Before I really start my "review" of this site I have to anticipate that I am a great fan of rock art sites. I think they are sometimes among the …
Caspar Dechmann
Member since May 2012
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My most impressive site: Venice
My proposal for a new site: Gdansk, New York Central Park
Recent Visits
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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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10Nov. 10, 2024Úbeda and Baeza
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About Caspar Dechmann
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #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

Rock Art of the Mediterranean… (Inscribed)
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin

The Episcopal See of Egara (On tentative list)
The Episcopal See of Egara
Tarragona is an easy and interesting day trip from Barcelona and one day is just about the time to see it all. Beside the three churches of the episcopal see …

Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (On tentative list)
Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida
I visited Lleida as a detour traveling from Tarragona to Barcelona. I takes about one and a half hours from both cities. I arrived in the afternoon and when I …

Mining Historical Heritage (On tentative list)
Mining Historical Heritage
I visited the neolithic Mines of Gavà from Barcelona. Gava train station is easy and frequently to reach by regional train from Barcelona. From there you can walk for 20 …

Greek Archaeological ensemble… (On tentative list)
Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries
Empuries is about one hour by bus from Gerona. I found only one connection that made sense which left Gerona around 9am and returned from L'Escala around 2pm which gives …

Bulwarked Frontier Fortificat… (On tentative list)
Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
I visited Gerona as a day trip from Barcelona in February 2022. This is a city with a lot of history: it was one of the most important jewish cities …

Popocatepetl monasteries (Inscribed)
Popocatepetl monasteries
I visited this site around New Years 16/17 during a visit to friends in Cuernavaca. It is not an easy site to visit thoroughly since there are many monasteries and …

Plečnik's Ljubljana (Inscribed)
Plečnik's Ljubljana
I visited Ljubljana after Christmas 2019 to spend New Years with friends who own an apartment in the city. Already then, before inscription, the town was overrun with tourists, mainly …

The Maritime Heritage of Drag… (On tentative list)
The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbo
I based myself this summer 2021 for ten days in Copenhagen. Of those ten days I spent about half the time in the City with some great museums and the …

Jomon Prehistoric Sites (Inscribed)
Jomon Prehistoric Sites
I played in May 2014 a concert in the big modern concert hall of Hachinohe. During my stay in that city for rehearsals I had plenty of spare time and …

ShUM Sites (Inscribed)
ShUM Sites
This site is used everywhere around Rheinland Pfalz to promote tourism. While the Jewish communities in those towns may have been of great importance for the European Jews the main …

Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarls… (On tentative list)
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
Following our stay on the Orkneys in Summer 2019 we spent around four days on the Shetland Islands. We took the ferry, which was rather expensive. Mainly for our rental …

The Flow Country (Inscribed)
The Flow Country
On our trip around the northern coast of Scotland in summer 2019 we crossed also the area of Flow Country. The main argument about this site seems the size of …

The Palaces of King Ludwig II (Nominated)
The Palaces of King Ludwig II
I think these three castles make a very nice group for a WHT nomination. Of the three I have only visited Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee. I will certainly try to visit …

Neolithic Orkney (Inscribed)
Neolithic Orkney
Since I had read „At home“ by Bill Bryson with its great chapter on Skara Brae I had dreamed to visit the Orkneys. And when I planned my trip to …

Heritage of Mercury (Inscribed)
Heritage of Mercury
Idrija is full of surprises: We drove there as a day trip from Ljubljana. It is about a one-hour drive through gorges and on curvy streets and then you arrive …

Great Spa Towns of Europe (Inscribed)
Great Spa Towns of Europe
I have been to several of the nominated towns and while I find the topic very interesting and most towns worth a visit I feel that the nomination is to …

Rietveld Schröderhuis (Inscribed)
Rietveld Schröderhuis
The Rietveld Schröder House is one of those really nice sites that make an interesting visit but that are at the same time so small that you can see them …

Dutch Water Defence Lines (Inscribed)
Dutch Water Defence Lines
If you look at our rating the Amsterdam Defence Line is not a popular WHS. In any case it offers a rather unique and interesting story which is inextricably connected …

Kutna Hora (Inscribed)
Kutna Hora
On this trip to the Czech Republic I had planned to see beside the treasure trove of Prague one new WHS and one new TWHS: The Villa Tugendhat in Brno …