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Palace of Catalan Music, Barcelona
The Palau de la Musica Catalana (Palace of Catalan Music) is a concert hall designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domenech i Montaner. It was built in Barcelona, Catalonia, ...
The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway
The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is the largest medieval parish church in Ireland in continuous use as a place of worship. It is located in Galway in the Republic of Ireland and was founded in 13...
Avila, Spain
Avila de los Caballeros is the capital of the province of the same name, now part of the autonomous community of Castile and Leon, Spain. It is known all over the world as the birth place of St. Teres...
Grandmaster’s Palace, Malta
The Grandmaster’s Palace is a palace in Valletta, Malta, currently housing the House of Representatives of Malta and the office of the President of Malta. The site had been previously occupied b...
Hadrian’s Gate, Antalya
The Hadrian’s Gate (Hadrianus Gate or The Three Gates) is a triumphal arch which was built in the name of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who visited Antalya in 130 A.D. It has three arched gates. Ac...
Mahon, Minorca
Mahon (Mao in Catalan), is a municipality and the capital city of the Balearic Island of Minorca (the Balearic Islands form an autonomous Spanish community), located in the eastern part of the island....
Oia, Greece
Oia is a community on the islands of Thira (Santorini) and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece. The population was 1,230 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and the land area is 19.449 km². The population ...
The White Tower, Thessaloniki
The White Tower of Thessaloniki (Lefkos Pyrgos, Beyaz Kule) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. It has been a...
Mount Lycabettus, Athens
Mount Lycabettus is a Cretaceous limestone hill in Athens, Greece. At 277 meters above sea level, the hill (also known as Lycabettos or Lykabettos) is the highest point in the city that surrounds it. ...
Gran Via, Madrid
Gran Via (Great Way) is an ornate and upscale shopping street located in central Madrid. It leads from Calle de Alcala (Alcala street), close to Plaza de Cibeles, to Plaza de Espana. The lively street...
Borsen, Copenhagen
Borsen (The Stock Exchange) is a building on the island Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen built by Christian IV in 1619-1640. The building was designed by Hans van Steenwinckel in the style of the Dut...
Vasco da Gama Tower, Lisbon
The Vasco da Gama Tower (Torre Vasco da Gama) is a 145 m/476 ft-high lattice tower in Lisbon, Portugal, built over the Tagus river. It is named after Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the fir...
Baixa, Lisbon
The Pombaline Lower Town (Baixa Pombalina, Baixa) area covers about 235,620 square metres of central Lisbon, Portugal. It comprises the grid of streets north of the Praca do Comercio, roughly between ...
The Museum of Natural History, Berlin
The Museum für Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History), widely known as the Naturkundemuseum, seldom as Humboldt Museum of Berlin. It has a massive collection of more than 25 million z...
NEMO museum, Amsterdam
NEMO is the largest science center in the Netherlands. It is located in Amsterdam. The architecture is by Renzo Piano. NEMO is located right next to the Amsterdam central station and the Maritime muse...
Dancing House, Prague
The Dancing House is the nickname (”Drunk House”) given to an office building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic at Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 120 00 Praha 2. It was designed by Croatian-b...
Le Lido, Paris
Le Lido is a cabaret and burlesque house on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, famous for its exotic shows, which rival those of Las Vegas and where, as an American GI on leave with some army friend...
Vatican Library, Rome
The Vatican Library is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of the oldest libraries and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts. Forma...
Casa Vicens, Barcelona
Casa Vicens is a family residence in Barcelona (Catalonia), designed by Antoni Gaudí and built for industrialist Manuel Vicens. It was Gaudí’s first important work. It is added to the UNESCO W...
The Royal Theater, Madrid
The Teatro Real (Royal Theater) or simply The Real (as it is known colloquialy), is an opera house in Madrid. It was inaugurated on 10 October 1850, with Donizetti’s La Favorite and is one of th...
Gellert Baths (Gellert Furdo), Budapest
Gellert Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool, also called Gellert furdo or Gellert Baths, is one of the most beautiful and elegant baths in Budapest, built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouv...
Westminster Abbey, London
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, (it served as a cathedral from 1546 - ...
Paphos Castle
Paphos Castle is located on the edge of Paphos harbour. It was originally built as a Byzantine fort to protect the harbour. It was then rebuilt by the Lusignans in the thirteenth century after being d...
St. Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest
St Stephen’s Basilica (Hungarian: Szent István-bazilika) is an ecclesiastic basilica in Budapest, Hungary. It is named in honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary (c 975–1038), whose mumm...
Harewood House, Leeds
Harewood House is a country house located in Harewood (pronounced as if written Hairwood), North Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a member of Treasure Houses of England, a marketing consortium fo...
Wawel Castle, Krakow
People have lived on the Wawel Hill as early as fifty thousand years ago, in the Paleolithic Age. During the 15th century, the settlement was apparently bustling with trade, and with assorted crafts a...
Olympic Museum Lausanne
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 pieces, the museum is the largest archive of Olymp...
Galata tower, Istanbul
The Galata Tower, also called Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) by the Genoese and Megalos Pyrgos (The Great Tower) by the Byzantines, is located in Istanbul, Turkey, to the north of the Golden Horn. ...
Goldenes Dachl, Innsbruck
The Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl) is a landmark in Innsbruck, Austria built in 1500. It was decorated with 2657 fire-gilded copper tiles for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. The reliefs on the balcony...
Meteora, Agios Georgios Mandelas’s cave
The Meteora is one of the largest and most important complex of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Kalambaka, Greece and is second only to Mount Athos. The monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock...