Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th ...
Located in north-eastern Italy, the site includes part of the vinegrowing landscape of the Prosecco wine production area. The landscape is ...
Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. ...
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the historic centre of the city which ...
The small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche, experienced a great cultural flowering in the 15th century, attracting artists and ...
Assisi, a medieval city built on a hill, is the birthplace of Saint Francis, closely associated with the work of the ...
It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in ...
The landscape of Val d’Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, redrawn and developed when it was integrated in ...
The Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of great scenic and cultural value. The layout and ...
The magnificent 12th-century cathedral at Modena, the work of two great artists (Lanfranco and Wiligelmus), is a supreme example of early ...
Mantua and Sabbioneta, in the Po valley, in the north of Italy, represent two aspects of Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows ...
Crespi d'Adda in Capriate San Gervasio in Lombardy is an outstanding example of the 19th- and early 20th-century 'company towns' built ...
Founded in the 9th century and home to the oldest university in the world, Fez reached its height in the 13th–14th ...
Tétouan was of particular importance in the Islamic period, from the 8th century onwards, since it served as the main point ...
The Mijikenda Kaya Forests consist of 11 separate forest sites spread over some 200 km along the coast containing the remains ...
The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, ...
Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions. Built in coral stone ...
Large numbers of elephants, black rhinoceroses, cheetahs, giraffes, hippopotamuses and crocodiles live in this immense sanctuary, which measures 50,000 km2 and ...
The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers are situated on two small islands near the ...
On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary ...
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple ...
The vast plains of the Serengeti comprise 1.5 million ha of savannah. The annual migration to permanent water holes of vast ...
At 5,895 m, Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa. This volcanic massif stands in splendid isolation above the surrounding plains, ...
At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct volcano, which during its ...