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Historic Jeddah

Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 28-Jan-23

Historic Jeddah

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

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Hegra

Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 22-Jan-23

Hegra

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.

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Rijal Almaa (T)

Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 02-Jan-23

Rijal Almaa  (T)

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.

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Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)

Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 30-Dec-22

Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)

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

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Hejaz Railway (T)

Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 30-Dec-22

Hejaz Railway (T)

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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Bryggen 3.5
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Butrint 3.5
Cuenca 3.5
Delos 3.5
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Le Morne 3.5
Lyon 3.5
Lübeck 3.5
Masada 3.5
Mostar 3.5
Nice 3.5
Olympia 3.5
Pienza 3.5
Potsdam 3.5
Puebla 3.5
Reims 3.5
Rhodes 3.5
Riga 3.5
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Torun 3.5
Trier 3.5
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Troy 3.5
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Warsaw 3.5
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Ivrea 2.5
Jelling 2.5
Kandy 2.5
Kernavė 2.5
Maymand 2.5
Mazagan 2.5
Meknes 2.5
Modena 2.5
My Son 2.5
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Tanbaly 2.5
Vegaøyan 2.5
Vlkolinec 2.5
Corfu 2
Nisa 2
Sarazm 2
Susa 2
Trebic 2
Battir 1.5
Kuldiga 1.5
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  1. Alisadr Cave (T)
  2. Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization (T)
  3. Ancient City of Kaunos (T)
  4. Ancient City of Stratonikeia (T)
  5. Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
  6. Archaeological site of Laodikeia (T)
  7. Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans (T)
  8. Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
  9. Bashkir Ural (T)
  10. Beng Malea Temple (T)
  11. Bet She'an (T)
  12. Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
  13. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
  14. Caesarea (T)
  15. Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior with the Medieval Rampart City Wall of Pereslavl-Zalessky (1152-1157) (T)
  16. Central Park (T)
  17. Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
  18. Centre historique de la ville de Gorokhovets (T)
  19. Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
  20. Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
  21. Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
  22. Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
  23. Coastal Cliffs (T)
  24. Dana Biosphere Reserve (T)
  25. Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
  26. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
  27. Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
  28. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
  29. Egyptian Hajj Road (T)
  30. Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
  31. El Fayoum (T)
  32. Ensemble of the Astrakhan Kremlin (T)
  33. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
  34. Fann mountains (T)
  35. Firuzabad Ensemble (T)
  36. Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
  37. Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills (T)
  38. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
  39. Gemer and Abov churches with the medieval mural paintings (T)
  40. Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
  41. Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
  42. Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
  43. Hejaz Railway (T)
  44. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
  45. Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
  46. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
  47. Jerusalem (T)
  48. Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
  49. Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
  50. Kekova (T)
  51. Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
  52. Khorramabad Valley (T)
  53. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
  54. Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization (T)
  55. Krasnoyarsk Stolby (T)
  56. Kuressaare Fortress (T)
  57. Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
  58. L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
  59. Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
  60. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
  61. Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
  62. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
  63. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) (T)
  64. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
  65. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
  66. Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
  67. Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
  68. Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" (T)
  69. Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
  70. Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
  71. Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus (T)
  72. Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
  73. Medieval City of Beçin (T)
  74. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
  75. Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
  76. Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
  77. Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
  78. Mývatn and Laxá (T)
  79. Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
  80. Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
  81. Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes (T)
  82. Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (T)
  83. Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
  84. Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
  85. Orvieto (T)
  86. Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
  87. Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
  88. Rijal Almaa Heritage Village in Assir Region (T)
  89. Rostov Kremlin (T)
  90. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
  91. Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
  92. Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
  93. Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
  94. Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
  95. Shush (T)
  96. Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
  97. Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
  98. Silk Route (Also as Silk Road) (T)
  99. Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
  100. Sites of Great Moravia: Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice - Church of St.Margaret at Kopcani (T)
  101. St. Nicholas Church (T)
  102. Syrian Hajj Road (T)
  103. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
  104. System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
  105. Taq-e Bostan (T)
  106. Tbilisi Historic District (T)
  107. Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
  108. That Luang de Vientiane (T)
  109. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
  110. The Ancient Walled Oases of Northern Arabia (T)
  111. The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
  112. The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
  113. The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
  114. The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
  115. The Collection of Historical Bridges (T)
  116. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
  117. The Fortress of Terezín (T)
  118. The Hajj Pilgrimage Routes: The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi)) (T)
  119. The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
  120. The Historical Port City of Izmir (T)
  121. The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai (T)
  122. The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
  123. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
  124. The Karlstejn Castle (T)
  125. The Lofoten islands (T)
  126. The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
  127. The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
  128. The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
  129. The Spa at Luhacovice (T)
  130. Tokaj Wine Region (T)
  131. Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
  132. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
  133. Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
  134. Virgin Komi Forests (re-nomination) (T)
  135. Vyatskoe village (T)
  136. Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakhon Si Thammarat (T)
  137. Western Caucasus (re-nomination) (T)
  138. Wooded meadows (Laelatu, Kalli-Nedrema, Mäepea, Allika, Tagamoisa, Loode, Koiva, Halliste) (T)
  139. Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)

Top 50 Missing Sites

  1. Chernobyl
  2. Communist heritage of Volgograd
  3. Cultural Landscape of Santorini
  4. Divided Cities along the German Border
  5. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
  6. Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
  7. Minoan palaces of Crete
  8. Modern Legacy of Vienna
  9. Neuschwanstein Castle
  10. Olympic Park in Munich
  11. The Soviet Architecture of Moscow
  12. Transiberian Railway