Belarusโs best-preserved historic centre, with two castles above the Neman.
16th-century castle, UNESCO-listed.
One of Europeโs largest castle ruins, sprawled across a travertine hill.
Manilaโs walled Spanish city: Fort Santiago, the San Agustin Church and horse-drawn kalesa rides along the ramparts.
Renaissance Radziwill palace and park.
Walled medieval town of whitewashed lanes and bougainvillea, where ginjinha cherry liqueur is served in chocolate cups.
Fairy-tale town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava, with a painted castle tower and a baroque theatre that still works.
Hilltop palaces and romantic gardens.
The oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, the Kingโs weekend home, with St Georgeโs Chapel and the State Apartments.
Renaissance sea fortress at Helsingor โ the Elsinore of Shakespeareโs Hamlet.
Medieval cathedral, round tower and Cormacโs Chapel crowning a limestone outcrop where St Patrick baptised a king.
Red-sandstone castle ruin above the old town of Heidelberg and the Neckar valley.
Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.
Shogun-era castle famous for the pair of golden shachihoko dolphins on its roof and the lavishly rebuilt Honmaru Palace.
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