The waters of the Danube, which flow into the Black Sea, form the largest and best preserved of Europe's deltas. The ...
Founded in 1690 by Prince Constantine Brancovan, the monastery of Horezu, in Walachia, is a masterpiece of the 'Brancovan' style. It ...
The Srebarna Nature Reserve is a freshwater lake adjacent to the Danube and extending over 600 ha. It is the breeding ...
Spread over an area of over 27,000 ha, at an altitude between 1008 and 2914 m in the Pirin Mountains, southwest ...
Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the most important groupings of prehistoric ...
On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings ...
Ghadamès, known as 'the pearl of the desert', stands in an oasis. It is one of the oldest pre-Saharan cities and ...
A Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, Sabratha was part of the short-lived ...
Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born there and later became emperor. It was one of ...
The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in ...
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house ...
The site consists of a group of Georgian-style naval buildings and structures, set within a walled enclosure. The natural environment of ...
Known as the gateway to the desert, Agadez, on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries ...
This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering some 7.7 million ha, though the area considered a protected sanctuary constitutes ...
The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 ha of hillside within Kampala district. Most of ...
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to ...
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park covers nearly 100,000 ha in western Uganda and comprises the main part of the Rwenzori mountain ...
Located in south-western Uganda, at the junction of the plain and mountain forests, Bwindi Park covers 32,000 ha and is known ...
On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary ...
The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a plateau with deep gorges ...
The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent. The remains found at ...
Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost ...
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder ...
The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the ...