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I have travelled with a focus on visiting World Heritage Sites (WHS) since 1997 next to a day job in the management of ICT. In 2022 I quit and since then I have been dedicating all my time to WHS (including running this website) and WH travel.

Plans for 2024

India at the end of the year.

Ideas for 2025

Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia in January

Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Georgia in March/April

Kenya in September

Big Trip to #1,000 (November/December)

The Netherlands Last Update 17.11.24 934 WHS Visited 1048 Reviews 935 WHS Rated 273 TWHS Visited

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Champaner-Pavagadh

Els Slots The Netherlands - 15-Nov-24

As the name 'Champaner-Pavagadh' suggests, this site comprises two (contiguous) parts: Champaner (the remains of an Islamic pre-Mughal city) and Pavagadh (a hill with an important Hindu pilgrimage site). They are linked through their prime setting, the hill providing the water the city needed. As it was still relatively early in my 2024 India journey, I deep-dived into it via a day trip on public transport from Vadodara (better known locally under its old name Baroda).

The bus ride to Pavagadh takes about an hour and costs 40~60rs. Buses frequently leave from bays 15-18 at the central bus station; signage is only in Gujarati but just follow the colourful pilgrims on board

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Evaporitic Karst and Caves

Els Slots The Netherlands - 08-Oct-24

Since this site’s inscription in 2023, I had a mental block about it caused by its name. I had no idea what “Evaporitic” meant (the Dutch Wikipedia page referring to this WHS conveniently leaves this word out), and then there is also the always-dreaded “Caves”. I didn’t rush to go there, but a trip with my Art History friends to Northern Italy prompted me to add a day in Bologna to get this one over with.

Speleology is at least half of its OUV, but the horror stories of Tsunami were enough for me to not try that here. So I took a different approach to the Gessi Bolognesi: cruising around the landscape on an e-bike, looking for visible gypsum strata and ‘holes’ in the rock walls.

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Amami-Oshima Island

Els Slots The Netherlands - 24-Sep-24

Let’s first set some things straight about this WHS. I propose a name change: “Subtropical Rainforests of the Ryukyu Archipelago” would cover it much better than the enumeration of the names of 4 islands as cumbersome as Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek. And: Iriomote Island actually is the main component. It’s the largest, the least developed and the most ‘different’ as it lies in a different biogeographic realm from the rest: the Indomalayan instead of the Palearctic.

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Okinoshima Island

Els Slots The Netherlands - 22-Sep-24

Like most others, I visited the Munakata Taisha a.k.a. Hetsu shrine. I hadn’t planned on writing a review, but I think I have an important tip for future visitors: make sure you see “everything”. The layout of the site is confusing and signage is in Japanese only, so it is easy to overlook something or not do it justice because you don’t know the meaning of what you see.

Right at the entrance you can pick up a flyer (in Japanese of course) with a map that shows the main parts:

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Mozu-Furuichi Kofun

Els Slots The Netherlands - 21-Sep-24

First, I’d like to thank Philipp for making the effort to cover the Furuichi cluster so I could cross that from my to-do-list. Even when limiting myself to the Mozu cluster, I found it a labour-intensive visit as I walked 8.2 km across 3 hours in the heat (still 33 degrees Celsius in late September). I did: Sakaihigashi Station – Sakai City Hall Observation Lobby – kofun in the north – hike towards Daisan Park along the westside of Nintoku-tenno-ryo – Sakai City Museum – small kofuns in the park - Itasuke kofun – ceremonial Gate to Nintoku-tenno-ryo – Mozu Station. A useful downloadable map with hiking routes along the points of interest can be found here.

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Rating Stats

Angkor 5

Ennedi Massif 5

Hampi 5

Kathmandu Valley 5

Machu Picchu 5

Rapa Nui 5

Rome 5

Taj Mahal 5

Bali Subak system 4.5

Bukhara 4.5

Calakmul 4.5

Caral-Supe 4.5

Florence 4.5

Granada 4.5

Grand Canyon 4.5

Ilulissat Icefjord 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Kakadu National Park 4.5

Manu National Park 4.5

Meroe 4.5

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.5

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5

Mountain Railways of India 4.5

Nasca Lines 4.5

Ngorongoro 4.5

Old City of Jerusalem 4.5

Petra 4.5

Sagarmatha National Park 4.5

Sigiriya 4.5

Uluru 4.5

Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Virunga National Park 4.5

Willandra Lakes 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Acropolis 4

Ajanta Caves 4

Aksum 4

Altamira Cave 4

Ambohimanga 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Kyoto 4

Ancient Merv 4

Ancient Nara 4

Ancient Thebes 4

Arab-Norman Palermo 4

Archaeological Site of Aigai 4

Arequipa 4

Assisi 4

Baalbek 4

Bagan 4

Beijing Central Axis 4

Borobudur 4

Brazilian Atlantic Islands 4

Budapest 4

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4

Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4

Chaco Culture 4

Chan Chan 4

Chavin 4

Chichen-Itza 4

Chitwan National Park 4

Chola Temples 4

Churches of Chiloé 4

Churches of Moldavia 4

Churches of Peace 4

Cliff of Bandiagara 4

Cordoba 4

Dazu Rock Carvings 4

Djenné 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

Dubrovnik 4

Elvas 4

Epidaurus 4

Etruscan Necropolises 4

Fujian Tulou 4

Galapagos Islands 4

Gebel Barkal 4

Giant's Causeway 4

Great Smoky Mountains 4

Great Zimbabwe 4

Gros Morne National Park 4

Gulf of California 4

Gunung Mulu 4

Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4

Haeinsa Temple 4

Haghpat and Sanahin 4

Hani Rice Terraces 4

Hattusha 4

Hué 4

Iguazu National Park 4

Imperial Palace 4

Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 4

Kandy 4

Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4

Kraków 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4

Kunya-Urgench 4

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4

Lake Baikal 4

Lakes of Ounianga 4

Lalibela 4

Loire Valley 4

Los Glaciares 4

Mahabalipuram 4

Mana Pools 4

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4

Medina of Fez 4

Medina of Marrakesh 4

Mesa Verde 4

Meteora 4

Mogao Caves 4

Mostar 4

Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4

Namib Sand Sea 4

Nemrut Dag 4

Nubian Monuments 4

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4

Ogasawara Islands 4

Okavango Delta 4

Orkhon Valley 4

Ouro Preto 4

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4

Palenque 4

Pantanal 4

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4

Pattadakal 4

Peninsula Valdes 4

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4

Ping Yao 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Pompei 4

Potala Palace 4

Prague 4

Puebla 4

Pyramids (Memphis) 4

Rainforests of the Atsinanana 4

Ravenna 4

Rila Monastery 4

Rock Islands 4

Samarkand 4

Sangha Trinational 4

Sceilg Mhichíl 4

Selimiye Mosque 4

Serengeti 4

Serra da Capivara 4

Seville 4

St. Petersburg 4

Stone Town of Zanzibar 4

Sukhothai 4

Surtsey 4

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4

São Luis 4

Takht-e Soleyman 4

Taxila 4

Teide National Park 4

The trulli of Alberobello 4

Tikal National Park 4

Toledo 4

Upper Svaneti 4

Val di Noto 4

Vatnajökull National Park 4

Victoria Falls 4

Vilnius 4

Viñales Valley 4

Wadi Al-Hitan 4

Wadi Rum 4

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4

West Norwegian Fjords 4

Western Tien-Shan 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Wulingyuan 4

Yakushima 4

Agrigento 3.5

Amami-Oshima Island 3.5

Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5

Andrefana Dry Forests 3.5

Angra do Heroismo 3.5

Ani 3.5

Anjar 3.5

Anuradhapura 3.5

Aphrodisias 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Aranjuez 3.5

Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5

Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Baroque Churches 3.5

Bauhaus Sites 3.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5

Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5

Białowieża Forest 3.5

Bolgar 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Brugge 3.5

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5

Butrint 3.5

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 3.5

Byblos 3.5

Cape Floral Region 3.5

Carthage 3.5

Causses and Cévennes 3.5

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5

Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5

Congonhas 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Copán 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Cueva de las Manos 3.5

Curonian Spit 3.5

Dacian Fortresses 3.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5

Delos 3.5

Diamantina 3.5

Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.5

Discovery Coast 3.5

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

El Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5

El Pinacate 3.5

Elephanta Caves 3.5

Ellora Caves 3.5

Ephesus 3.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5

Everglades 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5

Fasil Ghebbi 3.5

Fatehpur Sikri 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5

Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5

Gelati Monastery 3.5

Golestan Palace 3.5

Gordion 3.5

Great Wall 3.5

Guanajuato 3.5

Gulf of Porto 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 3.5

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.5

Hegra 3.5

Heritage of Mercury 3.5

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.5

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5

Hiraizumi 3.5

Historic Cairo 3.5

Hoi An 3.5

Huanglong 3.5

Huascaran National Park 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Iguacu 3.5

Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.5

Island of Patmos 3.5

Itchan Kala 3.5

Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.5

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.5

Jiuzhaigou Valley 3.5

Kairouan 3.5

Khami Ruins 3.5

Kilimanjaro National Park 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Kutna Hora 3.5

L'viv 3.5

Land of Frankincense 3.5

Laponian Area 3.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park 3.5

León Cathedral 3.5

Lima 3.5

Longmen Grottoes 3.5

Longobards in Italy 3.5

Los Alerces National Park 3.5

Luang Prabang 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Makli, Thatta 3.5

Malbork Castle 3.5

Maloti-Drakensberg Park 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Mapungubwe 3.5

Matera 3.5

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.5

Medina of Tétouan 3.5

Mistaken Point 3.5

Moenjodaro 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Monastery of Geghard 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Mount Etna 3.5

Mount Taishan 3.5

Mount Wuyi 3.5

Mtskheta 3.5

My Son 3.5

Mystras 3.5

Nessebar 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Ohrid Region 3.5

Old Havana 3.5

Old Town of Lijiang 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5

Panamá 3.5

Paquimé 3.5

Paramaribo 3.5

Pearling 3.5

Pico Island 3.5

Pitons of Reunion 3.5

Plain of Jars 3.5

Plitvice Lakes 3.5

Polonnaruva 3.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5

Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potosi 3.5

Prambanan 3.5

Preah Vihear Temple 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Qadisha Valley 3.5

Quanzhou 3.5

Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5

Quirigua 3.5

Quito 3.5

Quseir Amra 3.5

Qutb Minar 3.5

Québec 3.5

Rani-ki-Vav 3.5

Rhodes 3.5

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 3.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5

Robben Island 3.5

Rock Art of Alta 3.5

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Royal Joseon Tombs 3.5

Rwenzori Mountains 3.5

Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.5

Saint-Emilion 3.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5

Salvador de Bahia 3.5

Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5

San Agustín 3.5

Sanchi 3.5

Sangay National Park 3.5

Santa Cruz de Mompox 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5

Sewell Mining Town 3.5

Sheki 3.5

Shirakami-Sanchi 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

Siena 3.5

Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.5

Simien National Park 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Soltaniyeh 3.5

South China Karst 3.5

Split 3.5

St. George, Bermuda 3.5

Stone Spheres of the Diquís 3.5

Studenica Monastery 3.5

Studley Royal Park 3.5

Summer Palace 3.5

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5

Syracuse 3.5

Tak'alik Ab'aj 3.5

Takht-i-Bahi 3.5

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.5

Tallinn 3.5

Tasmanian Wilderness 3.5

Temple of Heaven 3.5

Teotihuacan 3.5

The Sundarbans 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.5

Tierradentro 3.5

Timbuktu 3.5

Tiwanaku 3.5

Torun 3.5

Tower of London 3.5

Trang An 3.5

Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5

Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5

Tsodilo 3.5

Tyre 3.5

Um er-Rasas 3.5

Urnes Stave Church 3.5

Uxmal 3.5

Vall de Boi 3.5

Vat Phou 3.5

Vatican City 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vienna 3.5

Vigan 3.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5

Villa Romana del Casale 3.5

Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5

Visby 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Vézère Valley 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 3.5

Willemstad 3.5

Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5

Xochicalco 3.5

Yin Xu 3.5

Yogyakarta 3.5

Yungang Grottoes 3.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5

Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3

Abbey of St Gall 3

Aflaj irrigation system 3

Agra Fort 3

Al Ain 3

Albi 3

Antequera Dolmens Site 3

Antigua Guatemala 3

Archaeological site of Philippi 3

Arles 3

Asante Traditional Buildings 3

Asturian Monuments 3

Atlantic Forest South-East 3

Australian Convict Sites 3

Avignon 3

Baekje Historic Areas 3

Bamberg 3

Ban Chiang 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Bardejov Town 3

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3

Belem 3

Belfries 3

Belize Barrier Reef 3

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3

Birka and Hovgarden 3

Blue and John Crow Mountains 3

Bom Jesus do Monte 3

Bordeaux 3

Brasilia 3

Bryggen 3

Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3

Burgundy 3

Cahokia Mounds 3

Canal du Midi 3

Carlsbad Caverns 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3

Caves and Ice Age Art 3

Champaner-Pavagadh 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 3

City of Bath 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3

Coffee Cultural Landscape 3

Colonia del Sacramento 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 3

Corfu 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Corvey 3

Crespi d'Adda 3

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3

Derwent Valley Mills 3

Dolomites 3

Donana National Park 3

Durmitor National Park 3

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3

Eisinga Planetarium 3

El Escurial 3

El Tajin 3

Engelsberg Ironworks 3

Ferrara 3

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3

Forth Bridge 3

Fortifications of Vauban 3

Forts and Castles Gold Coast 3

Fossil Hominid Sites 3

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3

Fray Bentos 3

Fujisan 3

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3

Gammelstad 3

Garajonay 3

Genoa 3

Gobustan Rock Art 3

Grand Canal 3

Graz 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Gyeongju 3

Hahoe and Yangdong 3

Himeji-jo 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Hortobágy 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Hospicio Cabañas 3

Huangshan 3

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 3

Imperial Tombs 3

Ironbridge Gorge 3

Isole Eolie 3

Itsukushima Shrine 3

Ivrea 3

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Jeju 3

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3

Jomon Prehistoric Sites 3

Jongmyo Shrine 3

Joya de Ceren 3

Kaeng Krachan Forest 3

Kaiping Diaolou 3

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3

Kerkuane 3

Kernavė 3

Kii Mountain Range 3

Kinabalu Park 3

Koh Ker 3

Kotor 3

Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3

Kulangsu 3

L'Anse aux Meadows 3

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 3

La Lonja de la Seda 3

Le Havre 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3

Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3

Major Town Houses 3

Matobo Hills 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Mazagan 3

Medici Villas and Gardens 3

Medina Azahara 3

Medina of Sousse 3

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Memorial Sites of Genocide 3

Messel Pit 3

Miguasha National Park 3

Mir Castle 3

Monastery of Alcobaça 3

Monastery of Horezu 3

Monticello 3

Morelia 3

Mountain Resort, Chengde 3

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Mérida 3

Namhansanseong 3

Naples 3

Naumburg Cathedral 3

Nesvizh 3

New Lanark 3

Niah Caves 3

Nisa 3

Novodevichy Convent 3

Old Town Lunenburg 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Olinda 3

Oporto 3

Pampulha 3

Paphos 3

Paraty and Ilha Grande 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Pergamon 3

Petäjävesi Old Church 3

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Pirin National Park 3

Pont du Gard 3

Potsdam 3

Poverty Point 3

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3

Pyu Ancient Cities 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Quedlinburg 3

Rabat 3

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3

Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3

Red Fort 3

Reichenau 3

Rhaetian Railway 3

Riga 3

Rio de Janeiro 3

Rjukan / Notodden 3

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3

Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Rohtas Fort 3

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3

Roșia Montană 3

Ruins of León Viejo 3

Røros 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Safranbolu 3

Salamanca 3

Salzburg 3

San Cristobal de La Laguna 3

San Gimignano 3

San Miguel de Allende 3

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Santiago de Compostela 3

Santo Domingo 3

Saryarka 3

Schönbrunn 3

Semmering Railway 3

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3

Serra de Tramuntana 3

Shakhrisyabz 3

Shiretoko 3

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Southern Öland 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Stari Ras and Sopocani 3

Statue of Liberty 3

Stevns Klint 3

Stećci 3

Stonehenge 3

Strasbourg 3

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3

Sucre 3

Sulaiman-Too 3

Sviyazhsk 3

Sydney Opera House 3

Tabriz Bazaar 3

Talayotic Menorca 3

Tanbaly 3

Taos Pueblo 3

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3

Tequila 3

Thang Long 3

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3

The Porticoes of Bologna 3

Thessalonika 3

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3

Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3

Tombs of Buganda Kings 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Trier 3

Tusi Sites 3

Twyfelfontein 3

University of Coimbra 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Urbino 3

Van Nellefabriek 3

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3

Versailles 3

Via Appia 3

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3

Villa d'Este 3

Vredefort Dome 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wadden Sea 3

Walled City of Baku 3

West Lake 3

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3

Xanthos-Letoon 3

Xidi and Hongcun 3

Zollverein 3

iSimangaliso Wetland Park 3

Avila 2.5

Bagerhat 2.5

Bellinzone 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Camagüey 2.5

Canterbury 2.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5

Church of Atlántida 2.5

Cienfuegos 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Cuenca 2.5

Erbil Citadel 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Guanacaste 2.5

Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2.5

Historic Jeddah 2.5

Hwaseong Fortress 2.5

Ibiza 2.5

Independence Hall 2.5

Kazan Kremlin 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Kuldiga 2.5

Lake District 2.5

Liangzhu Archaeological Site 2.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5

Lushan National Park 2.5

Luther Memorials 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Macao 2.5

Mammoth Cave 2.5

Maritime Greenwich 2.5

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5

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Telc 2

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Tokaji Wine Region 2

Troy 2

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Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5

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