Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of ...
Together these three buildings form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of Seville. The cathedral and the Alcázar – dating ...
The Caliphate city of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a city built in the mid-10th century CE by the Umayyad ...
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces ...
Located on the outskirts of Sofia, Boyana Church consists of three buildings. The eastern church was built in the 10th century, ...
Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century by St John of Rila, a hermit canonized by the Orthodox Church. His ...
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 ...
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 ...