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Daniel Chazad
Germany \ Member since March 2010
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My most impressive site: Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland (Denmark)
My proposal for a new site: Crater Lake, OR (USA); Huaca Pucllana, Lima (Peru); Torres del Paine National Park (Chile); Grytviken, South Georgia (UK); Cape Winelands (South Africa); Kirkjubøur, Faroe Islands (Denmark); Svalbard Archipelago (Norway); Architectural Work of Alvar Aalto (Finland); Glendalough (Ireland); Delta Works (Netherlands); Wuppertal Suspension Railway (Germany); Schloss Neuschwanstein (Germany); Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Germany); Château de Chillon (Switzerland); Monte, Madeira (Portugal); Garisenda and Asinelli, Bologna (Italy); Piran (Slovenia); Noravank (Armenia); Old Tbilisi (Georgia); Moscow Metro (Russia); Daisetsuzan National Park (Japan); Kamakura (Japan); Yamanote Line (Japan); Egmont National Park (New Zealand)
Recent Visits
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10Jan. 9, 2026Rock Art of Alta
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10Jan. 5, 2026Paphos
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22Jan. 4, 2026Choirokoitia, Church of Panayia Chrysokourdaliotissa, Painted Churches in the Troödos Region, Troodos, Mt.Olympus
Top 10 Missing
Completed Countries
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Estonia
- Finland
- Holy See
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- San Marino
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- Switzerland
About Daniel Chazad
- Member since
- March 2010
- Country of Origin
- Germany
Visits
- Rank
- #83
- WHS
- 439
- Tentative Sites
- 132
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 15
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Los Glaciares 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 5.0
- Meteora 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Upper Svaneti 5.0
- Ilulissat Icefjord 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Borobudur 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Sceilg Mhichíl 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Uluru 4.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Los Alerces National Park 4.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Cuzco 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.5
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.5
- K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) 4.5
- Great Barrier Reef 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Bali Subak system 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Agrigento 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Xidi and Hongcun 4.0
- Cape Floral Region 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Huangshan 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Vall de Boi 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Monastery of Geghard 4.0
- Kii Mountain Range 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 4.0
- Isole Eolie 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Rio de Janeiro 4.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Fontainebleau 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 4.0
- Masada 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Matera 4.0
- Old Rauma 4.0
- Tallinn 4.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.0
- Le Havre 3.5
- Tower of Hercules 3.5
- Old City of Acre 3.5
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Saint-Emilion 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.5
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.5
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 3.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.5
- Telc 3.5
- Asturian Monuments 3.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.5
- Wadden Sea 3.5
- The Four Lifts 3.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.5
- Burgundy 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Churches of Peace 3.5
- Ayutthaya 3.5
- Provins 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- Angra do Heroismo 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Lake District 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.5
- Peninsula Valdes 3.5
- Old Havana 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Butrint 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Val di Noto 3.5
- Mtskheta 3.5
- Gelati Monastery 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Horyu-ji Area 3.5
- Zamość 3.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3.5
- Amiens Cathedral 3.5
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 3.5
- Domus de janas Sardinia 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Bryggen 3.5
- Megaliths of Carnac 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Kraków 3.5
- Malbork Castle 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- Paphos 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Sighisoara 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Bauhaus Sites 3.5
- Reichenau 3.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.5
- Talayotic Menorca 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5
- Vézère Valley 3.5
- Champagne 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.5
- Litomysl Castle 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Lyon 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.0
- Kernavė 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Pico Island 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.0
- Genbaku Dome 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Boyana Church 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Luther Memorials 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Biblical Tells 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Medina Azahara 3.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Québec 3.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Muskauer Park 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 3.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.0
- Ibiza 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.0
- Yogyakarta 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.0
- Burgos Cathedral 3.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Chaîne des Puys 3.0
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 3.0
- Møns Klint 3.0
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Rock Art of Alta 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.5
- Great Smoky Mountains 2.5
- Donana National Park 2.5
- Vallée de Mai 2.5
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- The Prosecco Hills 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Kronborg Castle 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Tarraco 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Stevns Klint 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Pont du Gard 2.5
- Orange 2.5
- Altamira Cave 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Zollverein 2.5
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.5
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 2.5
- Sydney Opera House 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Pirin National Park 2.5
- Warsaw 2.5
- Southern Öland 2.5
- Saltaire 2.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5
- Bardejov Town 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Lima 2.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 2.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.5
- West Lake 2.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5
- Melaka and George Town 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Castel del Monte 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.5
- Rhaetian Railway 2.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5
- Robben Island 2.5
- Van Nellefabriek 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Camino Real 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.0
- Modernist Kaunas 2.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.0
- Vlkolinec 2.0
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.0
- Atapuerca 2.0
- Ivrea 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- Margravial Opera House 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Heritage of Mercury 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Choirokoitia 2.0
- Mafra 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.0
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 2.0
- City of Luxembourg 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Karlskrona 1.5
- Al Ain 1.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
- Nice 1.5
- Holy Trinity Column 1.5
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 1.5
- Centennial Hall 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Schokland 1.5
- Birka and Hovgarden 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Beemster Polder 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Sammallahdenmäki 1.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 1.5
- Holasovice 1.5
- Valongo Wharf 1.0
- Djerba 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Torgau Castle Chapel
- Bet She'an
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Sea of Galilee
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice
- Ancient Kamakura
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Sarajevo
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- The Lofoten islands
- La Camargue
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Jerusalem
- Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches
- Thingvellir National Park
- Thingvellir Viking Sites
- Aalto Works
- Pont sur la gorge du Salgina
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Leuven
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Rouen
- The Rise of Systematic Biology
- Olympic Park Munich
- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area
- Valle Salado de Añana
- Le Charolais-Brionnais
- Enclos paroissiaux du Finistère
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis
- Green Belt
- Garni and the ‘Basalt Organ’ Columnar Joint
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Gdynia
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Hikone-Jo
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- The monastery of Noravank and the upper Amaghou Va
- Church of Panayia Chrysokourdaliotissa
- Mývatn and Laxá
- The Turf House Tradition
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines
- Peruvian Central Railway
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Mountain-top Hotel Television Transmitter Ještěd
- Svalbard Archipelago
- Tbilisi Historic District
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Ananuri
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Classical Karst
- Franja Partisan Hospital
- Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- The Padang Civic Ensemble
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- The Television Tower Stuttgart
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- European Paper Mills
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine CL
- Carcassonne fortresses
- El Ferrol of the Illustration Historical Heritage
- Citadel of Alessandria
- Birkenhead Park
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées
- Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne
- The Murge of Altamura
- Puebla (extension)
- Central Park
- Ville-fattoria in Chianti Classico
- Villas of the Papal Nobility
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains
- Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chaussée romaine
- Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve
- Volterra
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Palais de la Culture, Rio de Janeiro
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel
- Domaine de Fontainebleau
- Amalienborg and its district
- Khor Dubai
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Lubenice
- Rade de Marseille
- The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo
- The Anti-seismic Heritage of Almaty
- Medeu – Complex of Mudflow Protection Engineering
- Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège
- Hala Sultan Tekke and Larnaka Salt Lake Complex
- La Moneda Palace
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- Via Francigena
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town
- Jaen Cathedral
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Hangar Y
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Coastal Cliffs
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadows
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- Primosten Vineyards
- Sacred Timber Architecture of Central Asia
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Makhteshim Country
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities
- Egyptian Museum
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
- City of Motovun
- Hoge Kempen
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Office of Aerospace Studies, Meudon
- Mining Historical Heritage
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Reviews by Daniel Chazad
Green Belt (On tentative list)
Green Belt by Daniel C-Hazard
I am surprised and excited to see this nomination. Born in Fulda and still returning to the Rhön a lot for visiting family and practicing paragliding, I know the Rhön …
Domaine de Fontainebleau (On tentative list)
Domaine de Fontainebleau by Daniel C-Hazard
The Forest of Fontainebleau is huge in area (for a Central European forest) and nice to visit. The various sandstone formations scattered around, in particular the Place du Cuvier, form …
Domus de janas Sardinia (Inscribed)
Domus de Janas by Daniel C-Hazard
Sardinia boasts arguably the best beaches in Europe as well as countless prehistoric and protohistoric archaeological sites. This TWHS is only about necropoles though, not less than 35 in the …
Eisinga Planetarium (Inscribed)
Eisinga Planetarium by Daniel C-Hazard
In human history, there have always been individuals who were ahead of their time. Eise Eisinga was one of those. Actually a wool comber, he was also an amateur astronomer …
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle (Inscribed)
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle by Daniel C-Hazard
I arrived from France by car via the Col des Roches pass, after having visited Besançon and the Royal Saltworks. Given the limited time I had and due to the …
Jodrell Bank Observatory (Inscribed)
Jodrell Bank Observatory by Daniel C-Hazard
I think this site deserves its world heritage status and it surely fills a WHS niche. It is not the oldest radio telescope in the world but one of the …
Meteora (Inscribed)
Meteora by Daniel C-Hazard
Stunning place!
I visited Meteora on a Friday in early October 2019. After a night and morning of heavy rainfall, the air was clear, allowing for some great views. …
Himeji-jo (Inscribed)
Himeji-jo by Daniel C-Hazard
I visited Himeji-jō on a half-day trip from Kōbe in early 2017. Trains from Kōbe and Ōsaka are fast and frequent, and from Himeji station, one can easily walk towards …
Colonia del Sacramento (Inscribed)
Colonia del Sacramento by Daniel C-Hazard
What Colonia del Sacramento lacks in single sights it makes up for atmosphere. You can climb the lighthouse, visit a small Basílica and walk along the Muelle de Puerto de …
Sites of Japan's Meiji Indust… (Inscribed)
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution by Daniel C-Hazard
I can only speak for the sites in and around Nagasaki, but what I saw was fascinating.
On a sunny December day, I started with a tour of Glover …
Upper Svaneti (Inscribed)
Upper Svaneti by Daniel C-Hazard
Svaneti is an absolute must! It offers some of the most spectacular and dramatic landscapes imaginable - together with a mysterious and unique culture. I highly recommend a visit to …
Palau de la Musica Catalana &… (Inscribed)
Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau by Daniel C-Hazard
The guided visit to the Palau de la Música Catalana is well worth the entry fee (in my opinion better value for money compared to some of the Gaudí buildings). …
Gusuku of Ryukyu (Inscribed)
Gusuku of Ryukyu by Daniel C-Hazard
I visited the WHS in Naha in September 2009.
Sonohyan-utaki Ishimon is a stone gate opposite the stairs that lead up to the Shuri Castle entrance. It is easily overlooked …
Ancient Kyoto (Inscribed)
Ancient Kyoto by Daniel C-Hazard
Bicycles are a convenient transportation alternative. Nearly all sites except Kiyomizu-dera have free bicycle parking. With a mountain bike it is possible to visit all interesting sites east of the …