In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a ...
Standing at the entrance to Lisbon harbour, the Monastery of the Hieronymites – construction of which began in 1502 – exemplifies ...
This museum-city, whose roots go back to Roman times, reached its golden age in the 15th century, when it became the ...
Situated on a hill overlooking the city, the University of Coimbra with its colleges grew and evolved over more than seven ...
The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with ...
Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the ...
Together these three buildings form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of Seville. The cathedral and the Alcázar – dating ...
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces ...
Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of ...
The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, ...
Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) ...
Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement ...