I am probably highly biased towards this site. I grew up in an area rich in fossils and have spent many hours of my life in damp quarries sifting through …
Sturuss
United Kingdom \ Member since January 2025
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I am an avid nature lover and history enthusiast, who spends most of their time either out in nature looking for niche plants and weird insects or reading history books. It is probably therefore predictable that UNESCO sites are of interest to me. They are not so much of an object of obsession in themselves (I am unlikely to visit a site only because it is on the list) but they form a solid and relevant basis from which to plan my adventures.
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10Nov. 23, 2025Maritime Greenwich
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10Nov. 16, 2025Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
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10Nov. 15, 2025Messel Pit
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About Sturuss
- Member since
- January 2025
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
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- #588
- WHS
- 78
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- 0
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World Heritage Sites
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 5.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 5.0
- Sinharaja Forest 5.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 5.0
- Wartburg Castle 5.0
- Central Highlands 5.0
- Sigiriya 5.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 4.5
- Kronborg Castle 4.5
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Gwynedd Castles 4.5
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 4.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 4.0
- Messel Pit 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Guimarães 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Ngorongoro 4.0
- Serengeti 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Anuradhapura 4.0
- Cologne Cathedral 4.0
- ShUM Sites 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 4.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 4.0
- Old Town of Galle 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Brugge 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Kandy 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Giant's Causeway 3.5
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
- Teide National Park 3.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
- City of Bath 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5
- Belem 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 2.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- Corvey 1.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.5
- Blenheim Palace 1.0
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ShUM Sites
I visited 3 out of 4 of the ShUM sites in May 2025 and was very impressed by my experiences. Prior to my visit I was tangentially aware of various …
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Sturuss
22/05/25