Tarquinio_Superbo Profile

I live in Italy, on the island of Ischia and run a luxury B&B. I started systematically visiting WHSs 7 years ago. Working with the tourism system, I have long vacation period every year in the winter. As a rule, when visiting a new country, I always focus on WHSs first. If the country is small and there are few objects (up to 6-10), then I try to visit them all the first time, and usually I don't come back to that country again. This was the case with Jordan, Croatia, Lebanon and Morocco. At the moment, in my opinion, Iran is the country where WHSs deserve the most attention.

Italy Last Update 07.11.24 439 WHS Visited 2 Reviews 439 WHS Rated 81 TWHS Visited

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Vjetrenica Cave

Tarquinio_Superbo Italy - 28-Jul-24

Vjetrenica Cave

To get to Vjetrenica cave you need a car, as the place is located far from large cities and the nearby village is not connected by public transport. Personally, I liked the surrounding area and the road to the cave more than the cave itself. It is open every day with the possibility of visiting every hour with guided tour. Translated from the local language, the cave is called Windy, although, as the guide explained to us (he spoke English very well), the wind blows inside the cave only in the summer time. Since our visit was in Marth we didn't notice any wind inside at all. In general, the cave is small and it is not different from ordinary karst caves in Europe. The real motive for including it in the list of WHS is not entirely clear

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White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

Tarquinio_Superbo Italy - 15-Apr-24

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

WHS includes 2 cities (Vladimir and Suzdal) and two villages (Bogolyubovo and Kideksha). Getting to Vladimir is quite easy from Moscow (train or bus), or from Kazan, where 2 other WHSs are located. We took a night bus from Kazan. It did not stop in Vladimir itself, but dropped us off on the highway near the city. After crossing the highway through a upground pedestrian crossing, we had to wait for a bus to the center of Vladimir on the other side of the highway. You need to get off directly at the Golden Gate stop (the first WHS facility). It is enough to go through the gate and continue walking along the main wide street: Bolshaya Moskovskaya to reach two cathedrals: the Assumption and Dmitrievsky

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Convent of Christ (Tomar)
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City of Lucca, Jerash, Cnosso
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    Petra 5
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    Poblet Monastery 5
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    Reims 5
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    Route of Santiago de Compostela 5
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    Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 5
    Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 5
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    Villa d'Este 5
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    West Norwegian Fjords 5
    Westminster 5
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    Assisi 4.5
    Asturian Monuments 4.5
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    Baalbek 4.5
    Bamberg 4.5
    Berat and Gjirokastra 4.5
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    Brú na Bóinne 4.5
    Caceres 4.5
    Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.5
    Churches of Peace 4.5
    Cologne Cathedral 4.5
    Dolomites 4.5
    El Escurial 4.5
    Evora 4.5
    Ferrara 4.5
    Gelati Monastery 4.5
    Gobustan Rock Art 4.5
    Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
    Hattusha 4.5
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5
    Isole Eolie 4.5
    Kew Gardens 4.5
    Kotor 4.5
    Kraków 4.5
    Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 4.5
    Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4.5
    Longobards in Italy 4.5
    Lübeck 4.5
    Matera 4.5
    Medina Azahara 4.5
    Meteora 4.5
    Modena 4.5
    Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 4.5
    Mérida 4.5
    Old City of Berne 4.5
    Par force hunting landscape 4.5
    Persian Garden 4.5
    Roskilde Cathedral 4.5
    Royal Palace at Caserta 4.5
    Sintra 4.5
    Southern Öland 4.5
    The Porticoes of Bologna 4.5
    Tower of London 4.5
    Trier 4.5
    University of Coimbra 4.5
    Venetian Works of Defence 4.5
    Visby 4.5
    White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.5
    Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 4.5
    Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 4.5
    Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 4.5
    Aachen Cathedral 4
    Abbey of St Gall 4
    Albi 4
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 4
    Archaeological Site of Delphi 4
    Arles 4
    Bardejov Town 4
    Belfries 4
    Bellinzone 4
    Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 4
    Botanical Garden, Padua 4
    Burgundy 4
    Bursa and Cumalikizik 4
    Canterbury 4
    Carthage 4
    Castel del Monte 4
    Choirokoitia 4
    Curonian Spit 4
    Donana National Park 4
    Durham Castle and Cathedral 4
    Edinburgh 4
    Ephesus 4
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4
    Grand Place, Brussels 4
    Guimarães 4
    High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 4
    Jelling 4
    Kremlin and Red Square 4
    Masada 4
    Medina of Fez 4
    Medina of Tunis 4
    Meknes 4
    Monte San Giorgio 4
    Mtskheta 4
    Mycenae and Tiryns 4
    Necropolis of Bet She'arim 4
    Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 4
    Orange 4
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 4
    Pergamon 4
    Persepolis 4
    Persian Caravanserai 4
    Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4
    Primeval Beech Forests 4
    Qadisha Valley 4
    Quseir Amra 4
    Regensburg 4
    Reichenau 4
    Rila Monastery 4
    Roman Walls of Lugo 4
    Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4
    Salvador de Bahia 4
    San Cristobal de La Laguna 4
    Santa Maria de Guadalupe 4
    Santa Maria delle Grazie 4
    Split 4
    Stari Grad Plain 4
    Stevns Klint 4
    Tarraco 4
    Teide National Park 4
    The trulli of Alberobello 4
    Tower of Hercules 4
    Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 4
    Trinity Sergius Lavra 4
    Troy 4
    Urnes Stave Church 4
    Vall de Boi 4
    Valletta 4
    Via Appia 4
    Vienna 4
    Villages with Fortified Churches 4
    Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 4
    Wartburg Castle 4
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 4
    Zamość 4
    Al Ain 3.5
    Anjar 3.5
    Antequera Dolmens Site 3.5
    Aphrodisias 3.5
    Aranjuez 3.5
    Bahá’i Holy Places 3.5
    Budapest 3.5
    Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.5
    Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3.5
    Dilmun Burial Mounds 3.5
    Dubrovnik 3.5
    Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5
    Epidaurus 3.5
    Flemish Béguinages 3.5
    Fontainebleau 3.5
    Gammelstad 3.5
    Gordion 3.5
    Gulf of Porto 3.5
    Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.5
    Kazan Kremlin 3.5
    Kutna Hora 3.5
    Las Medulas 3.5
    Mount Carmel Caves 3.5
    Novodevichy Convent 3.5
    Ohrid Region 3.5
    Olympia 3.5
    Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
    Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
    Palmeral of Elche 3.5
    Plitvice Lakes 3.5
    Pont du Gard 3.5
    Provins 3.5
    Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
    Rabat 3.5
    Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5
    Rhaetian Railway 3.5
    Rio de Janeiro 3.5
    Safranbolu 3.5
    Schönbrunn 3.5
    Sheki 3.5
    Skocjan Caves 3.5
    Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.5
    Studenica Monastery 3.5
    Thessalonika 3.5
    Torun 3.5
    Trogir 3.5
    Vlkolinec 3.5
    Walled City of Baku 3.5
    Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 3.5
    Yaroslavl 3.5
    Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5
    Alcala de Henares 3
    Aquileia 3
    Archaeological site of Philippi 3
    Atapuerca 3
    Auschwitz Birkenau 3
    Beemster Polder 3
    Biblical Tells 3
    Bryggen 3
    Byblos 3
    City of Bath 3
    City of Luxembourg 3
    Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3
    Dorset and East Devon Coast 3
    Drottningholm 3
    Durmitor National Park 3
    Evaporitic Karst and Caves 3
    Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3
    Golestan Palace 3
    Gorham's Cave Complex 3
    Gwynedd Castles 3
    Holy Trinity Column 3
    Incense Route of the Negev 3
    Kronborg Castle 3
    Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3
    Lyon 3
    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3
    Maritime Greenwich 3
    Masjed-e Jâme' 3
    Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3
    Medina of Marrakesh 3
    Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 3
    Mystras 3
    Old City of Acre 3
    Old City of Jerusalem 3
    Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3
    Paphos 3
    Pasargadae 3
    Pirin National Park 3
    Plantin-Moretus Museum 3
    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3
    Sammallahdenmäki 3
    Selimiye Mosque 3
    Skogskyrkogarden 3
    Stari Ras and Sopocani 3
    Sviyazhsk 3
    Talayotic Menorca 3
    Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3
    The Four Lifts 3
    Tyre 3
    Vilnius 3
    Volubilis 3
    Wadden Sea 3
    Banska Stiavnica 2.5
    Boyana Church 2.5
    Butrint 2.5
    Canal du Midi 2.5
    Corfu 2.5
    Danube Limes 2.5
    Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
    Giant's Causeway 2.5
    Graz 2.5
    Heritage of Mercury 2.5
    Ibiza 2.5
    Karlskrona 2.5
    Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
    Litomysl Castle 2.5
    Medina of Tétouan 2.5
    Old Rauma 2.5
    Petäjävesi Old Church 2.5
    Riga 2.5
    Sighisoara 2.5
    Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
    Tallinn 2.5
    Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2.5
    Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2.5
    Vjetrenica Cave 2.5
    Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 2
    Al Zubarah 2
    Blenheim Palace 2
    Bolgar 2
    Centennial Hall 2
    Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2
    Fortifications of Vauban 2
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 2
    Great Spa Towns of Europe 2
    Grimeton Radio Station 2
    Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 2
    Kinderdijk 2
    Kladruby nad Labem 2
    Madara Rider 2
    Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2
    Monastery of Horezu 2
    Moravian Church Settlements 2
    Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2
    Nesvizh 2
    Nice 2
    Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2
    Pearling 2
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 2
    Qal'at al-Bahrain 2
    Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli 2
    Rjukan / Notodden 2
    Røros 2
    Serra de Tramuntana 2
    Telc 2
    The Prosecco Hills 2
    Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2
    Vizcaya Bridge 2
    Warsaw 2
    Bethlehem 1.5
    Dutch Water Defence Lines 1.5
    Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5
    Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 1.5
    Hollókö 1.5
    Hortobágy 1.5
    Kernavė 1.5
    Kuldiga 1.5
    Mazagan 1.5
    Medina of Essaouira 1.5
    Mir Castle 1.5
    Nessebar 1.5
    Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 1.5
    Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5
    The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 1.5
    Trebic 1.5
    Um er-Rasas 1.5
    Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 1.5
    Žatec – Landscape of Hops 1.5
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1
    Battir 1
    Colonies of Benevolence 1
    Danube Delta 1
    Fagus Factory 1
    Forth Bridge 1
    Holasovice 1
    Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1
    Ironbridge Gorge 1
    Ivrea 1
    La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1
    Mining Sites of Wallonia 1
    Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1
    Pannonhalma 1
    Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 1
    Schokland 1
    Semmering Railway 1
    Srebarna Nature Reserve 1
    Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 1
    Tokaji Wine Region 1
    Tugendhat Villa 1
    As-Salt 0.5
    Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University 0.5
    Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
    Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 0.5
    Crespi d'Adda 0.5
    Jodrell Bank Observatory 0.5
    Major Town Houses 0.5
    Modernist Kaunas 0.5
    Rietveld Schröderhuis 0.5
    Stoclet House 0.5
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 0.5
    Van Nellefabriek 0.5
    White City of Tel-Aviv 0.5
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    79. Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
    80. Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
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