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Casa de las Conchas
Salamanca, Spain
A fifteenth-century house with a facade covered in stone scallop shells.
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Checkpoint Charlie
Berlin, Germany
The former Allied border crossing between East and West Berlin, now a busy tourist spot.
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Cité Radieuse
Marseille, France
Le Corbusier's pioneering housing block, still lived in today.
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Glasgow Necropolis
Glasgow, United Kingdom
A Victorian hillside cemetery with ornate monuments and city views.
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Glasnevin Cemetery
Dublin, Ireland
A historic cemetery with a tall round tower and an excellent museum about Irish history.
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Hamburg Rathaus
Hamburg, Germany
The ornate neo-Renaissance city hall, with a courtyard and guided tours.
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Hostal dos Reis Catolicos
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
A former pilgrim hospital, now a luxury parador, with Renaissance courtyards.
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Kastellet
Copenhagen, Denmark
A well-preserved star-shaped 17th-century fortress with grassy ramparts, still used by the military and open f...
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Lindholm Høje
Aalborg, Denmark
A hillside Viking-age burial ground, marked by hundreds of stones set in ship and oval shapes.
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Lucca City Walls
Italy
A tree-lined ring of Renaissance walls you can walk or cycle around.
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Lychakiv Cemetery
Lviv, Ukraine
A historic cemetery with sculpted tombs of writers, artists and public figures, set in a wooded park.
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Madara Rider
Bulgaria
An early medieval rock relief of a horseman carved into a cliff.
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Maison Pfister
Colmar, France
Early 16th-century house with painted facade and wooden balcony.
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Mauthausen Memorial
Linz, Austria
A memorial site at a former Nazi concentration camp, preserved to remember its victims.
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Mirogoj Cemetery
Zagreb, Croatia
A grand parkland cemetery with arcades and domes, often called one of Europe's most beautiful.
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Plzen Historic Underground
Plzen, Czechia
A guided tour through old cellars and tunnels under the historic centre.
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Pocitelj Old Town
Pocitelj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A stepped hillside settlement of stone houses and Ottoman monuments above the Neretva.
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Rietveld Schroder House
Utrecht, Netherlands
A small house from the 1920s that became an icon of modern design and the De Stijl movement.
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Sagres Fortress
Lagos, Portugal
A windswept fort on the south-western tip of Portugal, linked to the age of exploration.
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Terezin Memorial
Czechia
A fortress town memorial that preserves the history of the Second World War.
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The Circus, Bath
Bath, United Kingdom
A circular street of Georgian townhouses near the Royal Crescent.
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University of Tartu Main Building
Tartu, Estonia
A neoclassical university building with a columned portico, part of one of northern Europe's older universitie...
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Vilnius University
Vilnius, Lithuania
One of the oldest universities in the region, a complex of courtyards, a library and a baroque church.