Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It ...
Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th ...
Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques, ...
This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of ...
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. ...
The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. ...
The historic centre of Shakhrisyabz contains a collection of exceptional monuments and ancient quarters which bear witness to the city's secular ...
The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and melting pot of the world's cultures. Founded in the 7th century B.C. ...
Bukhara, which is situated on the Silk Route, is more than 2,000 years old. It is the most complete example of ...
Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between ...
The 74,000-hectare property, inscribed as a mixed natural and cultural site, is situated in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi ...
There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early ...