I mainly want to give an update about the renovations taking place at the cathedral of Tournai. As of December 2023, the scaffoldings on the outside are mostly removed, so …
Ralf Regele
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My most impressive site: Angkor
My proposal for a new site: Empire State & Chrysler Building
Recent Visits
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20June 2, 2025Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt, Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
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40May 3, 2025Mining Sites of Wallonia, Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes, Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, The …
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10Nov. 2, 2024Malbork Castle
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About Ralf Regele
- Member since
- January 2017
- Country of Origin
- Germany
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- WHS
- 354
- Tentative Sites
- 67
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World Heritage Sites
- Florence 5.0
- Imperial Palace 5.0
- Seville 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Masada 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Chavin 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Teotihuacan 4.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
- Oporto 4.5
- Aachen Cathedral 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.5
- Ayutthaya 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Cuzco 4.5
- Chan Chan 4.5
- Qutb Minar 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 4.5
- Chaco Culture 4.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Angkor 4.5
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Kathmandu Valley 4.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Urnes Stave Church 4.0
- Bryggen 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Yellowstone 4.0
- Redwood 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Uxmal 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 4.0
- Namhansanseong 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Caral-Supe 4.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Lübeck 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Te Wahipounamu 4.0
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5
- Nubian Monuments 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Old City of Berne 3.5
- Iguacu 3.5
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Iguazu National Park 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Wadi Rum 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- Jelling 3.5
- Imperial Tombs 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Summer Palace 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Stevns Klint 3.5
- Agrigento 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Rock Art of Alta 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Budapest 3.5
- San Antonio Missions 3.5
- South China Karst 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Jantar Mantar 3.5
- Red Fort 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Horyu-ji Area 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.5
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Chichen-Itza 3.5
- Palenque 3.5
- Calakmul 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5
- Granada 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Monastery of Horezu 3.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.5
- Cape Floral Region 3.5
- New Lanark 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Gwynedd Castles 3.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3.5
- Grand Canyon 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Carlsbad Caverns 3.5
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.5
- Meknes 3.5
- Cambodian Memorial Sites 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Brugge 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Pantanal 3.0
- Rio de Janeiro 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Ahmadabad 3.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 3.0
- Beemster Polder 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Tongariro National Park 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 3.0
- Saltaire 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Yosemite National Park 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Muskauer Park 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Assisi 3.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Historic Cairo 3.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 3.0
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Causses and Cévennes 3.0
- Northern Martinique 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Taos Pueblo 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Tugendhat Villa 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
- Monte San Giorgio 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Regensburg 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Donana National Park 2.5
- Dacian Fortresses 2.5
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 2.5
- Sighisoara 2.5
- Arles 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Puebla 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Fagus Factory 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Aquileia 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 2.5
- Chitwan National Park 2.5
- Al Ain 2.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5
- Robben Island 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Old City of Acre 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Zollverein 2.0
- Brasilia 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Major Town Houses 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Schokland 2.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.0
- Ouro Preto 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Wadden Sea 2.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.0
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 1.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- ShUM Sites 1.5
- Dacian Limes 1.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Modernist Kaunas 1.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Lower German Limes 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Stoclet House 1.0
- The Prosecco Hills 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 1.0
- Par force hunting landscape 1.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Ancient Kamakura
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Les coules de Petite Valachie
- Big Bend National Park
- Dzongs
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo
- City of York
- Orvieto
- The Turf House Tradition
- Lake Titicaca
- The Lofoten islands
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Olympic Park Munich
- The historic town of Korcula
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Orchha
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Siwa archaeological area
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Abydos
- Chiang Mai
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Thingvellir Viking Sites
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadows
- Great Desert Landscapes
- Egyptian Museum
- Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- White Sands National Monument
- Ellis Island
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Ngwenya Mines
- Gdynia
- Leuven
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Pretzien Weir
- Site of the Schöningen Spears
- Torgau Castle Chapel
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Coastal Cliffs
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Qasr Al-Mushatta
- Shaubak Castle
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Al Qastal
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Amalienborg and its district
- City of Trujillo
- Caesarea
- Baha'i House of Worship at New Delhi
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Yangtze Gorges Scenic Spot
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- Mývatn and Laxá
- Archaeological Site of Nikopolis
- Sites of Saytagrah, India's non-violent freedom mo
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Tamzhing Monastery
- Khor Dubai
- Central Park
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Reviews by Ralf Regele

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tourn… (Inscribed)
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai

Big Bend National Park (On tentative list)
Big Bend National Park
I was initially skeptical if the Big Bend National Park is a good travel choice, let alone a good choice for a world heritage site. It is never mentioned as …

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Inscribed)
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
I mainly want to give an update about the accessability of the WHS area. In Flims, the old cable cars are replaced by a new system called "Flims Express", which …

Les coules de Petite Valachie (On tentative list)
Les coules de Petite Valachie
Some reviewers have already noted that the 'coules de petite valachie' TWHS is quite close to the already inscribed Horezu monastry WHS. So is this just a minor sidestep on …

Ensemble de grottes à concrét… (On tentative list)
Ensemble de grottes à concrétions Sud de la France
On the way towards the Mont Perdu WHS from the french side, I made a visit to the "Gouffre D'Esparros" cave, which is part of the obscure TWHS "Ensemble de …

Alpine and pre-alpine meadows (On tentative list)
Alpine and pre-alpine meadows
The Allgäu - a region renowned for its beauty, its marvelous mountainsides, rolling hills and mountain meadows full of flowers. Nothing of this matters, though, as this WHS proposal is …

Mothia and Lilibeo Island (On tentative list)
Mothia and Lilibeo Island
I visited Lilibeo, which is an archeological area in Marsala at the westmost edge of sicily. It is easier to reach than Mothia, as there is no ferry needed. Despite …

Dzongs (On tentative list)
Dzongs
Now these sites are really screaming to be a WHS. The dzongs of Bhutan are iconic buildings, they are of critical importance for the history of Bhutan, they are a …

Tamzhing Monastery (On tentative list)
Tamzhing Monastery
Tamzhing monastery is a rather small temple in the Bumthang region of central Bhutan - a region that contains a lot of other temples, monasteries and holy places. Its claim …

Orchha (Nominated)
Orchha
When making travel plans, Orchha might seem to be one of the lesser sightseeing spots of northern India - more temples and another palace of a dubious princely state. However, …

Victoria Lines Fortifications (On tentative list)
Victoria Lines Fortifications
To make it clear from the start: I think the Victoria Lines are a bad idea for a WHS. For my visit, I drove up to the Targa Batteries (which …

Maltese Catacomb Complexes (On tentative list)
Maltese Catacomb Complexes
The catacombs in Malta have everything a true catacomb should have: A proud roman/christian origin,an underground labyrinth and a slightly creepy athmosphere. I have visited the St Pauls and the …

Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (On tentative list)
Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
The Cittadella is a tiny walled city in the center of Victoria, the main city on the island of Gozo. However, most houses inside the walls have been abandoned and …

Coastal Cliffs (On tentative list)
Coastal Cliffs
This nomination needs more focus. From the description, it is not clear which cliffs and coasts are included and which are not (and why). The super generic name doesn't help …

Qawra/Dwejra (On tentative list)
Qawra/Dwejra
Dwejra lies on the western coast of Malta's sister island Gozo. The rock cliffs are especially rugged and picturesque here, with various spectacular natural attractions, like the "Inland-sea" lagoon, the …

Knights Fortifications around… (On tentative list)
Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
This is a confusing nomination. It concentrates on the fortifications around the grand harbour of Valletta, yet the old city of Valletta is already a WHS on its own, and …

Al Qastal (On tentative list)
Al Qastal
Now this site is currently hard to find. There are absolutely no street signs, Google Maps does not know it, my car GPS does not know it. I ended up …

The Turf House Tradition (On tentative list)
The Turf House Tradition
Turf houses were actually the primary (and almost solely) form of housing in iceland from the viking ages till the 19th century. Trees and timber were in very short supply …

Vatnajökull National Park (Inscribed)
Vatnajökull National Park
The Vatnajökull National Park area is a bit unusual, as it includes the Jökulsargljufur National Park, which has no borders to the rest of the park, creating a second location …

Mývatn and Laxá (On tentative list)
Mývatn and Laxá
The Myvatn lake in northern iceland is aptly named "midge lake", as it is home to clouds of annoying flies, at least in summer. The flies can be a real …