Curated category
Fortified settlements
- ShahjahanabadIn 1648, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ordered his chief architect Ustad Ahmad Lahori to construct a new capital city. This project transformed the site…
- YorkIn AD 71, the Ninth Legion conquered the Brigantes and constructed a wooden military fortress on flat ground above the River Ouse.
- DubrovnikIn the 7th century, a group of refugees from Epidaurum fled to a rocky island called Lausa. They founded a settlement that would become Dubrovnik.
- Boulogne-sur-MerIn 39 AD, Emperor Caligula ordered the construction of a tall lighthouse at Gesoriacum. This structure stood for over sixteen hundred years before coastal…
- GuérandeThe Guérande Peninsula stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Brière Regional Nature Reserve. It sits between two contrasting landscapes known as Pays…