Victoria has a few things going for it: Firstly the view from the elevated citadel all over Gozo and beyond is spectacular. The is, when you enter the town walls, …
Caspar
Switzerland \ Member since May 2012
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My most impressive site: Venice
My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park
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About Caspar
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
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- WHS
- 269
- Tentative Sites
- 56
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World Heritage Sites
- Granada 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Taputapuātea 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Vézère Valley 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Potsdam 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Altamira Cave 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Rhodes 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Ferrara 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- St. Kilda 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Burgos Cathedral 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.0
- Agrigento 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- City of Luxembourg 2.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Mérida 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- Forth Bridge 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.0
- Caceres 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5
- Hiraizumi 1.5
- Bauhaus Sites 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 1.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
- Fagus Factory 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Stevns Klint 1.5
- Messel Pit 1.5
- Cologne Cathedral 1.5
- Poblet Monastery 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.0
- The Flow Country 1.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 1.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.0
- Djerba 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Tarraco 1.0
- Medina Azahara 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Ancient Kamakura
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Rouen
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- City of York
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- The Episcopal See of Egara
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Coastal Cliffs
- Central Park
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Ellis Island
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Empuries Greek Archaeological ensemble
- Mining Historical Heritage
- Turo de la Seu Vella de Lleida
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France)
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Via Francigena
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- The Wine in Iberia
- Mediterranean Wind Mills
- Birkenhead Park
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Carmona’s cultural landscape
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Italica
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Cascata delle Marmore
- Citadel of Alessandria
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- Hiraizumi (extension)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine CL
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Orvieto
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées
- Massif du Mont-Blanc
- Leuven
- Amalienborg and its district
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragor
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
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Reviews by Caspar
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (On tentative list)
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
Birkenhead Park (Nominated)
Birkenhead Park
If you are in the Liverpool area, an excursion to Birkenhead is a must: It grew rapidly in the 19th century as an extension of Liverpool in the industrial revolution …
City of York (Nominated)
City of York
Most countries can only envy England with their tradition and ability to preserve its rich heritage. There are certainly dozens of well-preserved medieval towns her and only Belgium, the Netherlands …
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
This may well be the most underrated site in Germany if you look at the ratings on this website and indeed, it is a site that reveals its extraordinary value …
Maltese Catacomb Complexes (On tentative list)
Maltese Catacomb Complexes
The catacombs on Malta are surprisingly numerous and the highest concentration can be found in Rabat where you find four that are accessible to visitors. I visited two of them: …
Knights Fortifications around… (Nominated)
Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
There is no doubt that his should have been part of the Valletta inscription from the start. While the inscribed town is very nice, it is certainly not as spectacular …
Coastal Cliffs (On tentative list)
Coastal Cliffs
Beside the extension of Valletta, that should have been inscribed decades ago, the Coastal Cliffs are certainly the most interesting tentative site of Malta but, as Ralf writes, it needs …
Abbey of St Gall (Inscribed)
Abbey of St Gall
This is a site with rather strange OUV which you can partially excuse or explain because it was such an early nomination:
Like the Reichenau this was one of …
Reichenau (Inscribed)
Reichenau
This site is rather hard to grasp: The undoubtedly enormous religious, political and artistic importance of this monastery is comprehensible only in traces by the three churches left on the …
Luther Memorials (Inscribed)
Luther Memorials
This is a hard one. There is no doubt that the reformation had a huge effect on European and World history, not only changing religious practices but the society, education, …
Medina Azahara (Inscribed)
Medina Azahara
Medina Azahara must have been a wonder of the age: a palace city, splendid rooms with precious ornaments with no equal at the time, at least in Europe. So, expectations …
Carmona’s cultural landscape (On tentative list)
Carmona’s cultural landscape
For many years the Spanish tentative site included the “Casco antiguo de Cadiz” which has now been removed. When I visited western Andalucía in February 2024 I visited Cadiz, supposedly …
Stralsund and Wismar (Inscribed)
Stralsund and Wismar
I visited Wismar and Stralsund during a two-week trip around northeastern Germany in October 2023. In both cities I stayed one and a half or two days to see its …
Italica (Nominated)
Italica
I spent about four days in Seville. Its WHS may be seen within a day but the city has a lot to offer beyond the splendid Alcazar and the cathedral …
Yuso and Suso Monasteries (Inscribed)
Yuso and Suso Monasteries
I visited this site in 2006 when I didn't think a lot about WHSs yet and hadn't seen many sites. Even then we found it surprising if not ridiculous that …
Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (On tentative list)
Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
When you take the relatively short way from the centre of Paris to Saint-Denis you are not sure if you really went the right way. You are still very much …
Viking Age Ring Fortresses (Inscribed)
Viking Age Ring Fortresses
There may have been a time when viking sites were underrepresented on the world heritage list but by now I think they are already overrepresented. Firstly the viking period is …
Mediterranean Wind Mills (On tentative list)
Mediterranean Wind Mills
I visited the Molino viejo de Zabala, west of Cartagena. It is indicated on this website as one of the locations of this nomination though I didn't find out why …
Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)
Primeval Beech Forests
This is a hard site to rate: There is no doubt at all that these areas should be protected. But this site has been so "successful" with its many extensions …
Moravian Church Settlements (Inscribed)
Moravian Church Settlements
I visited this little town in the summer of 2021 when I covered all the inscribed sites on Denmark proper and a few tentative sites. I decided to stay overnight …