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).

28 April, 2019

Wadden Sea

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countries. Denmark, Germany, and Netherlands

year of inscription. 2009 (modification: 2011, extension: 2014)

criteria. Natural

Van Nellefabriek

country. Netherlands

year of inscription. 2014

criteria. Cultural

Van Nellefabriek is a complex of factories built in the 1920s in the province of South Holland. The site is considered to be one of the icons of 20th-century industrial architecture, with its use of architectural features that seek to improve factory working conditions. As such, it has come to symbolise the modernist and functionalist culture in the inter-war period. It also bears witness to the historical economic role of the Netherlands, in the importing of raw materials (in this case, food products), processing them industrially, before exporting the products to the rest of Europe.