Since the pre-Roman period, a fortified settlement has existed on the hill where Carcassonne now stands. In its present form it ...
Located in a limestone plateau of the Ardèche River in southern France, the property contains the earliest-known and best-preserved figurative drawings ...
This 302,319 ha property, in the southern part of central France, is a mountain landscape interspersed by deep valleys that is ...
Arles is a good example of the adaptation of an ancient city to medieval European civilization. It has some impressive Roman ...
In the 14th century, this city in the South of France was the seat of the papacy. The Palais des Papes, ...
The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 ...
Situated in the Rhone valley, the ancient theatre of Orange, with its 103-m-long facade, is one of the best preserved of ...
The long history of Lyons, which was founded by the Romans in the 1st century B.C. as the capital of the ...
The climates are precisely delimited vineyard parcels on the slopes of the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune south ...
Surrounded by two arms of the River Ill, the Grande Ile (Big Island) is the historic centre of the Alsatian capital. ...
This magnificent Baroque palace – one of the largest and most beautiful in Germany and surrounded by wonderful gardens – was ...
From the 10th century onwards, this town became an important link with the Slav peoples, especially those of Poland and Pomerania. ...
Red Bay, established by Basque mariners in the 16th century at the north-eastern tip of Canada on the shore of the ...
At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are ...
The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to ...
Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the only North American city to ...
The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the Gaspé peninsula, is considered to ...
Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example of the process of continental ...
This fossil site is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada. It consists of a ...
The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as ...
Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing ...
Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has retained ...
Located on the Danube River in Bavaria, this medieval town contains many buildings of exceptional quality that testify to its history ...
The water management system of the city of Augsburg has evolved in successive phases from the 14th century to the present ...