Matera is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on Earth. People have lived in its cave dwellings, the Sassi, since before the birth of Rome. For decades the city was called a national shame, its cave homes deemed unfit for modern life. Then the artists and filmmakers arrived and saw what others had missed. […]
The Aqueduct of Segovia is one of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering, a colossal double-tiered arcade of 167 granite arches soaring 28 metres above the Plaza del Azoguejo in the heart of the Spanish city of Segovia, constructed without a single drop of mortar nearly 2,000 years ago and still standing in magnificent […]
Categories: Sights, Sights, Spain, Technical Monuments, Wellness, Relax & Sports
The Valley of the Temples at Agrigento is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, the richest and best-preserved group of ancient Greek temples outside Greece, standing in golden sandstone splendour on a ridge overlooking the Mediterranean in southern Sicily. A UNESCO World heritage site and the crown jewel of Magna Graecia, […]
Categories: Islands, Italy, Nature, Nature Reserves, Sicily, Sights
The Torre de Hércules (Tower of Hercules) is the oldest active lighthouse in the world, a 55-metre Roman lighthouse built in the late 1st century AD on a rocky headland in A Coruña, Galicia, northwestern Spain, that has been guiding ships into the harbour continuously for over 1,900 years. Declared a UNESCO World heritage site […]
Categories: Sights, Sights, Spain, Technical Monuments, Wellness, Relax & Sports
The windmills of Kinderdijk are the most famous Dutch landscape on Earth, 19 beautifully preserved 18th-century windmills lined up along the canals of the Alblasserwaard polder near Rotterdam, forming a UNESCO World heritage site that is the single strongest image of the Netherlands in the global imagination. More than just a photo opportunity, Kinderdijk is […]
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
