Located on land projecting into the Uruguay River west of the town of Fray Bentos, the industrial complex was built following the development [...]

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over [...]

The Taung Skull Fossil Site, part of the extension to the site inscribed in 1999, is the place where in 1924 the celebrated [...]

Magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast form part of the defence system built by [...]

These are two masterpieces from the time of the brilliant Mughal civilization, which reached its height during the reign of the Emperor Shah [...]

The five Franciscan missions of Sierra Gorda were built during the last phase of the conversion to Christianity of the interior of Mexico [...]

The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, is one [...]

The beauty of the solitary, often snow-capped, stratovolcano, known around the world as Mount Fuji, rising above villages and tree-fringed sea and lakes [...]

Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of [...]

Built during the second half of the 16th century by the Emperor Akbar, (the City of Victory) was the capital of the Mughal [...]

The Fertö/Neusiedler Lake area has been the meeting place of different cultures for eight millennia. This is graphically demonstrated by its varied landscape, [...]

The remains of fortified trading-posts, erected between 1482 and 1786, can still be seen along the coast of Ghana between Keta and Beyin. [...]

is a 10-building complex – began around 1910 to the design of Walter Gropius, which is a landmark in the development of modern [...]

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over [...]

The comprise the largest of the rare emerged landmasses in the southern Indian Ocean: the Crozet Archipelago, the Kerguelen Islands, Saint-Paul and Amsterdam [...]

consists of 12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France. They represent the finest examples [...]

The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign of Louis [...]

Built in the second half of the 18th century by Sweden on a group of islands located at the entrance of Helsinki’s harbour, [...]

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilides and his successors. Surrounded [...]

Located within the Wuling mountain range in Guizhou Province (south-west China), ranges in altitude between 500 metres and 2,570 metres above sea level, [...]