straddles the mouth of the Ibaizabal estuary, west of Bilbao. It was designed by the Basque architect Alberto de Palacio and completed in [...]

, approximately 120 km south-west of Johannesburg, is a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure, or astrobleme. Dating back 2,023 million [...]

, situated in the centre of Slovakia, is a remarkably intact settlement of 45 buildings with the traditional features of a central European [...]

In the heart of the small island of Praslin, the reserve has the vestiges of a natural palm forest preserved in almost its [...]

This is one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, with a high density of active volcanoes, a variety of types, [...]

The cover 3.28 million ha of tundra and mountain tundra in the Urals, as well as one of the most extensive areas of [...]

These Transylvanian villages with their fortified churches provide a vivid picture of the cultural landscape of southern Transylvania. The seven villages inscribed, founded [...]

A cluster of dozens of islands centred on Vega, just south of the Arctic Circle, forms a cultural landscape of 107,294 ha, of which [...]

was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial zone north-west of Rotterdam. The [...]

Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar This property consists of 6 [...]

Political centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the end of the 18th century, Vilnius has had a profound [...]

The Champasak cultural landscape, including the Vat Phou Temple complex, is a remarkably well-preserved planned landscape more than 1,000 years old. It was [...]

Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar This property consists of 6 [...]

This landscape covers five distinct wine-growing areas with outstanding landscapes and the Castle of Cavour, an emblematic name both in the development of [...]

The landscape of Val d’Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, redrawn and developed when it was integrated in the territory [...]

The Villa d’Este in Tivoli, with its palace and garden, is one of the most remarkable and comprehensive illustrations of Renaissance culture at [...]

The Villa Adriana (at Tivoli, near Rome) is an exceptional complex of classical buildings created in the 2nd century A.D. by the Roman [...]

Roman exploitation of the countryside is symbolized by the (in Sicily), the centre of the large estate upon which the rural economy of [...]

Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. The whole [...]

Having become a global trading centre, the city of Mumbai implemented an ambitious urban planning project in the second half of the 19th century. [...]