The Roman aqueduct of Segovia, probably built c. A.D. 50, is remarkably well preserved. This impressive construction, with its two tiers ...
Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the ...
Founded in the 11th century to protect the Spanish territories from the Moors, this 'City of Saints and Stones', the birthplace ...
Built at the end of the 16th century on a plan in the form of a grill, the instrument of the ...
Founded by Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros in the early 16th century, Alcalá de Henares was the world's first planned university city. ...
This is the most outstanding, intact example of a troglodyte settlement in the Mediterranean region, perfectly adapted to its terrain and ...
When the Emperor Frederick II built this castle near Bari in the 13th century, he imbued it with symbolic significance, as ...
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 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 ...