The City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg bear witness to an exemplary model of the living heritage of ...
Founded in the 2nd century B.C. in northern Italy, Vicenza prospered under Venetian rule from the early 15th to the end ...
The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central ...
The small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche, experienced a great cultural flowering in the 15th century, attracting artists and ...
Assisi, a medieval city built on a hill, is the birthplace of Saint Francis, closely associated with the work of the ...
The landscape of Val d’Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, redrawn and developed when it was integrated in ...
It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in ...
Aquileia (in Friuli-Venezia Giulia), one of the largest and wealthiest cities of the Early Roman Empire, was destroyed by Attila in ...
Mantua and Sabbioneta, in the Po valley, in the north of Italy, represent two aspects of Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows ...
Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest ...
The historic city of Verona was founded in the 1st century B.C. It particularly flourished under the rule of the Scaliger ...
This pilgrimage church, built in honour of St John of Nepomuk, stands at Zelená Hora, not far from Ždár nad Sázavou ...
The magnificent 12th-century cathedral at Modena, the work of two great artists (Lanfranco and Wiligelmus), is a supreme example of early ...
In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a ...
Litomyšl Castle was originally a Renaissance arcade-castle of the type first developed in Italy and then adopted and greatly developed in ...
The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. This major industrial undertaking has royal ...