The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide ...

The historic centre of Cracow, the former capital of Poland, is situated at the foot of the Royal Wawel Castle. The ...

Bardejov is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this ...

Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of sixteen tserkvas (churches). They were built of horizontal ...

Zamosc was founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route linking western and northern Europe ...

The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic ...

The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Ś widnica, the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, were built in the former ...

The Centennial Hall, a landmark in the history of reinforced concrete architecture, was erected in 1911-1913 by the architect Max Berg ...

During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the ...

Torun owes its origins to the Teutonic Order, which built a castle there in the mid-13th century as a base for ...

This 13th-century fortified monastery belonging to the Teutonic Order was substantially enlarged and embellished after 1309, when the seat of the ...

Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League, deriving its prosperity in the 13th–15th centuries from the trade with central ...