While it is on the official Tentative List, I do hope that the Fishpond Network in the Třeboň Basin will be added to Czechia’s list in the next round of additions. It is an incredible example of medieval human ingenuity that terraformed an inland area to reliably breed carp for fishing, and ensure a drought wouldn’t affect this process. Today it is a network of over 500 fish ponds.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishponds\_of\_the\_T%C5%99ebo%C5%88\_Basin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishponds_of_the_T%C5%99ebo%C5%88_Basin)

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  1. I just looked at the German tentative list and out of those on the list I would definitely recommend the Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt. One of the oldest and best preserved synagogues in central Europe. They also have a really old jewish treasure. In fact, they could add the whole old town of Erfurt, these is a lot of medieval history preserved.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Synagogue_(Erfurt)

  3. DMZ in South Korea. In fact, South Korea has persuaded NK to apply for DMZ registration as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for several years. UNESCO also supports us. Paradoxically, the DMZ (the demilitarized zone on the border between South and North Korea) has the most unspoiled natural environment in the world. Because there are no people here, only forests, rivers and wild animals.

  5. In Greece, the Minoan site of Knossos has been on the tentative UNESCO list since 2014. Actually, it’s a bunch of Minoan sites in Crete that are listed as a single [tentative] UNESCO site, but for some reason won’t get past the tentative designation.

    Another one that oddly isn’t a site is the entire island of Santorini, or at least parts of it. Maybe they feel the tourism industry has bastardized the towns of Oia and Fira, but by law, all new buildings have to keep the traditional architectural style of the island. Plus, UNESCO does allow entire functioning city centers to be sites (Greece has two: the old town of Rhodes and the old town of Corfu, so it’s odd that Santorini can’t be on that list, but to be fair, I don’t know all the considerations that go into that). But *at least* the volcanic caldera can be a natural site, or the archaeological site of Akrotiri.

    Another site could be the walled medieval city of Monemvasia, an inhabited medieval town that’s been pretty well restored recently, and very well maintained to originality.

    And there’s quite a few other medieval and ancient sites, many of which are on the tentative list, like the ancient city (ruins) of Messene, and the Zagori stone villages, and others that should be approved, IMO.

    Edit: I also want to add, with regards to Santorini, the the tourism industry has actually been *very good* for historic preservation. Not just in Santorini, but nationwide. Although, the Cyclades islands were [I believe] the *first* region where historic preservation was taken seriously for anything dating after 1500 AD. But the tourism industry is now hugely helping historic preservation nationwide.

  6. Italy already has a lot of UNESCO WH sites.

    In fact,the highest number in the world.58.

    There are also another 31 on the ‘tentative’ list.Of those,I’d say the ones that deserve it the most are Orvieto (based on the cathedral and around),Lecce and the Baroque style of the old town there,and the old town of Volterra.

    In Sicily we currently have 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.The only one on the tentative list here is Mozia,a Phoenician site on the west coast..it is interesting but not a lot remains of the city.

  9. I feel like we have a lot that 100% should be the list.

    – [Buckingham Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace), surprisingly this place is not classified as World Heritage despite it’s international significance; it’s basically our #1 tourist site.

    – [Windsor Castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Castle), our most prestigious and largest surviving castle, originally built by (for?) William the Conqueror in the 11th century, expanded upon and remodeled by numerous monarchs over the course of a millennium. [St George’s Chapel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Chapel,_Windsor_Castle) within the castle grounds is the resting place of numerous people throughout history, including the late Prince Phillip and will likely be the resting place of Elizabeth II herself.

    – [Lincoln Cathedral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral), it was the tallest structure ever built between 1311-1884 when the Washington Monument was built (it’s spires had collapsed in 1548. Architecturally it’s very impressive, the Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: “I have always held … that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have.” One of the four original Magna Carta is displayed inside.

    – The historic colleges of both the [University of Oxford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford) and the [University of Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge). A huge amount of heritage in education, tradition, architecture, discovery and science lie in these two cities.

    – The large historic museums in London; the [Natural History Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London), [British Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum), [Victoria and Albert Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum), [Tate Britain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Britain), [Science Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Museum,_London) and the [National Gallery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery). Within these church-like buildings exists 250 years of devotion to their craft.

    – Tudor buildings so far haven’t received much love from UNESCO so I’d also put forward the likes of [Wollaton Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Hall) ( my local Nottingamshire, biased), [Little Moreton Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Moreton_Hall), [Burghley House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghley_House). Perhaps it would also be worth adding some of the buildings from and around [Chester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester).

    – For somewhere both natural and man-made, I’d throw Northumberland Coast AONB in. Including particular, the [Holy Island/Lindisfarne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne) which is famous for it’s association with Vikings who raided and looted the monastery in 793, beginning the Viking Age, and [Bamburgh Castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamburgh_Castle), which is built on a dolerite (subvolcanic) rock.

    – [Chalk Hill Figures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_figure)

  10. None. It only attracts more tourists who disrupt the nature and and make the place less enjoyable for locals. One example would be höllental, where vienna‘s water comes from. It used to be this wonderful little stream between schneeberg and rax, with nobody in sight and only locals knowing about it. Now, good luck finding a parking spot to go down to the water in the first place

  11. Of course I want to see my hometown recognised – it’s not even on the tentative list, perhaps because of the quotas within the different German states. There’s two candidacies that I think could be worth a try: The [old town hall of Münster](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historisches_Rathaus_M%C3%BCnster) and the town hall of [Osnabrück](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osnabr%C3%BCck_Town_Hall) were the sites of negotiations leading up to the Peace of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict bloodier than even the Second World War in relative terms (in some areas, a mere third of the population survived), in the process establishing modern principles of sovereign statehood and recognising the independence of Switzerland and the Netherlands.

    The other possible application would be on grounds of the post-war reconstruction. Münster was absolutely flattened, in 1945 it looked like [this](https://www.muenster.de/stadt/kriegschronik/fotos/1945_01_Bild_01a_gross.jpg) and today is back to this: [(1)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:MS111013_5343.jpg), [(2)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MuensterPrinzipalmarkt09.JPG), [(3)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Muenster_Innenstadt.jpg). If you look close in the second picture, you’ll notice that the façades are gothic only at a first glance, in fact the style is a synthesis between the original and the 1950s, with some modern forms and general simplification. Today it’s this mix that determines the face of the city, it’s not one of these reconstructions that tried to make you forget completely that something had happened in the meantime.

  12. Liverpool got stripped of its UNESCO world heritage status last year but personally I think it was unfair because it was lost because

    1.Everton’s new stadium- which if you actually look at the plans are very sustainable and does not damage any history but instead revives a derelict area while incorporating and fixing some historical buildings
    2.High rise developments- these are away from the Albert dock and aren’t exactly uncommon in historical cities and cities need to look after its citizens as well.

    It has been a decade since UNESCO last visited the city to see it with their own eyes and it’s a shame to have such a historically magnificent and cultural city lose out on its status. Also just to say, I’m not a fan of replacing historical things with new concrete slabs if that had been done then it’s fair enough however this is not what has happened.

  13. I was shocked when I learned Neuschwanstein Castle isn’t a UNESCO world heritage site. It’s on the tentative list since 2015, but UNESCO says it “falls into an over represented category”.

  14. For Czechia, I want to add one place and that could be the last manmade heritage site – [Terezín](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terez%C3%ADn). What was built as a peak bastion fortress town by the end of 18th century was later used as a Jewish ghetto and Gestapo prison during WW2. After the war, the Czechoslovak army used it. However, as the army left it after the fall of the communist regime, the town and the fortress have been slowly falling apart as it’s not a rich place and not that many tourists come there. Being a part of the heritage list could inprove its situation drastically. For such a small country that we are, we already have quite a lot of UNESCO sites, but Terezín is the one that truly does deserve to be one, too.

    ​

    EDIT: Terezín has been on the tentative list since 2001 and there were some discussions with France as they wanted to add some of their bastion fortresses which they managed later.

    EDIT 2: Thank you for coming up with the topic, it’s nice to read about other countries’ heritage.

  15. I would like to nominate the Österlen region in southeastern Scania, as a representative of Scania’s unique blend of Swedish and Danish cultural heritage and for its intricate old mix and interdependence between culture and nature.

    The region has a lot of important cultural historical sites such as the Stone Age tomb Havängsdösen, Bronze Age petroglyph carvings in the Kivikgraven tomb and at Yxornas Häll, one of Scandinavia’s largest and most beautifully situated Viking Age stone ship setting Ales Stenar, Scandinavia’s best preserved Medieval castle Glimmingehus, and the preserved home of the former U.N. secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld. There are also many picturesque old fishing coves and harbours, and lots of preserved old half-timbered houses which are typical for Scania within Sweden. And the region is still very culturally important today as being home to many modern artists, painters, musicians, authors and film makers who find inspiration from the stillness and beautiful landscapes here.

    Österlen also have some of Europe’s most fertile soils and a very mild climate for Scandinavia. It is known for its rich culinary culture with many old inns and traditional restaurants serving uniquely Scanian dishes and other traditional food. The many large, beautiful orchards of apples and cherries are also quite typical, and the region is home to the majority of Sweden’s few vineyards.

    The nature is also very unique, with many features not found anywhere else on the Scandinavian peninsula. Typical for the region are the flowery rolling hills, forests of beech and hornbeam (such as in the national park Stenshuvud), sand steppes, coastal forests of pine and dwarf oak trees twisted by the sea winds, and long sandy beaches with large sand dunes by the Baltic Sea. Many species of both plants and animals also reach their northernmost limit in Europe here, while others are at their southernmost limit. It is for example one of very few places in Europe where the moose and the tree frog meet.

    In order to protect this beautiful region’s special history, culture and nature and to preserve Scania’s unique heritage and some of the last remaining historical sites of the lost East Danish lands on the Scandinavian mainland, I think this region ought to be protected as a world heritage site.

  16. Historic centres of various Siberian towns like Irkutsk and Yeniseysk are on the tentative list and must be protected. Russian wooden architecture is very vulnerable to neglect, fires, greedy developers, greedy mayors and fires started by greedy developers who have bribed the greedy mayors. I would also add Tomsk to the list, but it might be too late to save it.

    Divnogorje cave complex is on the tentative list as well. The caves there have been used for millenia and there’s still a cave monastery there.

  19. [Portofino] (https://images.app.goo.gl/67523CrVZ4iAyn3u7) could probably be one for Italy. Traditional fishermen village (with a twist, rich people everywhere) in the middle of a terrestrial and marine natural park.

    Generally considered to be of the most expensive places in Italy it’s probably also one of the most beautiful.

  21. The Jewish Cemetery in Hamburg.

    It’s one of the world’s largest well-preserved Jewish cemeteries and has a large Sephardic (that is, Iberian) section because Hamburg had a large number of Portuguese citizens and still has a Portuguese quarter. Jewish sites are underrepresented among UNESCO sites anyway, and this is a great site that represents both Jewish culture in Europe and the long trade traditions of both southern and northern Europe.

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