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A wide, white low building of about 5 stories with the ground floor on pillars to allow traffic through.

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

Apartment complexes designed in the early 20th century to improve living conditions for low-income families.

View of Torun, Poland from across the water: a pretty cluster of medieval buildings.

Medieval Town of Toruń

An intact 13th-century Old Town and New Town – the former was a trading hub, the latter a craft center – plus a Teutonic castle ruin.

The pretty marketplace in Quedlinburg: cobbled plaza with half-timbered houses around it.

Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg

A medieval town known for its Romanesque church/castle on a cliff and its picturesque half-timbered houses.

A view of a cluster of half-timbered buildings with balconies and flower boxes.

Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt

Two districts, one exemplifying medieval cities, the other a model of modern city planning.

A row of pretty buildings, 3-4 stories high, along a river in Bamberg.

Town of Bamberg

A beautifully intact medieval city center with over 1000 historic buildings as well as an early example of urban farming.

A white brick building, quite grand, with a row of oddly-shaped pillars supporting a triangular pediment.

From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt

Two locations that exemplify the historical process of salt production and industrial architecture.

A red-brick factory building with a tall chimney next to it.

Derwent Valley Mills

A series of early cotton mills that represent the birth of the factory system at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Archaeological Area of Agrigento

An exceptional collection of ancient Greek temples dating to the 5th century BC.

A pretty brick building with small turrets and gothic windows at Dessau-Worlitz.

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

A huge English-style garden and the structures in it that illustrate the principles of Enlightenment ideals in landscape design.

A view of the city from the water: market stalls along the pier, stone-built walls and buildings behind that, and a church tower peeking above the roofs.

Historic City of Trogir

A small city on an island showing influences from a succession of ruling powers.

Two walls of the castle courtyard: brick with several stories and Romanesque arches.

Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork

A massive brick castle from an era of forced conversion to Christianity in eastern Europe.

View of the Old Bridge in Mostar: a high, wide arch, far above the water level of the river below.

Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar

Significant not for its history, but for the symbolism of its restoration.

View over the old city of Split: low buildings with red roofs, one very tall white tower.

Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian

A complete architectural ensemble built around the well-preserved ruins of a large palace complex.

Historic Centre of Warsaw

An outstanding near-total reconstruction of a centuries-old historic city center.

Baroque towers on the Abbey's cathedral.

Abbey of St. Gall

An 8th-century monastery with a beautiful Baroque cathedral and an ancient library.

The glacier flows between rocky peaks, looking like a river covered in snow.

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch

A spectacular mountain and glacier landscape in the Alps.

A grand building, with pillars across its entrance and a dome in its center, with a statue in front.

Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue

Significant because of its urban landscape and influence on European architecture.

View of the extensive ruin of Fountains Abbey at Studley Park.

Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey

A beautifully-landscaped Georgian garden and a well-preserved medieval monastic ruin.

Two parallel small canals/ditches in the Beemster Polder, with a strip of field between them, a fence across the near end of it. Trees on either side.

Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)

A landscape exemplifying creative Dutch land reclamation.

Gently rolling hills covered with rows of grapevines, very green, and a small village on one of the hills with a tall church spire.

Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene

A uniquely beautiful landscape of hills and valleys, with vineyards and wineries producing world-famous Prosecco wines.

A view of Český Krumlov Castle with the red roofs of the town in front of it. The castle is very large and has a round tower rising quite high above it.

Historic Center of Český Krumlov

An intact and very charming medieval city surrounding a large 13th-century castle with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements.

View of Valtice Castle: white stone, about 4 stories tall and symmetrical, with a small tower over an ornate central archway and wings extending forward on both sides of the central archway. In front, a round fountain.

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

Two castles and the extensive grounds, gardens and outbuildings around them form a harmonious man-made cultural landscape.

Harlech castle, in this view, has two round corner towers still more or less intact, and the wall between them too, with a doorway and two rows of windows above that.

Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

Four castles in Wales, fine examples of medieval defensive architecture, all built under orders of King Edward I.

The castle and its walls of stone, perched dramatically on a small peak, with a huge view in the distance.

San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano

The world’s oldest republic, a tiny surviving city-state on a mountain surrounded by Italy.

A view down onto a barren landscape with at least two craters visible, and a peak beyond them.

Mount Etna

An ancient and still active volcano, influential in the sciences of volcanology and geology.

The church is primarily rectangular shapes, with no high church tower, but all of the edges - the roof lines and the windows - are embellished with detailed gothic-style stone lacework.

Monastery of Batalha

A well-preserved and impressive masterpiece of Late Flamboyant Gothic architecture with Manueline Baroque elements.

A stone bridge across a river, made of 3 rows of Romanesque arches. The bottom and middle rows are quite large arches; the top row has more arches and they're considerably smaller.

Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

A 3-tiered stone aqueduct and bridge that demonstrates Roman-era construction processes.

In a museum, on a small stand, a carved statue of a cow or ox. It's quite detailed in terms of the muscles that show, and the animal's face. It is missing two legs.

Archaeological Site of Olympia

Ruins of an important temple complex dedicated to Zeus, and the site of the first Olympic games.

Below where this photo was shot is a line of large statues of saints along the edge of the church's roof. Beyond that is Saint Peter's square, which is round, with pillared colonnades around the sides, except the far section which is open to a straight boulevard. The city of Rome spreads very far in the distance.

Vatican City

A tiny city-state with a long history at the center of the Catholic Church and containing magnificent works of art and architecture.

A view along the Seine seen from one bank. Below, lower than street level, is a bank with 2 rows of cafe tables capped with umbrellas. Between the cafe tables and the water is a path with people walking and biking, and a railing along the water. A tourist boat passes under a bridge over the river.

Paris, Banks of the Seine

A 365-hectare corridor that encompasses many of the most famous sights in Paris, spanning centuries of the city’s development.

The Rietveld Schröderhuis is all flat surfaces in squares and rectangles. Two stories tall, made of concrete, painted in large areas of gray and white, with a few small vertical and horizontal elements in red and yellow. This view is from The front: a large white vertical panel in the center, a white horizontal panel on the left and grey on the right, large windows.

Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)

A 1920s family house exemplifying the ideals of the De Stijl group of architects and artists.

An exterior view of the Plantin-Moretus Museum's courtyard: red brick, 2-3 stories high, with 2 gables visible, and a portico along the ground floor.

Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex

300 years of printing history and domestic life, with art by Rubens.

A very elegant central entrance: stairs up to an arched doorway, a rose window above that, rows of statues on the ground floor and above the door, three square towers on top, all with detailed carved ornamentation. The rest of the building is much smaller and extends on both sides out of the picture, two stories tall with simple rows of windows.

Monastery of Alcobaça

A masterpiece of Gothic Cistercian art and architecture.

View along a cobbled street in Lyon, with a few arched storefronts in the foreground.

Historic Site of Lyon

A city with 2000 years of history visible in its urban center’s architecture.

A long building with a row of columns all along the front like a Greek temple. In front of it, a fountain.

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

5 museums that demonstrate the evolution of museums and museum design.

View down a canal with a range of medieval-era buildings one either side.

Historic Centre of Brugge

A completely intact, mostly Gothic, core of a medieval trading city.