Toscana
The Westin Excelsior Hotel
The Westin Excelsior is a five-star grand hotel on the Lungarno Vespucci in Florence, occupying a late-nineteenth-century palazzo…
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Building · Poland
The White Factory (Biała Fabryka)
The white-plastered mill that started it all — Łódź's first steam-powered cotton factory, classicist where its successors were…
Monastery · Sohag Governorate
The White Monastery: the fortress-church built from recycled pharaonic temple stone, once home to over 4,000 monks and nuns
White Monastery, Sohag, Egypt. Photo: Einsamer Schütze, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. Sohag, Alto Egitto · fondato nel…
Building · Scotland
The Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
The only Mackintosh tearoom to survive in its original location — an intimate Glasgow landmark where Art Nouveau…
Building
The Willow Tearooms
A tearoom where Mackintosh controlled everything down to the cutlery and the waitresses’ dresses. The Room de Luxe…
Area · Toscana
The Wind Cave
A dramatic limestone cave beneath Mount Pania in Tuscany's Apuan Alps, famous for powerful underground winds and spectacular…
Estero
The Wine List
The Wine List is a curated wine bar and retail shop in Madrid, Spain, dedicated to showcasing artisan…
Building · Belgium
The Winter Garden of the Ursulines (De Wintertuin), Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver
A leaded-glass vault of morning, noon and evening, built in 1900 as the showpiece of an Ursuline girls'…
Church · Maramureș County
The Wooden Church of Bârsana: moved twice before finding its final home beneath a soaring shingled steeple
Wooden church of Bârsana, Maramureș, Romania. Photo: DimiTalen, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain (CC0). Bârsana, Maramureș, Romania ·…
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