My UNESCO WHS List

This blog puts together some of my passions: travelling, especially to UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS); philately (collecting stamps); deltiology (collecting postcards); and doing research into TUIs (i.e., totally useless information) of things that interest me. Hence, it catalogues UNESCO WHS that I have been to, stamps showing UNESCO WHS that I have, as well as postcards featuring UNESCO WHS that I have received (i.e., stamped and posted) and maxicards and postal cards (both used or unused).

23 June, 2019

Complex of Hué Monuments

country. Vietnam

year of inscription. 1993

criteria. Cultural

Hué was established as the capital of Viet Nam in 1802, after the country was unified by the Nguyen Dynasty; it was to remain the cultural and religious centre of the country until 1945. The WHS is comprised of a number of monuments in Hué, in the province of Thua Thien-Hue. These include: the Hué Citadel, the imperial residence and centre of governance, fortresses, places of worship, and mausoleums of monarchs of the dynasty. All these are set in an area of great natural beauty, framed by the Ngu Binh Mountain and traversed by the Perfume River.

what. WHS visited (December 2015)