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Historic Jeddah
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 28-Jan-23
Jeddah is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia with a population of nearly five million. The country's commercial centre and the gateway for pilgrims to Mecca. Jeddah is also considered to be the cultural centre of Saudi and the most liberal city in the country. Of course, we couldn't miss it on our journey across the country. Generally, it's an easy visit as there are regular bus and air connections not only from Saudi, but also neighbouring countries.
The drive in was surprisingly long. Not surprisingly, the city is indeed sprawling, and we passed clusters of buildings, commercial and multifunctional centers for dozens of kilometers on the highway. Then comes the attempt to get somewhere near the historic centre of Al-Balad, a World Heritage Site. Remember my previous reviews and my mindless yapping on the subject of permanent reconstruction? Well, Jeddah is no different. One entire neighborhood in the wider city center adjacent to the old city has been practically razed to the ground and is apparently being reconstructed or outright redeveloped. Some roads are blocked or traffic is being diverted because of this
Read OnHegra
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 22-Jan-23
Hegra is Saudi Arabia's paramount tourist attraction and one of the few boasting of an excellent infrastructure ready to handle mass tourism. Correction, it's actually the only place in Saudi Arabia where mass tourism is practiced. Tours are booked in advance and the choices are endless - just choose how much time and money you want to give Hegra. We opted for the classic three-hour guided bus tour, but you can spend a full day here, go privately on a jeep and have a picnic amid the desert sights.
Read OnRijal Almaa (T)
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 02-Jan-23
For this leg of the trip, Ivan and I met up with Thomas and his wife Vanessa who were also travelling around Saudi, testing out their public means of transport. We met up in Abha and spent three days travelling together. Our first outing was the Rijal Almaa Heritage Village located about an hour of a scenic route uphill from Abha. The road is alright, unlike the madness that is the mountain segment of the road from Jeddah to Abha, where I genuinely feared for my life for some really crazy overtaking.
Read OnZee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 30-Dec-22
Zee (also marked as Thee) Ain Heritage Village is a nice detour on the drive from Jeddah to Abha and we enjoyed our visit, I have to say more than Wojciech did. The best visit is definitely by a car as it's off the main road and there are some nice viewpoints along the way. The village is a lovely cluster of houses built out of polished stone, which gave it a moniker of Marble Village. Its official name comes after the river that gathers its water from nearby mountains. It was established in the tenth century and many large tribal battles and invasions took place on its grounds before Saudi unification. The most prominent battle that took place in this region was when the collective force of Zahran and Ghamd tribes clashed with the Turkish army led by Muhammad Ali Pasha
Read OnHejaz Railway (T)
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 30-Dec-22
Hejaz Railway is an interesting nomination and I would say my favourite in Saudi out of the four large serial ones (the three others are pilgrimage hajj routes). It's a coherent collection of sites with an interesting story and many places to see in still quite decent shape. The Hejaz railway was a narrow gauge railway, named after the Hijaz region of present-day Saudi Arabia through which it ran. It connected Damascus in present-day Syria with Medina in Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa (present-day Israel). It was part of the Ottoman railway network and its original purpose was to connect Damascus and Mecca with Istanbul. The builders' grandiose plans were thwarted by the First World War; only the Damascus-Medina line, which was 1,300 kilometres long, was built
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Rating StatsAngkor 5Baalbek 5Istanbul 5Meteora 5Pompei 5Rome 5Granada 4.5Hampi 4.5Hegra 4.5Lake District 4.5Lena Pillars 4.5Matera 4.5Prague 4.5Putorana Plateau 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Vienna 4.5Westminster 4.5Belem 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Bukhara 4Cordoba 4Derbent 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Hoi An 4Hué 4Koh Ker 4Kraków 4Naples 4Oporto 4Paphos 4Pergamon 4Ravenna 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Seville 4Siena 4Sintra 4Syracuse 4Tallinn 4Toledo 4Trang An 4Valletta 4Visby 4Anjar 3.5Anuradhapura 3.5Assisi 3.5Avila 3.5Bamberg 3.5Ban Chiang 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Bisotun 3.5Bryggen 3.5Brú na Bóinne 3.5Burgundy 3.5Butrint 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Cuenca 3.5Delos 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5Dougga/Thugga 3.5El Tajin 3.5Ellora Caves 3.5Garajonay 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Gordion 3.5Hattusha 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Ironbridge Gorge 3.5Isole Eolie 3.5Kerkuane 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Kotor 3.5Kronborg Castle 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5Le Morne 3.5Lyon 3.5Lübeck 3.5Masada 3.5Medina Azahara 3.5Medina of Fez 3.5Medina of Tunis 3.5Mostar 3.5Nice 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Olympia 3.5Pattadakal 3.5Persian Garden 3.5Pienza 3.5Pont du Gard 3.5Potsdam 3.5Puebla 3.5Qadisha Valley 3.5Querétaro 3.5Qutb Minar 3.5Regensburg 3.5Reims 3.5Rhodes 3.5Riga 3.5Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Shushtar 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Sinharaja Forest 3.5Skogskyrkogarden 3.5Split 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Tabriz Bazaar 3.5Tequila 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Torun 3.5Trier 3.5Trogir 3.5Troy 3.5Val d'Orcia 3.5Vall de Boi 3.5Verona 3.5Vilnius 3.5Viñales Valley 3.5Volubilis 3.5Wadi Al-Hitan 3.5Warsaw 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Western Ghats 3.5Xanthos-Letoon 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Zacatecas 3.5Çatalhöyük 3.5Aquileia 3Aranjuez 3Arles 3Belfries 3Bolgar 3Bordeaux 3Byblos 3Caceres 3Carthage 3Corvey 3Elvas 3Ferrara 3Genoa 3Hollókö 3L'viv 3Le Havre 3Mafra 3Morelia 3Mtskheta 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Nancy 3Nessebar 3Novgorod 3Pearling 3Provins 3Qalhat 3Rabat 3Røros 3Tarraco 3Telc 3Tyre 3Urbino 3Vézelay 3Yazd 3Zamość 3Al Ain 2.5Al-Ahsa Oasis 2.5Ancient Merv 2.5Bahla Fort 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Camino Real 2.5Choirokoitia 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Crespi d'Adda 2.5Danube Limes 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Historic Jeddah 2.5Ibiza 2.5Ivrea 2.5Jelling 2.5Kandy 2.5Kernavė 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Madara Rider 2.5Maymand 2.5Mazagan 2.5Meknes 2.5Mir Castle 2.5Modena 2.5Modernist Kaunas 2.5My Son 2.5Nesvizh 2.5New Lanark 2.5Sammallahdenmäki 2.5ShUM Sites 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Stećci 2.5Tanbaly 2.5Thang Long 2.5Turaif Quarter 2.5Vegaøyan 2.5Vlkolinec 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Camagüey 2Corfu 2Nisa 2Saltaire 2Sarazm 2Saryarka 2Susa 2Trebic 2Aapravasi Ghat 1.5Al Zubarah 1.5Battir 1.5Hortobágy 1.5Kuldiga 1.5Pasargadae 1.5Schokland 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Historic Jeddah
- Hegra
- Rock Art in the Hail Region
- Al-Ahsa Oasis
- Turaif Quarter
- Derbent
- Putorana Plateau
- Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake
- Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
- Landscapes of Dauria
- Central Sikhote-Alin
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Koh Ker
- My Son
- Hoi An
- Hué
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- Trang An
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Thang Long
- Vlkolinec
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Tyre
- Qadisha Valley
- Byblos
- Anjar
- Baalbek
- Pearling
- Sigiriya
- Qalhat
- Western Caucasus
- Lake Baikal
- Virgin Komi Forests
- Ferapontov Monastery
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Lena Pillars
- Sarazm
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Tauric Chersonese
Visited TWHS
- Alisadr Cave (T)
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization (T)
- Ancient City of Kaunos (T)
- Ancient City of Stratonikeia (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Archaeological site of Laodikeia (T)
- Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans (T)
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
- Bashkir Ural (T)
- Beng Malea Temple (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior with the Medieval Rampart City Wall of Pereslavl-Zalessky (1152-1157) (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Centre historique de la ville de Gorokhovets (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Dana Biosphere Reserve (T)
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Egyptian Hajj Road (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- El Fayoum (T)
- Ensemble of the Astrakhan Kremlin (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fann mountains (T)
- Firuzabad Ensemble (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Gemer and Abov churches with the medieval mural paintings (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Hejaz Railway (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kekova (T)
- Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
- Khorramabad Valley (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization (T)
- Krasnoyarsk Stolby (T)
- Kuressaare Fortress (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Medieval City of Beçin (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
- Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes (T)
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Rijal Almaa Heritage Village in Assir Region (T)
- Rostov Kremlin (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- Shush (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Silk Route (Also as Silk Road) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of Great Moravia: Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice - Church of St.Margaret at Kopcani (T)
- St. Nicholas Church (T)
- Syrian Hajj Road (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
- Taq-e Bostan (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Ancient Walled Oases of Northern Arabia (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- The Collection of Historical Bridges (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Hajj Pilgrimage Routes: The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi)) (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Historical Port City of Izmir (T)
- The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai (T)
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
- The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Virgin Komi Forests (re-nomination) (T)
- Vyatskoe village (T)
- Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakhon Si Thammarat (T)
- Western Caucasus (re-nomination) (T)
- Wooded meadows (Laelatu, Kalli-Nedrema, Mäepea, Allika, Tagamoisa, Loode, Koiva, Halliste) (T)
- Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Rijal Almaa (T)
- Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)
- Hejaz Railway (T)
- Egyptian Hajj Road (T)
- Syrian Hajj Road (T)
- The Ancient Walled Oases of Northern Arabia (T)
- The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi) (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- Beng Malea Temple (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches (T)
- Kosice (T)
- Centre historique de la ville de Gorokhovets (T)
- Barbar Temple (T)
- The forts of Rostaq and al-Hazm (T)
- Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Chernobyl
- Communist heritage of Volgograd
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Divided Cities along the German Border
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Modern Legacy of Vienna
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Olympic Park in Munich
- The Soviet Architecture of Moscow
- Transiberian Railway