Cultural World Heritage Sites Photography
Vienna
31 July 2010
Venice
10 August 2010
Istanbul
1 April 2008
Mont Saint Michel
31 August 2008
Châteaux de la Loire
29 August 2008
Delhi – Red Fort
11 March 2019
Delhi – Humayun’s Tomb
12 March 2019
Taj Mahal
14 March 2019
Taj Mahal, meaning “Crown of the Palaces” is a mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan, the builder. […]
Agra Fort
13 March 2019
Jaipur – Amer Fort
16 March 2019
Jaipur – Jantar Mantar
15 March 2019
Potsdam – Berlin
17 June 2014
Toledo
31 July 2014
El Escorial
8 July 2014
Palacio Real – Royal Palace of Madrid
7 July 2014
Córdoba – Great Mosque
29 July 2014
Alhambra – Granada
22 July 2014
Alcázar & Cathedral of Seville
26 July 2014
Québec City / Ville du Québec
31 August 2014
Salzburg
23 May 2017
Sydney Harbour & Coastal area
6 April 2018
Isfahan
26 August 2015
Imam Square and UNESCO World Heritage Persian Isfahan is a lodestar of Victorian Orientalism – the exotic east, old, charming and exquisite. It is resplendent in blue and turquoise mosaic, rich blonde stonework and a skyline of domes, towers and minarets. Imam Square is its focal point: baking hot during the day, at dusk buzzing, […]
Persepolis
31 August 2015
Ancient terraced palace of pillars and winged-bulls Persepolis is from the ancient Greek for “Persian City”, but Parsa, as it was known to the Persians at the time of the Achaemenid Empire, was in fact not a city at all, but a ceremonial palace. Rather oddly placed in the Fars desert, but within a stone’s […]
Paraty
18 February 2020
Paraty is an historic colonial town and beauty spot on the Costa Verde (Green Coast) that stretches between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Paraty was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2019, and the position of the harbour town against dramatic mountain peaks, dressed in jungle green, provided a foretaste of Rio […]
Ouro Preto
28 February 2020
The Brazilian Gold Rush Inland from Rio de Janeiro is the vast state of Minas Gérais. In Portuguese, this literally means ‘General Mines’ and the mineral-rich area around Ouro Preto triggered the Brazilian Gold Rush from the 1730s. Over 800 tons of gold were mined, and it changed everything. It changed everything for Brazil, because […]
Brasília
1 March 2020
Brasilia existed in the imagination of Brazilians long before it was planned or built, or even before anywhere knew where it would be. The story goes back to Brazil’s constitution of 1889 which included reference to a national capital called “Brasilia” in the interior of the country. Eighty years later, Juscelino Kubitschek was a candidate […]
