A 1200 year old water tank nes­tled in the for­est at the foot of the hills behind. This place is quite unknown and is …

This vol­canic arch­i­pel­ago, with its spec­tac­u­lar land­scapes, is sit­u­at­ed off the coast of the Hebrides and com­pris­es t…

Lion Rock. In the last quar­ter of the 5th cen­tu­ry AD, King Kashya­pa built an impreg­nable fortress and his palace on t…

The Roy­al Hill of Ambo­hi­man­ga con­sists of a roy­al city and bur­ial site, and an ensem­ble of sacred places. It is assoc…

The use of a local lime­stone shaped the con­struc­tion of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil dur­ing the Mam­luk peri­od bet…

The Bronze Age set­tle­ment (2300 BC) is locat­ed in the south­east of Turk­menistan, in the Mary oasis. Dis­cov­ered in 197…

The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Val­ley between Melk and Krems, a land­scape of high visu­al qual­i­ty. It pre­serves…

A place of ancient trea­sures, the town has been reduced to a con­glom­er­a­tion of ruined peri­styles and sun-cracked ston…

Built on a site inhab­it­ed since the Palae­olith­ic peri­od, the Walled City of Baku reveals evi­dence of Zoroas­tri­an, Sas…

Found­ed by the Por­tuguese in 1680 on the Rio de la Pla­ta, the city was of strate­gic impor­tance in resist­ing the Spani…

The City of Yazd is locat­ed in the mid­dle of the Iran­ian plateau, 270 km south­east of Isfa­han, close to the Spice and…

Locat­ed in the Yangtze Riv­er Basin on the south-east­ern coast of the coun­try, the archae­o­log­i­cal ruins of Liangzhu (a…

The two tra­di­tion­al vil­lages of Xidi and Hong­cun pre­serve to a remark­able extent the appear­ance of non-urban set­tleme…

Ping Yao is an excep­tion­al­ly well-pre­served exam­ple of a tra­di­tion­al Han Chi­nese city, found­ed in the 14th cen­tu­ry. I…

The palaces and tem­ples which form the nucle­us of this group of sec­u­lar and reli­gious build­ings exem­pli­fy the archite…

The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Vel­ha in the late 18th cen­tu­ry, was the first Euro­pean colo­nial out­post in…

The ruins of Great Zim­bab­we &ndash, the cap­i­tal of the Queen of She­ba, accord­ing to an age-old leg­end &ndash are a un…

Kha­mi, which devel­oped after the cap­i­tal of Great Zim­bab­we had been aban­doned in the mid-16th cen­tu­ry, is of great ar…

Found­ed in the 11th and 12th cen­turies to serve the car­a­vans cross­ing the Sahara, these trad­ing and reli­gious cen­tres…

As a holy city for Judaism, Chris­tian­i­ty and Islam, Jerusalem has always been of great sym­bol­ic impor­tance. Among its…

Tels (pre­his­toric set­tle­ment mounds), are char­ac­ter­is­tic of the flat­ter lands of the east­ern Mediter­ranean, par­tic­u­la…

The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shiv­ta, along with asso­ci­at­ed fortress­es and agri­cul­tur­al lands…

Acre is a his­toric walled port-city with con­tin­u­ous set­tle­ment from the Phoeni­cian peri­od. The present city is charac…

The Neolith­ic set­tle­ment of Choirokoitia, occu­pied from the 7th to the 4th mil­len­ni­um B.C., is one of the most import…

This sacred Bud­dhist site, pop­u­lar­ly known as the city of Senkada­gala­pu­ra, was the last cap­i­tal of the Sin­hala kings …