Explore Ancient and Medieval Historic Sites You Can Still Visit
Explore a growing collection of more than 20,000 historic sites, including ancient cities, medieval castles, temples, palaces, monasteries and bridges. Discover places with standing buildings, preserved interiors and extensive archaeological remains.
Browse by country, civilization, period or type of site to find places around a destination or explore a historical interest. The main focus is ancient and medieval history, with prehistoric settlements and selected later structures also represented.
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The Ancient World
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Castles & Fortifications
Browse castles, forts, citadels and town walls, alongside palaces and historic residences.
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Discover temples, churches, monasteries, mosques and other historic places of worship.
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Discover the Buildings and Their History
Individual site articles explain what survives, how buildings were used and how they changed over time. Explore the streets and houses of ancient cities, the gates and towers of fortifications, or the halls, courtyards and interiors of palaces and religious complexes.
Alongside the site collection, articles explore the societies behind these places through subjects including food, clothing, housing, communication and trade.
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Dautzschen village church is a Romanesque church in Saxony, with origins dated to the 12th century and a history of repeated damage, rebuilding, and alteration. Its surviving features include a west tower, nave, choir, apse, and walled churchyard.
Miravet Castle has an unknown foundation date and a history shaped by conquest, episcopal grants, resettlement, and territorial disputes. Its surviving remains include defensive walls, towers, a double enclosure, and a ruined church.
Dinas Emrys near Beddgelert preserves evidence of occupation from the Iron Age and later medieval fortifications. Welsh legends also place Vortigern and two battling dragons at the hillfort.
The Little Castle developed from a Zimmerwald estate whose ownership passed through religious orders, Bernese authorities, and private families. Its present house probably dates to the second half of the sixteenth century.
Krugau’s 15th-century Protestant church preserves fieldstone construction, a decorated west tower, historic furnishings, and a Sauer organ made in 1933.
First recorded as a moated castle in 1371, Neuhof Castle passed through noble and private ownership before becoming a retirement home and a residential care facility.