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Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos
Spain
Santo Domingo de Silos has a Romanesque cloister at the centre of its monastic life. A medieval room houses museum objects preserved through nineteenth-century confiscation. Its library was created and maintained by the monks and has a history exceeding a thousand years.
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park
Spain
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park lies in the Pyrenees among mountain peaks and valleys. Its landscape includes sharp peaks, ridges, forests and meadows. Water is a defining element, with lakes together with rivers, ravines and wetlands.
Alcazaba de Málaga
Málaga — Spain
Alcazaba de Málaga is a château at Málaga, Andalusia, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 11th century. Its architecture is recorded as Moorish architecture. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Alcazaba de Vélez-Málaga
Vélez-Málaga — Spain
Alcazaba de Vélez-Málaga is a château at Vélez-Málaga, Andalusia, in Spain. Its architecture is recorded as Islamic architecture. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Alcazaba y Murallas del Cerro de San Cristóbal
Almería — Spain
Alcazaba y Murallas del Cerro de San Cristóbal is a château at Almería, Andalusia, in Spain. Its architecture is recorded as Art of Al-Andalus. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Alcázar de los Condestables de Castilla
Medina de Pomar — Spain
Alcázar de los Condestables de Castilla is a château at Medina de Pomar, Castile and Leon, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 14th century. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Aldeia da Palhota
Portugal
Aldeia da Palhota is a fishing hamlet on the right bank of the Tagus in Valada, in the municipality of Cartaxo. The Portuguese heritage inventory traces the settlement’s present form to the 1930s and records timber dwellings raised above ground to adapt to flooding.
Aldeia do Boco
Portugal
Aldeia do Boco is a settlement in the parish of Soza in Vagos, Portugal. Its village chapel is dedicated to Santo Inácio. Along the valley, water channels served mills including Azenha da Ti Luísa, where the mill wheel and miller’s house survive.
Alentejo DOC
Portugal
Portugal’s Alentejo protected designation of origin for wine comprises eight delimited subregions. The wider Alentejano protected geographical indication is a separate designation. The map pin is the Wine Route visitor reference in Évora, one starting point for exploring the subregions.
Alhambra
Spain
The Alhambra served as a palatine city, Christian royal residence and military fortress before its designation as a monument in 1870. It housed the Nasrid sultans, court officials and elite soldiers. After 1492 it became a royal residence under the Tendilla administration.
Alto Douro
Norte — Portugal
The Alto Douro Wine Region in northern Portugal is a cultural landscape shaped by long-established wine production. UNESCO inscribed it in 2001, recognising the relationship between steep terrain, terraced vineyards, settlements and the organisation of agricultural work. Port wine became internationally prominent from the eighteenth century, but the region’s viticultural history is much longer. Dry-stone walls, changing terrace systems, quintas and villages record successive methods of cultivating the slopes. The river and its tributaries organise the geography of the landscape. The World Heritage property represents a defined area within the wider Douro wine region, not every vineyard along the entire river. It remains a working agricultural landscape rather than a single monument or winery.
Antiguo Castillo de Corbera de Llobregat
Corbera de Llobregat · Barcelona Province — Spain
Antiguo Castillo de Corbera de Llobregat is a château at Corbera de Llobregat, Catalonia, in Spain. Its architecture is recorded as Gothic architecture. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Baronía de Les
Les — Spain
Baronía de Les is a château at Les, Catalonia, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 17th century. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Beira Interior DOC
Portugal
Beira Interior is a Portuguese wine denomination with three recognised subregions: Castelo Rodrigo, Pinhel and Cova da Beira. Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo is the visit anchor for this dossier, with a regional cooperative and vineyards on the surrounding plateau.
Bellesguard
Sant Gervasi-la Bonanova · Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona — Spain
Bellesguard is a château at Sant Gervasi-la Bonanova, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 19th century. Its architecture is recorded as Catalan modernism. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Château
Bellver
Viladasens — Spain
Bellver is a château at Viladasens, Catalonia, in Spain. Its architecture is recorded as vernacular architecture. The register records it as “Cultural Asset of Local Interest”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Besalú
Spain
Excavations in Besalú's historic centre have revealed Iberian remains dating to 350–250 BC. The municipality's historical account records a market in 1027. By the fourteenth century, Besalú was the principal commercial centre of the Garrotxa, drawing people from the surrounding area.
Biscoitos PDO
Portugal
Biscoitos is a protected wine denomination on Terceira in the Portuguese Azores. Its production area lies at or below 100 metres in the parish of Biscoitos, Praia da Vitória. Low walls of dark volcanic stone divide the vineyards into small plots.
Ca n’Ustrell
Sabadell · Barcelona Province — Spain
Ca n’Ustrell is a château at Sabadell, Catalonia, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 14th century. Its architecture is recorded as vernacular architecture. The register records it as “Cultural Asset of Local Interest”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Cabañeros National Park
Spain
Cabañeros National Park lies in the Montes de Toledo in Spain. The national park service describes a landscape of open rañas and wooded slopes. Los Navalucillos is one access area. The photograph shows the Arroyo del Chorro valley from the Las Becerras viewpoint.
Cal Castillo
El Poal — Spain
Cal Castillo is a château at El Poal, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 18th century. Its architecture is recorded as vernacular architecture. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Cal Ferrer
Ventalló — Spain
Cal Ferrer is a château at Ventalló, Catalonia, in Spain. Its architecture is recorded as Gothic architecture. The register records it as “Cultural Asset of Local Interest”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Cal Ferrer de las Torres
Serinyà — Spain
Cal Ferrer de las Torres is a château at Serinyà, Catalonia, in Spain. The recorded building campaign dates from the 15th century. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
Cal Xamanet
Pontons — Spain
Cal Xamanet is a château at Pontons, Catalonia, in Spain. Its architecture is recorded as Romanesque architecture. The register records it as “bien de interés cultural”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.