazu National Park
  100. Imperial Palace
  101. Imperial Tombs
  102. Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
  103. Ironbridge Gorge
  104. iSimangaliso Wetland Park
  105. Istanbul
  106. Itchan Kala
  107. Jantar Mantar
  108. Jelling
  109. Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
  110. Kairouan
  111. Kernavë Archeological Site
  112. Kew Gardens
  113. Kinderdijk
  114. Kotor
  115. Kremlin and Red Square
  116. Kronborg Castle
  117. Ksar of Aït-Ben-Haddou
  118. Kutna Hora
  119. La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
  120. Laponian Area
  121. Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
  122. Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
  123. Litomysl Castle
  124. Loire Valley
  125. Longmen Grottoes
  126. Longobards in Italy
  127. Luther Memorials
  128. Lübeck
  129. Lyon
  130. Major Town Houses
  131. Mantua and Sabbioneta
  132. Maritime Greenwich
  133. Matera
  134. Maulbronn Monastery
  135. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer
  136. Medina of Fez
  137. Medina of Marrakesh
  138. Medina of Sousse
  139. Medina of Tunis
  140. Meknes
  141. Mérida
  142. Meteora
  143. Modena
  144. Monastery of Batalha
  145. Mont-Saint-Michel
  146. Monte San Giorgio
  147. Mostar
  148. Mtskheta
  149. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  150. Nancy
  151. Naples
  152. Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
  153. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
  154. Novgorod
  155. Nubian Monuments
  156. Ohrid Region
  157. Old City of Berne
  158. Old Havana
  159. Olympia
  160. Ouro Preto
  161. Palenque
  162. Pantanal
  163. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  164. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
  165. Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
  166. Ping Yao
  167. Plantin-Moretus Museum
  168. Plitvice Lakes
  169. Pompei
  170. Pont du Gard
  171. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
  172. Prague
  173. Provins
  174. Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
  175. Pyramids (Memphis)
  176. Quedlinburg
  177. Rabat
  178. Rammelsberg and Goslar
  179. Ravenna
  180. Red Fort
  181. Regensburg
  182. Reims
  183. Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
  184. Rietveld Schröderhuis
  185. Riga
  186. Rio de Janeiro
  187. Rock Carvings in Tanum
  188. Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  189. Rome
  190. Roskilde Cathedral
  191. Route of Santiago de Compostela
  192. Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  193. Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
  194. Røros
  195. Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
  196. Saint-Emilion
  197. Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
  198. Salamanca
  199. Salzburg
  200. Samarkand
  201. San Gimignano
  202. San Marino and Mount Titano
  203. San Pedro de la Roca Castle
  204. Santa Maria de Guadelupe
  205. Santiago de Compostela
  206. Schokland
  207. Schönbrunn
  208. Segovia
  209. Seville
  210. Shakhrisyabz
  211. Siena
  212. Sighisoara
  213. Sintra
  214. Site of Carthage
  215. Speyer Cathedral
  216. Spissky Hrad & Levoca
  217. Split
  218. St. Petersburg
  219. Stonehenge
  220. Stralsund and Wismar
  221. Strasbourg
  222. Sukhothai
  223. Summer Palace
  224. Syracuse
  225. Taj Mahal
  226. Tallinn
  227. Telc
  228. Temple of Heaven
  229. The Four Lifts
  230. The trulli of Alberobello
  231. Thingvellir
  232. Tikal National Park
  233. Tokaji Wine Region
  234. Toledo
  235. Tower of London
  236. Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
  237. Trebic
  238. Trier
  239. Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
  240. Trinity Sergius Lavra
  241. Trogir
  242. Troy
  243. Ukhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
  244. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  245. Urnes Stave Church
  246. Uxmal
  247. Vatican City
  248. Venice and its Lagoon
  249. Verona
  250. Versailles
  251. Vezelay
  252. Vicenza
  253. Vienna
  254. Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
  255. Villa d'Este
  256. Villa Romana del Casale
  257. Vilnius
  258. Viñales Valley
  259. Vlkolinec
  260. Volubilis
  261. Wachau Cultural Landscape
  262. Wadden Sea
  263. Walled City of Baku
  264. Warsaw
  265. Wartburg Castle
  266. West Norwegian Fjords
  267. Westminster
  268. White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
  269. Wieliczka Salt Mine
  270. Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
  271. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  272. Würzburg Residence
  273. Yosemite National Park
  274. Yungang Grottoes
  275. Yuso and Suso Monasteries

Reviewed WHS:

  1. The Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower (Azerbaijan)
  2. Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (Azerbaijan)
  3. Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery (Georgia)