We've visited 4 out of 5 missions inscribed in this WHS during our Queretaro trip on October 2014. The missions are very similar and they show some of the characteristics …
Alessandro Votta
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My dream is to visit as many WHS as possible. I started living this dream in 2010, let's see how far I can go!
2014 Trips done (37 new sites):
January 2014: Southern Spain and Portugal (10 sites)
February 2014: Waterton Park (second visit)
March 2014: Central Mexico (8 sites)
April 2014: Arizona-New Mexico-Colorado (3 sites)
May 2014: Poland (Malbork & Bialowieza, 2 sites)
July 2014: Newfoundland and Labrador (Gros Morne, L'Anse-Aux-Meadows, Red Bay)
August 2014: Southern Italy (Matera, Castel del Monte, 6 sites in Sicily)
September 2014: Eastern USA (Monticello, Mount Vernon TL and Independence Hall)
October 2014: Central Mexico (Guanajuato, San Miguel, Queretaro, Franciscan Mission in Sierra Gorda, second visit to Camino Real with Hacienda de Buenavista, Former Royal Hospital in San Miguel & Puente de San Rafael)
Dec14: Italy-France-Spain (21 new sites)
Feb-15: Xochicalco-Morelia-Monarch Butterfly Reserve (3 sites)
Apr-15: USA (Yosemite)
May-15: USA (Pueblo de Taos-Carlsbad)
Jan-16: Cuba (4 sites from Havana)
Aug-16: Canada-Alaska parks (Kluane, Glacier Bay), Nahanni, Wood Buffalo. Missed Sgaang Gwaay due to bad weather, despite of 3 beautiful days in Gwaay Hanaas :(((
Jan-17: San Antonio
May-17: Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Palenque, Campeche, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Sian Ka'an)
Wishlist:
August-17: USA: Great Smokey Mountain, Mammoth Cave
November-17: Mexico: Oaxaca, Mitla
December-17: tbd!! Somewhere in South America?
My most impressive site: Palenque, Urnes Stavkirke, Polonnaruwa, Petra, Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madain Salih)
Recent Visits
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3810April 3, 2014Aachen Cathedral, Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Acropolis, Aflaj irrigation system, Aggtelek and Slovak Karst …
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3810April 3, 2014
- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Acropolis
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agrigento
- Al Ain
- Albi
- Alcala de Henares
- Altamira Cave
- Alto Douro
- Al Zubarah
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Anuradhapura
- Aranjuez
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arles
- Assisi
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bahla Fort
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Bardejov Town
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Białowieża Forest
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Brugge
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Burgos Cathedral
- Burgundy
- Butrint
- Caceres
- Cahokia Mounds
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champagne
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chichen-Itza
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Peace
- Cienfuegos
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Cologne Cathedral
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cuenca
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Dilmun Burial Mounds
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Dolomites
- Donana National Park
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- El Escurial
- El Tajin
- Elvas
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genoa
- Glacier parks
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Graz
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guanajuato
- Guimarães
- Gwynedd Castles
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Hegra
- Heritage of Mercury
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Historic Jeddah
- Holasovice
- Holy Trinity Column
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Isole Eolie
- Jelling
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Kandy
- Karlskrona
- Kew Gardens
- Kinderdijk
- Kraków
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Land of Frankincense
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Las Medulas
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Litomysl Castle
- Liverpool
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Mérida
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Miguasha National Park
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Modena
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monte San Giorgio
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Morelia
- Mount Athos
- Mount Etna
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Mystras
- Nahanni National Park
- Nancy
- Naples
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Old Havana
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Orange
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmeral of Elche
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Pearling
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Puebla
- Qal'at al-Bahrain
- Qalhat
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Querétaro
- Quseir Amra
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ravenna
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Redwood
- Regensburg
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rideau Canal
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Røros
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- San Antonio Missions
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Miguel de Allende
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Seville
- Sian Ka'an
- Siena
- Sigiriya
- Sinharaja Forest
- Sintra
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Statue of Liberty
- Stevns Klint
- St. George, Bermuda
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studley Royal Park
- Syracuse
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Tarraco
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Teotihuacan
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Tlacotalpan
- Toledo
- Torun
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Tugendhat Villa
- Turaif Quarter
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Um er-Rasas
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Val d'Orcia
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vegaøyan
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Viñales Valley
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Vlkolinec
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Wadi Rum
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
- Würzburg Residence
- Xochicalco
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zamość
- Zollverein
Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.71
- Machu Picchu 4.62
- Galapagos Islands 4.62
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.50
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.48
- Tikal National Park 4.46
- Ancient Kyoto 4.44
- Great Wall 4.44
- Bagan 4.44
Completed Countries
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About Alessandro Votta
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World Heritage Sites
- Stonehenge 4.5
- Nahanni National Park 4.5
- Hegra 4.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- El Tajin 4.0
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 3.5
- Provins 3.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Rhodes 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Land of Frankincense 3.0
- Vegaøyan 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Mammoth Cave 3.0
- Regensburg 3.0
- Mystras 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Al Zubarah 2.5
- Mount Athos 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Thessalonika 2.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Tlacotalpan 2.5
- Wood Buffalo National Park 2.5
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 2.5
- Stevns Klint 2.0
- Historic Jeddah 2.0
- St. George, Bermuda 2.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Qalhat 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.0
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 2.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.0
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 1.5
- Southern Öland 1.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Turaif Quarter 1.5
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Reviews by Alessandro Votta
Franciscan Missions in the Si… (Inscribed)
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
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Alessandr… 24/10/14
Las Pozas, Xilitla (On tentative list)
Las Pozas, Xilitla
During my 2 days trip to Sierra Gorda de Queretaro, I've managed to take the 1,5 hours driving from Jalpan to Xilitla, where out of the village and apparently in …
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Alessandr… 18/10/14
Guanajuato (Inscribed)
Guanajuato
I've visited 5 WHS in Central Mexico in October 2014 and I've really liked Guanajuato. It is different from the nearby cities of San Miguel de Allende and Queretaro, it …
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Alessandr… 17/10/14
Xochicalco (Inscribed)
Xochicalco
Not sure where to write this... Anyways Xochicalco site is closed since 2 days because of a protest of local farmers. People trying to get close to the gates are …
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Alessandr… 22/03/14
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi (Inscribed)
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
This is an easy TL site to reach from Calgary, it is a 4-hours each way driving and it could be managed in a one-day road trip. I don't think …
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Alessandr… 19/09/13
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Khor Al-Adaid natural reserve (On tentative list)
Khor Al-Adaid natural reserve
I've recently spent one hour at the Khor Al-Adaid, during an half-day trip from Doha. There is no road to reach this place, so the only way is to hire …
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Alessandr… 19/02/12