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Finland Last Update 22.11.24 191 WHS Visited 37 Reviews 193 WHS Rated 59 TWHS Visited

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Beijing Central Axis

Tony H. Finland - 10-Dec-24

Visited in June 2024 just before the site was added to the WH list. On this review I will focus on the parts of the axis that are not inscribed otherwise, so I'm skipping Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City and Wanning Bridge in this review.

After visiting Temple of Heaven I exited it through the western gate. From here starts Yongdingmen Park and I was surprised to see almost immediately a map of the Beijing Central Axis that showed the core zone and the buffer zone of the WH site! On the map Yongdingmen Park was marked as "Southern Section Road Archeological Sites". Walking bit further into the park there were other maps showing the exact spots of these archaeological sites

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Lower German Limes

Tony H. Finland - 09-Dec-24

I visited in April 2024 the DOMunder experience in Utrecht. Like previous reviewer has explained, you get to go under the Domplein square to explore with flashlights the ruins of the Dom Church's nave that was destroyed by a tornado(!) in 1647. However, besides the church ruins you can see also other ruins from different time periods, one of them being the Roman period. There is a very tiny part of the Roman wall on show as the Roman ruins are not the main focus of the DOMunder.

The DOMunder tour started with a presentation in the basement of Utrecht Music School where the guide goes through also the Roman history of the Domplein

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Summer Palace

Tony H. Finland - 08-Dec-24

I visited the Summer Palace in June 2024. The palace is located at the outskirts of Beijing so going there by public transport takes some time. I took the subway to Beigongmen station that makes you to access the palace grounds from the north entrance. This entrance was quite peaceful as bus tour groups seem to enter from the east entrance. I bought the ticket that allows access to all the different sites in the palace grounds but you can also opt for cheaper ticket that allows you to stroll just the gardens, which are still a lot to see.

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Beemster Polder

Tony H. Finland - 11-Nov-24

I visited the Beemster polder in April 2024 and April might be the best month to do it as you get to see the stereotypical tulip fields in full bloom and I was also lucky with sunny and warm weather. I think the polder has bit too negative reviews here! Yes, it looks just like anywhere else in the Netherlands but at least I enjoy that landscape. Also, for me the farm houses in the polder looked older than usually so it did have a bit more historical feel to it (or I just imagined it so that the polder would feel more special).

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Imperial Palace

Tony H. Finland - 04-Nov-24

I visited the Forbidden City in June 2024. You need to buy the tickets for the palace beforehand online. I did it through the official site and had no problems with it. Tickets become available 7 days in advance and if you plan to visit on weekend, on public holiday or during the morning slot you need to be on the website right when new batch of tickets become available. I found the afternoon tickets to be available even for next day on some weekdays but I scored for myself morning ticket during a weekday.

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Name: Tony H.
Country: Finland
Most Impressive: - Great Pyramids of Giza- Old City of Jerusalem
Proposal: The rock paintings of Astuvansalmi at Ristiina, Finland.

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Ancient Kyoto 5

Ephesus 5

Florence 5

Granada 5

Istanbul 5

Medina of Marrakesh 5

Mountain Railways of India 5

Nemrut Dag 5

Old City of Jerusalem 5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 5

Persepolis 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rome 5

Taj Mahal 5

Vatican City 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Vienna 5

Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5

Dolomites 4.5

Dubrovnik 4.5

Giant's Causeway 4.5

Great Wall 4.5

Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5

Haghpat and Sanahin 4.5

Imperial Palace 4.5

L'viv 4.5

Prague 4.5

Riga 4.5

St. Petersburg 4.5

Upper Svaneti 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Nara 4

Beijing Central Axis 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Central Highlands 4

Churches of Moldavia 4

Curonian Spit 4

Gelati Monastery 4

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4

Hegra 4

Historic Cairo 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4

Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4

Nancy 4

Prambanan 4

Qutb Minar 4

Rhaetian Railway 4

Rietveld Schröderhuis 4

Rila Monastery 4

Schönbrunn 4

Seville 4

Summer Palace 4

Tallinn 4

Temple of Heaven 4

Trang An 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Vilnius 4

West Norwegian Fjords 4

Yazd 4

Acropolis 3.5

Agra Fort 3.5

Banska Stiavnica 3.5

Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5

Borobudur 3.5

Boyana Church 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Cordoba 3.5

Eisinga Planetarium 3.5

Fatehpur Sikri 3.5

Grand Place, Brussels 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Hué 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3.5

Mostar 3.5

Old City of Acre 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Persian Garden 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vlkolinec 3.5

Warsaw 3.5

Anuradhapura 3

Ayutthaya 3

Bardejov Town 3

Bethlehem 3

Białowieża Forest 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3

Butrint 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cologne Cathedral 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Fortress of Suomenlinna 3

Golestan Palace 3

Göbekli Tepe 3

Hattusha 3

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3

Hoi An 3

Itsukushima Shrine 3

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Kernavė 3

Kotor 3

Major Town Houses 3

Maritime Greenwich 3

Masjed-e Jâme' 3

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Monastery of Geghard 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

My Son 3

Nikko 3

Ohrid Region 3

Old Rauma 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Petäjävesi Old Church 3

Plečnik's Ljubljana 3

Québec 3

Red Fort 3

Safranbolu 3

Sammallahdenmäki 3

San Marino and Mount Titano 3

Selimiye Mosque 3

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3

Skogskyrkogarden 3

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Syracuse 3

Tower of London 3

Troy 3

Val di Noto 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3

Westminster 3

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3

Çatalhöyük 3

Bahá’i Holy Places 2.5

Belfries 2.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.5

Drottningholm 2.5

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 2.5

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5

Genbaku Dome 2.5

Historic Jeddah 2.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Kinderdijk 2.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5

Mtskheta 2.5

Nice 2.5

Pasargadae 2.5

Roskilde Cathedral 2.5

The Porticoes of Bologna 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5

Bali Subak system 2

Beemster Polder 2

Belem 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2

Bryggen 2

Danube Limes 2

Dutch Water Defence Lines 2

Erbil Citadel 2

Grand Canal 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Kandy 2

Mir Castle 2

Nesvizh 2

Rideau Canal 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Struve Geodetic Arc 2

Thang Long 2

Thessalonika 2

Turaif Quarter 2

Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2

Yogyakarta 2

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Lower German Limes 1.5

Schokland 1.5

Stoclet House 1.5

The Persian Qanat 1.5

Persian Caravanserai 1

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Summer Palace

Beemster Polder

Imperial Palace

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