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I like the concept of World Heritage, and I like to travel, so combining these two is very enjoyable. However, I don't travel outside of Europe that often, so my ultimate goal would be to visit all WH sites in Europe.

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Delos

Klaus Freisinger Austria - 17-Oct-19

Delos is famous for both mythological and actual historic reasons. It was supposedly the birthplace of Apollo and his sister Artemis, and was thus revered as a sacred site from earliest times. The mighty statue of Apollo was considered to be the most sacred site in Greece (only the base survives today). The island was thus a destination for countless pilgrims, and not only hosted a famous oracle and the Delian Festival, but also the main slave market of the Mediterranean world. During the time of the Delian league and the Athenian hegemony on the seas, it was the location of the league's huge treasury

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Water Management System of Augsburg

Klaus Freisinger Austria - 08-Jul-19

Augsburg is a great historic city with many interesting features and one would have expected a nomination of the historic centre and/or the Fuggerei (the social housing complex built by the world's wealthiest family at the time). The nomination of the water management system came as a bit of a surprise to me, but I guess this is a way to stand out from the crowd of medieval cities and to put a more unique angle on their historic heritage. It's of course not the only WH site focussing on water management, but it does give a rare overview of its historic development from Roman and medieval to modern times. Basically any visit to Augsburg will bring you in contact with this site, and it is very pleasant to walk through this historic city and admire its many beautiful buildings

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Vizcaya Bridge

Klaus Freisinger Austria - 08-Jul-19

A short trip to the great city of Bilbao can be easily combined with an excursion to this unique bridge. There are both metro and train lines to Portugalete and Getxo (the towns on each riverbank) and it's just a short walk from the stations. Of course, you can see its impressive silhouette from far away already. The easiest way to use the bridge is to hop on a gondola, which runs every few minutes and only costs 45 cents for pedestrians (of course more for cyclists, motorbikers and cars). The downside is that you don't see a lot of the bridge above you, so for serious visitors, a tour of the footbridge on top is recommended (10 euros). First you walk to the platform above the ticket/souvenir shop, where you will be picked up by a guide and shown the way to the lift

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Luther Memorials

Klaus Freisinger Austria - 30-Apr-19

For anyone interested in history, this is a great site to visit, even though, as mentioned in some other reviews, the authenticity of some of the components is at least questionable. The famous Schlosskirche, for instance, was heavily damaged during the Seven Years' War, and the door where Luther posted his 95 Theses, and which can therefore be considered the birthplace of the Protestant faith, was destroyed by fire. What you can see now is just a 19th-century replica. The church itself is still quite impressive and an interesting place to visit (especially for the tombs of Luther and Melanchthon). Equally impressive is St

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Naumburg Cathedral

Klaus Freisinger Austria - 21-Apr-19

Naumburg Cathedral is clearly not the first cathedral on the list and it's a fair guess that it won't be the last, but I have to say it is one of the nicest ones - by which I mean that it is really well-preserved, with hardly any post-medieval alterations, and gives the look and feel of an authentic church from the Middle Ages. Its four towers can be seen from far away, and its interior is full of fine late Romance and early Gothic archiecture, especially the works by the so-called Naumburg Master. There is also a very nice cloister and a treasury

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Name: Klaus Freisinger
Country: Austria
Most Impressive: Rome and Grand Canyon
Proposal: Mount Vesuvius and Phlegreian Fields, Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge, Windsor Castle, Death Valley National Park, Old Town of Hall in Tirol and Schwaz Silver Mines, Historic Centre of Innsbruck and Ambras Castle, Bavarian Royal Castles, Moon Landing Sites: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center and Houston/Johnson Space Center (Mission Control)

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Grand Canyon 5

Great Barrier Reef 5

Kakadu National Park 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rome 5

Uluru 5

Acropolis 4.5

Ancient Thebes 4.5

Florence 4.5

Granada 4.5

Nubian Monuments 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Ravenna 4.5

Stonehenge 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Amphitheater of El Jem 4

Auschwitz Birkenau 4

Belem 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Canterbury 4

Carthage 4

Castel del Monte 4

Cordoba 4

Delos 4

Edinburgh 4

Everglades 4

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4

Giant's Causeway 4

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4

Hallstatt-Dachstein 4

Kraków 4

Loire Valley 4

Luther Memorials 4

Maritime Greenwich 4

Medina Azahara 4

Megalithic Temples of Malta 4

Meteora 4

Mont-Saint-Michel 4

Monticello 4

Olympia 4

Olympic National Park 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Pompei 4

Pont du Gard 4

Prague 4

Route of Santiago de Compostela 4

Salamanca 4

Salzburg 4

Santa Maria delle Grazie 4

Santo Domingo 4

Sintra 4

Statue of Liberty 4

Toledo 4

Trier 4

Versailles 4

Vienna 4

Vézère Valley 4

Westminster 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5

Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5

Arles 3.5

Assisi 3.5

Blenheim Palace 3.5

Cahokia Mounds 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Chartres Cathedral 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Dolomites 3.5

Dubrovnik 3.5

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5

El Escurial 3.5

Epidaurus 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fortifications of Vauban 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Graz 3.5

Kairouan 3.5

La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5

Longobards in Italy 3.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5

Mérida 3.5

Naples 3.5

Naumburg Cathedral 3.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5

Plitvice Lakes 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Quedlinburg 3.5

Québec 3.5

Regensburg 3.5

Reims 3.5

Rhaetian Railway 3.5

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5

Schönbrunn 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Semmering Railway 3.5

Siena 3.5

Skocjan Caves 3.5

Southern Öland 3.5

Speyer Cathedral 3.5

Split 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Studley Royal Park 3.5

Sydney Opera House 3.5

Tallinn 3.5

The trulli of Alberobello 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Verona 3.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5

Visby 3.5

Vizcaya Bridge 3.5

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5

West Norwegian Fjords 3.5

Zollverein 3.5

Abbey of St Gall 3

Alcala de Henares 3

Amiens Cathedral 3

Avila 3

Bamberg 3

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3

Birka and Hovgarden 3

Bordeaux 3

Bourges Cathedral 3

Bryggen 3

Caceres 3

Canal du Midi 3

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3

Churches of Peace 3

City of Bath 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cologne Cathedral 3

Corfu 3

Danube Limes 3

Dutch Water Defence Lines 3

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3

Elvas 3

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3

Falun Great Copper Mountain 3

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3

Forth Bridge 3

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Greater Blue Mountains 3

Grimeton Radio Station 3

Historic Cairo 3

Ibiza 3

Independence Hall 3

Kinderdijk 3

Kotor 3

Kronborg Castle 3

Kutna Hora 3

Laurisilva of Madeira 3

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Matera 3

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Medina of Tunis 3

Monastery of Alcobaça 3

Monastery of Batalha 3

Nancy 3

New Lanark 3

Old City of Berne 3

Palmeral of Elche 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Poblet Monastery 3

Reichenau 3

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3

Riga 3

Rock Carvings in Tanum 3

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3

Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3

Serra de Tramuntana 3

Skogskyrkogarden 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

St. George, Bermuda 3

Tarraco 3

Telc 3

The Porticoes of Bologna 3

Thessalonika 3

Tower of London 3

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3

Trogir 3

Tugendhat Villa 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Urbino 3

Vilnius 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wartburg Castle 3

Wet Tropics of Queensland 3

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3

Würzburg Residence 3

Albi 2.5

Aranjuez 2.5

Bauhaus Sites 2.5

Belfries 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5

Cuenca 2.5

Drottningholm 2.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5

Evora 2.5

Ferrara 2.5

Flemish Béguinages 2.5

Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5

Genoa 2.5

Holy Trinity Column 2.5

Jelling 2.5

Karlskrona 2.5

Kernavė 2.5

Kew Gardens 2.5

Medina of Sousse 2.5

Modena 2.5

Muskauer Park 2.5

Pannonhalma 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5

Provins 2.5

Roskilde Cathedral 2.5

Saint-Emilion 2.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.5

Stari Grad Plain 2.5

Trebic 2.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 2.5

Úbeda and Baeza 2.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2

Banska Stiavnica 2

Bardejov Town 2

Beemster Polder 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2

Caves and Ice Age Art 2

Centennial Hall 2

Crespi d'Adda 2

Durmitor National Park 2

Great Spa Towns of Europe 2

Holasovice 2

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2

La Lonja de la Seda 2

Le Havre 2

Litomysl Castle 2

Lower German Limes 2

Messel Pit 2

Nice 2

Plečnik's Ljubljana 2

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2

Saltaire 2

ShUM Sites 2

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2

Van Nellefabriek 2

Villa d'Este 2

Warsaw 2

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2

Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro

Venetian Works of Defence

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Delos

Water Management System of Augsburg

Vizcaya Bridge

Luther Memorials

Naumburg Cathedral

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