The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English ...
Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under ...
Twelve villas and two gardens spread across the Tuscan landscape make up this site which bears testimony to the influence the ...
Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest ...
Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, the Royal castle of ...
Located about 30 km northeast of Copenhagen, this cultural landscape encompasses the two hunting forests of Store Dyrehave and Gribskov, as ...
Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and it encouraged ...
The Kernavė Archaeological site, about 35 km north-west of Vilnius in eastern Lithuania, represents an exceptional testimony to some 10 millennia ...
Located in the mountain region of Świętokrzyskie, Krzemionki is an ensemble of four mining sites, dating from the Neolithic to the ...
When Emmanuel-Philibert, Duke of Savoy, moved his capital to Turin in 1562, he began a vast series of building projects (continued ...
The refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie forms an integral part of this architectural complex, begun in Milan ...
Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century by St John of Rila, a hermit canonized by the Orthodox Church. His ...
Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps. ...
Speyer Cathedral, a basilica with four towers and two domes, was founded by Conrad II in 1030 and remodelled at the ...
Surrounded by two arms of the River Ill, the Grande Ile (Big Island) is the historic centre of the Alsatian capital. ...
Nancy, the temporary residence of a king without a kingdom – Stanislas Leszczynski, later to become Duke of Lorraine – is ...
The ironworks, which cover some 6 ha, dominate the city of Völklingen. Although they have recently gone out of production, they ...
Because of its strategic position, Luxembourg was, from the 16th century until 1867, when its walls were dismantled, one of Europe's ...
Trier, which stands on the Moselle River, was a Roman colony from the 1st century AD and then a great trading ...
The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns and vineyards, graphically illustrates the long history of human ...
The abbey, together with its monumental entrance, the famous 'Torhall', are rare architectural vestiges of the Carolingian era. The sculptures and ...
Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and ...
This magnificent Baroque palace – one of the largest and most beautiful in Germany and surrounded by wonderful gardens – was ...
From the 10th century onwards, this town became an important link with the Slav peoples, especially those of Poland and Pomerania. ...