River Vézère is a tributary of the Dordogne. In the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, a large number of caves…
The Forth Bridge, which had the longest spans of any railway bridge when it opened in 1890, and was the earliest great multispan cantilever bridge,…
A day set aside for exploring Edinburgh offered me a chance to see sights that I did not manage to see three years ago, and…
We lately allow only a single day in Barcelona for our stays at Costa Brava – the distance between our base and the city makes…
Canal du Midi is a feat of civil engineering, all the more remarkable for the fact that it predates the Industrial Revolution. It is hundreds…
One of the twelve apostles and the patron saint of Spaniards, Saint James the Great lends his name to three separate entries on the World…
Albi, in the southern France region of Occitanie, is hailed on the World Heritage list as a complete ensemble of urban development dating from the…
The tiny walled town of Villefranche-de-Conflent dates from the 11th century and, owing to its strategic position in the Catalan region of Conflent, changed hands…
There are several serial properties on the World Heritage list that inscribe prehistoric rock and cave art. The most extensive of them – in fact,…
Brú na Bóinne is an archaeological site recognized on the World Heritage list as the largest concentration of megalithic art in Europe. In terms of…
I had an unexpected extra free day in Dublin. The weather was gorgeous – spring at its best. By all rights, I should have been…
I ended my favorite sights vignette of Vienna several years ago with a promise to take hundreds of pictures on my next trip to the…
Graz’s recognition on the World Heritage list is primarily due to the treasure trove of its architecture in the historic center. It is literally one…
Recognized as a masterpiece of civil engineering, Semmering Railway is a 41-km-long stretch of tracks across Alpine landscape. I ended up traversing it twice in…
Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens, on the World Heritage list as an outstanding example of Baroque architecture and design, should have been #40 on my chronological…
It took three visits to Toledo for me to finally gather a reasonable portfolio of shots of this wonderful town (my limited World Heritage feature…
University town of Alcalá de Henares is recognized on the World Heritage registry for being the first such planned town and a model for subsequent…
Once a trip – hardly ever more than that – I decide to get up early enough to photograph famous vistas in the serenity of…
Think “Barcelona architecture”, and the first name that comes to mind for majority of people is likely that of Antoni Gaudí. It is well-deserved, since…
French town of Carcassonne, a little bit over an hour from the Spanish Catalan border, is fairly laconically recognized on the World Heritage list as…