As we toured Romania northern region of Maramures this summer, looking for the wooden churches WHS, we found ourselves in Sighetu Marmatiei (“Sighet”), a border town where we visited the …
Argo
France \ Member since February 2018
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We had always liked travelling, thought we really started collecting WHS in 2006. Then came the children, making the collection more challenging, as our goal is to visit these sites together as a family. Fortunately, living in Europe gives many opportunities of reasonable trips with two young children: we try to cover Europe in the most complete way, leaving long haul trips for later.
Our alias “Argo” relates to the name of the mythological ship which was used by Jason and companions for their trips, including the famous Golden Fleece quest – thus a good name for our own quest of WHS!
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About Argo
- Member since
- February 2018
- Country of Origin
- France
Visits
- Rank
- #49
- WHS
- 546
- Tentative Sites
- 179
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- Reviews
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World Heritage Sites
- Siena 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Palmyra 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Megaliths of Carnac 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 5.0
- Damascus 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Isole Eolie 5.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 5.0
- Meteora 5.0
- Cordoba 5.0
- Selimiye Mosque 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Aleppo 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Teide National Park 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Saint Catherine Area 4.5
- Great Barrier Reef 4.5
- Vézère Valley 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Statue of Liberty 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Pergamon 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Churches of Moldavia 4.5
- Cuzco 4.5
- Kakadu National Park 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Ephesus 4.5
- Palenque 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Tallinn 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Naples 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Samarkand 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Xochicalco 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Dolomites 4.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Agrigento 4.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 4.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Crac des Chevaliers 4.0
- Gros Morne National Park 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Rapa Nui 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Val di Noto 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Syracuse 4.0
- Sydney Opera House 4.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 4.0
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria 4.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Studenica Monastery 4.0
- Bethlehem 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Masada 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 4.0
- Ohrid Region 4.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Potosi 4.0
- Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Las Medulas 4.0
- Asturian Monuments 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Danube Delta 4.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.0
- Island of Patmos 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- St. Kilda 4.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Nasca Lines 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Bosra 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Bukhara 4.0
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.5
- Tiwanaku 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Garajonay 3.5
- Monticello 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Sceilg Mhichíl 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Matera 3.5
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5
- Uluru 3.5
- Itchan Kala 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
- Guanajuato 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Altamira Cave 3.5
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5
- Chaîne des Puys 3.5
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.5
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.5
- Biblical Tells 3.5
- Palmeral of Elche 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Vézelay 3.5
- Choirokoitia 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.5
- Caceres 3.5
- Cuenca 3.5
- Paphos 3.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
- Stevns Klint 3.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5
- Thessalonika 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- The Four Lifts 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Evora 3.5
- Bryggen 3.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Mostar 3.5
- Struve Geodetic Arc 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Belfries 3.5
- Budapest 3.5
- Vienna 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 3.5
- Aphrodisias 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Elvas 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Mistaken Point 3.5
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.5
- Modernist Kaunas 3.5
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Rabat 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Angra do Heroismo 3.5
- Via Appia 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5
- Dacian Fortresses 3.5
- Pico Island 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Mount Athos 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Miguasha National Park 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Zacatecas 3.0
- Mérida 3.0
- Gulf of Porto 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Visby 3.0
- Medina Azahara 3.0
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 3.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Cesky Krumlov 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- Urnes Stave Church 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Centennial Hall 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Burgos Cathedral 3.0
- Hortobágy 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Puebla 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 3.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Trebic 3.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 3.0
- Cordouan Lighthouse 3.0
- Rock Art of Alta 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Le Havre 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Malbork Castle 3.0
- Heritage of Mercury 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- Sucre 3.0
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.0
- Kairouan 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Curonian Spit 3.0
- Laponian Area 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Aachen Cathedral 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Durmitor National Park 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Zamość 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Lyon 3.0
- Pienza 3.0
- Old City of Acre 3.0
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.0
- Salzburg 3.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- The Flow Country 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Aquileia 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.5
- Reichenau 2.5
- Eisinga Planetarium 2.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
- Bardejov Town 2.5
- Domus de janas Sardinia 2.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Fontainebleau 2.5
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 2.5
- Old City of Berne 2.5
- Sighisoara 2.5
- Røros 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- University of Coimbra 2.5
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Causses and Cévennes 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Medina of Tétouan 2.5
- Epidaurus 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Vilnius 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 2.5
- Kinderdijk 2.5
- Chaco Culture 2.5
- Potsdam 2.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Abbey of St Gall 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Banska Stiavnica 2.5
- Hospicio Cabañas 2.5
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 2.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.5
- Lake District 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Vall de Boi 2.5
- Nice 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 2.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2.5
- Albi 2.5
- Nessebar 2.5
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.5
- L'Anse aux Meadows 2.5
- Rila Monastery 2.5
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5
- Churches of Peace 2.5
- Møns Klint 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Independence Hall 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Nancy 2.0
- Champagne 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.0
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.0
- Urbino 2.0
- Lima 2.0
- Saint-Emilion 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- Wadi Rum 2.0
- Donana National Park 2.0
- Vlkolinec 2.0
- Carthage 2.0
- El Escurial 2.0
- Castel del Monte 2.0
- Kutna Hora 2.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 2.0
- Burgundy 2.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.0
- Graz 2.0
- Classical Weimar 2.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.0
- Meknes 2.0
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 2.0
- Quedlinburg 2.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 2.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Wadden Sea 2.0
- Southern Öland 2.0
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.0
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 2.0
- Tarraco 2.0
- Genoa 2.0
- Shakhrisyabz 2.0
- Medina of Tunis 2.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 2.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.0
- Canterbury 2.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.0
- Torun 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Sewell Mining Town 2.0
- Yaroslavl 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Boyana Church 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Wartburg Castle 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0
- Gammelstad 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 2.0
- Muskauer Park 2.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.0
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Abu Mena 2.0
- Pirin National Park 2.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 2.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.0
- Atapuerca 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.0
- Dacian Limes 2.0
- Quseir Amra 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Kuldiga 1.5
- Old Rauma 1.5
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 1.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.5
- City of Luxembourg 1.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 1.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.5
- Tokaji Wine Region 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 1.5
- Holasovice 1.5
- Pannonhalma 1.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 1.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 1.5
- Karlskrona 1.5
- Tequila 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1.5
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 1.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1.5
- Hollókö 1.5
- Grand Pré 1.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 1.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 1.5
- Litomysl Castle 1.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 1.5
- Camino Real 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5
- Madara Rider 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 1.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Drottningholm 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
- Van Nellefabriek 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.5
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 1.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.5
- Sammallahdenmäki 1.0
- Battir 1.0
- Beemster Polder 1.0
- Monte San Giorgio 1.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 1.0
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.0
- Mafra 1.0
- Messel Pit 1.0
- Holy Trinity Column 1.0
- Bamberg 1.0
- Danube Limes 1.0
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Schokland 0.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 0.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 0.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Rostov Kremlin
- Ebla
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- The royal necropolis of Seuthopolis
- Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Noréas de Hama
- Ellis Island
- Two neolithic dwellings
- The Lofoten islands
- Sacred Titicaca Lake
- Mount Vernon
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
- Church of San Salvador de Valdediós
- Cies Islands–Atlantic Islands of Galicia NP
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
- Degania & Nahalal
- Lake Titicaca
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus
- Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud
- Aalto Works
- Sbeïtla
- The Murge of Altamura
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Kokino Archaeo-astronomical Site
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Bet She'an
- Church St. George Kurbinovo
- Pic du Midi
- Baptism Site “Eshria’a” (Al-Maghtas)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines
- Aqaba Marine Reserve
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island
- Hangar Y
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Patzcuaro
- Maaloula
- Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (CAN)
- Great City of Chicomostoc-La Quemada
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Mesta Livestock trails
- Evidence of Italo-Greek Culture
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Olympic Park Munich
- Le Charolais-Brionnais
- Salt Mines of Maras
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
- Apamee
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Egyptian Museum
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Alexandria
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- L'église de Densus
- Rural Temples of Cusco
- Alba Julia
- Archaeological Site of Priene
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Royal Residences of Sinaia
- Former Communist Prisons in Romania
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantin
- Princely religious foundations Wallachia, Moldavia
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- The State of the Pyrenees
- Chor-Bakr
- Bahoutdin Architectural Complex
- Chashma-Ayub Mausoleum
- El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Djerdap National Park
- Markovi Kuli
- Negotinske Pivnice
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Sulcis Iglesiente
- San Juan de Ulua
- Birkenhead Park
- City of York
- East Atlantic Flyway
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Sidi Bou Saïd
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Rundāle Palace Ensemble
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas
- Oasis of Fayoum
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragor
- Workers' Assembly Halls
- Ville de Lixus
- Le Monastère de Neamt
- Les coules de Petite Valachie
- Sinpetru (site paleontologique)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
- Green Belt
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Pombaline Lisbon
- La Moneda Palace
- Klirou Bridge
- Cascata delle Marmore
- Rouen
- The Ancient Plovdiv
- Volterra
- Central Park
- Amalienborg and its district
- Sea of Galilee
- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area
- The historic urban site of Pocitelj
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Alexandrovo Thracian Tomb
- Agioi Varnavas and Ilarion at Peristerona
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Marais salants de Guérande
- Kosice
- Hala Sultan Tekke and Larnaka Salt Lake Complex
- Domaine de Fontainebleau
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- La Camargue
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Baroque Temples of Collao
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- The Silver Route
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- Chott El Jerid
- Mausoleum of Hecatomnus
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Rade de Marseille
- Arsenal de Rochefort
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery
- Shaubak Castle
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Jerash Archaeological City
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Old Town of Jakarta
- Via Francigena
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
- Sites of Great Moravia
- Bouches de Bonifacio
- Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Churches of the Altiplano
- Sajama National Park
- Sites of Great Moravia: Mikulcice - Kopcani
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park
- Orvieto
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- San Francisco Church and Convent
- Loarre Castle
- The Rise of Systematic Biology
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Vila Viçosa
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Rabati Malik Caravanserai
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Reviews by Argo

Former Communist Prisons in R… (On tentative list)
Memorial in Sighetu Marmatiei

Le Charolais-Brionnais (On tentative list)
Le Charolais-Brionnais
We explored the Charolais-Brionnais area (a “pays”, in French) during a sunny week-end in May 2024. Charolaises cows (together with Bazadaises, from the South-West of France) are very well known …

Hangar Y (On tentative list)
Hangar Y
Things have changed a lot at Hangar Y since our visit in September 2014, so it was time for a new visit and review. The Hangar has been fully refurbished …

Ville de Lixus (On tentative list)
Ville de Lixus
Lixus is claimed one of the oldest settlements of the western Mediterranean antique world – although just “off” the Gibraltar straight, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It was first a Phoenician …

East Atlantic Flyway (On tentative list)
East Atlantic Flyway
Large areas of England East Coast have recently been chosen to make up a new TWHS focusing on migratory birds, as part of the East Atlantic Flyway. Although there is …

Birkenhead Park (Nominated)
Birkenhead Park
We visited Birkenhead Park in June 2022. The park is open 24h a day, 7 days a week, free of charge. You can easily park your car (for free as …

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble … (On tentative list)
Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (CAN)
We visited the cable station in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, Canada, in August 2023. This was a nice detour of approximately 100km and 1h50 on our way from Gander to Saint …

Negotinske Pivnice (On tentative list)
Negotinske Pivnice
It seems the tradition of growing vine and making wine around Negotin, a small town in the East of Serbia bordering Bulgaria and Romania, dates back from Roman times. This …

Les sites à fossiles néandert… (On tentative list)
Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
We managed to visit three of the four caves proposed under the name “Neanderthal fossil caves in Wallonia” in April 2023 : Spy, Scladina and Goyet.
Spy cave was …

Danube Limes (Serbia) (On tentative list)
Danube Limes (Serbia)
As we already know, these serial locations in Serbia will be inscribed one day as an extension of the WHS that Germany, Austria and Slovakia already share. Without any surprise, …

Church St. George Kurbinovo (On tentative list)
Church St. George Kurbinovo
Both our French guidebook and our English guidebook were indicating that the key to open Saint George church was to be collected at a house in the village of Kurbinovo …

Church of San Salvador de Val… (On tentative list)
Church of San Salvador de Valdediós
This tiny church is proposed as an extension of the six already inscribed “Asturian Monuments” in and around Oviedo in Northern Spain. The first three inscribed ones were the most …

Group of Mozarabic buildings … (On tentative list)
Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
We have so far visited four of the buildings of this TWHS, scattered across Spain. Visigoths ruled Iberia after the collapse of the Roman Empire; they converted to Christianity and …

Cies Islands–Atlantic Islands… (On tentative list)
Cies Islands–Atlantic Islands of Galicia NP
Visiting the national park of Galician Atlantic Islands requires a little bit of anticipation. It is made of four groups of islands ashore the Rias of Galicia, but only two …

Ribeira Sacra Waterscape (Nominated)
Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
Ribeira Sacra is the official candidate site for Spain in 2021. The name could translate into “Sacred river bank” for the high number of churches and monasteries that were built …

The Lofoten islands (On tentative list)
The Lofoten islands
We spent several days in Lofoten islands in summer 2016, and this was one of the highlights of our Norway trip (a country which is one of the best – …

Rabati Malik Caravanserai (On tentative list)
Rabati Malik Caravanserai
Uzbekistan has nominated 18 locations both individually and combined as one single serial nomination under the name “Silk roads in Uzbekistan”. Reading a recent review (by Els) about Bahoutdin complex, …

Vila Viçosa (Nominated)
Vila Viçosa
Vila Vicosa was a pleasant stop on our way from Lisbon airport to Elvas WHS. It is a pretty and small town with white houses as you can find dozens …

Mausoleum of Hecatomnus (On tentative list)
Mausoleum of Hecatomnus
The Mausoleum of Hecatomnus archaeological site lays in the middle of the modern city of Milas. While you may well go around the city when driving the main road from …

Archaeological Site of Priene (On tentative list)
Archaeological Site of Priene
The archaeological site of Priene in Western Turkey is the opportunity to visit a middle size Hellenistic city from the last centuries BCE. There are no outstanding monuments like in …