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81. Munich Residenz
The former city palace of the Wittelsbach rulers, with around 130 rooms, the Renaissance Antiquarium, a treasury of crown jewels and the Rococo Cuvilliés Theatre.
View details — Munich ResidenzLandmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
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The former city palace of the Wittelsbach rulers, with around 130 rooms, the Renaissance Antiquarium, a treasury of crown jewels and the Rococo Cuvilliés Theatre.
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A former Beaux-Arts railway station on the Left Bank holding the world's best-known collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
View details — Musée d’OrsayAttraction
A seventeenth-century Genoese villa in the Cimiez olive grove holding nearly 600 works donated by Henri Matisse and his heirs, from early paintings to late cut-outs.
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Spain's national museum of modern and contemporary art, home to Picasso's Guernica, with major works by Dalí, Miró and Juan Gris.
View details — Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaAttraction
Gothic cathedral of Naples, home of the Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, the early Christian basilica of Santa Restituta and an ancient baptistery.
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Greece's largest archaeological museum, in a 19th-century neoclassical building on Patission Street, home to the Mask of Agamemnon and the Antikythera mechanism.
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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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Free national museum on Chambers Street covering Scottish history, natural world, science and world cultures, with Dolly the sheep and the Lewis chessmen.
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The medieval Old Town Hall on Old Town Square, with its 1410 astronomical clock, a tower gallery 42 metres up and guided tours of chapels and cellars.
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Glass-domed nature museum on Öskjuhlíð hill, built over the city's hot water tanks, with an indoor ice cave, a northern lights planetarium show and a 360-degree viewing deck.
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A vast semicircular square built by Aníbal González for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, lined with tiled alcoves representing the provinces of Spain.
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The King's official residence on the edge of Gamla Stan, a Baroque palace of more than 1,400 rooms with state apartments, the Treasury and two museums.
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The hilltop castle above Alfama, taken from the Moors in 1147 and later a royal palace, has wall walks, a camera obscura and wide views of the Tagus.
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A 1.5-kilometre run of red-brick Neo-Gothic warehouses on oak piles and canals, inscribed by UNESCO in 2015 together with the Kontorhaus district and the Chilehaus.
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The twin-towered brick Gothic church on the Main Market Square, home of Veit Stoss's carved altarpiece and the hourly hejnał trumpet call.
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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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The Danish royal family's home since the 18th century: four Rococo palaces around an octagonal square, with a daily changing of the guard and a museum of royal rooms.
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The ancient heart of Athenian civic life below the Acropolis, with the Temple of Hephaestus and the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos museum.
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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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Oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian's art collection, from ancient Egypt to Lalique jewellery, set in a landscaped garden alongside the Kengo Kuma-redesigned modern art centre.
View details — Calouste Gulbenkian Museum