The Viñales valley is encircled by mountains and its landscape is interspersed with dramatic rocky outcrops. Traditional techniques are still in ...
Havana was founded in 1519 by the Spanish. By the 17th century, it had become one of the Caribbean's main centres ...
The colonial town of Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 in the Spanish territory but was initially settled by immigrants of French ...
Founded in the early 16th century in honour of the Holy Trinity, the city was a bridgehead for the conquest of ...
One of the first seven villages founded by the Spaniards in Cuba, Camagüey played a prominent role as the urban centre ...
Complex geology and varied topography have given rise to a diversity of ecosystems and species unmatched in the insular Caribbean and ...
Commercial and political rivalries in the Caribbean region in the 17th century resulted in the construction of this massive series of ...
The Kvarken Archipelago (Finland) and the High Coast (Sweden) are situated in the Gulf of Bothnia, a northern extension of the ...
Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of ...
This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. ...
The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami, or Lapp people. It is the largest area ...
A cluster of dozens of islands centred on Vega, just south of the Arctic Circle, forms a cultural landscape of 103,710 ...