Recent Reviews Patrik
Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
Patrik Netherlands - 24-Mar-23
I visited all six churches on the circuit in March 2023. It was not particularly hot, mostly it was clouded and it rained every afternoon, which made the afternoons often cooler than the mornings. I entered Bolivia from Brazil, crossing the border between Corumba and Porto Quijarro. The passenger trains between Santa Cruz and Porto Quijarro have not been running for two years but there are busses leaving around 11 am (and there are night busses too). I took one of the busses, it was rather comfortable, if not too clean, and the bus dropped me off around 17.30h in San Jose. It was a Sunday afternoon and seeing the church open, I entered the church with my lugguge. The sight of the church made my heart jump a little in surprise
Read OnCavernas do Peruaçu Federal Environmental Protection Area (APA) / Veredas Do Peruaçu State Park (T)
Patrik Netherlands - 07-Mar-23
There are actually two similar sites on the tentative list, this one submitted 16/09/1998, and 'Canyon du Rio Peruaçu, Minas Gerais', submitted 11/03/1998. The latter is submitted by IPHAN, the institute that protects cultural sites in Brazil, but strangly this organization marked it a natural site. The organisation submitting this site is IBAMA, which manages the natural parks, and IBAMA is marking it as a mixed site. As both descriptions talk about archeology, it seems also the first submission should have been a mixed site. Anyway, IBAMA took 6 months longer and apparently took this time to write a proper description, so I will consider only this one.
Read OnPirin National Park
Patrik Netherlands - 27-Dec-22
I stayed in Bansko for a week in an apartment at the start of October 2022. I took the fast train from Sofia to Septembri and changed there to the narrow gauge train to Bansko. This is a pretty, enjoyable ride but it takes all day to get to Bansko.
The gondola did not work at this time of the year except for one ride at 8.00h on weekdays but I preferred to hike up. I chose the side valley one day towards Demianitsa hut which is nicer as there is no ski slope in this valley
Read OnDacian Fortresses
Patrik Netherlands - 27-Dec-22
I visited the Câpâlna fortress by taking a local morning bus from Sebeş towards Şugag which dropped me off at the start of the track. It is a well signposted 2 kilometer steep walk through orchards and forest. Hardly anything remains of the fortress, but the views over the valley are pretty and it was nice to imagine the Dacians guarding the valley below. I had intended to walk to the fortified church of Calnic but the walk seemed rather daunting now I was here. So, I decided to hitchhike back to Sebeş which worked very well (as usually in Romania).
Read OnVillages with Fortified Churches
Patrik Netherlands - 27-Dec-22
I visited a few of the churches in November 2022. During my stay in Sebeş I took an early afternoon bus to Câlnic. To my surprise, the church was open and there were a few tourists visiting. Only the church and the central tower could be visited and I found the entrance fee a bit steep for what was visitable. The high tower seemed interesting but it was closed for renovation. There was no return bus and I walked around 6 kilometers to the village of Cut where a bus stopped to pick me up.
I took a morning train from Sighișoara to Mediaş with the intention to visit both Biertan and Valea Viior but, alas, the responsible bus company had gone bankrupt and I found a big bus station without any schedules and busses. At the tourist office I found that the church of Valea Viior was closed for renovations
Read OnProfile Data
- Name
- Patrik
- Country
- Netherlands
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 23.07.23
-
Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Agioi Varnavas and Ilarion at Peristerona (Five-domed churches) (T)
- Alanya (T)
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene (T)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)
- Canyon du Rio Peruaçu, Minas Gerais (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Cavernas do Peruaçu Federal Environmental Protection Area (APA) / Veredas Do Peruaçu State Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Fortress of Spinalonga (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Gorge of Samaria National Park (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago (T)
- Hala Sultan Tekke and the Larnaka Salt Lake Complex (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone (extension) (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kaunas 1919-1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement (T)
- Kebun Raya Bogor (T)
- Kuldīga (Goldingen) (T)
- L'église des Trois Hierarques de Iassy (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes (T)
- Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chaussée romaine Boulogne-Cologne situe sur le territoire de la Région wallonne (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas du nord-ouest de l'Europe (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina (Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro) (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (T)
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
- Ras al Had Turtle Reserve and the Heritage Site of Ras al Jinz (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád (T)
- Rundāle Palace Ensemble with a Garden and Forest Park (T)
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine), Ancient pilgrim route along the Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- Talayotic Culture of Minorca (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Cavernas do Peruaçu Federal Environmental Protection Area (APA) / Veredas Do Peruaçu State Park (T)
- Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- Fortress of Spinalonga (T)
- Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
- Lake Naivasha (T)