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Garden 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 [...]

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Maltese 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

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Knights 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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Coastal Cliffs (T)

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 25-Feb-25

Beside the extension of Valletta, that should have been inscribed decades ago, the Coastal Cliffs are certainly the most interesting tentative site of Malta but, as Ralf writes, it needs more precision. Nonetheless, about half of the coast of the two main islands consists of very impressive high cliffs reaching up to 130m above sea level, mainly along the southern coast. These huge cliffs are impressive from every angel: from the boat, from the plane or from various viewpoints and they contribute a lot the Malta’s history as an island fortress. The high cliffs extend often for kilometers and seems hard and undestructable but at their bottom you find everywhere seacaves of various sizes that show that the unrelenting sea over time dissolves even this hard limestone.

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Abbey of St Gall

Caspar Dechmann Switzerland - 08-Aug-24

This is a site with rather strange OUV which you can partially excuse or explain because it was such an early nomination:

Like the Reichenau this was one of the most important (and powerful) monasteries of medieval Europe with a great and widespread territory, one of the most important collections of manuscripts and books in the world and a famous writing workshop. It also lends its name to the most important architectural plan of the middle ages: the St. Gall monastery plan.

So far, so great. The problem is that not much of that contributes really its OUV: The church and the monastery nowadays are completely baroque and therefore not from the time when the monastery was at its peak but built far later. While this complex of buildings is grand and impressive it is in the whole not better or grander then a considerable number of great monasteries that were rebuilt in the baroque era, especially in southern Germany and Austria

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Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)

Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)

Coastal Cliffs (T)

Abbey of St Gall

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