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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! ;)
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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. ------------------------- 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. |
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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 ****** 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 |
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