there's an interesting article from this month's National Geo. Traveler magazine on "World Heritage Sites Rated."

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tr.../whsrated.html

73. Just returned from Japan and visiting Morocco next.

29 so far, mostly in Fr and the U.K.

I need to change my list w/r/t upcoming trips. I have decided to postpone my trip to NZ until later in 2007 or 2008, and have added a trip to Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana for next August, which will give me one (Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname) World Heritage Site, and one likely site (Kaiteur Falls in Guyana).

Michael

More than some, less than others,

Although I went to school in one of the UNESCO sites (Saltaire), we were taught in the school but ate school dinners across the road under Victoria Hall :-)

The public is now invited to vote for the new 7 Wonders of the World, out of a field of 21, chosen by experts. So far, around 20 million people around the world have voted!

If you want to vote, go to the UNESCO link: www.n7w.com. The results will be announced in Lisbon, Portugal on July 7 '07.

For the record, I have been to most of the 21 "candidates" and it was really tough for me, the 6th and 7th choices, but....below are my picks:

In order of importance (to me):

1. Pyramids
2. Colisseum
3. Petra
4. Acropolis
5. Taj Mahal
6. Chichen Itza
7. Eiffel Tower

Note I chose Chichen Itza over Angkor Wat, both built around the same time period-but Angkor Wat never did a thing for me, whereas Chichen Itza I thought to be quite magnificent and thrilling.

The latest National Geographic Traveler has a huge section on the World Heritage sites, including a big fold-out map. check it out while it is still in newstands!

Sadly I've only been to 15, wish I could visit more!
My list has:
Belize Barrier Reef (my daughter lives there)
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Spain - Alhambra, Cordoba and Toldeo
UK - Stonehenge, Blenheim Palace, Bath, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Tower of London, Edinburgh Old & New Town, Greenwich
USA - Grand Canyon, Mammoth Caves

72 so far, mainly in Europe and North America. Hope to see a few more on next year's visit to China.

53, but sadly, as San Miguel de Allende is vying for a 2008 inclusion, the city fathers just permitted a big-box Mega Comercial to open at the Pipila glorieta.
M

81 so far, if I counted right. Another coming soon.

Clifton, you can find out about the nomination process on the unesco site.

"Only countries that have signed the World Heritage Convention, pledging to protect their natural and cultural heritage, can submit nomination proposals for properties on their territory to be considered for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List."

My favourite is the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta, Canada. And yes, staff answer the phone, "Head Smashed In, Can I help you?"

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I have added four more recently:

Taos Pueblo in New Mexico (October)

Sintra (last week)
Tomar (last week)
Mosteiros dos Jeronimos, Lisbon (last week)

I took my Mom to Italy in May and am heading back again next month, I will have to check if any new places in May (or new places next month) will add to my list...

So far I have been to 67 but that should increase to about 90-100 by the end of 2008.

Thanks for the list! I hadn't looked it up for awhile...

Not sure how many in all ... maybe 25 or so. The most obscure for me was the medieval city of Gjyrokastra in Albania.

I've visted a fair few of them. However am I the only person here who actually works in one? (Greenwich)

I can count 78 which I have visited, having added several from a recent visit to China.

Sadly, I find that I have visited only half the sites in my own country (Canada). I must correct that!

84

110, much to my surprise

This was actually rather fun to figure out - more than I thought I had - about 50
Most in the U.K. (which I have visited several times)

I didn't realize there were so many of them. It seems like everywhere but my backyard has made the list.

I have been to quite a few, but stopped counting after about 53.

Tracy

30, which is far more than I would have guessed, since I haven't been to that many countries. However, I have seen a lot of the Canadian ones, having lived in both Atlantic Canada & the West.
It definitely does give ideas of places to go...
like I need ideas...what I need is CASH!

An interesting observations - although I live in Canada I have only been to about five in our country. And only a few in the U.S. The remaining 60 or so have all been in Europe. This tells me I should be looking in my back yard a wee bit more! ;)

I have been to more than I thought but not close to what many people have already posted.

1. Notre Dame

2. Paris, Banks of the Seine

3. Acropolis, Athens

4. Bru na Boinne, Ireland

5. Giant's Causeway & Causeway Coast, Northern Ireland

6. Historic Center of Rome

7. Stonehenge, Avebury & Associated Sites

8. Blenheim Place

9. City of Bath

10. Dorset & East Devon Coasts

11. Cornwall & West Devon Mining Landscape

12. Everglades National Park

13. Redwood National & State Parks

14. Great Smokey Mountains National Park

15. Yosemite National Park

16. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

17. Monticello

18. Versailles

Clifton, I too have wondered why Ireland didn't have more sites listed.

65

I also think this list is kind of odd. But it was fun to try and remember and to count.

I got to 80 or 81 (did a lot of family travel growing up, which accounts for lots of these visits).

My list was heavy on places like France, Spain, Italy and the UK - mostly European sites, with Asia (specifically Japan and India -Khajuraho with its erotic sculptures! Will never forget that place), Egypt & Israel, and lots in the USA. All those US road trips really helped!

I realized how many places in nearby Mexico I have never seen; definitely need to widen my Mexico horizons. Next year's trip is hopefully Peru, so I can see a few more interesting sites.

Thirty-Nine. However, we have the opportunity to hit 15 on our next trip in about a month.

((H))

21-
Great Britain, Central Europe, Mexico, Guatemala, Bermuda, USA

43, including all the Netherlands sites except Willemstad Curacao. The rest were in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Tanzania, UK, USA.
Adding a couple more US ones to the list in a couple of weeks.

41, but hope to add more on our trip to Italy and Greece this fall.

49 -

Author: yk
Date: 10/12/2006, 07:32 pm

At least 52 for me. I'm a bit fuzzy on the ones in Asia as well as Portugal/Spain as I visited these places when I was younger.

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So, 1.5 years later, I added

Vienna
Chartres
Wurzburg
Bamberg
Alhambra/Granada
Cordoba
Works of Gaudi
Segovia
Seville
Palau de la Musica Catalana

So now it's around 62 or so.

Over the past two years I've added 12 to my 109...total of 121...wife is at 101....long way to go to catch Thit Cho..fun to check 'em off. (four more next week on travels through Portugal).

Stu T.

106

Though seriously: some of these are downright hokey

Blenheim Palace? Wroclaw Centennial Hall? The Alberobello trulli?

Some pretty impressive monuments to local lobbying.

<Only 25, but much to my embarrassment none in my own country. We only live a couple hours away from Yosemite, and I was raised in Colorado but never got to Mesa Verde. But I promise to keep on traveling and trying to visit more!>

I've lost my embarrassment and increased my list. We went to Yosemite last year, visited Russia for the first time, as well as some other travels, so the list now is 39.

AUSTRALIA
1987 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

AUSTRIA
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
1996 Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn
2001 Historic Center of Vienna

BAHRAIN
2005 Qal'at al-Bahrain Archaeological Site

BELGIUM
1998 La Grand-Place, Brussels
2000 Historic Centre of Brugge

BELIZE
1996 Belize Barrier-Reef Reserve System

BENIN
1985 Royal Palaces of Abomey

BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA
2005 Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar

BULGARIA
1983 Rila Monastery

CAMBODIA
1992 Angkor

CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF)
1987 The Great Wall
1987 Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
1987 The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer
1998 Summer Palace in Beijing
1998 Temple of Heaven, Beijing
2000 Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

COLOMBIA
1984 Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena

CROATIA
1979 Old City of Dubrovnik

CUBA
1982 Old Havana and its Fortifications

CYPRUS
1980 Paphos
1985 The Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
1998 The Neolithic settlement of Choirokhoitia

CZECH REPUBLIC
1992 Historic Centre of Prague

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo

ECUADOR
1978 Galapagos National Park, including the Galapagos Islands
1978 Old City of Quito

EGYPT
1979 Ancient Thebes, including its Necropolis
1979 Islamic Cairo
1979 Memphis and its Necropolis-the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur

ESTONIA
1997 Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

FINLAND
1991 Fortress of Suomenlinna

FRANCE
1979 Palace and Park of Versailles
1981 Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
1985 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
1991 Paris, Banks of the Seine
1998 Historic Site of Lyons

GERMANY
1987 Hanseatic City of Lübeck
1999 Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

GHANA
1979 Forts and Castles in Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions

GREECE
1987 The Acropolis, Athens
1988 Medieval City of Rhodes

GUATEMALA
1979 Antigua Guatemala
1979 Tikal National Park
1981 Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

HOLY SEE
1984 Vatican City
1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that city enjoyning extraterritorial rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura

HONDURAS
1980 Maya Site of Copan

HUNGARY
1987 Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube with the district of Buda Castle

INDIA
1983 Ajanta Caves
1983 Ellora Caves
1983 Agra Fort
1983 Taj Mahal
1986 Group of Monuments at Khajuraho
1986 Fatehpur Sikri
1987 Elephanta Caves
1993 Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
1993 Qutab Minar and associated monuments, Delhi
2004 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

INDONESIA
1991 Komodo National Park
1991 Borobudur Temple compound
1991 Prambanan Temple compound

ITALY
1980 Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
1982 Historic Centre of Florence
1987 Venice and its Lagoon
1987 Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that city enjoyning extraterritorial rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
1995 Historic Center of Naples
1997 Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata
1997 Villa Romana del Casale
1997 Archaeological Area of Agrigento
2002 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto
2005 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalic

JAPAN
1993 Himeji-jo (Himeji Castle)
1994 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
1998 Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara

JERUSALEM
1981 The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls

REPUBLIC OF KOREA
1995 Chongmyo Shrine
1997 The Ch'angdokkung Palace Complex

LATVIA
1997 Historic Centre of Riga

LITHUANIA
1994 The Old Town of Vilnius

MADAGASCAR
2001 Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

MALAWI
1984 Lake Malawi National Park

MALTA
1980 City of Valletta
1980 Megalithic Temples

MEXICO
1987 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
1987 Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla
1987 Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacán
1988 Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
1991 Historic Centre of Morelia

MONTENEGRO
1979 Natural and Culturo-Historic Region of Kotor

NEPAL
1979 Kathmandu Valley
1984 Royal Chitwan National Park

NEW ZEALAND
1990 Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand

PANAMA
1997 Historic District of Panama, with the Salon Bolivar

PERU
1983 City of Cuzco
1983 Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
1991 Historic Centre of Lima

POLAND
1978 Historic Centre of Cracow
1978 Wieliczka Salt Mine
1979 Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1980 Historic Centre of Warsaw

PORTUGAL
1983 Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem, Lisbon
1996 Historic Centre of Oporto

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
1990 Historic Centre of St. Petersburg and related groups of monuments
1990 Kremlin and the Red Square in Moscow

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
1999 Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park

SLOVENIA
1988 Skocjan Caves

SOUTH AFRICA
1999 Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park
1999 Robben Island
2000 Ukhahlamba/Drakensberg Park
2004 Cape Floral Region

SPAIN
1984 Alhambra, Generalife, and Albayzin, Granada
1984 Mosque of Cordoba
1984 Monastery and Site of the Escorial, Madrid
1984, 2005 Works of Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona
1985 Old Town of Segovia, including its aqueduct
1986 Historic City of Toledo
1987 Cathedral, the Alcazar and Archivo de Indias, Seville

SURINAME
2002 Historic Inner City of Paramaribo

SWEDEN
1991 Royal Domain of Drottningholm
1994 Skogskyrkogarden

TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
1979 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including the Ngorongoro and Empakaai Craters and Olduvai Gorge
1981 Serengeti National Park

TUNISIA
1979 Roman Amphitheater of El Djem
1979 Archaeological Site of Carthage
1979 Medina of Tunis
1988 Medina of Sousse
1997 Dougga/Thugga

TURKEY
1985 Historic Areas of Istanbul

TURKMENISTAN
1999 State Historical and Cultural Park "Ancient Merv"

UGANDA
1994 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

UKRAINE
1990 St Sophia Cathedral and related monastic buildings, and Lavra of Kiev-Pechersk
1998 L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Center

UNITED KINGDOM
1987 City of Bath
1987 Palace of Westminster, Abbey of Westminster, and St. Margaret's Church
1988 The Tower of London
1997 Maritime Greenwich
2000 The Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1978 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming/Idaho/Montana
1979 Everglades National Park, Florida
1979 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
1979 Independence Hall, Pennsylvania
1981 Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
1983 San Juan National Historic Site and La Fortaleza, Puerto Rico
1983 Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina/Tennessee
1984 The Statue of Liberty, New York
1987 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, including Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1992 Pueblo de Taos

URUGUAY
1995 Colonia del Sacramento

UZBEKISTAN
1993 Historic Centre of Bukhara
2001 Samarkand

former YUGOSLAV REPULIC OF MACEDONIA
1979 Ohrid Region

ZAMBIA/ZIMBABWE
1989 Victoria Falls/Mosi-oa-Tunya

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Upcoming trips:

ANDORRA (will visit November 2008)
2004 Madriu-Claror-Perafita Valley

ARMENIA (will visit August 2008)
1996,2000 Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
2000 The Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
2000 The Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

AZERBAIJAN (will visit August 2008)
2000 The Walled City of Baku

CHILE (will visit in three weeks, end of May)
1995 Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island)

GEORGIA (will visit one or more in August 2008)
1994 The Historical Church Ensemble of Mtskheta
1994 Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
1996 Upper Svaneti

MEXICO (will visit September 2008)
1997 Hospicio Cabanas, Guadalajara
2006 Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila

Forgot to total, which is 156 (and 11 or so on planned trips in 2008).

The years next to the sites are the years of inscription on the UNESCO list (which is how they are set out on the list from where I cut-and-pasted them), not my year of visit.

Also add

NETHERLANDS
1997 Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City, and Harbour, Curaçao

Three more (I forgot to re-check the list to see what I picked up when they amended the list in June 2007)

AUSTRALIA
2007 Sydney Opera House

INDIA
2007 Red Fort

TURKMENISTAN
2007 Parthian Fortresses of Nisa