Heritage in Europe / Mediterranean
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Acropolis of Athens
A complex of monuments accumulated over centuries on a plateau that has been the sacred and political heart of Athens since the Bronze Age, crowned by the Parthenon, one of the most refined and influential buildings in the history of human architecture.
Historical City of Florence
The city where the Western Renaissance was born, Florence contains within its 505-hectare historic centre a concentration of art, architecture, and urban fabric that has no parallel anywhere in the world, from Brunelleschi's dome to the Uffizi, from the Baptistery to Santa Croce, all now under severe pressure from overtourism and the recurring threat of Arno flooding.
Pompeii
The closest thing archaeology has to a time machine — a functioning Roman city of up to 20,000 inhabitants buried under four to six metres of volcanic material on 24 August 79 CE, preserving streets, frescoes, bakeries, taverns, and the postures of the people caught in the eruption in a condition that no deliberate conservation programme could have achieved, now facing a chronic structural conservation crisis that not even a 105-million-euro investment has fully resolved.