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 ...