Dubbed as another WHS
Sites which are nicknamed after another WHS.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahwar of Southern Iraq | Uruk is dubbed Venice of the Desert (wiki) | |
| Al Zubarah | Pompeii of the Gulf | |
| Altamira Cave | Altamira "The Sistine Chapel of Quaternary Art" | |
| Amami-Oshima Island | Iriomote: "Galapagos of the East" | |
| Archipiélago de Revillagigedo | "Mexico's little Galapagos" | |
| Asmara | In the late 1930s the Italians changed the face of the town, with a new structure and new buildings: Asmara was called Piccola Roma (Little Rome) | |
| Ayutthaya | Venice of the East | |
| Bahá’i Holy Places | Ridwan Garden is dubbed New Jerusalem | |
| Bamberg | The once fisherman's settlement dating from the Middle Age and lining the shore of the Regnitz River is known as the "Little Venice" | |
| Blenheim Palace | “a naturalistic Versailles” (OUV) | |
| Brugge | Venice of the North | |
| Budapest | Paris of the East | |
| Canterbury | Rome of Britain | |
| Chiribiquete National Park | "Sistine Chapel of the Amazon" | |
| Churches and Convents of Goa | “Rome of the Orient” (OUV crit ii) | |
| Churches of Moldavia | Voronet - "Sistine Chapel of the East" | |
| Classical Gardens of Suzhou | Venice of the East | |
| Coiba National Park | "Frequently referred to as the Galapagos Islands of Central America for its abundance of rare species in both the water and on land" (wikivoyage) | |
| Cordouan Lighthouse | The "Versailles of the sea" (Le "Versailles de la mer") | |
| Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc | Prehistoric Sistine Chapel | |
| Drottningholm | The Versailles of the North | |
| Echmiatsin and Zvartnots | Echmiatsin: the Armenian Vatican | |
| Edinburgh | Athens of the North | |
| Ferrara | Comacchio is dubbed Little Venice / The Delizia di Belriguardo was the summer palace of the Este court which, having been built in 1435, was the first summer residence of a lordship in Europe. It has also been defined as the "Versailles of the Este family". | |
| Fertö/Neusiedlersee | Esterhazy Palace in Fertod is dubbed Hungarian Versailles | |
| Florence | Athens of the Middle Ages (thanks to its leading role in the promotion of knowledge and art thus connecting it with the Akropolis, which used to be the centre of knowledge, religion and art in Classical Greece) | |
| Gelati Monastery | Gelati Monastery: From its very foundation it was called the "Second Athos" as the cradle of literacy and the "Second Jerusalem" as the religious center. (state party in nomination TList Gelati Monastery) | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | Small Versailles Inn in Karlovy Vary (1780) | |
| Greater Blue Mountains | Edinburgh Castle Rock | |
| Göbekli Tepe | Turkish Stonehenge | |
| Heard and McDonald Islands | The active volcano that makes up most of Heard Island is called Big Ben (as in the Westminster WHS Bell Tower) | |
| Hiraizumi | Kyoto of the North | |
| Island of Patmos | "Jerusalem of the Aegean" to reflect its New Testament Biblical significance. | |
| Istanbul | Constantinople was dubbed the Second Rome | |
| Joggins Fossil Cliffs | "Coal age Galapagos" because of the assistance they gave to Darwin, Lyall et al in developing their understanding of earth and life science. | |
| Jongmyo Shrine | "Chongmyo's outstanding architectural value has led many scholars to call it the "Parthenon of Asia." - AB Document | |
| Joya de Ceren | Pompeii of the Americas | |
| Kernavė | Troy of Lithuania | |
| Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou | le Mont-saint-Michel des chleuhs | |
| Kuldiga | "Venice of Latvia" | |
| Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra | New Constantinople | |
| L'viv | Eastern Vienna, Florence of the East | |
| Lake Baikal | Galapagos of Russia | |
| Lalibela | African Jerusalem | |
| Mantua and Sabbioneta | Sabbioneta is dubbed The Little Athens of the Po. | |
| Matera | Second Bethlehem | |
| Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt | "From 1908 on, the Mathildenhöhe was called the "new Acropolis"." – "As early as 1908, the Wedding Tower and the Exhibition Hall ensemble was likened to the Acropolis: "Olbrich's construction will not only draw attention to its content, which, with its various elements [...], crowns the exhibition hill like an acropolis."" (Nomination file, p. 29, 118) | |
| Medina Azahara | Versailles of the Middle Ages | |
| Medina of Tétouan | Jerusalem of Morocco (for its rich Rabbinical heritage) | |
| Meknes | The Versailles of Morocco | |
| Melaka and George Town | Venice of the East (Melaka) | |
| Mistaken Point | "Ediacaran Pompeii" | |
| Mount Sanqingshan | Little Huangshan | |
| Mystras | Florence of the East | |
| Nan Madol | It is often called the "Venice of the Pacific" (wiki) | |
| Neolithic Orkney | Skara Brae has been called the "Scottish Pompeii" because of its excellent preservation (wiki) | |
| Nessebar | Bulgaria's Dubrovnik | |
| Odesa | "Southern Palmyra" (an apposition to St. Petersburg nicknamed "Northern Palmyra"). | |
| Ogasawara Islands | Galapagos in the Orient | |
| Ohrid Region | Ohrid is apparently known as the Macedonian (or "Slavic") Jerusalem - because of its one time 365 churches. Also, the lake itself is often referred to as the European Galapagos due to the high number of species found nowhere else but here. | |
| Okinoshima Island | Okinoshima has the nickname Shosoin of the Sea, Shosoin is part of Nara WHS ( the treasure house that belongs to Tōdai-ji in Nara) | |
| Old Town of Lijiang | Venice of the East | |
| Palmyra | Venice of the Desert | |
| Plečnik's Ljubljana | "Slovene architect Jože Plečnik had already worked with notable designers of the era in Vienna and Prague before returning home to rebuild the capital in the 1930s. His plan was inspired by ancient Athens – he even called it "The Slovenian Acropolis"." | |
| Potsdam | Sans Souci is dubbed Prussian Versailles | |
| Prague | Kampa Island is dubbed Little Venice | |
| Provins | Carcassonne du Nord + A part of lower Provins is dubbed Little Venice. | |
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | Goslar: Nordic Rome | |
| Rani-ki-Vav | Taj of Stepwells (Book India: UNESCO World Heritage Sites, August 2021) -> after the Taj Mahal | |
| Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans | Bukovinian Alhambra | |
| Riga | Riga between the wars was called 'The Little Paris of the North', when it was where Western spies and diplomats went to have fun. | |
| Royal Palace at Caserta | the Versailles of Naples | |
| SGang Gwaay | Haida Gwaii, the “Galapagos Island of Canada” | |
| Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy | Sacro Monte di Varallo is dubbed New Jerusalem | |
| Saint-Savin sur Gartempe | Dubbed the "Romanesque Sistine Chapel" | |
| Salzburg | Rome of the North | |
| San Cristobal de La Laguna | "Florence of the Canary Islands" (wiki) | |
| San Miguel de Allende | The Sanctuary of Jesus de Nazareno de Atotonilco has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Americas" | |
| Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | Named after Cuenca in Spain. Plus its Inca predecessor Tumebamba was dubbed second Cuzco. | |
| Sarazm | Pompeii of Central Asia | |
| Schönbrunn | The Versailles of Vienna | |
| ShUM Sites | Jerusalem on the Rhine | |
| Socotra Archipelago | Galapagos of the Indian Ocean | |
| Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District | "Little Venice", "Venice of warehouses", "Hamburg's Venice", "Northern Venice" | |
| Spissky Hrad and Levoca | Spisska Kapitula dubbed 'Slovak Vatican' | |
| St. Petersburg | Peterhof dubbed Russian Versailles; St Petersburg is also "Venice of the north" because of its canals & Northern Palmyra | |
| Stone Town of Zanzibar | "the Venice of East Africa" | |
| Strasbourg | The Aubette Palace was decorated in the 1920s by Hans Arp, Theo van Doesburg, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp and therefore dubbed the Sistine Chapel of Modern Art. | |
| Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch | The Sphinx Peak | |
| São Luis | "Brazilian Athens" (apparently due to its due to its many poets and writers, which would link it to the Acropolis) | |
| Tasmanian Wilderness | Includes Walls of Jerusalem National Park | |
| Tassili n'Ajjer | The Oued Djerat has been dubbed the "Vézère of the Sahara" because of its big naturalistic engravings. | |
| Tauric Chersonese | It has been nicknamed the "Ukrainian Pompeii" and "Russian Troy" (wiki) | |
| Teide National Park | some authors had considered Teide as a "second Etna" in the Atlantic or in the horizons (nom file) | |
| Timgad | Numidian (or Algerian) Pompeii | |
| Tiwanaku | "The Baalbek of the New World" by American Archaeologist Ephram George Squier in 1877. Chapter XV of "Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas". Also: the "American Stonehenge" (see link). | |
| Trang An | "Dry Ha long Bay" or "Inland Ha Long Bay" | |
| Tsodilo | "The Louvre of the Desert" | |
| Umm Al-Jimāl | Black Petra | |
| Vilnius | Rome of the North, or the Jerusalem of Lithuania | |
| Willandra Lakes | Shores of the Willandra Lake system are known as "The Walls of China" | |
| Willemstad | Little Amsterdam | |
| Zamość | Padua of the North | |
| Zollverein | The 55mtr winding tower has been called "The Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr" |
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