The Royal Domain of Drottningholm stands on an island in Lake Mälar in a suburb of Stockholm. With its castle, perfectly ...
A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League in the Baltic ...
This Stockholm cemetery was created between 1917 and 1920 by two young architects, Asplund and Lewerentz, on the site of former ...
The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings ...
Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a late-17th-century European planned naval city. The original plan and many of the buildings have ...
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 ...
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. ...
Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps. ...
Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and ...
The abbey, together with its monumental entrance, the famous 'Torhall', are rare architectural vestiges of the Carolingian era. The sculptures and ...