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101. Castello Sforzesco
The Sforza dukes' brick fortress, rebuilt from 1450, now home to civic museums including Michelangelo's last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà.
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The Sforza dukes' brick fortress, rebuilt from 1450, now home to civic museums including Michelangelo's last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà.
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The long Renaissance trading hall in the middle of the Main Market Square, with souvenir stalls below and the National Museum's 19th-century Polish art gallery upstairs.
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A former royal abbey church founded in 853 on the Münsterhof, best known for Marc Chagall's five choir windows and Augusto Giacometti's tall north transept window.
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The Neo-Renaissance seat of Hamburg's parliament and senate, finished in 1897, with a free public foyer, a fountain courtyard and paid guided tours of its state rooms.
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A museum founded in 1906 that cares for Josefov's historic synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, telling the story of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia.
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Vienna's great art museum on the Ring, built to house the Habsburg collections, with the largest group of Bruegel paintings anywhere, the Kunstkammer and Egyptian galleries.
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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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Peter Eisenman's field of 2,711 concrete stelae near the Brandenburg Gate, with an underground information centre telling the stories of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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A national museum created under Marc Chagall's wishes to house his Biblical Message paintings, with more than 400 works by the artist in Cimiez.
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Bourbon royal palace on a hill above the city, now a major art museum with Titian, Caravaggio and Parmigianino, set in a vast historic park.
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A former private collection in the Palacio de Villahermosa that traces European painting from the Gothic period to Pop Art, from Duccio and Van Eyck to Picasso.
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Iceland's national museum on Suðurgata, telling the country's story from the Viking-age settlement to the present day through around 2,000 objects in its permanent exhibition.
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Ireland's national collection of archaeology on Kildare Street, home to the Ardagh Chalice, the Tara Brooch, prehistoric gold and Viking Ireland, with free entry.
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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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The Wittelsbachs' Baroque summer palace in western Munich, with the Gallery of Beauties, a royal carriage museum and a 200-hectare park dotted with garden pavilions.
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Europe's largest aquarium complex, opened in 2003 at the City of Arts and Sciences, with around 45,000 animals from 500 species across ocean habitats.
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Florence's town hall since the Middle Ages, with Vasari's Hall of the Five Hundred, Medici apartments, a secret-room tour and a climbable 94-metre tower.
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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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Seville's main park, around 40 hectares of shaded gardens, fountains and exposition pavilions redesigned by Forestier and linking the Plaza de España and the Plaza de América.
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Peggy Guggenheim's former Grand Canal home, now a museum of 20th-century art with works by Picasso, Pollock, Magritte, Dalí, Kandinsky and Brâncuși.
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