The historic town of Guimarães is associated with the emergence of the Portuguese national identity in the 12th century. An exceptionally ...
Standing at the entrance to Lisbon harbour, the Monastery of the Hieronymites – construction of which began in 1502 – exemplifies ...
The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with ...
Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It ...
From the 18th century to 1918, Schönbrunn was the residence of the Habsburg emperors. It was designed by the architects Johann ...
Bardejov is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this ...
The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic ...
The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site, on the border between Poland and Belarus, is an immense range of primary forest including ...
Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of sixteen tserkvas (churches). They were built of horizontal ...
The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic ...
A landscaped park of 559.9 ha astride the Neisse River and the border between Poland and Germany, it was created by ...
Human habitation of this elongated sand dune peninsula, 98 km long and 0.4-4 km wide, dates back to prehistoric times. Throughout ...
In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a ...
This pilgrimage church, built in honour of St John of Nepomuk, stands at Zelená Hora, not far from Ždár nad Sázavou ...
Litomyšl Castle was originally a Renaissance arcade-castle of the type first developed in Italy and then adopted and greatly developed in ...
Kroměříž stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which ...
The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, is an outstanding example of the international style ...
The ensemble of the Jewish Quarter, the old Jewish cemetery and the Basilica of St Procopius in Třebíč are reminders of ...
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. ...
The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. This major industrial undertaking has royal ...