Monastery of Batalha
A well-preserved and impressive masterpiece of Late Flamboyant Gothic architecture with Manueline Baroque elements.
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Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
A 3-tiered stone aqueduct and bridge that demonstrates Roman-era construction processes.
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Archaeological Site of Olympia
Ruins of an important temple complex dedicated to Zeus, and the site of the first Olympic games.
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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.
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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.
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Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
A 1920s family house exemplifying the ideals of the De Stijl group of architects and artists.
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Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
300 years of printing history and domestic life, with art by Rubens.
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Monastery of Alcobaça
A masterpiece of Gothic Cistercian art and architecture.
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Historic Site of Lyon
A city with 2000 years of history visible in its urban center’s architecture.
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Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
5 museums that demonstrate the evolution of museums and museum design.
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Historic Centre of Brugge
A completely intact, mostly Gothic, core of a medieval trading city.
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Historic Centers of Stralsund and Wismar
Remarkable collections of “Brick Gothic” churches and other buildings unique to these former Hanseatic ports.
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Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape
A collection of 9 archeological sites covering several historical periods of an important city’s grand monuments.
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Archaeological Site of Troy
Excavation of the ancient Greek city of Troy, site of the Trojan War.
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Maulbronn Monastery Complex
An intact and complete medieval monastery that demonstrates the transition from Romanesque to Gothic architecture.
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Val d’Orcia
A beautiful agrarian landscape reflecting a Renaissance aesthetic.
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Vlkolínec
A well-preserved rural mountain village with traditional wooden architecture.
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Historic Centre of Naples
An ancient Italian city containing a wealth of elements – architecture, art, archeology – displaying its long history.
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Vilnius Historic Centre
An Eastern European city center with its original medieval street layout and architectural forms spanning centuries.
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Costiera Amalfitana (Amalfi Coast)
A scenic and dramatic landscape of rugged mountainous coastline and small towns crowding the slopes above the sea.
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Convent of Christ in Tomar
An architectural retrospective of Portugal and the Knights Templar in the form of a monastic center dating to the 12th-16th century.
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Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Ruins of a Bronze Age society that built unique circular defensive structures.
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Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
Romanesque architecture and art in harmony, in a charming Italian city.
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Delos
Extensive archeological site of an ancient Greek commercial center on an Aegean island.
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City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
Impressive fortifications and the original urban center of a historically important city.
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Van Nellefabriek
A masterpiece of modernist industrial design from the inter-war period.
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Historic Centre of Kraków
An important market town for hundreds of years and an outstanding example of urban planning, with a range of historical architectural styles.
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Old City of Dubrovnik
A well-preserved medieval, Renaissance and Baroque city inside extensive intact fortifications.
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Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay
A magnificent Gothic abbey on top of a small island in a bay with dramatic tides.
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Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
A beautifully intact example of a medieval trading city.
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Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
A palace and three gardens, one of which represents the epitome of Baroque garden design.
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Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
A beautifully-preserved and very picturesque medieval trading city.
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Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona
Medieval-era fortifications that once guarded a key strategic pass in the southern Alps.
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The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
A rural landscape shaped by centuries of farming, where old agricultural techniques are still in use.
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Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
A 4th-century tomb containing frescoes that are masterpieces of Hellenistic Thracia.
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Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
A medieval Old Town and a neoclassical New Town that harmonize beautifully and that influenced European urban planning.
