Ávila in Castile and León

25 April 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

Plaza del Mercado Chico © flickr.com - Brian Adamson/cc-by-2.0

Plaza del Mercado Chico © flickr.com – Brian Adamson/cc-by-2.0

Ávila is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila. It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m above sea level, the city is the highest provincial capital in Spain.   read more…

Camagüey in Cuba

23 April 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  4 minutes

Plaza de los Trabajadores © Arnoud Joris Maaswinkel/cc-by-sa-4.0

Plaza de los Trabajadores © Arnoud Joris Maaswinkel/cc-by-sa-4.0

Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation’s third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.   read more…

Ceviche

21 April 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

© Picanteria karol/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Picanteria karol/cc-by-sa-4.0

Ceviche, cebiche, sebiche, or seviche is a dish consisting of fish or shellfish marinated in citrus and seasonings, recognized by UNESCO as an expression of Peruvian traditional cuisine and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, although different versions of ceviche are part of the culinary culture of various Spanish-American countries along the Pacific Ocean where each one is native: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru. In Peru it is also considered a flagship dish and cultural heritage.   read more…

Angra do Heroísmo on the Azores

19 April 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  11 minutes

© Concierge.2C/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Concierge.2C/cc-by-sa-3.0

Angra do Heroísmo, or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the three capital cities of the Azores. Founded in 1478, Angra was historically the most important city in the Azores, as seat of the Bishop of the Azores, government entities, and having previously served as the capital city of Portugal during the Liberal Wars. The population in 2011 was 35,402, in an area of 239.00 km². It was classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1983.   read more…

Theme Week Bulgarian Black Sea Coast – Nesebar

29 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Happyna/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Happyna/cc-by-sa-4.0

Nesebar (often transcribed as Nessebar and sometimes as Nesebur) is an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nesebar Municipality. As of December 2019, the town has a population of 13,600 inhabitants.   read more…

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Army

29 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

Tomb of the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di © flickr.com - wit/cc-by-sa-2.0

Tomb of the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di © flickr.com – wit/cc-by-sa-2.0

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (pinyin: Qínsh?huáng Líng) is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty.   read more…

Lulworth Cove on the Jurassic Coast

20 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

Lulworth Cove © Nilfanion/cc-by-sa-4.0

Lulworth Cove © Nilfanion/cc-by-sa-4.0

Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the world’s finest examples of such a landform, and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 visitors every year, of whom about 30 per cent visit in July and August. It is close to the rock arch of Durdle Door and other Jurassic Coast sites.   read more…

Theme Week Calabria – Palmi

23 February 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

Monte Sant'Elia © Nikater

View from Monte Sant’Elia © Nikater

Palmi (Reggino: Parmi; Latin: Palmae) is a comune (municipality) of about 19,303 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria. It is seat of the district, which includes 33 municipalities in the plain of Palmi, with a population of approximately 170,000 inhabitants.   read more…

Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche in Lorraine

15 February 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  4 minutes

Saint-Louis crystal glass manufacturer © Gryffindor/cc-by-sa-3.0

Saint-Louis crystal glass manufacturer © Gryffindor/cc-by-sa-3.0

Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche (literally St. Louis near Bitche; German: Münzthal; Lorraine Franconian: Minzdal) is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France.   read more…

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