Prace Jože Plečnika wykonane w Lublanie między I a II wojną światową stanowią przykład skoncentrowanego na człowieku projektu urbanistycznego, który sukcesywnie ...
The Vatican City, one of the most sacred places in Christendom, attests to a great history and a formidable spiritual venture. ...
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then ...
The Villa d'Este in Tivoli, with its palace and garden, is one of the most remarkable and comprehensive illustrations of Renaissance ...
The Villa Adriana (at Tivoli, near Rome) is an exceptional complex of classical buildings created in the 2nd century A.D. by ...
From the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, from the Place de la Concorde to the Grand and Petit Palais, the evolution ...
The Aeolian Islands provide an outstanding record of volcanic island-building and destruction, and ongoing volcanic phenomena. Studied since at least the ...
Mount Etna is an iconic site encompassing 19,237 uninhabited hectares on the highest part of Mount Etna, on the eastern coast of ...
Located on the northern coast of Sicily, Arab-Norman Palermo includes a series of nine civil and religious structures dating from the ...
Founded as a Greek colony in the 6th century B.C., Agrigento became one of the leading cities in the Mediterranean world. ...
Roman exploitation of the countryside is symbolized by the Villa Romana del Casale (in Sicily), the centre of the large estate ...
The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli, were all rebuilt ...
The historic churches of Mtskheta, former capital of Georgia, are outstanding examples of medieval religious architecture in the Caucasus. They show ...
Preserved by its long isolation, the Upper Svaneti region of the Caucasus is an exceptional example of mountain scenery with medieval-type ...
Under the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered one of the greatest and ...
Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century onwards, it developed into ...
This Phoenician city was probably abandoned during the First Punic War (c. 250 B.C.) and as a result was not rebuilt ...
Sousse was an important commercial and military port during the Aghlabid period (800–909) and is a typical example of a town ...
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 ...