The cap­i­tal of the Tibet Autonomous Region of Chi­na, locat­ed at an alti­tude of approx­i­mate­ly 3,650 meters, is one of …

Karl­skro­na is an out­stand­ing exam­ple of a late-17th-cen­tu­ry Euro­pean planned naval city. The orig­i­nal plan and many o…

Found­ed in the 14th-15th cen­turies, Hahoe and Yang­dong are seen as the two most rep­re­sen­ta­tive his­toric clan vil­lages…

The ter­ri­to­ry of Ser­akhs and Old Ser­akhs, as well as oth­er his­tor­i­cal and archi­tec­tur­al mon­u­ments locat­ed on the terr…

This transna­tion­al ser­i­al prop­er­ty com­pris­es eleven spa towns, locat­ed in sev­en Euro­pean coun­tries: Baden bei Wien (A…

High­land set­tle­ment.

The city is famous for the naph­tha­lan oil pro­duced here. We are real­ly talk­ing about oil used not for fuel pro­duc­tion…

Moun­tain vil­lage at an alti­tude of more than 2 km above sea lev­el. Almost the entire pop­u­la­tion is made up of indi­gen…

The life of the Sovi­et era has large­ly been pre­served here. Ivanov­ka still pro­vides itself with essen­tial food pro­duc…

The city became a haven for hun­dreds of Ger­mans at the begin­ning of the 19th cen­tu­ry. The new towns­peo­ple brought the…

Vil­lage in the moun­tains.

Если увидеть коалу в дикой природе — ваша мечта, то вам сюда. Из Лорна по Великой океанской дороге на юго-запад приме…

As the first cap­i­tal of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Sal­vador de Bahia wit­nessed the blend­ing of Euro­pean, African and …

The late 17th-cen­tu­ry core of this his­toric town, found­ed by the French and occu­pied by the Dutch before com­ing under…

In the 16th cen­tu­ry, this area was regard­ed as the world‘s largest indus­tri­al com­plex. The extrac­tion of sil­ver ore r…

Sucre, the first cap­i­tal of Bolivia, was found­ed by the Span­ish in the first half of the 16th cen­tu­ry. Its many well-…

In the 19th cen­tu­ry Sin­tra became the first cen­tre of Euro­pean Roman­tic archi­tec­ture. Fer­di­nand II turned a ruined mo…

The Mijik­en­da Kaya Forests con­sist of 10 sep­a­rate for­est sites spread over some 200 km along the coast con­tain­ing the…

Found­ed as a French colo­nial set­tle­ment in the 17th cen­tu­ry, Saint-Louis was urbanised in the mid-19th cen­tu­ry. It wa…

The Beguines were women who ded­i­cat­ed their lives to God with­out retir­ing from the world. In the 13th cen­tu­ry they fo…

Lunen­burg is the best sur­viv­ing exam­ple of a planned British colo­nial set­tle­ment in North Amer­i­ca. Estab­lished in 175…

One of the first sev­en vil­lages found­ed by the Spaniards in Cuba, Cam­aguey played a promi­nent role as the urban cen­tr…