Pragueโs 14th-century stone bridge lined with 30 baroque saints โ walk it at dawn before the crowds and buskers arrive.
Medieval canals and the Ghent Altarpiece.
Twelfth-century monastery city carved storey upon storey into a cliff face.
The most complete Gothic cathedral in France, with 176 windows of unrepeatable twelfth-century blue.
Houses with eyes in the roofs, the Bridge of Lies and a Saxon centre that was Capital of Culture in 2007.
Medieval monastery carved into the hillside near Tskhinvali.
Medieval minaret and mausoleums.
Restored Romanesque-Gothic castle above the Our river, one of the largest west of the Rhine, with a chairlift to the view.
Gothic abbey ruins in the hills.
Medieval castle above Balzers.
Lithuaniaโs interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devilโs Museum and Europeโs largest concentration of modernist architecture.
Medieval marble monastery, UNESCO-listed.
13th-century Armenian monastery.
Mighty medieval castle, UNESCO-listed.
Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peterโs spire, ringed by Europeโs finest Art Nouveau streets.
Serbian Orthodox monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Red-brick castle above the Gauja.
Three grand madrasas on one square.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole โ minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
An avenue of turquoise-tiled mausoleums in Samarkand, the finest tilework in Central Asia.
The great Crusader castle, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Bakuโs walled old city.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.
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