Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces ...
Together these three buildings form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of Seville. The cathedral and the Alcázar – dating ...
Standing at the entrance to Lisbon harbour, the Monastery of the Hieronymites – construction of which began in 1502 – exemplifies ...
In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a ...
The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with ...
Situated on the island of Tenerife, Teide National Park features the Teide-Pico Viejo stratovolcano that, at 3,718 m, is the highest ...
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, in the Canary Islands, has two nuclei: the original, unplanned Upper Town; and the Lower Town, ...
The Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli in Genoa’s historic centre date from the late 16th and ...
The site of the Dolomites comprises a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, numbering 18 peaks which rise to above ...
Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th ...
Human activity in the magnificent natural landscape of the Salzkammergut began in prehistoric times, with the salt deposits being exploited as ...
Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It ...