Together these three buildings form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of Seville. The cathedral and the Alcázar – dating ...
From the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, from the Place de la Concorde to the Grand and Petit Palais, the evolution ...
Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement ...
The square Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the skyline of the former Ottoman capital of ...
With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has ...
The site of Olympia, in a valley in the Peloponnesus, has been inhabited since prehistoric times. In the 10th century B.C., ...
Mystras, the 'wonder of the Morea', was built as an amphitheatre around the fortress erected in 1249 by the prince of ...
In a small valley in the Peloponnesus, the shrine of Asklepios, the god of medicine, developed out of a much earlier ...
The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural ...
Although geographically distant from each other, these three monasteries (the first is in Attica, near Athens, the second in Phocida near ...
The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the site of the omphalos, the 'navel of the ...
In a region of almost inaccessible sandstone peaks, monks settled on these 'columns of the sky' from the 11th century onwards. ...