Clifftop Transylvanian castle marketed as Draculaโs โ worth it either way.
Twelfth-century monastery city carved storey upon storey into a cliff face.
Europe from 1087, with a Pope who excommunicates you and crusades to send the troublemakers on.
Crusades, gunpowder and the fan mods that keep it alive twenty years on.
Monet's cathedral, the square where Joan of Arc was burned and the Gros-Horloge astronomical clock.
The Kaiserburg above a rebuilt medieval city, the Nazi rally grounds and the Nuremberg trials courtroom.
Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.
Second tower on Monte Titanoโs highest summit, home to the ancient-arms museum.
Restored Romanesque-Gothic castle above the Our river, one of the largest west of the Rhine, with a chairlift to the view.
Medieval minaret and mausoleums.
Ottoman fortress on the Dniester.
Walled city and ghostly Varosha.
Medieval castle above Balzers.
Castle above a horseshoe harbour.
Lithuaniaโs interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devilโs Museum and Europeโs largest concentration of modernist architecture.
Stone city of a medieval empire, UNESCO-listed.
Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.
Mighty medieval castle, UNESCO-listed.
Red-brick castle above the Gauja.
Dramatic castle ruin perched on a basalt cliff edge.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Round medieval fortress on the Dniester.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole โ minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
A fortified hill inhabited for 5,000 years, its medieval stone ramp and gate towering over the old city.
The great Crusader castle, UNESCO-listed.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Bakuโs walled old city.
Medieval capital on the Yantra gorge.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
One of Europeโs largest castle ruins, sprawled across a travertine hill.
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