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Birkenhead Park (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 13-Mar-25

If you are in the Liverpool area, an excursion to Birkenhead is a must: It grew rapidly in the 19th century as an extension of Liverpool in the industrial revolution and was connected to Liverpool in 1886 by the Mersey railway tunnel, the most ambitious tunnel project of the age and you can still admire its splendid ventilation towers on both sides of the river. This could be a good nomination by itself.
The wealth of the town is especially obvious around Hamilton square with one of the highest concentration of protected buildings in the UK. The classical town hall could stand in much larger cities. The check board street pattern is reminiscent of Edinburghs New Town. A visit to Birkenhead Park is pleasurable and even impressive but in a country with the greatest gardens in the world (besides Japan perhaps) it has too much competition to stick out. But it is well known that Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect of New York's famous Central Park was greatly impressed and inspired by Joseph Paxtons Design. How about a double nomination of the world's first publicly funded park and England as an inspiration for Americas most famous Park
Read OnCity of York (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 14-Mar-25

Most countries can only envy England with their tradition and ability to preserve its rich heritage. There are certainly dozens of well-preserved medieval towns her and only Belgium, the Netherlands and parts of France may come close to it. Therefore, it is sad, that nowadays medieval heritage is lowly regarded as WH material and the UK thinks it has better cards nominating obscure wetlands or moors or a modest park than a great cathedral, a perfect town or a splendid palace that would be easily inscribed if it stood in other parts of the world.
Read OnGarden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 13-Mar-25

This may well be the most underrated site in Germany if you look at the ratings on this website and indeed, it is a site that reveals its extraordinary value and charm perhaps only when you dive deeper in its history and ideas. Another reason may be that some of our members wrote reviews without having seen more than one component and not even the most important ones, in which case you wonder how a rating could make any sense.
The central figure here is Prince Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau who famously introduced landscape gardening into continental [...]
Read OnMaltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 26-Feb-25

The catacombs on Malta are surprisingly numerous and the highest concentration can be found in Rabat where you find four that are accessible to visitors. I visited two of them: The largest is the catacomb of St. Paul and it is surprising how large they are: After visiting a decent introductory museum you can enter the catacombs via twenty or more separate (modern) entrances, each leading to a seperat underground complex of various sizes. They are impressive but since there is very little decoration left after a while they resemble each other. But in some you can find inscriptions or carvings that give hints about the roman, Christian or Jewish religion of their owners. For a second visit I chose the St
Read OnKnights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 25-Feb-25

There is no doubt that his should have been part of the Valletta inscription from the start. While the inscribed town is very nice, it is certainly not as spectacular as the former, older seat of the Order of St. John in Rhodos. While there are many must-visits in Valletta, such as the Archeological and the Art Museum, the Grandmasters House, Fort St. Elmo and several churches full of remarkable art, there is no single building in Valletta with real OUV. It is mainly the stunning townscape with the two bays, the fortifications and the many church towers and large domes that make this an unforgettable place
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsGranada 5Pompei 5Prague 5Altamira Cave 4.5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Brugge 4.5Florence 4.5Istanbul 4.5Loire Valley 4.5Potsdam 4.5Rome 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Versailles 4.5Vienna 4.5Assisi 4Bamberg 4Budapest 4Calakmul 4Cordoba 4Ferrara 4Oporto 4Puebla 4Ravenna 4Rhodes 4Siena 4Toledo 4Verona 4Avignon 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Burgos Cathedral 3.5Edinburgh 3.5Gwynedd Castles 3.5Isole Eolie 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Mount Etna 3.5Nikko 3.5Olympia 3.5Quedlinburg 3.5Querétaro 3.5Salzburg 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Segovia 3.5St. Kilda 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Syracuse 3.5Uxmal 3.5Valletta 3.5Westminster 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Arles 3Avila 3Burgundy 3Fujisan 3Graz 3Lübeck 3Naples 3Provins 3Reims 3Seville 3Split 3Trogir 3Aachen Cathedral 2.5Bellinzone 2.5Camino Real 2.5Campeche 2.5Champagne 2.5El Escurial 2.5Genoa 2.5Lyon 2.5Morelia 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Nancy 2.5Pannonhalma 2.5Schönbrunn 2.5Sian Ka'an 2.5Tower of London 2.5Urbino 2.5Vézelay 2.5Belfries 2Corfu 2Jelling 2Le Havre 2Modena 2Bauhaus Sites 1.5Beemster Polder 1.5Crespi d'Adda 1.5Fagus Factory 1.5Hiraizumi 1.5Luther Memorials 1.5Messel Pit 1.5Poblet Monastery 1.5ShUM Sites 1.5Stevns Klint 1.5Djerba 1Tarraco 1Medina Azahara 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Abbey of St Gall
- Reichenau
- Luther Memorials
- Medina Azahara
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites
- ShUM Sites
- The Flow Country
- Neolithic Orkney
- Heritage of Mercury
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Kutna Hora
- Segovia
- Avila
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Djerba
- Würzburg Residence
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Chaîne des Puys
- Strasbourg
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Campeche
- Major Town Houses
- Flemish Béguinages
- Olympia
Visited TWHS
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Citadel of Alessandria (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (extension) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Qawra/Dwejra (T)
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour - A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries (T)
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Spain) (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Wine in Iberia (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Birkenhead Park (T)
- City of York (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- The Episcopal See of Egara (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries (T)
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour (T)
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Stourhead (T)
- Caerleon legionary fortress (T)
- Lacock (T)
- Beauvais (T)
- Abbatiale de Tournus (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana and Prague (Czechia) (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- The Ahuehuete Tree of Santa Maria del Tule (T)
- Zone de monuments de Puebla et Cholula (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Divided Cities along the German Border
- Ephesus
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Panama Canal
- Scrovegni's Chapel
- Sistema Vial Andino/Qhapaq Ñan
- Speicherstadt and Chilehaus with Kontorhaus District
- Suez Canal
- Transiberian Railway
- Ur
Top 200 WHS
- Moenjodaro
- Angkor
- Vézère Valley
- Altamira Cave
- Iguacu
- Plitvice Lakes
- Lake Baikal
- Victoria Falls
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Neolithic Orkney
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Nasca Lines
- Çatalhöyük
- Stonehenge
- Chavin
- Palenque
- Cahokia Mounds
- Chichen-Itza
- Caral-Supe
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Mesa Verde
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Bordeaux
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Villa d'Este
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Atapuerca
- Würzburg Residence
- Fontainebleau
- El Escurial
- Wartburg Castle
- Blenheim Palace
- Potsdam
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- Petra
- Wulingyuan
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Machu Picchu
- Las Medulas
- Red Fort
- Kronborg Castle
- Tower of London
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Malbork Castle
- Castel del Monte
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Bahla Fort
- Great Wall
- Himeji-jo
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Agra Fort
- Strasbourg
- Avignon
- Old City of Berne
- Seville
- Bamberg
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Santiago de Compostela
- Rhodes
- Vienna
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Siena
- Maritime Greenwich
- Great Barrier Reef
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Andrefana Dry Forests
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- South China Karst
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Nikko
- Chola Temples
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Redwood
- Serengeti
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Crespi d'Adda
- New Lanark
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- University of Coimbra
- Salamanca
- Monticello
- Jantar Mantar
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Loire Valley
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Persian Garden
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Puebla
- Meroe
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Reims
- Amiens Cathedral
- Speyer Cathedral
- Assisi
- Belem
- Chartres Cathedral
- Flemish Béguinages
- Mount Athos
- Westminster
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Saint Catherine Area
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Aachen Cathedral
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Imperial Tombs
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Horyu-ji Area
- Sanchi
- Mount Wutai
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex
- Potala Palace
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Ajanta Caves
- Itchan Kala
- Bukhara
- Samarkand
- Damascus
- Arles
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Pont du Gard
- Trier
- Leptis Magna
- Pompei
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Troy
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Acropolis
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Olympia
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Alto Douro
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Djenné
- Aksum
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Grand Canal
- Canal du Midi
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Sana'a
- Prague
- City of Bath
- Edinburgh
- Verona
- Split
- Shibam
- Giant's Causeway