Toledo Historic City — via Wikimedia Commons

Toledo Historic City

Medieval capital of three faiths, Toledo crowns a Tagus peninsula with Gothic spires and fortress walls.

Civita di Bagnoregio

Civita di Bagnoregio stands on an isolated tufa mesa in northern Lazio, connected to the world by a single pedestrian footbridge. Its population has dwindled…

Ronda

Ronda is a dramatic Andalusian cliff-top town in southern Spain, split in two by the El Tajo gorge, whose 98-metre sheer walls and the 18th-century Puente…

Pitigliano

Pitigliano rises from a plateau of golden tufa rock in southern Tuscany, its medieval towers and houses appearing to grow organically from the cliff itself.…

Heidelberg Castle

Heidelberg Castle

Heidelberg Castle is a celebrated ruined Palatine Electoral palace looming above Heidelberg on the Königstuhl hillside in Baden-Württemberg, Germany — one of…

Hallgrímskirkja

Hallgrímskirkja is the largest church in Iceland and one of the most recognisable landmarks in Reykjavik, its towering concrete facade rising 74.5 metres…

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Rothenburg ob der Tauber is the best-preserved medieval walled town in Germany, a Franconian hilltop city above the Tauber valley whose complete circuit of…

Ghent Historic Centre

Ghent Historic Centre

Ghent is a Flemish medieval city in Belgium whose historic centre preserves a skyline of three great medieval towers, a network of waterways lined with…

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