Macao, a lucra­tive port of strate­gic impor­tance in the devel­op­ment of inter­na­tion­al trade, was under Por­tuguese admin…

Tro­gir is a remark­able exam­ple of urban con­ti­nu­ity. The orthog­o­nal street plan of this island set­tle­ment dates back t…

The first cap­i­tal of Cote d‘Ivoire, the His­toric Town of Grand-Bas­sam, is an exam­ple of a late 19th- and ear­ly 20th‑c…

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

San­ta Ana de los Rios de Cuen­ca is set in a val­ley sur­round­ed by the Andean moun­tains in the south of Ecuador. This i…

Found­ed at the end of the 17th cen­tu­ry, Ouro Pre­to (Black Gold) was the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil‘s gol…

Found­ed in the 16th cen­tu­ry by the Por­tuguese, the town‘s his­to­ry is linked to the sug­ar-cane indus­try. Rebuilt after…

Goias tes­ti­fies to the occu­pa­tion and col­o­niza­tion of the lands of cen­tral Brazil in the 18th and 19th cen­turies. The…

Dia­man­ti­na, a colo­nial vil­lage set like a jew­el in a neck­lace of inhos­pitable rocky moun­tains, recalls the exploits o…

Polit­i­cal cen­tre of the Grand Duchy of Lithua­nia from the 13th to the end of the 18th cen­tu­ry, Vil­nius has had a prof…

The ancient city of Ashur is locat­ed on the Tigris Riv­er in north­ern Mesopotamia in a spe­cif­ic geo-eco­log­i­cal zone, a…

Tel Aviv was found­ed in 1909 and devel­oped as a met­ro­pol­i­tan city under the British Man­date in Pales­tine. The White C…

The city of Opor­to, built along the hill­sides over­look­ing the mouth of the Douro riv­er, is an out­stand­ing urban lands…

The his­toric town of Guimaraes is asso­ci­at­ed with the emer­gence of the Por­tuguese nation­al iden­ti­ty in the 12th cen­tu…

His­toric Bridgetown and its Gar­ri­son, an out­stand­ing exam­ple of British colo­nial archi­tec­ture con­sist­ing of a well-pr…

Found­ed in the 16th cen­tu­ry by the Por­tuguese, Galle reached the height of its devel­op­ment in the 18th cen­tu­ry, befor…