The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central ...
Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. ...
Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under ...
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then ...
This memorial column, erected in the early years of the 18th century, is the most outstanding example of a type of ...
Kroměříž stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which ...
La Grand-Place in Brussels is a remarkably homogeneous body of public and private buildings, dating mainly from the late 17th century. ...
The Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed on the World Heritage List consist of two Roman Catholic, ...
Vlkolínec, situated in the centre of Slovakia, is a remarkably intact settlement of 45 buildings with the traditional features of a ...
This exceptional system of limestone caves comprises collapsed dolines, some 6 km of underground passages with a total depth of more ...
The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as ...