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1. British Museum
Britain's great museum of world history and culture in Bloomsbury, with free entry to a permanent collection spanning two million years of human civilisation.
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2. Colosseum
The Flavian Amphitheatre, completed in AD 80 under Titus, is Rome's defining ancient monument and the centrepiece of the Parco archeologico del Colosseo.
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3. Hagia Sophia
Justinian's sixth-century domed basilica, now the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, with a separate visitor route through its upper galleries above the prayer hall.
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4. Musée du Louvre
The world-famous former royal palace on the Right Bank, home to the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and thousands of works spanning antiquity to the 19th century.
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5. Sagrada Família
Antoni Gaudí's still-unfinished basilica in the Eixample, Barcelona's defining landmark, with a forest-like nave, two sculpted façades and climbable towers.
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6. Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel's wrought-iron tower on the Champ de Mars, with lifts and stairs to two viewing floors and a summit 276 metres above the city.
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7. Park Güell
Gaudí's hillside park in Gràcia, where mosaic-covered terraces, a serpentine bench and gingerbread-style lodges look out over Barcelona to the sea.
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8. Topkapı Palace
The sprawling Ottoman palace on Seraglio Point, with courtyards, the Harem, imperial treasury displays and Bosphorus views, plus the Byzantine church of Hagia Irene.
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9. Tower of London
Nearly a thousand years of royal history on the Thames, home to the Crown Jewels, the White Tower and the famous Yeoman Warders.
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10. Vatican Museums
Founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century, the Vatican Museums hold the papal collections, the Raphael Rooms and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
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11. Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque)
Sultan Ahmed I's six-minaret imperial mosque, completed in 1617 and named for the blue İznik tiles that line its vast prayer hall.
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12. Casa Batlló
Gaudí's remodelled townhouse on Passeig de Gràcia, famous for its bone-like balconies, shimmering tiled façade and dragon-scaled roof, now an immersive house museum.
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13. Musée d’Orsay
A former Beaux-Arts railway station on the Left Bank holding the world's best-known collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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14. National Gallery
The nation's collection of Western European paintings on Trafalgar Square, with free entry to works from the 13th to the early 20th century.
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15. St Peter’s Basilica
Rebuilt between 1506 and 1626 to designs by Bramante, Michelangelo and Maderno, St Peter's is the vast papal basilica at the heart of Vatican City.
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16. Basilica Cistern
A sixth-century underground reservoir near Hagia Sophia, with 336 marble columns, two Medusa-head column bases and atmospheric lighting after its 2022 restoration.
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17. La Pedrera (Casa Milà)
Gaudí's undulating stone apartment building on Passeig de Gràcia, best known for its rooftop of sculpted chimneys and its recreated early-20th-century flat.
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18. Notre-Dame de Paris
Paris's great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, restored after the 2019 fire and reopened to visitors and worshippers in December 2024.
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19. Pantheon
Rebuilt under Hadrian around AD 126, the Pantheon still has the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and has served as a church since 609.
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20. Westminster Abbey
The Gothic church beside Parliament where English and British monarchs have been crowned for centuries, full of royal tombs and memorials.
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