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Primeval Beech Forests
Adrian Turtschi Germany - 28-Aug-24
Valle di Lodano, August 2024
Valle Maggia is a large alpine valley in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, extending some 60 kilometers from Locarno to the north towards the Gotthard Massif, which forms the watershed between the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Many smaller side valleys extend from Valle Maggia, one of which being the Valle di Lodano, which forms part of the larger Valli di Lodano, Busai and Soladino forest reserves. Unusually, the flanks of the valleys in this part of the Alps are covered not by conifers such as firs or spruce but by broadleaves – mainly beech, extending from the floor of the valley almost all the way up to the mountain ridges.
Read OnPrimeval Beech Forests
Adrian Turtschi Germany - 26-May-24
Sonian Forest, May 2024
The Sonian Forest is a small 2-km2 property in Flanders located on the south-eastern outskirts of Brussels – all that remains of what used to be a much larger forested area going all the way to the Ardennes. Pretty much all of it was chopped down over time, including some trees ending up – rather uselessly – for building Napoleon’s never-carried-out English invasion fleet.
A Flemish-only UNESCO forest would not work in the complex dynamics that is the non-country (to quote the rather infamous former MEP), hence two smaller pieces along both sides of a busy road to the north in the Brussels-Capital Region as well as two really tiny areas on the other side of a major highway to the south in Wallonia were added to balance things out nicely.
Read OnPrehistoric Pile Dwellings
Adrian Turtschi Germany - 13-Oct-23
Burgäschisee Ost, October 2023
The Burgäschisee Ost-site consists of a 75x40 meter (0.3 ha) piece of meadow on the south-eastern shore of tiny lake Burgäschi, a pleasant 20-minute walk away through the rolling hills of Swiss Mittelland from the eponymous village of Aeschi, from where very regular buses plow the route from Solothurn to Herzogenbuchsee – both hubs on the Swiss rail network (the reason for the different spelling of Aeschi vs. Burgäschi is not totally clear to me).
Read OnPrimeval Beech Forests
Adrian Turtschi Germany - 14-Oct-23
Bettlachstock, October 2023
Bettlachstock lies on the southern slopes of the Jura – the lesser known of the two parallel mountain ranges crossing the country diagonally (with the Mittelland plane lying in-between, where the majority of the Swiss population lives). Bizarrely, the official UNESCO nomination files talk about Forêt de la Bettlachstock, even though Bettlachstock forest lies squarely in the German-speaking part of Switzerland (the country takes its language borders very seriously).
Read OnPrimeval Beech Forests
Adrian Turtschi Germany - 16-Aug-23
Kellerwald, August 2023
Kellerwald is situated in a very rural, bucolic area set against gently undulating hills around 90 minutes by bus and / or train to the west of Kassel, the transportation hub on the main north-south German ICE line.
The northern, more accessible part snugs gently against Edersee, a sinuous dammed lake dotted with many sailing boots on sunny week ends. The southern part of the core zone is more difficult to reach and would take more time to explore than I had.
I overnighted in Korbach, a [...]
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Rating StatsAngkor 5Istanbul 5Meroe 5Petra 5Rapa Nui 5Asmara 4.5Borobudur 4.5Harar Jugol 4.5Macao 4.5Nubian Monuments 4.5Palmyra 4.5Rio de Janeiro 4.5Samarkand 4.5Sana'a 4.5Takht-i-Bahi 4.5Vatican City 4.5Brasilia 4Carthage 4Masada 4Potosi 4Ravenna 4Rome 4Trier 4Aapravasi Ghat 3.5Al Ain 3.5Ancient Kyoto 3.5Ancient Thebes 3.5Cordoba 3.5Dubrovnik 3.5Fagus Factory 3.5Fasil Ghebbi 3.5Florence 3.5Grand-Bassam 3.5Iguacu 3.5Kunya-Urgench 3.5Levuka 3.5Mafra 3.5Odesa 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Pergamon 3.5Santo Domingo 3.5Seville 3.5Sigiriya 3.5St. Petersburg 3.5Sulaiman-Too 3.5Teotihuacan 3.5Valletta 3.5Versailles 3.5Vienna 3.5Wadden Sea 3.5Aksum 3Bagan 3Bukhara 3Damascus 3Kotor 3L'viv 3Lalibela 3Nancy 3Pompei 3Prague 3Aleppo 2.5Avignon 2.5Avila 2.5Bagerhat 2.5Bahla Fort 2.5Bardejov Town 2.5Baroque Churches 2.5Bosra 2.5Campeche 2.5Choirokoitia 2.5Cuzco 2.5Djémila 2.5Golestan Palace 2.5Granada 2.5Gwynedd Castles 2.5Gyeongju 2.5Kandy 2.5Kazan Kremlin 2.5Lumbini 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Mahabalipuram 2.5Makli, Thatta 2.5Medina Azahara 2.5Mir Castle 2.5Mount Athos 2.5Naples 2.5Ouro Preto 2.5Panamá 2.5Pont du Gard 2.5Rila Monastery 2.5Saltaire 2.5Salzburg 2.5ShUM Sites 2.5Siena 2.5Sintra 2.5Sucre 2.5Syracuse 2.5São Luis 2.5Thessalonika 2.5Tipasa 2.5Val di Noto 2.5Valparaiso 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5West Lake 2.5Willemstad 2.5Zollverein 2.5Arequipa 2Belem 2Belfries 2Brugge 2Budapest 2Caceres 2Corvey 2Elvas 2Ephesus 2Evora 2Ferrara 2Goias 2Graz 2Kaesong 2Kairouan 2Kernavė 2Kraków 2Lima 2Meknes 2Modena 2Mostar 2Mérida 2Nesvizh 2Nisa 2Novgorod 2Olinda 2Oporto 2Palenque 2Pampulha 2Potsdam 2Puebla 2Quito 2Rabat 2Red Fort 2Segovia 2Split 2Tallinn 2Taxila 2Timgad 2Toledo 2Yazd 2Albi 1.5Altamira Cave 1.5Arles 1.5Bamberg 1.5Bellinzone 1.5Bryggen 1.5Burgos Cathedral 1.5Canal du Midi 1.5Centennial Hall 1.5City of Bath 1.5Classical Weimar 1.5Edinburgh 1.5Fontainebleau 1.5Fray Bentos 1.5Guimarães 1.5Himeji-jo 1.5Jelling 1.5Kathmandu Valley 1.5Lübeck 1.5Malbork Castle 1.5Medina of Sousse 1.5Messel Pit 1.5Mogao Caves 1.5Orange 1.5Paphos 1.5Pearling 1.5Prambanan 1.5Regensburg 1.5Rhaetian Railway 1.5Rhodes 1.5Riga 1.5San Gimignano 1.5Selimiye Mosque 1.5Sighisoara 1.5Speyer Cathedral 1.5Temple of Heaven 1.5Trogir 1.5Verona 1.5Vigan 1.5Villa d'Este 1.5Vilnius 1.5Warsaw 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
- Bonaire Marine Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Bunaken National Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique de Praia (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City Hall, Georgetown (T)
- City of Charlestown (T)
- City of Granada and its natural environment (T)
- Coral Stone Mosques of Maldives (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Historic Center of Qoqon (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
- Kharga Oasis and the Small Southern Oases (T)
- Khorramabad Valley (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- La ville de Porto-Novo: quartiers anciens et Palais Royal (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Mughal Forts on Fluvial Terrains in Dhaka (T)
- Mughal Mosques in Bangladesh (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor (T)
- Siwa archaeological area (T)
- St. George Fortified System (T)
- St. George Historic District (T)
- Suakin (T)
- Sultanats Historiques des Comores (T)
- Svalbard Archipelago (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Bodrum Castle (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Historic and Marine Landscape of the Banda Islands (T)
- The Historical Port City of Izmir (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Workers’ Assembly Halls (Denmark) (T)
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