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AccraDutch, British and Danish forts still stand along Accra's shoreline within a few miles.
AgraA walled red-sandstone fort and two white-marble mausoleums line a short Yamuna stretch.
AlgiersA mosque built in 1612 turned cathedral, then mosque again, faces a 1982 war memorial.
AmmanA Roman theatre, nymphaeum and citadel hill mark Amman's Philadelphia-era downtown core.
AmsterdamGolden Age wealth built canal-ring houses on timber piles driven into reclaimed peat.
Andorra la VellaEurope's highest capital pairs a 1580 council house with two early medieval churches.
AntalyaA Roman gate and a Seljuk minaret stand within a few streets of the old harbour quarter.
AntwerpA Scheldt port framed by a Gothic spire and Renaissance halls around one market square.
AsunciónAsunción's landmarks are 19th-century neoclassical monuments built along the riverbank.
AthensAncient temples, a Roman theatre and a marble stadium sit within reach of one rocky hill.
AucklandA volcanic isthmus city between two harbours, pairing Edwardian halls with a modern tower.
BakuA walled medieval quarter of pale stone sits streets from the city's oil-boom palaces.
BangaloreA neoclassical courthouse, a Dravidian-revival legislature and a palace share one core.
BangkokRiver temples and a walled palace line the centre; marble halls rise inland, built later.
BarcelonaMedieval Gothic stone gives way to the unfinished, curving Art Nouveau of the Eixample.
BathGeorgian terraces and porticoes ring a Roman bathhouse built over natural springs.
BeijingWalled Ming and Qing palace, temple, and garden complexes anchor the old imperial core.
BeirutRoman ruins, an Ottoman palace and a Neoclassical cathedral share a war-rebuilt downtown.
BelgradeA river-confluence fortress and a wave of Byzantine Revival domes define its skyline.
BerlinA capital rebuilt across three regimes, from Prussian gates to a Cold War broadcast tower.
BernGrey sandstone arcades and covered passages fill a medieval old town looped by the Aare.
BogotáA colonial capital rebuilt in Neoclassical stone around a single central plaza.
BratislavaIts castle, cathedral spire and lone surviving gate all stand within one small Old Town.
BrugesGothic brick towers and stepped gables ring an oval medieval core threaded by canals.
BrusselsA Gothic civic core, a neoclassical park arch, and a lone steel giant from 1958.
BudapestCastle Hill's Baroque terraces and Pest's neo-Gothic towers, both rebuilt after war.
Buenos AiresBeaux-Arts palaces and a lone concrete obelisk define a capital rebuilt after 1880.
CairoStone pyramids at Giza and a thousand minarets of medieval Cairo share one skyline.
CaracasNeoclassical civic monuments crowd a colonial grid pressed against a 2,200-metre ridge.
Cebu CityA fort, a basilica and a cathedral all rose within blocks of the same 1565 landing site.
ChennaiDravidian temple towers and British Gothic Revival buildings share Chennai's coastal grid.
Chiang MaiRed-brick ramparts and a moat still frame temples founded within the city's first century.
ChibaA 12th-century shrine, a 1960s castle replica and a 1980s tower — little here is original.
ChisinauA Russian-imperial core rebuilt in Socialist Realist and Brutalist blocks after war.
ColomboA coastal capital pairing colonial civic halls with a red mosque and a 1953 monument.
CopenhagenFire, plague and an 1807 bombardment forced this low capital to keep rebuilding itself.
CordobaA former caliphal capital where a mosque still frames a cathedral built into its centre.
Da NangFrench colonial museums and a cathedral sit under a 2013 dragon-shaped steel bridge.
DamascusA Roman temple's walls still enclose the mosque at the heart of its old walled city.
Dar es SalaamA sultan's coral-stone fort and German-built churches line one working harbourfront.
DelhiA minaret, a Mughal fort and a colonial war arch stand within a few miles of each other.
Dessau1920s Bauhaus buildings share the town with 18th-century ducal palaces and gardens.
DhakaMughal forts and a Nawab's riverside palace anchor Old Dhaka's dense, waterside quarter.
DublinA river-split capital where a Norman castle and Georgian civic stone shape the skyline.
EdinburghA fortress on a volcanic crag anchors a skyline of Gothic spires and a royal palace.
FlorenceA medieval trade and finance city crowned by the largest masonry dome ever built.
FrankfurtBank towers rise a few streets from a medieval old town rebuilt after wartime bombing.
FukuokaA port city where a 757 shrine, a 1607 castle and a 1989 broadcast tower mark three eras.
GeorgetownTimber Gothic Revival churches and Renaissance Revival civic halls define its centre.
GhentA medieval river city preserved less by design than by three centuries of decline.
GibraltarA fortified town packed onto a narrow ledge below a 426-metre limestone mountain.
GuangzhouA 2,200-year river port where Qing clan halls sit minutes from a 600-metre steel tower.
GuilinKarst hills frame a city where landmarks span a 1372 palace and 2001 pagodas.
HavanaColonial forts and churches share Havana's harbour with a 1920s neoclassical capitol.
HelsinkiNeoclassical Russian-era monuments stand near granite National Romantic landmarks.
HeraklionVenetian harbour defences and Bronze Age palace ruins frame a Cretan port city's skyline.
Ho Chi Minh CityNineteenth-century French colonial buildings stand blocks from the newest glass towers.
Hong KongBrick and granite colonial landmarks survive within blocks of Central's supertall towers.
HonoluluA former royal capital where a stone palace and harbor tower anchor a compact downtown.
IstanbulOttoman mosques and a Byzantine dome share a skyline split across two continents by water.
JaipurA planned 1727 grid city whose old core is faced almost entirely in pink sandstone.
JakartaIts oldest buildings trace the walled Dutch port town that grew into Batavia.
JerusalemHerodian megaliths, an Umayyad shrine and a Mamluk citadel share one small walled core.
JohannesburgIts Edwardian civic core rose within decades of an 1886 gold rush across open farmland.
Johor BahruA Moorish state mosque and a royal palace sit steps from the Singapore causeway.
KathmanduBuddhist stupas and a royal Newar square share one valley across fifteen centuries.
KolkataMarble Raj monuments and a cantilever steel bridge frame the Hooghly's east bank.
KrakowA royal capital whose Gothic and Renaissance core has stood largely unchanged since 1596.
Kuala LumpurColonial masonry around Merdeka Square sits a few kilometres from 1990s postmodern towers.
KyivBaroque churches and a rebuilt medieval gate rise from steep hills above the Dnieper.
LimaA cathedral and a rebuilt palace still frame the square both broke ground on in 1535.
LisbonRiverside limestone monuments trace Lisbon's rebuild after the 1755 earthquake.
LjubljanaA Baroque old town circles a medieval hilltop castle above the Ljubljanica River.
LondonA Norman fortress, Gothic Revival towers and glass skyscrapers line one wide tidal river.
Los AngelesDowntown pairs a 1928 Art Deco city hall with Frank Gehry's deconstructivist concert hall.
LuxembourgA fortress capital of stone bridges over river gorges and acorn-topped surviving towers.
MacauA 15th-century temple, 17th-century churches and forts sit blocks from towering casinos.
MadridA fortress outpost grew into a court capital of baroque palaces and neoclassical gates.
MarrakeshRed sandstone walls raised in 1122 still ring a medina built up by four ruling dynasties.
MechelenOne surviving gate of twelve and a half-raised Gothic tower still set its skyline.
MelbourneGold-boom wealth raised a grand hall, then a rebuilt station and a granite war memorial.
Mexico CityThis high-altitude capital rose in Baroque stone over a razed Aztec city.
MiamiIts 300-tower skyline rose around a handful of 1910s-20s Revival-style survivors.
MilanA cathedral six centuries in the making anchors a city of duchy, empire and industry.
MinskBaroque, neo-Romanesque and Soviet landmarks trace a capital's six changes of rule.
MonacoA cliffside fortress turned palace and a Belle Époque casino share two square kilometres.
MontevideoA colonial cathedral, a domed parliament and a 1920s eclectic tower mark three eras.
MoscowA walled medieval fortress, a domed church and grand 19th-century halls ring one square.
MumbaiColonial-era Indo-Saracenic and Gothic stone landmarks cluster along the harbour.
MunichA citywide height cap keeps a medieval cathedral's towers above everything built after it.
NairobiA colonial mosque, a 1930s library and a 1970s brutalist tower share Nairobi's skyline.
NassauCoral-rock colonial buildings and a carved limestone stair crown Nassau's harbour hills.
New York CityCast-iron bridges, Beaux-Arts terminals and Art Deco spires crowd one dense grid.
NiceA seafront of Belle-Époque hotels backs onto Baroque churches from the city's Savoy era.
NicosiaThe last divided capital in Europe, still ringed by its Venetian walls.
OsakaA castle from Japan's unification wars, a sixth-century temple, a 1955 steel tower.
OsloA medieval fortress, a neoclassical palace and a marble opera house line one fjord shore.
PaduaEight medieval buildings share one UNESCO listing for their fourteenth-century frescoes.
Panama CityRebuilt in 1673 after a pirate's fire, its old quarter stands near the ruins it replaced.
ParamariboTimber Dutch colonial landmarks line a UNESCO-listed river-port centre.
ParisUniform 19th-century boulevards frame a much older core of medieval and royal stone.
PenangGeorge Town's shophouse lanes hold ornate clan halls beside one indigo-blue mansion.
PhuketBuddhist temple compounds and a marble-clad hilltop Buddha define this island's skyline.
PodgoricaA capital rebuilt mostly after 1946, keeping only scattered Ottoman-era river relics.
Port of SpainA financial capital whose grandest landmarks were all rebuilt within a single generation.
PortoAn iron double-deck bridge and tiled halls rise above the Douro's UNESCO waterfront.
PragueA hilltop castle and a bridge-linked old town, layered in stone across nine centuries.
QuitoA colonial cathedral, a neoclassical palace, and a basilica share one historic square.
RegensburgA Roman fort's medieval core survives intact where the Danube meets the Naab and Regen.
ReykjavikA small stone-and-wood capital under one soaring 20th-century church spire.
RhodesKnights' ramparts, an Ottoman mosque and a Sephardi synagogue share one walled town.
RigaA Hanseatic port whose old town pairs Brick Gothic churches with Art Nouveau architecture.
Rio de JaneiroA granite peak, a colonial church and a Beaux-Arts theatre map four centuries of building.
RomeAmphitheatre, dome and triumphal arch sit blocks from Baroque fountains and stairways.
Saint PetersburgBaroque and Neoclassical state buildings line a river capital raised from nothing in 1703.
San FranciscoTwo Beaux-Arts monuments of 1915 flank a record-breaking suspension bridge of 1937.
San MarinoMedieval hilltop towers and a nineteenth-century civic quarter share one narrow ridge.
San SalvadorNeoclassical palaces and a modern cathedral share a volcano-ringed highland capital.
SantiagoSantiago pairs its cathedral, mint and Beaux-Arts palace with a colonial grid from 1541.
Santo DomingoCoral-limestone Gothic churches and Spanish fort walls raised here from 1502 onward.
SarajevoOttoman mosques and fountains sit beside Austro-Hungarian civic grandeur on the Miljacka.
SeoulJoseon palaces and a city gate here were burned, demolished and rebuilt more than once.
ShanghaiThree supertall towers, raised in twenty years, turned Pudong into a record of ambition.
ShenzhenA skyline built almost entirely since the 1980s, when a fishing county became a boomtown.
SingaporeMarina Bay's engineered towers stand a few streets from a Hindu temple built in 1827.
SkopjeOttoman stone survives in a valley whose skyline was almost entirely rebuilt after 1963.
SofiaA fourth-century basilica, an Ottoman mosque and two Orthodox cathedrals share the centre.
SpeyerIts skyline pairs a red sandstone imperial cathedral with a 55-metre medieval gate tower.
StockholmFourteen islands of medieval brick and Baroque stone where a lake meets the Baltic Sea.
SydneyConcrete shells, riveted steel and Victorian sandstone sit within sight of one harbour.
TaipeiA basin city stacking a 1738 Qing temple, a 1980 memorial hall and a 2004 supertall tower.
TallinnA hilltop castle, a Gothic town hall and a soaring church spire share one walled old town.
TbilisiA fortress ridge, riverside cathedrals and a Moorish-revival theatre share one skyline.
Tel AvivJaffa's Ottoman stone monuments stand beside a city founded as a 1909 housing estate.
TiranaOttoman mosque, clock tower and stone bridge stand beside a 1941 rationalist palace.
TokyoA capital rebuilt in steel and brick after fire and bombing, not preserved intact.
TorontoA lakeside city whose landmarks span a 1914 private castle to 1960s-70s modern towers.
TunisA medina of reused Roman stone opens through one gate onto French-era boulevards.
UlaanbaatarGilded Buddhist monasteries and a classicist palace survive amid Soviet-era blocks.
UtrechtA medieval religious capital where a lone Gothic tower still outlines the skyline.
VaduzA capital of under 6,000 residents, watched over by a medieval castle on its hill.
Valletta320 monuments in half a square kilometre, built by the Knights Hospitaller from the 1570s.
VancouverAn Art Deco tower and a sail-roofed harbour terminal frame Canada's densest downtown.
VeniceBuilt on 126 lagoon islands linked by 472 bridges, with canals in place of roads.
ViennaA former imperial capital where Baroque palaces and a Gothic cathedral share one skyline.
VilniusA Gothic hill-top tower overlooks an old town rebuilt in Baroque and Neoclassical waves.
WarsawRebuilt almost from rubble after 1944, its old town sits beside a Soviet-era skyline.
WeimarDucal Baroque palaces neighbour the Art Nouveau school building that became the Bauhaus.
YerevanCentral Yerevan was rebuilt to one architect's plan, faced in pink and yellow tuff.
ZagrebA hilltop medieval quarter of spires and a tower looks down on a Neoclassical lower town.