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61. Valencia Cathedral
Valencia's Gothic cathedral, begun in 1262 on the site of a former mosque, home to a chalice venerated as the Holy Grail and the Micalet bell tower.
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Valencia's Gothic cathedral, begun in 1262 on the site of a former mosque, home to a chalice venerated as the Holy Grail and the Micalet bell tower.
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The museum holding the largest collection of work by Vincent van Gogh, with paintings, drawings and letters in a building by Gerrit Rietveld.
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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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Poland's coronation church on Wawel Hill, consecrated in 1364, with the gilded Sigismund Chapel, royal tombs, poets' crypts and the giant Sigismund Bell.
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The canal house on the Prinsengracht where Anne Frank and seven others hid during the Second World War, now a museum about her life and diary.
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A 102-metre model of an iron crystal built for Expo 58 on the Heysel plateau, with exhibitions, a panoramic top sphere and a restaurant.
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The central memorial to the division of Berlin, set along Bernauer Strasse with a preserved section of Wall, border strip, watchtower and free exhibitions.
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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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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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The palace on Slotsholmen that houses Denmark's parliament, Supreme Court and Prime Minister's Office, with royal reception rooms, stables, kitchen and medieval ruins open to visitors.
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The double-deck iron arch bridge of 1886 linking Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, with metro trains and walkers on top and a riverside crossing below.
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A neo-Romanesque lookout terrace with seven turrets beside Matthias Church, built between 1895 and 1902 with wide views over the Danube and Pest.
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A clifftop fortress just outside the Pile Gate, 37 metres above the sea, famed for its liberty motto, its views of the walls and its summer Shakespeare performances.
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The museum built around Michelangelo's David, displayed here since 1873, with his unfinished Prisoners, Florentine paintings and a musical instrument collection.
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Italy's oldest active shopping arcade, a glass-roofed 19th-century gallery linking Piazza del Duomo and Piazza della Scala.
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Venice's great collection of Venetian painting from the 14th to 18th centuries, with works by Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Carpaccio.
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Three linked museums in the Hofburg, the Habsburgs' winter palace: Emperor Franz Joseph's state rooms, a museum on Empress Elisabeth and the court silver and tableware.
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A former county gaol of 1796 where leaders of the 1916 Rising were held and executed, now a museum seen on guided tours.
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Pere Compte's late Gothic silk exchange, built between 1482 and 1533, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for its twisted columns in the Trading Hall.
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Switzerland's most visited cultural history museum, set in Gustav Gull's historicist 1898 building beside the main station, with a modern extension by Christ & Gantenbein.
View details — Landesmuseum Zürich (Swiss National Museum)