The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on ...
Situated 900 m above sea-level, Djémila, or Cuicul, with its forum, temples, basilicas, triumphal arches and houses, is an interesting example ...
In a mountainous site of extraordinary beauty, the ruins of the first capital of the Hammadid emirs, founded in 1007 and ...
This site contains two of the most active volcanoes in the world, Mauna Loa (4,170 m high) and Kilauea (1,250 m ...
This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the ...
Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in 993. It comprises, besides the Brahmanic monuments ...
The ruins of the capital built by the parricidal King Kassapa I (477–95) lie on the steep slopes and at the ...
A sacred pilgrimage site for 22 centuries, this cave monastery, with its five sanctuaries, is the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in ...
This sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings whose patronage ...
Founded in the 16th century by the Portuguese, Galle reached the height of its development in the 18th century, before the ...
At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct volcano, which during its ...
The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley , a natural property of outstanding beauty, comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow ...