Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. ...
Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques, ...
The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. ...
This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of ...
Founded in the 2nd century B.C. in northern Italy, Vicenza prospered under Venetian rule from the early 15th to the end ...
The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central ...
These places in Saxony-Anhalt are all associated with the lives of Martin Luther and his fellow-reformer Melanchthon. They include Melanchthon's house ...
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the ...
Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was a capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxonian-Ottonian ...
The Upper Harz mining water management system, which lies south of the Rammelsberg mines and the town of Goslar, has been ...
The Wouda Pumping Station at Lemmer in the province of Friesland opened in 1920. It is the largest steam-pumping station ever ...
Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, ...
Carved out by the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon (nearly 1,500 m deep) is the most spectacular gorge in the world. ...
Yosemite National Park lies in the heart of California. With its 'hanging' valleys, many waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, moraines and ...
The Mauritanian capital, founded in the 3rd century B.C., became an important outpost of the Roman Empire and was graced with ...
Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a capital under Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), ...
Founded in the 9th century and home to the oldest university in the world, Fez reached its height in the 13th–14th ...
The ksar, a group of earthen buildings surrounded by high walls, is a traditional pre-Saharan habitat. The houses crowd together within ...
Founded in 1070–72 by the Almoravids, Marrakesh remained a political, economic and cultural centre for a long period. Its influence was ...
Essaouira is an exceptional example of a late-18th-century fortified town, built according to the principles of contemporary European military architecture in ...
The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca, was built as a ...
Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a fertile exchange between the ...
Tétouan was of particular importance in the Islamic period, from the 8th century onwards, since it served as the main point ...
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference is linked to the copper mines, established in the 17th century and exploited for 333 ...