The Palace of Versailles was the principal residence of the French kings from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XVI. ...
Used by the kings of France from the 12th century, the medieval royal hunting lodge of Fontainebleau, standing at the heart ...
Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the ...
The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), ...
The climates are precisely delimited vineyard parcels on the slopes of the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune south ...
This magnificent Baroque palace – one of the largest and most beautiful in Germany and surrounded by wonderful gardens – was ...
With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an ...
The museum as a social phenomenon owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. The five museums ...
Political centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the end of the 18th century, Vilnius has had ...
Torun owes its origins to the Teutonic Order, which built a castle there in the mid-13th century as a base for ...
This 13th-century fortified monastery belonging to the Teutonic Order was substantially enlarged and embellished after 1309, when the seat of the ...
The historic centre of Cracow, the former capital of Poland, is situated at the foot of the Royal Wawel Castle. The ...