The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Ś widnica, the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, were built in the former ...

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city and stands at ...

The site of the Dolomites comprises a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, numbering 18 peaks which rise to above ...

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then ...

The historic centre of Cracow, the former capital of Poland, is situated at the foot of the Royal Wawel Castle. The ...

The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic ...

The Centennial Hall, a landmark in the history of reinforced concrete architecture, was erected in 1911-1913 by the architect Max Berg ...

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a breathtaking cultural landscape of great spiritual significance. Its natural setting – in which a series of symbolic ...

Zamosc was founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route linking western and northern Europe ...

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide ...

Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of sixteen tserkvas (churches). They were built of horizontal ...

The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (1431-1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears witness to the considerable exchanges in the field ...