When I was in Peru in August 2012, I noticed that Cusco was a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It occurred to me that I had been to several through the years, and I wondered how many there were and how many I had been to. So I decided to do a post of all the UNESCO World Heritage Sites I had visited.
Since that time, I've continued to update this post. The most recent UNESCO sites I've visited was Stelling van Amsterdam, or the defense line of Amsterdam, built between 1880 and 1914. Prior to that, it was Cape Floristic Region in Cape Town, Africa which I visited in April 2016.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to be of cultural or physical significance. There are presently over 962 such sites.
The 35 World Heritage Sites I’ve been to include:
Amsterdam
• Stelling van Amsterdam (defense line of Amsterdam) in Haarlem
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Fort benoorden Spaarndam, part of the defense line of Amsterdam |
Austria
• Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
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Salzburg |
• Historic Centre of Vienna
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Vienna Opera House |
Australia
• Sydney Opera House
Chile
• Rapa Nui National Park
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Rapa Nui (the indigenous name for Easter Island) |
• Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
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Valparaiso |
China
• The Great Wall
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Great Wall at Mutianyu |
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Great Wall at Badaling |
• Classical Gardens of Suzhou
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Suzhou |
• Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
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Temple of Heaven |
• Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang (Forbidden City)
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Forbidden City |
Czech Republic
• Historic Centre of Prague
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Prague |
Egypt
• Historic Cairo
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Cairo and the Nile |
• Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
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Giza and the Pyramids |
France
• Palace and Park of Versailles
• Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
• Paris, Banks of the Seine
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Banks of the Seine |
Germany
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Town of Bamberg
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Bamberg |
• Würtzberg Residenz
Italy
• Vatican City
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The Vatican |
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
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Ancient Roman Ruins |
India
• Elephanta Caves
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At Elephanta Caves |
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Inside the Elephanta Caves |
Japan
• Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
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Shirakawa-go |
Luxembourg
• City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
Mexico
• Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
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The Zocalo in Mexico City |
• Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
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Climbing Teotihuacan |
Peru
• City of Cuzco
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Plaza de Armas in Cuzco |
• Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
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Arriving at the Sun Gate with Machu Picchu below |
Russian Federation
• Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
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At the Kremlin |
South Africa
• Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (Cape Town)
Spain
• Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
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La Alhambra |
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Inside the Alhambra in Granada (Spring 1999) |
• Works of Antoni Gaudi
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Gaudi's Sagrada Familia |
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Me inside Gaudi's Park Güell in Barcelona, 1999 |
• Historic City of Toledo
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Toledo, Spain |
United Kingdom
• Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church
USA
• Statue of Liberty
• San Antonio Mission (including the Alamo)
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The Alamo, 2009 |
(Updated October 29, 2016 from original post in October, 2012)
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