A walled Silk Road city preserved whole โ minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
A fortified hill inhabited for 5,000 years, its medieval stone ramp and gate towering over the old city.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
Fifteenth-century monasteries frescoed inside and out, still vivid.
Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Bakuโs walled old city.
One of Europeโs largest castle ruins, sprawled across a travertine hill.
16th-century castle, UNESCO-listed.
Fairy-tale town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava, with a painted castle tower and a baroque theatre that still works.
Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.
Baltic island of rauk sea stacks and the Hanseatic walled town of Visby.
Historic fortress and the Crown Jewels.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Explore Carcassonne, a fortified medieval city in southern France. Walk the double ring of ramparts of the Citรฉ de Carcassonne (a UNESCO World Heritage site with 52 towers), admire the Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus (known for its 12th-century stained glass and Gothic choir), and cross the Pont Vieux (a 14th-century stone bridge offering panoramic views of the city).
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