Located between the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline Hill, in Rome. Was the political and economical centre of Rome during the Republic. Emerged in the 7th century BC and mostly abandoned at the end of the 4th century. Columns and stone blocks are all that remain of some temples. The arch of Titus and the arch of Septimius Severus still stand.
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At the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City was home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The construction of the grand palace started in the fourth year of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406), and ended in 1420. For almost five hundred years, it served as the home of the Emperor and his household. Now houses the Palace Museum. Covers 72 ha, surrounded by a 7.9 metres (26 ft) high city wall. Inside, 90 palaces and courtyards, 980 buildings, and 8,704 rooms.
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Located in the 1st arrondissement, the Palais Royal was residence of Cardinal Richelieu, then, of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Cardinal Mazarin and the Orléans. Today, houses the Conseil d’État, the Constitutional Council, and the Ministry of Culture

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The term acropolis means upper city, The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis. Most of the major temples were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC) with Phidias, a great Athenian sculptor, and Ictinus and Callicrates, two famous architects. The Parthenon, the Erechtheon, the Propylaea, the monumental entrance to the Acropolis, and the small temple Athena Nike. They are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the world.
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Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, the Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, the famous Temple of Angkor Wat said to be the world’s largest single religious monument.

A historic and archaeological city in Jordan, known as the Rose-Red City for the color of the rocks, established around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans, Petra was famous above all for two things: its trade and its hydraulic engineering systems. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. Impressive entrance called the Siq from a deep split in the sandstone rocks and at the end of the narrow gorge stands Petra’s most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (The Treasury), hewn into the sandstone cliff.
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This sacred site, Chichén Itzá, was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula. Chichen Itza means “at the mouth of the well of the Itza” in the Itza language. Six square miles where hundreds of buildings once stood, but about thirty may still be seen by tourists. The buildings are connected by a dense network of formerly paved roads, called sacbeob. Dominating the center of Chichén is the Temple of Kukulkan (the Maya name for Quetzalcoatl), often referred to as “El Castillo”.

Located in western Italy, near the Bay of Naples, the Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed, buried during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD. Ancient writers such as Pliny the Younger mentioned Pompeii and the disaster that had befallen it. It was under 20 m (66 ft) of ash and pumice, and lost for nearly 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1592. It has been progressively excavated and made accessible to the public since the mid-18th century. A vivid portrait of the opulent lifestyle enjoyed by the wealthier citizens of the Early Roman Empire.

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On a rocky hill, on the banks of the River Darro, rising above Granada, the Alhambra (“the red fortress”) was originally designed as a military area. It became the residence of royalty and of the court of Granada in the middle of the thirteenth century, after the establishment of the Nasrid kingdom. The Palace of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1527, was inserted in the Alhambra within the Nasrid fortifications. The highlight of the Alhambra is the Nasrid Palace which is in actuality several different palaces connected together.

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“Kremlin” is the Russian word for citadel and refers to any major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. But the best-known one is the Moscow Kremlin, located on a hill above the Moscow River. It began life in the 1150s, Ivan the Great was responsible for the most ambitious modifications, and during the period of 1475-1516 Italian architects were brought in to build new fortified walls and a number of cathedrals. Today, The Kremlin includes palaces, cathedrals and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. The former residence of  Tsars serves since the beginning of the 20th century as the official residence of the President of Russia.
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