2023-06-02 12:26:00
Two cultural and historical sites in Germany at once entered the top ten most popular UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe. This is reported by the German newspaper Die Welt, citing the results of a study conducted by the British travel platform. Weloveholidays.
World Heritage in Europe
The World Heritage List currently includes 1157 cultural and natural monuments in 167 countries of the world, of which almost 500 are in Europe.
The ratings on TripAdvisor and positive feedback on Twitter over the past six months are the basis for compiling the European ranking of the popularity of these attractions among tourists.
As a result, the first place was taken by the historical center of Budapest. The second was the Old Town in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in Germany. On the third – the Tower of London.
In general, the top ten looks like this:
1. Historic center of Budapest
2. Old town in Lübeck
3. Tower of London
4. Works by Antoni Gaudí in Catalonia
5. Alhambra, Generalife and Albasin in Granada
6. Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna
7. Acropolis in Athens
8. Grand Place in Brussels
9. Archaeological sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata in Italy
10 Cologne Cathedral
Then another object from Germany also got into the top thirty – Bauhaus monuments in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau, which took 26th place.
The Hanseatic city of Lübeck (2) scored 1,355 five-star ratings from TripAdvisor users in six months, which is relatively low, but has received more than 127,000 positive comments on Twitter.
Cologne Cathedral (10), Germany’s most visited architectural landmark, scored 16,293 five-star ratings but received only about 14,000 positive tweets.
The top thirty also included, in particular, the Palace of Versailles (14), the Old Towns in Bruges (16) and Dubrovnik (17), the Memorial complex in the former concentration camp Auschwitz (18), the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia (20) and the Old Town in Tallinn (23).
Among the countries of Europe in terms of the number of objects in the TOP-30, Spain and Italy shared the first place among themselves – four objects each.
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