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 ...
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. ...
The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves ...
Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th ...
The small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche, experienced a great cultural flowering in the 15th century, attracting artists and ...
Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. ...
The Zollverein industrial complex in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen consists of the complete infrastructure of a historical coal-mining site, with some 20th-century buildings ...
Santiago de Compostela was the supreme goal for countless thousands of pious pilgrims who converged there from all over Europe throughout ...
Since the pre-Roman period, a fortified settlement has existed on the hill where Carcassonne now stands. In its present form it ...
This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is ...