Sebasfhb Profile
Hello! My name is Sebastian and I am a 21 year old student from the Netherlands. I thoroughly enjoy travelling and I’ve been actively visiting World Heritage sites since I was about 13/14. I am especially interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Recent Reviews Sebasfhb
The Scotland District of Barbados (T)
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 31-May-23
I visited the Scotland District in August 2022. Well, what we WH travellers know as the Scotland District at least. To most people in and from Barbados, the Scotland District is unknown. Show it on a map, show a picture, and they will recognise it as Mount Hillaby, the highest point in Barbados. When you just drive through this sparsely-populated part of Barbados, there is nothing that catches the eye. Most people will tick this TWHS off on the way to more popular tourist destinations and other TWHS locations, such as St. Nicholas’ Abbey. Having read the previous review of the Scotland District TWHS, I was not particularly excited to go out of my way and visit.
Villages with Fortified Churches
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 30-May-23
In February 2022, I visited the fortified church in Prejmer on a day trip from Romania’s capital, Bucharest. If you want to stay within Romania, Prejmer is actually the closest World Heritage site from Bucharest (although Srebarna Nature Reserve, the Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo and the Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari are located closer to Bucharest on the Bulgarian side of the border). I stayed a week in Bucharest with my family and convinced my fellow-travellers, who are not interested in ticking off obscure World Heritage sites at all, to rent a car for a day and make the 3-hour drive to Prejmer
Read OnVilnius
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 27-Jan-23
My first WHS trip in 2023 was to the historic centre of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which happened to be celebrating its 700th anniversary on the 25th of January (more on that later). Visiting Lithuania has always been a dream of mine. When interested in history from a young age, children usually grow up to choose a certain specific area or period of interest: dinosaurs, Romans and Greek, ancient Egypt, the Vikings, etc. Personally, I “chose” medieval Eastern Europe and don’t ask me why. I just find that specific period in that area immensely interesting
Read OnThe Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum (T)
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 25-Aug-22
Out of the 5 components (St. Nicholas Abbey, Morgan Lewis Windmill, Newton Burial Ground, Codrington College, Mount Gay Historic Distillery), I visited the first 4. In my opinion and experience, this proposal has high chances of getting inscribed on the World Heritage list.
Barbados was one of the prime British colonies in the Caribbean and has been widely accredited to be the birthplace of rum, a product of the sugar plantations on the island. The sites proposed tell the story of this sugar and rum production in the Caribbean, in my eyes more than sufficiently.
Read OnBridgetown
Sebasfhb Netherlands - 14-Aug-22
I visited Bridgetown (August 8th) and its Garrison (August 6th) during my 5-week trip to the Caribbean island of Barbados. If you’re wondering why I chose to spend 5 weeks on this small island: My girlfriend is from Barbados and after the pandemic this was (after 2 failed attempts) the first opportunity for us to travel to Barbados together.
In previous reviews, Bridgetown and its Garrison were not exactly positively evaluated by fellow World Heritage travellers. I would like to add some nuance, as I think that this site deserves a bit more. According to criterion ii, “Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison had a pivotal role in the development of the English colonies in the Atlantic World”. In fact, Bridgetown served as the main British base in the Eastern Caribbean, both militarily and in trade. It served as a link between the British isles and the other Caribbean island colonies. Sadly, not that much is left from this period
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- Sebasfhb
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- Proposal
- Hilversum City Hall, Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo, Eleven Frisian Cities
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 07.08.23
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAssisi 5Bamberg 5Florence 5Kraków 5Kyiv 5Naples 5Pompei 5Prague 5Ravenna 5Valletta 5Butrint 4.5Rome 4.5Vilnius 4.5Wartburg Castle 4.5Ferrara 4Mostar 4Trebic 4Trier 4Classical Weimar 3.5Kernavė 3.5Lübeck 3.5Split 3.5Corfu 3Meknes 3Stećci 3Corvey 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Pienza 2Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac (T)
- The Scotland District of Barbados (T)
- Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)