This was the first site I visited outside of Europe and the Middle East. It was a lucky choice since the area has a very distinct atmposphere from what I …
Assif
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My most impressive site: Pompeii
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21Oct. 23, 2025Apulia: Matera, Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia, Salento and the Barocco Leccese ...
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About Assif
- Member since
- April 2008
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- #396
- WHS
- 143
- Tentative Sites
- 44
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World Heritage Sites
- Vienna 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Acropolis 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Budapest 4.5
- Brú na Bóinne 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Paphos 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Tugendhat Villa 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Bauhaus Sites 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Masada 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Wadden Sea 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- Bamberg 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.0
- Matera 3.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Cesky Krumlov 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Biblical Tells 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Quedlinburg 2.5
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans 2.5
- Thessalonika 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- L'viv 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Major Town Houses 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.0
- Old City of Acre 2.0
- Church of Atlántida 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Old City of Berne 2.0
- Fray Bentos 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Stecci 1.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Nice 1.0
- Vlkolinec 1.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.0
- Fagus Factory 1.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Flemish Béguinages 1.0
- Jelling 0.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 0.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 0.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 0.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Jerusalem
- Rouen
- Rijal Almaa
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Olympic Park Munich
- Timna
- Station écologique de Taim
- Degania & Nahalal
- La Leche Valley
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- The Hula
- White Mosque in Ramle
- Chamangá: A Rock Paintings Area
- Quartier de Peñarol
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Blagaj
- Stolac
- Ston
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Danube Natural and Cultural Landscape
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Hanbury botanical gardens
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- The historic urban site of Pocitelj
- Battlefield of Ayacucho
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Liftah
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Bet She'an
- Green Belt
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Kosice
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy)
- Caesarea
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Ripa Pannonica in Hungary
- Hoge Kempen
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana
- Kizilirmak Delta Wetland and Bird Sanctuary
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Arbel
- Ein Karem
- Horvat Minnim
- Makhteshim Country
- Sea of Galilee
- The Crusader Fortresses
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Reviews by Assif
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Painted Churches in the Troöd… (Inscribed)
Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
Of all the Troodos churches, I've only been to the only one easily accessible by public transport from Nikosia - the one in Galata. We took the effort to go …
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Assif
08/05/09
Regensburg (Inscribed)
Regensburg
I went to Regensburg and nearby Nuremberg at the same day. I must confess my impression that the latter completely overshadowed the former. Both are mediaeval cities but while Nuremberg …
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Assif
08/05/09
Paphos (Inscribed)
Paphos
Paphos is a very touristy city on the Western coast of Greek Cyprus. It features abundant huge restaurants and English pubs which makes it lack any integrity it might have …
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Assif
08/05/09
Biblical Tells (Inscribed)
Biblical Tells
Hatzor user to be a major city spread over an area of 800 Dunam. The site is very much like the one in Megiddo (Armageddon) only larger. It retained an …
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Assif
14/03/09
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The Hula (On tentative list)
The Hula
The Hula used to centre around a lake that was dried up by the Zionist pioneers in favour of the establishment of new agricultural settlements. The last twenty years saw …
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Assif
14/03/09
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Horvat Minnim (On tentative list)
Horvat Minnim
Horvat Minnim is a medieval Arab residence next to the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is striking how little is done to preserve it. The mosaics are now …
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Assif
04/01/09
Dubrovnik (Inscribed)
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik was an important republic of merchants similar to Venice, Pisa and Genoa. Unlike the other three Dubrovnik was seriously damaged by an earth quake which not only irreversibly changed …
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Assif
16/11/08
Mostar (Inscribed)
Mostar
After having been heavily bombarded during the Yugoslavian War Mostar is now experiencing a revival. The old town is full of shops, bars (and - tourists) and is very picturesque. …
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Assif
16/11/08
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White City of Tel-Aviv (Inscribed)
White City of Tel-Aviv
Tel Aviv is my home city and I love it. Nonetheless I feel obliged to warn the visitor from its quite ugly architecture and neglected appearance. It is a vibrant, …
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Assif
16/11/08
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Inscribed)
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Staying at the very touristy town of Interlacken (or smaller and yet more touristy Grindelwald) I drove up several mountains. The Trümmelbach waterfalls are nice to visit. There's also a …
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Assif
14/11/08
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and L… (Inscribed)
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
During my trip to the lakes north of Milan I visited Ossuccio near the town of Como (not far from Tessin in Switzerland either). This sacro monte is mostly noted …
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Assif
14/11/08
Works of Antoni Gaudí (Inscribed)
Works of Antoni Gaudí
That Gaudi is the most original modern architect is perhaps consensual. I truly loved what I saw (the usual Battlo, Milles, Park Guell and the Sagrada Familia). I had a …
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Assif
13/11/08
Dresden Elbe Valley (Delisted)
Dresden Elbe Valley
I had heard so much of Dresden before visiting it I must confess I didn't truly know what to expect. I knew it was practically erased during WWII and was …
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Assif
13/11/08
Split (Inscribed)
Split
Same as other reviewers here, what impressed me most was the very fact that an ancient Roman palace evolved into a city! This is amazing and creats a sense of …
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Assif
13/11/08
Vienna (Inscribed)
Vienna
I too lived in Vienna for some time. I don't want to glorify this city further but focus on some of the museums found in the inscribed area - great …
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Assif
13/11/08
Old City of Jerusalem (Inscribed)
Old City of Jerusalem
The Old City of Jerusalem is truly exceptional, not only for its history and architecture, but also (and for me mainly) for its unique mixture of people incomparable to anywhere …
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Assif
21/10/08
Kotor (Inscribed)
Kotor
I went to Kotor for a day trip from Dubrovnik which seemed near enough (actually the border control took us three hours!). The old town is indeed beautifully situated and …
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Assif
23/09/08
Blagaj (On tentative list)
Blagaj
Blagaj was certainly the highlight of my trip to Bosnia. It is a sacred Muslim site in an inspiring natural setting. The Dervish Madrasa (perhaps comparable to a Christian monastery) …
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Assif
23/09/08
Stolac (On tentative list)
Stolac
Stolac is a town not far away from Mostar (about 45 minutes ride) and isn't very attractive in its own right. It used to be a charming Ottoman town but …
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Assif
23/09/08
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