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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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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Chalasmenos was among the largest settlements in the northern Ierapetra Isthmus during Late Minoan IIIC. Its remains include planned rows of houses, a shrine, and evidence of later activity.
Built within Maxentius’s villa complex on the Appian Way, the mausoleum was dedicated to his son Valerius Romulus and may have been intended as a tomb for the imperial family.
Founded in 1250, St Hilary Church was rebuilt after an 1853 fire and later gained a distinctive interior created by artists associated with Cornwall’s Newlyn School. The church was attacked in 1932 and listed at Grade I in 1954.
Cerro de la Estrella preserves evidence of early settlement and Mexica ceremonial use, including the New Fire rite held at the close of a 52-year cycle.
Built between the 5th and 6th centuries, Surb Astvatsatsin is an Armenian Apostolic church near Kurtan in Lori Province, with a restored vaulted hall, a 19th-century bell tower, and a history of damage and reconsecration.
Built in early third-century Roman Ostia, the Mithraeum of the Footprint preserves mosaics, cult fittings, inscriptions, and a coin that illuminate its use as a sanctuary of Mithras.