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 Dechmann
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My most impressive site: Venice
My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park
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30May 6, 2025Kew Gardens, Maritime Greenwich, The Flow Country
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10Feb. 21, 2025Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
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About Caspar Dechmann
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
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- #186
- WHS
- 260
- Tentative Sites
- 54
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 67
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Vézère Valley 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Taputapuātea 5.0
- Versailles 4.5
- Potsdam 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Altamira Cave 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Ferrara 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 4.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 4.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Olympia 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Major Town Houses 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Burgos Cathedral 3.5
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- St. Kilda 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Fujisan 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
- Burgundy 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Morelia 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Aachen Cathedral 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- City of Luxembourg 2.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Lyon 2.5
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Chaîne des Puys 2.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Studley Royal Park 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Regensburg 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- Forth Bridge 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Abbey of St Gall 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 1.5
- Fagus Factory 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Stevns Klint 1.5
- Messel Pit 1.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 1.5
- Cologne Cathedral 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Poblet Monastery 1.5
- Hiraizumi 1.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 1.5
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Bauhaus Sites 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Djerba 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 1.0
- The Flow Country 1.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.0
- Tarraco 1.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 1.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 0.5
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 0.5
- Lower German Limes 0.5
- Medina Azahara 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Ellis Island
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Ancient Kamakura
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Rouen
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- City of York
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- The Episcopal See of Egara
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Central Park
- Coastal Cliffs
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbo
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries
- Mining Historical Heritage
- Turó 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
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Creation of the Co-Principality of Andorra
- 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 Cultural
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Sp
- 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
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Reviews by Caspar Dechmann

Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (On tentative list)
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)

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 …

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 …

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… (On tentative list)
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 …