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World Heritage - a World Wide Panorama June 19-21, 2004
World Heritage - a World Wide Panorama June 19-21, 2004

On the Solstice weekend, June 19-21, more than 110 photographers in 32 countries around the world created VR panoramas with the common theme of World Heritage. This site showcases the results of their efforts.

Click to view other WWP events:
WWP 304 - Marketplace | WWP 604 - World Heritage | WWP 904 - Bridges | WWP 1204 - Sanctuary | WWP 305 - Marketplace | WWP 605 - Water | WWP 905 - Energy | WWP 1205 - Best of 2005

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Jelling runic stones  
Jellinge, Denmark
Lat: 55° 45' 25.6" N Long: 9° 25' 11.6" E
Date/Time: 18:21 CET
Equipment: Sony DSC-F828 / 28mm /Manfrotto QTVR 302, PTGui 3.6
In this qtvr you can see the two runic stones and opposite of these the grave mound "Gorms høj". The smaller stone was errected by Gorm as a memorial to his Queen "Thyra". The larger depicts a nordic dragon on one side and on the other there ist the e..
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Photo: Roald Christesen
Danish Church Wall Paintings - Kalkmalerier - Hyllested kirke  
Hyllested, Djursland, Denmark
Lat: 56° 16' 51" N Long: 10° 46' 5" E
Date/Time: June 21 15.00 GMT+1
Equipment: Canon 10D/Sigma 8mm/homemade panohead/Stitched manually in Photoshop CS using Kekus Panotools Plugin/CubicConverter
Denmark probably has the largest amount of mediveal wall paintings in Europe. In Danish they are called Kalkmalerier = Chalk paintings, as they are painted on a layer of limewash. Most of these paintings are from churches and Denmark has about 1700 pres..
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Photo: Hans Nyberg
Blowing shop at Tallinn city  
Katariina street, Tallinn, Estonia
Lat: 59° 26' 15" N Long: 24° 44' 56" E
Date/Time: 02:15 PM (GMT +2)
Equipment: Taken with an Canon 300D digital SLR, Sigma Fisheye 8mm. Mounted on a Manfrotto 303SPH. Stitched with Panorama Tools.
Here you can watch a demonstration of glass making, and even try blowing glass yourself...
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Photo: Andrei Bodrov
The old church at Petäjävesi  
Petäjävesi, central Finland
Lat: 65° 14' 59.4" N Long: 25° 11' 1.15" E
Date/Time: 11:51 EEST (UTC +3 hours)
Equipment: Fuji S2Pro, 10,5mm Nikkor, modified Manfrotto 302+ with Kaidan Spherical arm, PTMac.
The old church at Petäjävesi was built in 1764. More information on this World Heritage site can be found here: The Old Church at Petäjävesi..
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Photo: Juhani Laiho
Paris: Orsay museum and the banks of the Seine  
Paris, France
Lat: 48° 51' 24.5" N Long: 2° 21' 4" E
Date/Time: 22:00
Equipment: Canon/15/Manfrotto/CCD/Stitcher
The Musee d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, situated on the left bank of the River Seine. It holds mainly French art from 1848 to 1914: paintings, sculptures, furniture, objets d'art and photography. The building was originally a railway station, built in 1900 by ..
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Photo: Eric Rougier and Abia Durant
Lessons from history  
Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France
Lat: 50° 21' 0" N Long: 2° 44' 45" E
Date/Time: 2004-06-19 11:45 AM CEST
Equipment: FujiFilm Sigma S2Pro, Sigma 15-30mm, Manfrotto MA 303 Quick Time VR Kit, PhotoVista 3.0
Nécropole Nationale La Targette in Neuville-Saint-Vaast. A French World War I (1914 to 1918) cemetery with 11.443 burials and a mass grave of 3,882. Close to this cemetery British, Canadian and German cemeteries can be found. About 159,000 soldiers died..
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Photo: Harald Walker
The Limes  
Großerlach-Grab. Impressive remains of the wall in the "Saugraben" woodlands north of Grab. Rebuilt stone tower with palisade, rampart and ditch
Lat: 49° 1' 55.3" N Long: 9° 34' 53.9" E
Date/Time: 16.27 UTC
Equipment: Taken with an Canon EOS 1ds digital SLR, 8mm Sigma, f.8 at 1/60 second. Mounted on a mono pod shot overhead. Stitched with PTmac
The Limes - The outer Upper Germanic-Rhaetian boundary wall ("Limes") is one of the most outstanding archaeological monuments in Central Europe and has recently been put on the wor..
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Photo: Milko Amorth
Allgaeuer Braunvieh-Schumpa (young cows) near Isny  
Isny, Baden-Wuerrtemberg, Germany
Lat: 47° 41' 50" N Long: 10° 2' 10" E
Date/Time: 12:56 GMT+2 June 19 2004
Equipment: Taken with a Canon 10D and Sigma 8mmFE selfmade Panoramahead stitched with PanoTools
The Allgaeuer Voralpenland is one of the most beautiful german places located in the very south of Germany. The Braunvieh are the famous cows of this place...
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Photo: Rolf Brenner
Friedländer Gate, part of the historical barrier and weir system of Neubrandenburg  
Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg/Vorpommern), Germany
Lat: 53° 33' 29.2" N Long: 13° 15' 40.3" E
Date/Time: June 21 13:30 (MEST)
Equipment: Taken with an Fuji Finepix S2 Pro, Sigma 8mm, f.8 at 1/250 second, without tripod (freehand), stitched with PTMac.
Most impressing gothical architecture are without a doubt the magnificent city gates, which gave Neubrandenburg its surname - city of the four gates. In the northeast is the oldest and best preserved gate - the Friedländer Gate. Around 1300 works began ..
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Photo: Frank Bürger
Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Berlin  
Museumsinsel (in front of the cathedral), Berlin, Germany
Lat: 52° 31' 25.7" N Long: 13° 24' 42.8" E
The cathedral - had been constructed as a baroque building by Johann Boumann senior who was commissioned by "Friedrich der Große" 1747-1750. It was renovated and reconstructed into a classicistic building by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and finished in 1..
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Photo: Helmut Koelbach
Freiburger Münster (Freiburg Cathedral) interior  
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Lat: 47° 59' 44" N Long: 7° 51' 10" E
Date/Time: 18:00 MEST
Equipment: Taken with an EOS 600 and Peleng 8mm fisheye, f/16 at 30" on Fuji Reala (in order to manage high contrast), mounted on a self made pan/tilt head. Scanned with Nikon LS40 and stitched with panotools/PTGui, converted to mov with PanoCube
I heard of this second WWP too late to go for a world heritage site (Speyer would have been good, Maulbronn is already done) The 'Freiburger Münster' is referred to as one of the most perfect gothic cathedrals and should be on the world heritage list in m..
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Photo: Erik Krause
Maulbronn Monastery Complex - The Cloister  
Maulbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lat: 49° 0' 8" N Long: 8° 48' 50" E
Date/Time: 16:30 local time (14:30 UTC) June 21 2004
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990, FC E-8 fisheye, zoomed in, f.6,8 at 1/4 - 1/125 second at ISO 100. Mounted on a selfmade VR-head. Four shot round, plus nadair. Software used for this panorama: Photoshop, , PtGui with PanoTools and PanoCUBE Plus.
The Maulbronn Monastery Complex is a former Cistercian abbey, almost 850 years old. It is considered to be the best preserved and thus most impressive medieval abbey north of the Alps. Twelve monks from Alsace began building the abbey in 1147 and set up the mo..
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Photo: Thomas Rist
Zeche Zollverein  
Essen, Ruhrstadt, NRW, Germany
Lat: 51° 27' 28.8" N Long: 7° 0' 52.9" E
Date/Time: June 21 14:30 (GMT +01:00)
Equipment: Taken with Canon D60, Sigma 8mm, selfbuild Nodalpointadapter
Zollverein is one of the most beautiful coal mines, it was designed in the early 1930s by the architects Fritz Schupp und Martin Kremmer. Zeche Zollverein was the largest Coal Mine in Germany until it was closed in 1986. From then on it was developed to a pr..
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Photo: Tom! Striewisch
The Temple of Poseidon  
The Peninsula of Sounion at the south-east tip of Attica, Greece
Lat: 37° 39' 56" N Long: 24° 1' 39" E
Date/Time: 8:10PM (GMT +02:00)Athens
Equipment: Cannon eos1/Sigma/handheld panorama/Fugi slide film, 200Asa/photoshop-Panotools
The peninsula of Sounion was inhabited from the prehistoric period, and there seems to have been some form of cult there in the Mycenaean times, since Homer is the first to describe Sounion as"sacred". He relates that on the journey back from Troy, Menelaus bu..
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Photo: George Kountouris
Church of Panaghia Chalkeon (Our Lady of the coppersmiths)  
Thessaloniki, Greece
Lat: 40° 38' 12" N Long: 22° 56' 36" E
Date/Time: (17:00, local time, 15:00 GMT)
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995 and a Raynox 0.7 wide converter, stitched with Ptgui
Church of Panaghia Chalkeon (Our Lady of the coppersmiths) Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki, Greece Founded in 315 B.C., the provincial capital and sea port of Thessaloniki was one of the first bases for the spread of Christianity. Among..
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Photo: Nikos Pachtas
Holloko Castle  
Holloko WH site, Nograd county, Hungary
Lat: 47° 59' 48.66" N Long: 19° 34' 57.36" E
Date/Time: 09:50 CET (Central European Time)
Equipment: Canon DRebel, Canon 15mm, Manfortto pano head, PanaVue
Holloko is located in a picturesque hilly surrounding, hardly a 100 km away from Budapest. It is a "living museum" village on the northern part of Hungary. It has preserved the warm, people-friendly atmosphere of the diminishing village-life of the accelerated..
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Photo: Tamas D.Varga
Skellig Michael Island  
Skellig Michael - 12 Km (8 miles) off Valencia on the extreme South West Coast of Ireland.
Lat: 51° 46' 14" N Long: 10° 32' 24" W
Date/Time: 13:00 UTC
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon D100 and Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye Lens. Exposure - Manual 1/100 sec - f16. White Balance locked. Files saved in RAW format. Manfrotto 302 Plus Panoramic Head. Stitched in PTMac (Kekus) and blended in 'XBlend' (Kekus) Cleaned up in Photoshop (Adobe). Converted to Cubic VR in CubicConverter (ClickHere Design)
1,400 year old Monastic Site in Ireland

Skellig Michael is one of two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland. This small island of 18 hectares (44 acres) towers 218 m (714 ft.) out of the Atlantic Ocean. It is located 12 km (8 miles) off Va..
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Photo: Brian O'Reilly
Le Gaite di Bevagna  
Bevagna, Umbria, Italy
Lat: 42° 56' 0" N Long: 12° 36' 0" E
Date/Time: 2004/06/20 10:12 (GMT +1)
Equipment: handheld, 4 shots, Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm, f 8, 1/250, iso 200, raw, PTGui, Panotools, Photoshop CS, Panocube Pro
The Gaite's market (Mercato delle Gaite) is a traditional festival hold in Bevagna (Umbria) from June 18th to 27th 2004. It is a rievocations of medieval life in Umbria, in which the four quarters of the town compete to see which can most precisely recreate..
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Photo: Patrizio Silvi Antonini
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