The World Heritage Sites (101/1154, 8.8 %)

Table of contents
Background Progression List

Briefly

The World Heritage Sites I've checked physically.

Article history

• 2023-08-29 Added 17 new points: Riga Old Town (Latvia), Curonian Spit (Transboundary), Vilnius Old Town (Lithuania), Kernavė (Lithuania), Malbork Castle (Poland), Old Towns of Stralsund and Wismar (Germany), Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus, Danevirke (Germany), Christiansfeld (Denmark), Roskilde Cathedral, Kronborg Castle (Denmark), Naval Port of Karlskrona (Sweden), Öland, Royal Domain of Drottningholm, Skogskyrkogården, Hovgården (Sweden) (101/1154, 8.8 %)
• 2023-08-29 Fixed numbers.
• 2023-08-29 Added 1 new point: Triple Bridge (85/1154) (Slovenia).
• 2023-07-22 Added 4 new visits (Germany, Belgium and Netherlands).
• 2023-07-21 Added 1 old visit in Italy (Medici villas).
• 2021-12-12 Added 1 old visit in Switzerland (Albula Railway).
• 2021-01-30 Added 2 old visits in Spain (Vizcaya Bridge, Mudéjar architecture of Aragon).
• 2020-01-19 Added 11 new visits (New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam).
• 2019-11-17 Added Progression chapter.
• 2019-05-27 Added 2 new visits (United States of America).
• 2018-12-28 Added 9 new visits (Jordan, Israel, Palestine).
• 2018-09-23 Text is published.
• 2018-09-19 Text is started.

Background

I'm after quality in travelling, not numbers like visiting every country.

One way to improve travelling quality is to get inspiration from the Unesco World Heritage Sites list, the most comprehensive collection of the cultural and natural sites in the world. The list contains 1154 sites at the moment (2023-08-29) (reference) (reference).

On average 25 new sites have been added to the list annually since 1978.

My first visit happened in Rhodes, 1999.

Progression

List

Country	Site	C	N	M	Listed	Visited
Austria	Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn	X			1996	2015
	Historic Centre of Vienna	X			2001	2015
Belgium	Plantin–Moretus Museum	X			2005	2022
	La Grand-Place	X			1998	2013
China	Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor	X			1987	2018
Croatia	Plitvice Lakes National Park		X		2001	2014
	Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian	X			1979	2014
Czechia	Historic Centre of Prague	X			1992	2012
Denmark	Kronborg Castle	X			2000	2023
	Roskilde Cathedral	X			1995	2023
	Christiansfeld	X			2015	2023
Estonia	Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn	X			1997	2013
Finland	Old Rauma	X			1991	2008
	Petäjävesi Old Church	X			1994	2008
	Fortress of Suomenlinna	X			1991	2006
	Verla Groundwood and Board Mill	X			1996	2004
France	Palace and Park of Fontainebleau	X			1981	2017
	Palace and Park of Versailles	X			1979	2017
	Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay	X			1979	2017
	Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars	X			2015	2017
	Paris, Banks of the Seine	X			1991	2017
	The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy	X			2015	2013
Germany	Danevirke	X			2018	2023
	Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus	X			2015	2023
	Hanseatic City of Lübeck	X			1987	2023
	Old Towns of Stralsund and Wismar	X			2002	2023
	Aachen Cathedral	X			1978	2022
	Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin	X			1999	2014
	Cologne Cathedral	X			1996	2013
	Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen	X			2001	2013
Greece	Medieval City of Rhodes	X			1988	1999
Holy See	Vatican City	X			1984	2013
Hungary	Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue	X			1987	2012
Israel	White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Movement	X			2003	2018
	Beit She'arim National Park	X			2003	2018
	Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves	X			2012	2018
	Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee	X			2008	2018
	Old City of Acre	X			2001	2018
	Masada	X			2001	2018
Italy	Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli	X			2006	2014
	Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura	X			1980	2013
	Medici villas	X			2013	2013
	Historic Centre of Florence	X			1982	2013
Japan	Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)	X			1996	2018
	Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)	X			1994	2018
Jordan	Petra	X			1985	2018
	Wadi Rum Protected Area			X	2005	2018
Latvia	Riga Old Town	X			1997	2023
Lithuania	Kernavė	X			2004	2023
	Vilnius Old Town	X			1994	2023
Luxembourg	City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications	X			1994	2017
Netherlands	Kinderdijk windmills	X			1997	2022
	Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht	X			2010	2013
New Zealand	Te Wahipounamu		X		1990	2019
	Tongariro National Park			X	1990	2019
Norway	Rock Art of Alta	X			1985	2003
Palestine	Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town	X			2017	2018
Poland	Malbork Castle	X			1997	2023
	Auschwitz Birkenau	X			1979	2015
	Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines	X			1978	2015
	Historic Centre of Kraków	X			1978	2015
Republic of Korea	Changdeokgung Palace Complex	X			1985	2018
Singapore	Singapore Botanic Gardens	X			2015	2019
Slovakia	Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area	X			2008	2012
	Vlkolínec	X			1993	2012
	Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments	X			1993	2012
Spain	La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia	X			1996	2015
	Mudéjar architecture of Aragon	X			2001	2015
	Vizcaya Bridge	X			2006	2015
	Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville	X			1997	2015
	Historic Centre of Cordoba	X			1984	2015
	Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada	X			1984	2015
	Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona	X			1997	2015
	Works of Antoni Gaudí	X			1984	2015
Sweden	Hovgården	X			1993	2023
	Skogskyrkogården	X			1994	2023
	Royal Domain of Drottningholm	X			1991	2023
	Öland	X			2000	2023
	Naval Port of Karlskrona	X			1998	2023
Switzerland	Albula Railway	X			2008	2014
	Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona	X			2000	2014
United Kingdom	Tower of London	X			1988	2011
	Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church	X			1987	2011
United States of America	Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville	X			1987	2019
	Independence Hall	X			1979	2019
	Grand Canyon National Park		X		1979	2016
	Mesa Verde National Park	X			1978	2016
Vietnam	Tràng An Scenic Landscape Complex			X	2014	2020
	Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park		X		2003	2019
	Mỹ Sơn	X			1999	2019
	Hội An	X			1999	2019
	Hạ Long Bay		X		1994	2020
	Imperial City of Huế	X			1993	2019
	Citadel of the Hồ Dynasty	X			2011	2020
	Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long	X			2010	2020
Transboundary	Curonian Spit	X			2000	2023
	Belfries of Belgium and France	X			1999	2022
	Old City and Walls of Jerusalem	X			1981	2018
	Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor	X			2014	2018
	Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst		X		1995	2015

C = Cultural site
N = Natural site
M = Mixed site (cultural + natural)