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Tipasa: why all the ruins are not from one period
The coastal site combines several historical layers.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Tiwanaku: monumental remains of a political centre
Tiwanaku was a centre of an influential pre-Hispanic culture in the southern Andes, flourishing between AD 500 and 900. Monumental remains express its political and cultural importance.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Toledo: different historical layers in one urban image
Roman, Visigothic, Islamic and Christian history participated in the development of Toledo. Diversity should be described accurately, without being reduced to a single style label.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Torun: Old and New Town of Medieval Commercial History
Public and private buildings show the importance of the Hanseatic center.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Trinidad in Cuba: sugar trading and the prominent house
Trinidad’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings reflect prosperity associated with the sugar trade. Its heritage is considered together with the valley of sugar production.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Trogir: the older street plan under the later facades
The Hellenistic foundation and medieval buildings belong to different layers.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Upper Hartz: the architecture of water for mining
Lakes, canals and underground facilities form a technical landscape created over the centuries.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Urbino: The Renaissance on the Scale of a Small Hilly Town
Urbino shows a preserved Renaissance urban image associated with the cultural heyday of the 15th century. Its meaning is not only in a separate palace.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Urnes: wooden construction with more than one tradition
Ornament and spatial organization have different historical connections.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Uxmal: decoration and building arrangement
Maya Uxmal in Yucatán includes ceremonial buildings with elaborate symbolic decoration. The Pyramid of the Soothsayer is a major landmark but not the entire ensemble.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Valparaíso: hills changing the rules of the plan
Historic Valparaíso combines a geometric layout on the plain with urban fabric adapted to hills. Inclined lifts form part of its characteristic infrastructure.
Published22 Oct 2026
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Venice: water as part of the urban structure
Venice and the lagoon are seen as a related heritage. Architectural reading includes buildings, water spaces, and transitions between them.
Published22 Oct 2026