Delos is famous for both mythological and actual historic reasons. It was supposedly the birthplace of Apollo and his sister Artemis, and was thus revered as a sacred site from …
Klaus Freisinger
Austria \ Member since December 2005
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I like the concept of World Heritage, and I like to travel, so combining these two is very enjoyable. However, I don't travel outside of Europe that often, so my ultimate goal would be to visit all WH sites in Europe.
My most impressive site: Rome and Grand Canyon
My proposal for a new site: Mount Vesuvius and Phlegreian Fields, Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge, Windsor Castle, Death Valley National Park, Old Town of Hall in Tirol and Schwaz Silver Mines, Historic Centre of Innsbruck and Ambras Castle, Bavarian Royal Castles, Moon Landing Sites: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center and Houston/Johnson Space Center (Mission Control)
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        10Oct. 4, 2025Talayotic Menorca
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        10Sept. 3, 2025Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
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        10Sept. 2, 2025Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
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About Klaus Freisinger
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- December 2005
- Country of Origin
- Austria
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- WHS
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  RatingsWorld Heritage Sites- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Vatican City 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Ancient Thebes 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Monticello 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Carthage 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Belem 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Santo Domingo 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Everglades 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Mount Athos 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Salamanca 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Castel del Monte 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 4.0
- Trier 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Luther Memorials 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Medina Azahara 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Delos 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Visby 3.5
- Arles 3.5
- Plitvice Lakes 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Skocjan Caves 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5
- Assisi 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Mérida 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- El Escurial 3.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- Quedlinburg 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Talayotic Menorca 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Dolomites 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Dubrovnik 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Malbork Castle 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Semmering Railway 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.5
- Southern Öland 3.5
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Classical Weimar 3.5
- Cahokia Mounds 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Elvas 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Caceres 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- St. George, Bermuda 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Trogir 3.0
- Ibiza 3.0
- Palmeral of Elche 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 3.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 3.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Bourges Cathedral 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Tarraco 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.0
- Matera 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Danube Limes 3.0
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Torun 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Stari Grad Plain 2.5
- Medina of Sousse 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Genoa 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Albi 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Ferrara 2.5
- Karlskrona 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.5
- Saint-Emilion 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.0
- Banska Stiavnica 2.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Durmitor National Park 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Le Havre 2.0
- Warsaw 2.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Centennial Hall 2.0
- Litomysl Castle 2.0
- Villa d'Este 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Bardejov Town 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 2.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5
 
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Reviews by Klaus Freisinger
 
  
  
 
  
  Water Management System of Au… (Inscribed)
Water Management System of Augsburg
Augsburg is a great historic city with many interesting features and one would have expected a nomination of the historic centre and/or the Fuggerei (the social housing complex built by …
 
  
  Vizcaya Bridge (Inscribed)
Vizcaya Bridge
A short trip to the great city of Bilbao can be easily combined with an excursion to this unique bridge. There are both metro and train lines to Portugalete and …
 
  
  Luther Memorials (Inscribed)
Luther Memorials
For anyone interested in history, this is a great site to visit, even though, as mentioned in some other reviews, the authenticity of some of the components is at least …
 
  
  Naumburg Cathedral (Inscribed)
Naumburg Cathedral
Naumburg Cathedral is clearly not the first cathedral on the list and it's a fair guess that it won't be the last, but I have to say it is one …
 
  
  Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
The reviews of this site are not very enthusiastic, but seem to stem from the fact that most people only visited the Georgium, which is the most central component and …
 
  
  Margravial Opera House (Inscribed)
Margravial Opera House
With the restoration works finally complete after a long six years, the Margravial Opera House again shines in all its glory, and it is really a fascinating site to visit. …
 
  
  Medina Azahara (Inscribed)
Medina Azahara
On a trip to Córdoba and Granada a few years ago, I visited the ruins of Medina Azahara (Madinat al-Zahra), about 8 km to the west of Córdoba (there are …
 
  
  Serra de Tramuntana (Inscribed)
Serra de Tramuntana
Even though Mallorca seems to be supercrowded at all times, especially when the cruiseships come in, the island came as a pleasant surprise to me. Palma is a very nice …
 
  
  Old City of Berne (Inscribed)
Old City of Berne
The reviews on this site about Bern are positive, but not exactly glowing, and I don't have much to add, except to confirm that it is a very pleasant city …
 
  
  Riga (Inscribed)
Riga
Riga was the last of 3 Baltic capitals that I visited, and I have a hard time making up my mind on which is the nicest. Vilnius is a Central …
 
  
  La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle (Inscribed)
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
La Chaux-de-Fonds is located in the far west of Switzerland, a bit off the beaten track, but I combined it with Besancon (Vauban citadel) and Arc-et-Senans, as there are around …
 
  
  Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Sen… (Inscribed)
Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
This is a very interesting site consisting of 2 separate components located near the Swiss border. I set out to visit both places by public transport from Besancon in one …
 
  
  Caves and Ice Age Art (Inscribed)
Caves and Ice Age Art
I recently went to Ulm to have a look at the newly inscribed Ice Age sites, and I picked the Vogelherd and Hohle Fels caves as the ones easiest to …
 
  
  Völklingen Ironworks (Inscribed)
Völklingen Ironworks
Although I'm not such a big fan of industrial sites, and I don't really know a lot about the process of iron- and steel-making, I did enjoy my trip to …
 
  
  Santa Maria delle Grazie (Inscribed)
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Once you have figured out how the booking system works (you have to order tickets around 3 months in advance), and if you are a bit flexible about the date …
 
  
  Belem (Inscribed)
Belem
Lisbon is a great city with many attractions, but for me, the clear highlight was the Monastery of Belém, properly called the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. This huge building is the …
 
  
  Sintra (Inscribed)
Sintra
Sintra is the classic destination for a daytrip from Lisbon, and I did spend a full day there, but it would be quite easy and tempting to take it slowly …
 
  
  Monastery of Alcobaça (Inscribed)
Monastery of Alcobaça
I visited Alcobaca as part of an organized daytrip from Lisbon (together with Batalha, Óbidos, Nazaré and Fatima), so we only had a limited amount of time available there. Basically, …
 
  
  Monastery of Batalha (Inscribed)
Monastery of Batalha
I visited Batalha as part of an organized daytrip from Lisbon (together with Alcobaca, Óbidos, Nazaré and Fatima), so, just like in Alcobaca, we only had a limited amount of …
