Mexico holds 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — the most in the Americas — ranging from the pyramids of Teotihuacán and Maya cities to monarch butterfly reserves and a modernist house in Mexico City.
Japan holds 26 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — from 7th-century Buddhist temples and the White Heron Castle to ancient cedar forests, remote Pacific islands, and a shared Le Corbusier building in Tokyo.
Greece holds 20 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — from the Acropolis and Delphi to Meteora’s cliff monasteries and the newly inscribed Minoan palatial centres of Crete — spanning three millennia of continuous civilisation.
Spain holds 50 UNESCO World Heritage Sites as of 2024 — from the Alhambra and Gaudí’s Barcelona to volcanic Canary Island parks, prehistoric cave art, and a working Roman lighthouse on the Atlantic coast.
Germany’s 55 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Carolingian chapels, Viking trading towns, modernist factories, fossil beds, and vast North Sea mudflats — one of Europe’s most chronologically and architecturally diverse national registers.
A guide to France’s 54 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — Gothic cathedrals, Roman engineering, prehistoric caves, royal palaces and volcanic landscapes — and how to reach the quieter ones.
Palermo produced one of Europe’s finest chapters of Art Nouveau, shaped by architect Ernesto Basile and financed by the Florio dynasty — this walking guide covers four surviving Liberty buildings, from a grand waterfront hotel to a pleasure complex.
A walking guide to Milan’s Liberty architecture — the Italian Art Nouveau — anchored on Giuseppe Sommaruga’s Palazzo Castiglioni, the tiled façades of Porta Venezia, and the ironwork of Alessandro Mazzucotelli.
A walking guide to Turin’s Stile Liberty architecture, tracing Pietro Fenoglio’s own house, two Po hill villas, an early eclectic palazzo, and the 1902 Exposition that launched Italian Art Nouveau across the city’s best-preserved Liberty district.
