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 ...
Human activity in the magnificent natural landscape of the Salzkammergut began in prehistoric times, with the salt deposits being exploited as ...
Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th ...
This 13th-century fortified monastery belonging to the Teutonic Order was substantially enlarged and embellished after 1309, when the seat of the ...
This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th ...
Located in northwest England, the English Lake District is a mountainous area, whose valleys have been modelled by glaciers in the ...
Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a ...
This railway bridge, spanning the estuary of the Forth River in Scotland, was the world’s earliest great multispan cantilever bridge, and ...
Brugge is an outstanding example of a medieval historic settlement, which has maintained its historic fabric as this has evolved over ...
La Grand-Place in Brussels is a remarkably homogeneous body of public and private buildings, dating mainly from the late 17th century. ...
The Béguines were women who dedicated their lives to God without retiring from the world. In the 13th century they founded ...