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Rome of the North, or the Jerusalem of Lithuania
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Bulgaria's Dubrovnik
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Riga between the wars was called 'The Little Paris of the North', when it was where Western spies and diplomats went to have fun.
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Venice of the North
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Pompeii of the Americas
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Athens of the North
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Troy of Lithuania
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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.
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"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).
See www.penn.museum
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Eastern Vienna, Florence of the East
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Kyoto of the North
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Named after Cuenca in Spain. Plus its Inca predecessor Tumebamba was dubbed second Cuzco.
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Florence of the East
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It has been nicknamed the "Ukrainian Pompeii" and "Russian Troy" (wiki)
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le Mont-saint-Michel des chleuhs
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Sabbioneta is dubbed The Little Athens of the Po.
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"Dry Ha long Bay" or "Inland Ha Long Bay"
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"Florence of the Canary Islands" (wiki)
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Echmiatsin: the Armenian Vatican
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Bukovinian Alhambra
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Versailles of the Middle Ages
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Peterhof dubbed Russian Versailles; St Petersburg is also "Venice of the north" because of its canals & Northern Palmyra
See en.wiktionary.org
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The Oued Djerat has been dubbed the "Vézère of the Sahara" because of its big naturalistic engravings.
See fr.wikipedia.org
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Padua of the North
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The Sphinx Peak
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African Jerusalem
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Jerusalem of Morocco (for its rich Rabbinical heritage)
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“a naturalistic Versailles” (OUV)
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Galapagos in the Orient
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Paris of the East
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The Sanctuary of Jesus de Nazareno de Atotonilco has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Americas"
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Venice of the Desert
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"Southern Palmyra" (an apposition to St. Petersburg nicknamed "Northern Palmyra").
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The active volcano that makes up most of Heard Island is called Big Ben (as in the Westminster WHS Bell Tower)
See en.wikipedia.org
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The Versailles of Morocco
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Dubbed the "Romanesque Sistine Chapel"
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"Coal age Galapagos" because of the assistance they gave to Darwin, Lyall et al in developing their understanding of earth and life science.
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Voronet - "Sistine Chapel of the East"
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“Rome of the Orient” (OUV crit ii)
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"Ediacaran Pompeii"
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Okinoshima has the nickname Shosoin of the Sea, Shosoin is part of Nara WHS ( the treasure house that belongs to Tōdai-ji in Nara)
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The 55mtr winding tower has been called "The Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr"
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Shores of the Willandra Lake system are known as "The Walls of China"
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"The Louvre of the Desert"
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Numidian (or Algerian) Pompeii
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some authors had considered Teide as a "second Etna" in the Atlantic or in the horizons (nom file)
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Includes Walls of Jerusalem National Park
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The Silesian Venice
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Spisska Kapitula dubbed 'Slovak Vatican'
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"Little Venice", "Venice of warehouses", "Hamburg's Venice", "Northern Venice"
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"Brazilian Athens" (apparently due to its due to its many poets and writers, which would link it to the Acropolis)
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Sacro Monte di Varallo is dubbed New Jerusalem
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Goslar: Nordic Rome
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Kampa Island is dubbed Little Venice
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Sans Souci is dubbed Prussian Versailles
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"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"."
See www.bbc.com
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Skara Brae has been called the "Scottish Pompeii" because of its excellent preservation (wiki)
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It is often called the "Venice of the Pacific" (wiki)
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Little Huangshan
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Second Bethlehem
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Galapagos of Russia
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New Constantinople
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Constantinople was dubbed the Second Rome
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Great Spa Towns of Europe
Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United KingdomInscribed: 202144816Small Versailles Inn in Karlovy Vary (1780) -
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Turkish Stonehenge
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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)
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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)
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Esterhazy Palace in Fertod is dubbed Hungarian Versailles
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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".
See it.wikipedia.org
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"Frequently referred to as the Galapagos Islands of Central America for its abundance of rare species in both the water and on land" (wikivoyage)
See en.wikivoyage.org
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Ridwan Garden is dubbed New Jerusalem
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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)
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"Mexico's little Galapagos"
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Altamira "The Sistine Chapel of Quaternary Art"
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"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)
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The once fisherman's settlement dating from the Middle Age and lining the shore of the Regnitz River is known as the "Little Venice"
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"there is no doubt Niokolo-Koba could be nourished into the ‘Serengeti of West Africa.’"
See panthera.org
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Evliya Çelebi (an Ottoman explorer) visited and described it, saying, "In praise, tongues are tied, and pens break," and referred to it as "The Alhambra of Anatolia."
See www.dailysabah.com
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Uruk is dubbed Venice of the Desert (wiki)
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Taj of Stepwells (Book India: UNESCO World Heritage Sites, August 2021) -> after the Taj Mahal
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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.
See www.bbc.com
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"Chongmyo's outstanding architectural value has led many scholars to call it the "Parthenon of Asia." - AB Document
