I was really dazzled by the frescoes of Padua. And I went on a Monday. Don't go on a Monday if you can avoid it -- several attractions are closed. …
Dennis Nicklaus
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About Dennis Nicklaus
- Member since
- January 2018
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- #318
- WHS
- 180
- Tentative Sites
- 46
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- Reviews
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World Heritage Sites
- Iguacu 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Dubrovnik 5.0
- Victoria Falls 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Tikal National Park 5.0
- Calakmul 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Lalibela 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 5.0
- Acropolis 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Olympic National Park 5.0
- Cuzco 5.0
- Ephesus 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Socotra Archipelago 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Uxmal 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Palenque 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Rock Islands 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Bethlehem 5.0
- Masada 5.0
- Nan Madol 5.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 5.0
- Sigiriya 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Borobudur 5.0
- Nasca Lines 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Rio de Janeiro 4.5
- Antigua Guatemala 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.5
- Edinburgh 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Arles 4.5
- Brú na Bóinne 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Biblical Tells 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 4.0
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 4.0
- Trang An 4.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 4.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4.0
- Polonnaruva 4.0
- Old City of Acre 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 4.0
- Kathmandu Valley 4.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Sagarmatha National Park 4.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Nubian Monuments 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Imperial Tombs 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Copán 4.0
- Joya de Ceren 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Gyeongju 4.0
- Luang Prabang 4.0
- Taputapuātea 4.0
- Mammoth Cave 4.0
- Caral-Supe 4.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 4.0
- Andrefana Dry Forests 4.0
- Ancient Nara 3.5
- Cahokia Mounds 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Blue and John Crow Mountains 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Toledo 3.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 3.5
- Cape Floral Region 3.5
- Saint-Emilion 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Burgundy 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Tiwanaku 3.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.5
- Tower of London 3.0
- Chitwan National Park 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Caceres 3.0
- Mérida 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Kandy 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Brugge 3.0
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Cartagena 3.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3.0
- Bali Subak system 3.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Tarraco 3.0
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.0
- Guanajuato 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Old City of Berne 2.5
- Memorial Sites of Genocide 2.5
- Yogyakarta 2.5
- Schönbrunn 2.5
- Temple of Heaven 2.5
- Canal du Midi 2.5
- Sydney Opera House 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Seville 2.5
- Le Morne 2.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 2.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.0
- Willemstad 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Ambohimanga 2.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.0
- City of Luxembourg 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 2.0
- Robben Island 2.0
- Strasbourg 2.0
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 1.0
- Aapravasi Ghat 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
- Lake Titicaca
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Historical city of Izamal
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta
- Hikone-Jo
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Sea of Galilee
- Caesarea
- The Crusader Fortresses
- Shaubak Castle
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Town of Chichicastenango
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- Central Park
- White Sands National Monument
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Lake Atitlán
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- City of York
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- Bet She'an
- Jerusalem
- Sacred Titicaca Lake
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Nasca Aqueducts
- Carcassonne fortresses
- Nosy Lonjo d'Antsiranana
- Imeong Conservation Area
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- Cara Sucia / El Imposible
- The Bodrum Castle
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains
- Pisco Wineries and Vineyards
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Reviews by Dennis Nicklaus
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Padua’s fourteenth-century fr… (Inscribed)
Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
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Dennis Ni…
29/04/23
Cara Sucia / El Imposible (On tentative list)
Cara Sucia / El Imposible
My daughter and I really enjoyed our visit to El Imposible in January 2023 and we had a really good hike here. We were driven up the same terrible access …
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Dennis Ni…
25/04/23
Vézère Valley (Inscribed)
Vézère Valley
I've wanted to visit this area for a long time, so I was thrilled to finally fit it into a trip. We visited three main sites: Font-de-Gaume, Combarelles, and Lascaux …
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Dennis Ni…
12/11/22
Olympic National Park (Inscribed)
Olympic National Park
Snowy mountains, rainforests, scenic beaches, pretty lakes, waterfalls, ... -- what more could you ask for in a National Park? My family and I had a day and a half …
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Dennis Ni…
14/06/22
Socotra Archipelago (Inscribed)
Socotra Archipelago
Socotra is filled with stunning landscapes. The forest of iconic dragon blood trees on the Diksam plateau is truly unique in the world, and one of the main draws here, …
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Dennis Ni…
06/05/22
Ciudad Perdida (Removed from tentat…)
Ciudad Perdida
Teyuna, Colombia's Lost City, was inhabited between roughly 800 and 1650. It was only rediscovered about 50 years ago (ca. 1973) by looters. To get there now, you have to …
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Dennis Ni…
25/02/22
Chichen-Itza (Inscribed)
Chichen-Itza
I visited Chichen Itza in 2003 with my family, when you could still climb on and in the El Castillo pyramid. It's very enjoyable and iconic, I guess, but it …
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Dennis Ni…
30/11/20
Lalibela (Inscribed)
Lalibela
I only had time for two nights in Ethiopia as a layover at the end of my Rwanda-Uganda safari trip, and the first of those had to be in Addis …
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Dennis Ni…
04/03/20
Bwindi Impenetrable National … (Inscribed)
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
I think "Bwindi Impenetrable Forest" is my favorite park name in the world -- the most evocative of adventure. It lived up to its name and feeling for us with …
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Dennis Ni…
02/03/20
Imeong Conservation Area (On tentative list)
Imeong Conservation Area
For one day of our Palau vacation, we decided to rent a car and have a self-made circle-island tour of Babeldaob, the largest island of Palau. Armed with our Cultural, …
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Dennis Ni…
30/08/19
Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvr… (Inscribed)
Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
This site was one I had never heard of before investigating the UNESCO sites of Israel, but it turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip. I …
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Dennis Ni…
28/08/19
Shaubak Castle (On tentative list)
Shaubak Castle
We were pretty thrilled that we arrived in the area in the late afternoon with just enough time to visit Shaubak Castle the evening before we went to Petra. This …
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Dennis Ni…
22/07/19
Town of Chichicastenango (On tentative list)
Town of Chichicastenango
Chichicastenango was a fascinating small city to visit. You don't come for nature's beauty, ancient stone artifacts, or grand palaces, but for its unique living culture. The people and their …
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Dennis Ni…
21/06/19
Carcassonne fortresses (Nominated)
Carcassonne fortresses
I'm happy to contribute the first review of this area!
I visited 7 of the 8 sites across four days October of 2017. The only one I missed was …
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Dennis Ni…
30/03/19
Fortified City of Carcassonne (Inscribed)
Fortified City of Carcassonne
I loved Carcassonne with its massive stone walls, pointy turrets, and the inner castle of Chateau Comtal. Sure, Viollet-le-Duc may have taken some artistic license, but the overall result is …
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Dennis Ni…
14/03/19
Palenque (Inscribed)
Palenque
The ancient Maya city of Palenque amazed me in its diversity. After walking in the main upper entrance, you first come across a row of pyramids. The last of these …
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Dennis Ni…
05/03/19
Tikal National Park (Inscribed)
Tikal National Park
Tikal was the first ancient Maya site that I ever visited, and it remains my favorite one. I've since visited about 20 others, but Tikal still stands above them all. …
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Dennis Ni…
04/03/19
Rapa Nui (Inscribed)
Rapa Nui
Like many of the people I talked to there, getting to Easter Island and seeing its Moai was something I've wanted to do since I was a child. It totally …
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Dennis Ni…
28/02/19
Rock Islands (Inscribed)
Rock Islands
The button-shaped, jungle covered islands Rock Islands were nice and interesting to see above the water as we cruised around on our tour, but the real attractions are below the …
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Dennis Ni…
26/02/19
Nan Madol (Inscribed)
Nan Madol
Nan Madol, on the island of Pohnpei, came as a wonderful surprise to me as part of my trip flying on United's Island Hopper flight between Honolulu and Guam. It …
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Dennis Ni…
25/02/19
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