16th-century castle, UNESCO-listed.
Storybook fortress on a rock island ringed by a river canyon.
Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.
Walk the medieval city walls, the Shambles’ overhanging shops and York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe.
Medieval cathedral, round tower and Cormac’s Chapel crowning a limestone outcrop where St Patrick baptised a king.
Historic fortress and the Crown Jewels.
Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
Paris’s 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
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