Medieval Town of Toruń
The Medieval Town of Toruń (known in Polish as “zespół staromiejski Torunia”) is the oldest historic area of the city of Toruń. It is one of Poland’s World Heritage Sites, added in 1997, and is also listed as one of the Seven Wonders of Poland. UNESCO describes its value as a small historic trading city that has kept much of its original street layout and important old buildings, offering a very clear view of medieval life.
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
The Medieval Monuments in Kosovo are a World Heritage Site that includes four Serbian Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries. These buildings show a mix of eastern Orthodox Byzantine and western Romanesque styles, creating the Palaiologian Renaissance style. They were built by members of the Nemanjić family, the most important royal family in Serbia during the Middle Ages.
Medieval City of Rhodes
The Medieval City of Rhodes was built between 1309 and 1523. It is part of today’s capital city of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes in Greece. The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988.
Copán
Copán is an archaeological site from the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, near the border with Guatemala. It is one of the most important places of the Maya civilization and was not explored until the 19th century. The ruined city and large public squares show the three main stages of its development before it was abandoned in the early 10th century.
Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang
The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: 秦始皇陵; pinyin: Qínshǐhuáng Líng) is a large tomb built for Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China’s Qin dynasty. It is located in Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi, in modern-day China. Construction of the tomb took 38 years, from 246 to 208 BC.
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Яссауи кесенесі, romanized: Qoja Ahmet İassaui kesenesı) is a tomb located in the city of Turkestan in southern Kazakhstan. It was built in 1389 by Timur, who ruled the area as part of the Timurid Empire. Timur ordered the structure to replace a smaller tomb from the 12th century, which belonged to Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, a famous Turkic poet and spiritual leader who lived from 1093 to 1166.
Darmstadt Artists’ Colony
The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony was a group of Jugendstil artists and their buildings near Rosenhöhe Park in Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt. These artists lived and worked there during the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were mostly supported by wealthy patrons and often worked together, when their styles matched.
Matobo National Park
The Matobo National Park is located in the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area with granite hills and wooded valleys found about 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Bulawayo, in southern Zimbabwe. These hills were formed over 2 billion years ago when granite was pushed up from deep underground. Over time, erosion created smooth, rounded rock formations called “whaleback dwalas” and broken hills covered with boulders and surrounded by thick vegetation.
Masada
Masada (Hebrew: מְצָדָה məṣādā, “fortress”; Arabic: جبل مسعدة jabal musayda, “Mount Museida”) is a mountain-top fortress in the Judaean Desert, located near the western edge of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel. The fortress was built in the first century BC and sits on a natural plateau that rises more than 400 meters (1,300 feet) above the surrounding land, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the modern city of Arad. The most important remains at Masada date to the time of Herod the Great, who ruled Judea from about 37 to 4 BC.
National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a museum located in Greenwich, London. It is part of a group called Royal Museums Greenwich, which includes several museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other museums in the United Kingdom that are supported by the government, the National Maritime Museum does not charge an entrance fee.