Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, ...
The Beemster Polder, dating from the early 17th century, is is an exceptional example of reclaimed land in the Netherlands. It ...
The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was commissioned by Ms Truus Schröder-Schräder, designed by the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, and built ...
Van Nellefabriek was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial zone ...
The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of handling water is admirably demonstrated by the ...
The Béguines were women who dedicated their lives to God without retiring from the world. In the 13th century they founded ...
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one ...
Brugge is an outstanding example of a medieval historic settlement, which has maintained its historic fabric as this has evolved over ...
Amiens Cathedral, in the heart of Picardy, is one of the largest 'classic' Gothic churches of the 13th century. It is ...
Fortifications of Vauban consists of 12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France. ...
Twenty-three belfries in the north of France and the belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were inscribed as a group, an extension ...
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Tournai was built in the first half of the 12th century. It is especially distinguished by ...
Founded in 670, Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century. Despite the transfer of the political capital to ...
The impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheatre which could hold up to 35,000 spectators, are ...
The Ichkeul lake and wetland are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, such as ducks, geese, ...
Before the Roman annexation of Numidia, the town of Thugga, built on an elevated site overlooking a fertile plain, was the ...
Founded in 1773 in South Jutland, the site is an example of a planned settlement of the Moravian Church, a Lutheran ...
This museum-city, whose roots go back to Roman times, reached its golden age in the 15th century, when it became the ...
The site, extensively fortified from the 17th to 19th centuries, represents the largest bulwarked dry-ditch system in the world. Within its ...
The city's history of battles between Moors and Christians is reflected in its architecture, which is a blend of Roman, Islamic, ...
The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture. It symbolizes two significant events in world history ...
The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the ...
The Caliphate city of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a city built in the mid-10th century CE by the Umayyad ...
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces ...