CugelVance Profile

I am a Berlin-based feverish traveller who visits every unesco site a country can offer if.....time allows...........if money allows.....if feasible...if...public transport..if....if....if.

I speak german,english and spanish. I have a decent command of italian,and have a basic knowledge of czech,portuguese,and french. 

I love to drink a beer with friends,meet people from all over the world,pick up words in foreign languages,watch tv series in different languages,go to the movies,ride a bike in the  countryside,and plan my next travel as well as reading a book of my favourite author Jack Vance.

 

Thanks to this wonderful website my love for the wonders of our world has become a kind of mild obsession. 

 

 

Germany Last Update 18.12.24 310 WHS Visited 47 Reviews 310 WHS Rated 108 TWHS Visited

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Al-Ahsa Oasis

CugelVance Germany - 28-Dec-24

Al-Ahsa Oasis

Time of the visit: the 4th of dec.2024

I stayed for three days in Riad in order to get to know SA's capital a bit, and to visit the Al-Ahsa Oasis and the Turaif-quarter (both unesco whs).

I had booked my ticket online for the train from Riad to Hofuf just a few days earlier to make sure that I got one as I had read that that train is often booked out. However,the train was quite empty. I took the one early in the morning.

After my arrival in Al-Ahsa I took an ueber taxi from the railway station first to the Jawatha mosque. As I had read that the mosque is tiny I told my driver to wait for me as I would be back within 5-10 min. I stormed out of the taxi and saw a man leaving the mosque and the door wasn't closed when I was already inside. I took some pics and went out where the aforementioned man looked at me quite puzzled. As I was in a hurry I didnt start a conversation.We headed then to the mountain Jabel Al-Quarah. On the way the taxi driver,a former saudi policeman,gave me all the important infos to know about Hofuf which I wanted to know.I stayed inside and outside the mountain Jabal Al-Quarah for almost 2 h

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Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy

CugelVance Germany - 26-Dec-24

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy

Time of the visit: Varallo the 22nd of nov.,Varese the 24th of nov.2024

Varallo

I stayed one night in Varallo and two in Varese so that I had plenty of time to discover both" little Jerusalems".

When I arrived in Varallo it was heavily snowing as it had been the entire night before. That's why the snow was almost a half meter deep. I had to buy rubber boots because my shoes were completely unsuitable for climbing up a snow-covered hill. The climb is fairly easy under normal circumstances, but strenuous with heavy snow. I walked up the footpath near the cable car station and after visiting the area I walked down the "Salita Pedonale" from the cable car station on the hill to the town of Varallo.

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Al Zubarah

CugelVance Germany - 26-Dec-24

Al Zubarah

Time of the visit: the 7th of dec.2024

In Doha I took the metro from the city centre to the station"national library". From there I took a pirate taxi for around 2€( would have had to wait 10 min for an ueber taxi) to the modern Al Gharafa bus station. I asked for the bus 100 . The indian employee at the info desk told me that it doesnt operate any more. I had already expected the news and bought a ticket for the bus to Al Ruwais which isnt that far from Al Zubarah and according to the internet taxis are available in Al Ruwais.

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Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)

CugelVance Germany - 24-Oct-24

Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)

I visited the Torre do Tomba building on oct.the 9th after having visited the whs palace in Mafra as the buses to and from Mafra start and end in the bus station of Campo Grande which is very near the Lisboa university area. The Torre do Tomba is almost in the middle of that area.

The metro station "Citade Universitaria" is also just a few minutes away from the Torre do Tomba.

I had already been several times to the Belem area of Lisboa so that this time I decided not to visit it again, even though it seems to be part of the tentative serial world  heritage site.

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Bom Jesus do Monte

CugelVance Germany - 25-Oct-24

Bom Jesus do Monte

I visited the Bom Jesus do Monte whs on oct the 21st,2024.

Early in the morning I took the empty bus nr.2 in Braga's beautiful city centre to the Bom Jesus area where I arrived around 8.30 am.The last bus stop for bus number 2 was right next to the historical funicular and the stairs. According to google, the area should open its doors at 10:00. Absolute nonsense! I climbed up the historic stairs, giving myself enough time to closely inspect each of the small chapels with their wonderful figures depitcting scenes from the Bible. I needed around 45 minutes to reach the top level.  

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CugelVance
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5 communist prisons in Romania(tentative whs) and three prisons in Germany( Hohenscheonhausen,Cottbus and Bautzen)

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    • 16 Countries Complete

    Albania . Andorra . Armenia . Austria . Bahrain . Estonia . Germany . Holy See . Hungary . Lithuania . Luxembourg . Moldova . North Macedonia . Qatar . San Marino . United Arab Emirates .

    Rating Stats
    Itchan Kala 5
    Matera 5
    Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 5
    Old City of Jerusalem 5
    Petra 5
    Potsdam 5
    Salzburg 5
    Venice and its Lagoon 5
    White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 5
    Burgundy 4.5
    Curonian Spit 4.5
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
    Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
    Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.5
    Medina of Fez 4.5
    Medina of Tunis 4.5
    Mérida 4.5
    Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
    Prague 4.5
    Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4.5
    Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.5
    Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.5
    Yaroslavl 4.5
    Assisi 4
    Berat and Gjirokastra 4
    Brugge 4
    Bukhara 4
    Champagne 4
    Dubrovnik 4
    Elvas 4
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4
    Hallstatt-Dachstein 4
    L'viv 4
    Mantua and Sabbioneta 4
    Pilgrimage Church of Wies 4
    Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4
    Rila Monastery 4
    Rome 4
    Salamanca 4
    Samarkand 4
    Seville 4
    Urbino 4
    Vilnius 4
    Völklingen Ironworks 4
    Acropolis 3.5
    Agrigento 3.5
    Angra do Heroismo 3.5
    Aquileia 3.5
    Avignon 3.5
    Bamberg 3.5
    Banska Stiavnica 3.5
    Carthage 3.5
    Cordoba 3.5
    Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5
    Edinburgh 3.5
    El Escurial 3.5
    Ephesus 3.5
    Florence 3.5
    Gelati Monastery 3.5
    Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
    Göreme NP and Cappadocia 3.5
    Haghpat and Sanahin 3.5
    Kazan Kremlin 3.5
    Kotor 3.5
    Kraków 3.5
    Margravial Opera House 3.5
    Medina of Marrakesh 3.5
    Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
    Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
    Nancy 3.5
    Novgorod 3.5
    Novodevichy Convent 3.5
    Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
    Pont du Gard 3.5
    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
    Québec 3.5
    Roman Walls of Lugo 3.5
    Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
    Santiago de Compostela 3.5
    Siena 3.5
    Sintra 3.5
    St. Petersburg 3.5
    Syracuse 3.5
    Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
    Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
    Versailles 3.5
    Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
    Vienna 3.5
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
    Zamość 3.5
    Aachen Cathedral 3
    Amphitheater of El Jem 3
    Arab-Norman Palermo 3
    Arles 3
    Auschwitz Birkenau 3
    Bellinzone 3
    Bordeaux 3
    Budapest 3
    Caceres 3
    Cesky Krumlov 3
    Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3
    Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3
    City of Bath 3
    Classical Weimar 3
    Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3
    Cologne Cathedral 3
    Convent of Christ in Tomar 3
    Cuenca 3
    Ferrara 3
    Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3
    Genoa 3
    Granada 3
    Graz 3
    Gwynedd Castles 3
    Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3
    Kernavė 3
    Kronborg Castle 3
    Lyon 3
    Medina of Essaouira 3
    Medina of Tétouan 3
    Meknes 3
    Modena 3
    Monastery of Alcobaça 3
    Monastery of Geghard 3
    Naumburg Cathedral 3
    Nessebar 3
    Old City of Berne 3
    Oporto 3
    Palmeral of Elche 3
    Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3
    Pearling 3
    Quedlinburg 3
    Rammelsberg and Goslar 3
    Ravenna 3
    Regensburg 3
    Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3
    Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3
    Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3
    Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3
    Split 3
    Stralsund and Wismar 3
    Thessalonika 3
    Toledo 3
    Torun 3
    Trier 3
    Val di Noto 3
    Vatican City 3
    Verona 3
    Wadden Sea 3
    Walled City of Baku 3
    Wartburg Castle 3
    Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3
    Zollverein 3
    Avila 2.5
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
    Belem 2.5
    Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5
    Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
    City of Luxembourg 2.5
    Colonies of Benevolence 2.5
    Corfu 2.5
    Corvey 2.5
    Donana National Park 2.5
    Evora 2.5
    Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
    Historic Jeddah 2.5
    Kairouan 2.5
    Kutna Hora 2.5
    Lübeck 2.5
    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
    Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2.5
    Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
    Modernist Kaunas 2.5
    Mtskheta 2.5
    Odesa 2.5
    Ohrid Region 2.5
    Paphos 2.5
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 2.5
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 2.5
    Poblet Monastery 2.5
    Rabat 2.5
    Reichenau 2.5
    Rhodes 2.5
    Riga 2.5
    San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
    Segovia 2.5
    Sheki 2.5
    Strasbourg 2.5
    Tallinn 2.5
    The trulli of Alberobello 2.5
    Tower of London 2.5
    Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
    Valletta 2.5
    Würzburg Residence 2.5
    Abbey of St Gall 2
    Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 2
    Al Ain 2
    Alcala de Henares 2
    Alto Douro 2
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 2
    Aphrodisias 2
    Aranjuez 2
    As-Salt 2
    Asturian Monuments 2
    Bahla Fort 2
    Bardejov Town 2
    Bauhaus Sites 2
    Belfries 2
    Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2
    Bom Jesus do Monte 2
    Butrint 2
    Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2
    Delos 2
    Dilmun Burial Mounds 2
    Flemish Béguinages 2
    Guimarães 2
    Hedeby and Danevirke 2
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2
    Ivrea 2
    Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2
    Luther Memorials 2
    Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2
    Medina of Sousse 2
    Mir Castle 2
    Mostar 2
    Nice 2
    Old Rauma 2
    Orange 2
    Pergamon 2
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 2
    Primeval Beech Forests 2
    Qal'at al-Bahrain 2
    Reims 2
    Roskilde Cathedral 2
    Saltaire 2
    Santa Maria delle Grazie 2
    Sighisoara 2
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2
    The Porticoes of Bologna 2
    Tower of Hercules 2
    Trebic 2
    Tugendhat Villa 2
    Turaif Quarter 2
    University of Coimbra 2
    Venetian Works of Defence 2
    Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2
    Westminster 2
    White City of Tel-Aviv 2
    Antequera Dolmens Site 1.5
    Boyana Church 1.5
    Canal du Midi 1.5
    Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
    Centennial Hall 1.5
    Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5
    Fagus Factory 1.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
    Lower German Limes 1.5
    Messel Pit 1.5
    Monte San Giorgio 1.5
    Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
    Muskauer Park 1.5
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 1.5
    Schönbrunn 1.5
    Semmering Railway 1.5
    ShUM Sites 1.5
    Shakhrisyabz 1.5
    Speyer Cathedral 1.5
    Tarraco 1.5
    Telc 1.5
    Tokaji Wine Region 1.5
    Villages with Fortified Churches 1.5
    Warsaw 1.5
    Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
    Úbeda and Baeza 1.5
    Al-Ahsa Oasis 1
    Crespi d'Adda 1
    Danube Limes 1
    Dolomites 1
    Gobustan Rock Art 1
    Hollókö 1
    Hortobágy 1
    Khinalig 1
    La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1
    La Lonja de la Seda 1
    Mafra 1
    Maritime Greenwich 1
    Medina Azahara 1
    Monastery of Batalha 1
    Nesvizh 1
    Pannonhalma 1
    Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1
    The Prosecco Hills 1
    Thingvellir 1
    Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 0.5
    Al Zubarah 0.5
    Botanical Garden, Padua 0.5
    Fertö/Neusiedlersee 0.5
    Gorham's Cave Complex 0.5
    Holy Trinity Column 0.5
    Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 0.5
    Longobards in Italy 0.5
    Sarazm 0.5
    Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 0.5
    Struve Geodetic Arc 0.5
    Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 0.5
    Western Tien-Shan 0.5
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    2. Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
    3. Abu Dhabi Sabkha (T)
    4. Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
    5. Alaverdi Cathedral (T)
    6. Amalienborg and its district (T)
    7. Ananuri (T)
    8. Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
    9. Cetinje Historic Core (T)
    10. Chor-Bakr (T)
    11. Citadel of Alessandria (T)
    12. Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
    13. Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
    14. David Gareji Monasteries and Hermitage (T)
    15. Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
    16. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
    17. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
    18. Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
    19. European Paper Mills (from the era of hand-made paper) (Germany) (T)
    20. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
    21. Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
    22. Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
    23. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
    24. Green Belt (T)
    25. Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
    26. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
    27. Historical theatres of the Marche Region (T)
    28. Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
    29. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
    30. Jerusalem (T)
    31. Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
    32. Khor Dubai (T)
    33. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
    34. Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
    35. La Camargue (T)
    36. La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
    37. Le centre historique de Tétouan (T)
    38. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
    39. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
    40. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    41. Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
    42. Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
    43. Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
    44. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
    45. Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
    46. Minaret in Vobkent (T)
    47. Mining Historical Heritage (T)
    48. Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
    49. Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
    50. Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
    51. Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
    52. Nicortsminda Cathedral (T)
    53. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
    54. Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
    55. Old Town of Bar (T)
    56. Olympic Park Munich (T)
    57. Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
    58. Pombaline Lisbon (T)
    59. Rade de Marseille (T)
    60. Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (T)
    61. Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
    62. Rostov Kremlin (T)
    63. Route of Magellan (T)
    64. Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
    65. Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
    66. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    67. Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
    68. Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
    69. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)
    70. Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
    71. Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
    72. Silk Roads: Early Period (Prehistory) (T)
    73. Site of the Schöningen Spears – Humans and hunting 300,000 years ago (T)
    74. Sites of Globalization (T)
    75. Smederevo Fortress (T)
    76. St. Nicholas Church (T)
    77. Surakhany, Atashgyakh (Fire - worshippers, temple - museum at Surakhany) (T)
    78. Susha historical and architectural reserve (T)
    79. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
    80. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
    81. Tashkent makhallas (T)
    82. Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and tradition in Central Asia (T)
    83. Tbilisi Historic District (T)
    84. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
    85. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
    86. The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
    87. The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
    88. The Fortress of Terezín (T)
    89. The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
    90. The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
    91. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
    92. The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
    93. The pearl trading town of Jazirat Al-Hamra (T)
    94. The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
    95. The Television Tower Stuttgart. Archetype and symbol of modern mass communication (T)
    96. Thingvellir National Park (T)
    97. Torgau Castle Chapel (T)
    98. Trading town of Julfar (T)
    99. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    100. Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
    101. Uplistsikhe Cave Town (T)
    102. Via Francigena in Italy (T)
    103. Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
    104. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
    105. Vila Viçosa (T)
    106. Village de Sidi Bou Saïd : Harmonie architecturale et spirituelle en Méditerranée (T)
    107. Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf - extension of the WHS (T)
    108. Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)

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