I guess most WHS travellers take interest in knowing a bit about the history of the sites they visit, and you can’t visit Romania, without understanding a little bit about …
Jan-Willem
Member since April 2014
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Every now and then, I like to learn about the world just by seeing it :) But no big fan of long flights, so it's mostly done by road tripping.
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agra Fort
- Ajanta Caves
- Albi
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Thebes
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Arles
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bamberg
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Bordeaux
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Brugge
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Burgundy
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Çatalhöyük
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Cesky Krumlov
- Champagne
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Curonian Spit
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Limes
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Edinburgh
- Eisinga Planetarium
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- Ephesus
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Garajonay
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genoa
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Gwynedd Castles
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Heritage of Mercury
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Holasovice
- Holy Trinity Column
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ivrea
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Kathmandu Valley
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Kinderdijk
- Kraków
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lower German Limes
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- Major Town Houses
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Messel Pit
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Modena
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Nancy
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Orkney
- New Lanark
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Nubian Monuments
- Old City of Berne
- Orange
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palmeral of Elche
- Paphos
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Quedlinburg
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Ravenna
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Risco Caido
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rome
- Roșia Montană
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salzburg
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Semmering Railway
- Serra de Tramuntana
- ShUM Sites
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Skocjan Caves
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Split
- Statue of Liberty
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- St. Petersburg
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Taj Mahal
- Tallinn
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Prosecco Hills
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Thingvellir
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urnes Stave Church
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Vienna
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Willemstad
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Yogyakarta
- Zollverein
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- Central Park
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr
- Old Town of Jakarta
- Orchha
- Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Via Francigena
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Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.71
- Galapagos Islands 4.62
- Machu Picchu 4.62
- Petra 4.60
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.50
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.48
- Yellowstone 4.48
- Tikal National Park 4.46
- Bagan 4.44
Completed Countries
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About Jan-Willem
- Member since
- April 2014
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #162
- WHS
- 275
- Tentative Sites
- 79
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 11
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Eisinga Planetarium 5.0
- Neolithic Orkney 5.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 5.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 5.0
- Çatalhöyük 5.0
- Ellora Caves 5.0
- Vienna 4.5
- Forth Bridge 4.5
- Willemstad 4.5
- Urnes Stave Church 4.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 4.0
- Dacian Fortresses 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 4.0
- Atapuerca 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Trogir 4.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.5
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- The Flow Country 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
Tentative Sites
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- L'église de Densus
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Kuressaare Fortress
- Kekova
- Thingvellir National Park
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia
- Volterra
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Großglockner High Alpine Road
- Central Park
- Orchha
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley
- Old Town of Jakarta
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Site of the Schöningen Spears
- Ancares - Somiedo
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- Citadel of Alessandria
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Reviews by Jan-Willem

Curtea de Arges Churches (On tentative list)
Curtea de Arges Churches

Cathedral of Gurk (Removed from tentat…)
Cathedral of Gurk
We visited the Burg Hochosterwitz (also TWHS) and the Dom of Gurk by taking a little detour between Graz and the Hohe Tauern park. Gurk is a small town with …

Atapuerca (Inscribed)
Atapuerca
The last reviews date already from some years ago, so I thought: ‘why not add a new impression?’, because I was very lucky to have a different way to enjoy …

Ancares - Somiedo (On tentative list)
Ancares - Somiedo
I hesitated a bit before writing this contribution, because I do not have a lot to tell. And I’m only doing it, because there’s no other review for this TWHS, …

Kuressaare Fortress (On tentative list)
Kuressaare Fortress
Kuressaara Fortress (or Episcopal Castle) is a well-restored fortress outside the lovely town of Kuressaara. If I understand well, even though many restorations have taken place, the basic structure still …

Eocene Marine Biodiversity of… (On tentative list)
Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley
Originally planned for 2020, you can guess why we had to postpone our road trip through Northern Italy to 2021. But that gave us the opportunity to add the new …

Site of the Schöningen Spears (On tentative list)
Site of the Schöningen Spears
A road trip from Holland to Berlin was already planned last weekend and that was a good opportunity to make a stop to view the Schöningen spears, as they just …

Colonies of Benevolence (Inscribed)
Colonies of Benevolence
I was in Frederiksoord just two weeks ago. It's certainly not very spectacular to see, but I found the story behind it very interesting. I may be a bit biased …

Dacian Fortresses (Inscribed)
Dacian Fortresses
Visited Sarmizegetusa Regia and Piatra Rosie in 2016 during a 4-night stay in the Pensiunea Ulpia Traiana in Sarmizegetusa, which - as the name may already indicate, has the Roman …

Mandu (On tentative list)
Mandu
Visited this ghost city during a trip in December 1989. Nobody seemed to take care of the place back then. The area was open, and no fees needed to be …

Rjukan / Notodden (Inscribed)
Rjukan / Notodden
I visited this site in August 2015, together with a friend who lived in Norway then, and I haven't much to add to Els's review about the WHS itself.
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