The Most Remarkable Monuments in Europe
34 places in 17 countries · updated 14 October 2026
In short: By our ranking, the most remarkable monuments in Europe are Castel Sant'Angelo (Italy), Trajan's Column (Italy) and Fernsehturm Berlin (Germany). The list covers 34 monuments in 17 countries. Spain has the most, with 7. Last updated 14 October 2026.
Europe has been building monuments for two thousand years, and each era left its own kind. Rome raised columns, mausoleums and lighthouses meant to outlast empires; the nineteenth century answered with national temples and parliaments that gave new states a face; the twentieth added towers, world's fair structures and memorials that ask visitors to remember rather than to admire. Many have changed purpose over time, which is part of what makes them remarkable.
Rome shows how long a monument can live. Castel Sant'Angelo began as the mausoleum of Hadrian and became a papal fortress linked to the Vatican, Trajan's Column still carries its spiral frieze of the Dacian Wars, and the Vittoriano rises in white marble beside the Capitoline Hill. In A Coruña the Tower of Hercules, a Roman lighthouse, still guides ships, and above the Danube at Donaustauf the Walhalla, built for Ludwig I of Bavaria, recreates a Greek temple as a hall of famous Germans.
The modern era is as varied. Berlin's Fernsehturm, completed in 1969, rises with its silver sphere over Alexanderplatz, while Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe fills a city block with concrete stelae of uneven height. Brussels keeps the Atomium from the 1958 World's Fair, Prague the twisting Dancing House by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, and Budapest its Gothic Revival Parliament along the Danube. The fourteenth-century monastery of Visoki Dečani adds medieval frescoes to the list.
In this list
01 Castel Sant'Angelo
Italy · 1.4 km from Rome41.903° N 12.466° E
Image by rainhard2 from Pixabay Its current name comes from a specific legend: in 590 CE, during a plague, Pope Gregory the Great is said to have seen the Archangel Michael appear on the summit sheathing his sword — read as a sign the epidemic was ending. A statue of the angel has stood on top ever since, and the building has cycled through duty as papal residence, state prison, and now museum, on top of its original job as a tomb.
Did you know? The mausoleum was originally topped with a garden and a gilded four-horse chariot, or quadriga.
02 Trajan's Column
Colonna Traiana
Italy · 0.3 km from Rome41.896° N 12.484° E
Raffaele pagani · CC BY-SA 4.0 What makes the column unique is the frieze: a single band of relief about 190 m long that winds 23 times around the shaft, carrying 155 scenes and more than 2,600 figures. The lower half tells the first war, the upper half the second, separated by a winged Victory writing on a shield. Surprisingly little of it is battle. Soldiers build forts, bridge rivers, fell trees and march in orderly columns; Trajan appears 58 times, addressing troops and making sacrifices. The story opens near the base with the legions' first crossing of the Danube. The detail of weapons, ships and camps makes the frieze one of the best visual sources for the Roman army.
Did you know? The base inscription says the column shows how high a hill once stood before it was dug away for Trajan's buildings, though excavations have cast doubt on this.
03 Fernsehturm Berlin
Berliner Fernsehturm
Germany · 0.7 km from Berlin52.521° N 13.409° E
Image by BernardoUPloud from Pixabay The sphere produced an unintended joke. When the sun strikes its tiled stainless-steel skin, the reflection forms a bright Greek cross, and Berliners nicknamed it the "Pope's Revenge", a divine answer to a state that had stripped crosses from churches. After reunification the tower shed its political meaning and became a symbol of the whole city, appearing in the opening shot of countless films about Berlin; it has been a listed monument since 1979 and draws more than a million visitors a year.
Did you know? The sphere is 32 metres across, weighs about 4,800 tonnes and was assembled high above the city from 120 separate segments.
04 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
Germany · 1.8 km from Berlin52.514° N 13.379° E
Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 The design is by the New York architect Peter Eisenman. It grew out of a second competition in 1997, originally as a joint entry with the sculptor Richard Serra, who later withdrew. The Bundestag voted for it in June 1999 after a decade of public argument that began with a citizens' initiative led by the journalist Lea Rosh and the historian Eberhard Jäckel. Building ran from April 2003 to December 2004 and the memorial was inaugurated on 10 May 2005, sixty years after the war in Europe ended. Every block has the same footprint, 2.38 by 0.95 metres; only the heights differ, and many stand slightly out of true.
Did you know? The heights of the blocks range from just 0.2 metres at the edges to about 4.7 metres in the middle of the field.
05 Tower of Hercules
Torre de Hércules
Spain · 6.3 km from A Coruña43.386° N 8.406° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) · CC BY-SA 3.0 What's easy to miss standing in front of it is that you're looking at two buildings stacked on top of each other. In the eighteenth century the tower was restored in the Neoclassical style then in fashion, and that restoration wrapped a new stone skin around the structure rather than replacing it — so the smooth, symmetrical facade visible today is largely an 18th-century addition, while the Roman core it covers is still there underneath, load-bearing and original. UNESCO recognised exactly this layering when it listed the tower as a World Heritage Site in 2009: not a Roman ruin, and not really a Georgian folly either, but both at once.
Did you know? Of the tower's roughly 55 metres, about 34 are surviving Roman masonry; the top 21 metres were added during the 18th-century restoration.
06 Cave of Altamira
Cueva de Altamira
Spain · 25.7 km from Santander43.383° N 4.117° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Image by janeb13 from Pixabay The Polychrome Ceiling of the main hall shows a herd of extinct steppe bison in red and black, together with horses, a large doe and possibly a boar. The painters used charcoal, ochre and haematite, thinning the pigments to create shading, and placed each animal so that the natural bulges of the rock became its shoulders and flanks, giving the figures a sculptural volume. Elsewhere in the cave there are older paintings: horses and goats, abstract signs, and outlines of hands made by blowing pigment around a hand held against the wall.
07 Dancing House
Tančící dům
Czech Republic · 1.4 km from Prague50.076° N 14.414° E
Image by pierre9x6 from Pixabay The site has its own history. An apartment building stood here until it was destroyed in the American bombing of Prague in 1945, and the plot lay empty for decades. Next door lived the family of Václav Havel; Milunić, his neighbour, had discussed an idea for the gap as early as 1986, and after the Velvet Revolution made Havel president, the project gained momentum. The Dutch insurer Nationale-Nederlanden agreed to fund a building and asked Milunić to work with an architect of world standing.
Did you know? The Medusa on the roof is made of metal tubes covered with a stainless-steel mesh, designed by Gehry himself.
08 Visoki Dečani
Manastiri i Deçanit
Kosovo · 13.1 km from Pejë42.547° N 20.266° E
- UNESCO World Heritage
Pudelek (Marcin Szala) · CC BY-SA 3.0 Vito brought the Romanesque and Gothic habits of the Adriatic coast to an Orthodox commission. The walls are laid in alternating bands of pale and pinkish marble, and the portals, windows and capitals carry carved sculpture of a kind rarely seen on Byzantine-rite churches. Inside, the plan is a five-aisled nave with a three-part iconostasis and a spacious narthex, and nearly every surface is painted.
Did you know? Its unusual proportions, about 36 metres long, earned the monastery its epithet Visoki, meaning high, among the far smaller churches of medieval Serbia.
09 Walhalla, Donaustauf
Walhalla
Germany · 7.7 km from Regensburg49.031° N 12.224° E
SimonWaldherr · CC BY-SA 4.0 The name comes from Norse myth, where Valhalla is the hall of fallen heroes, and the interior carries the idea through. The hall, clad in marble inside and out, holds about 130 busts and 65 plaques commemorating figures spanning two thousand years, beginning with Arminius, victor over the Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest. The northern pediment shows that battle, sculpted by Ludwig von Schwanthaler after designs by Christian Daniel Rauch, and a frieze by Johann Martin von Wagner tells an idealised history of the early Germanic peoples.
Did you know? Klenze built a Hall of Expectations into the foundations for busts of living candidates, to be carried upstairs after their deaths; the plan was abandoned.
10 Column of Marcus Aurelius
Colonna di Marco Aurelio
Italy · 0.3 km from Rome41.901° N 12.480° E
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 The relief spirals 21 times around the shaft. It begins with the army crossing the Danube and then follows the campaigns in scene after scene. Compared with Trajan's Column, the carving is cut deeper, with more drilling and stronger contrasts of light and shadow, and the heads are enlarged so that expressions can be read from below. The mood is harsher too: villages burn, women and children are led away, and the suffering of the defeated is shown plainly. The most famous episode is the "rain miracle" in the land of the Quadi, where a rain god appears to save thirsty Roman troops with a sudden storm, a story later claimed by Christians for their own God.
11 Vittoriano (Victor Emmanuel II Monument), Rome
Vittoriano
Italy · 0.4 km from Rome41.895° N 12.483° E
Image by serghei_topor from Pixabay Sacconi drew on Hellenistic sanctuaries such as the Altar of Pergamon, and the monument works like a sequence of ascending platforms. At its centre, the bronze equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II by Enrico Chiaradia rides above the Altare della Patria, the Altar of the Fatherland, where the goddess Roma, carved by Angelo Zanelli stands at the heart of the composition. Since 1921 the altar has also held the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, chosen from eleven unidentified dead of the First World War by Maria Bergamas, whose choice made the tomb a shrine for every family that never recovered its dead.
Did you know? The statue of Victor Emmanuel II was cast from the bronze of melted-down cannons of the Royal Italian Army.
12 Trevi Fountain
Fontana di Trevi
Italy · 0.4 km from Rome41.901° N 12.483° E
Image by jdegheest from Pixabay The fountain as you see it today took decades longer than expected to build. Pope Clement XII opened a design competition in 1730; Nicola Salvi won it, broke ground in 1732, and died in 1751 before the work was done — it was finally finished by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762. The ritual most visitors know it for is far younger than the fountain itself: tossing a coin over your left shoulder to guarantee a return to Rome is a tradition popularized by the 1954 Hollywood film Three Coins in the Fountain, not an old Roman custom at all.
Did you know? The name comes from the Latin trivium, a meeting of three streets, which once converged at this small square.
13 Panthéon
France · 1.4 km from Paris48.846° N 2.346° E
Image by ChiemSeherin from Pixabay The building is an early and very pure statement of Neoclassicism: a Greek-cross plan, a portico of Corinthian columns copied from a temple, and a stone dome meant to rival St Peter's in Rome and St Paul's in London. It is 110 metres long and 83 metres high, and the dome is really three shells fitted one inside another; through the opening in the lowest you see Antoine-Jean Gros's painted Apotheosis of Saint Genevieve on the second. Soufflot wanted Gothic lightness in classical dress, but when the Revolution turned the church into a mausoleum in 1791 most of the windows were bricked up for a more funereal gloom.
14 Hungarian Parliament Building
Országház
Hungary · 2.8 km from Budapest47.507° N 19.046° E
Image by Hermann from Pixabay The design came from an international competition won by Imre Steindl. His Gothic Revival scheme, symmetrical and crowned by a Renaissance Revival dome, was chosen partly because it echoed the Palace of Westminster in London, a sign of the parliamentary ambitions of a nation that had recently won self-government within the Habsburg monarchy; Steindl also drew on Vienna's neo-Gothic City Hall. Construction began in 1885, the building was inaugurated in 1896 for the thousandth anniversary of the Hungarian state and finished in 1904. Steindl lost his sight and died before it was complete.
Did you know? The two debating chambers are mirror images of each other, built for a two-house legislature; today only one hosts sessions and the other is used for conferences and tours.
15 Atomium
Belgium · 6.7 km from Brussels50.895° N 4.341° E
Image by dimitrisvetsikas1969 from Pixabay It was built as the centrepiece of Expo 58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, at a moment of strong faith in science and the peaceful use of atomic energy. The engineer André Waterkeyn presented the idea in 1955, and the architects André and Jean Polak turned it into a building. Foundations were begun in March 1956 and the structure was completed less than a month before the fair opened on 17 April 1958. The original design had the whole cube balanced on its lowest sphere, but wind-tunnel tests showed it could topple in strong winds, so three supporting columns were added beneath the lower outer spheres.
Did you know? The structure weighs around 2,400 tonnes, and each of its spheres alone weighs roughly 250 tonnes.
16 Prague Astronomical Clock
Staroměstský orloj
Czech Republic · 0.2 km from Prague50.087° N 14.421° E
Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay The astronomical dial is essentially a mechanical astrolabe, a model of the sky as seen from Prague. A blue disc stands for the sky above the horizon and the dark bands below for night, with dawn and twilight marked in between. A golden sun travels around a zodiac ring and shows the time three ways at once: ordinary hours in Roman numerals, the unequal "hours" of daylight on curved golden lines, and Old Czech Time on the outer ring, where the count restarts at sunset. The moon moves around the same ring faster and shows its phase through a half-silvered sphere turned slowly by a weight, a gravity-driven mechanism that is unique among clocks of this kind.
Did you know? The Moon's phase sphere holds a 57-tooth gear advanced two teeth a day; it drifts from the real phase by only about one day in five years.
17 Hundertwasserhaus
Austria · 2.3 km from Vienna48.208° N 16.394° E
Image by sasenocka from Pixabay The house was built between 1983 and 1985 to the vision of the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who rejected the levelling grid of modern architecture and wanted instead a house for people and trees. The idea of letting him build one went back to 1977, when Chancellor Bruno Kreisky wrote to Vienna's mayor Leopold Gratz suggesting that Hundertwasser be given a housing project to try out his ideas. The architect Joseph Krawina worked out the design with him, and Peter Pelikan acted as planning architect. The result, opened in 1986, contains around fifty apartments plus offices and shops, with sixteen private terraces and three shared ones, and is home to about 150 people.
Did you know? Some 900 tonnes of soil cover the roof terraces, which together measure around 920 square metres.
18 Albert Memorial
United Kingdom · 4.1 km from London51.502° N 0.178° W
Image by ELG21 from Pixabay Scott's canopy is only the frame for a vast sculptural programme. Albert, gilded and robed as a Knight of the Garter, sits facing south with a catalogue of the Great Exhibition in his hand; the figure was begun by John Henry Foley and completed by Thomas Brock after Foley's death. Around the podium runs the Frieze of Parnassus, 169 carved figures of composers, poets, painters, sculptors and architects arranged by discipline, the work of Henry Hugh Armstead and John Birnie Philip.
19 León Cathedral
Catedral de Santa María de Regla de León
Spain · 2.2 km from León42.599° N 5.567° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Image by TerapiasNaturales from Pixabay The site has been sacred and royal for a very long time. The Roman Seventh Legion built baths here, whose remains lie beneath the floor; the baths became a palace, and in the tenth century King Ordoño II gave it up for the first cathedral after a victory over the Moors; his tomb is still inside. A Romanesque church followed in the eleventh century. The present building was started around 1205, stalled over foundation problems, and resumed in 1255 under the master mason Enrique, probably a Frenchman who had worked at Burgos. Its plan follows Reims closely, on a smaller scale, which is why it is often called the most French of Spain's cathedrals.
Did you know? The cathedral's two towers are not twins: one rises about 65 metres, the other about 68 metres.
20 Monument to the Battle of the Nations
Völkerschlachtdenkmal
Germany · 2.6 km from Leipzig51.312° N 12.413° E
Image by lapping from Pixabay The design is by the Berlin architect Bruno Schmitz, already the author of the Kyffhäuser Monument and the Deutsches Eck, with Clemens Thieme shaping much of the final form, and it deliberately turns away from the classical idiom of its day towards something older and heavier, closer to Mesopotamian and Egyptian models. The shell is concrete dressed in some 26,500 granite blocks. A relief 60 metres wide spreads across the front, with the Archangel Michael at the centre of the battle, and around the crown stand twelve stone warriors 13 metres tall, each assembled from 47 blocks.
Did you know? Builders moved some 82,000 cubic metres of earth over two years before they reached ground firm enough to carry the weight.
21 Igel Column
Igeler Säule
Germany · 9.5 km from Grevenmacher49.709° N 6.549° E
- UNESCO World Heritage
Enyavar · Public domain What makes it extraordinary is how much of everyday Roman business it shows. Above a stepped base and podium, framed by flat Corinthian pilasters, carved panels cover every face. Mythological scenes sit alongside episodes from the family's own trade: cloth being delivered and inspected, bales on the move, a covered travelling carriage, tenants arriving at the house with gifts of a hare, fish, an eel, a kid, a rooster and a basket of fruit. On one relief a small milestone is marked with four Gallic leagues, roughly the distance to Trier's Roman bridge. At the very top, above a roof carved like overlapping scales, an eagle carries off Ganymede.
Did you know? It was built as the family tomb of the Secundinii, cloth merchants in the Roman province around Trier.
22 Stockholm City Hall
Stockholms stadshus
Sweden · 0.8 km from Stockholm59.328° N 18.055° E
Image by Rofi from Pixabay The city council decided in 1907 to build a new city hall on the site of a former mill, Eldkvarn. Construction took twelve years, from 1911 to 1923, and the building was inaugurated on 23 June 1923, a date chosen as what was then taken to be the 400th anniversary of Gustav Vasa's entry into Stockholm. Nearly eight million red bricks of the traditional large format known as monk's brick were used. At the foot of the tower stands a cenotaph for Birger Jarl, the 13th-century statesman traditionally regarded as Stockholm's founder, and the tower can be climbed by lift or by a staircase of 365 steps.
Did you know? The 106-metre tower rests on eight concrete pillars, each five metres across, sunk through an 11-metre layer of clay to bedrock.
23 Aljafería
Spain · 0.9 km from Zaragoza41.656° N 0.897° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Image by Pixels4Free from Pixabay Behind a severe ring of walls and towers the palace opens onto the Patio de Santa Isabel, a courtyard with pools and porticoes where the taifa architects pushed the arch to its limits. Mixtilinear and multilobed arches cross and interlace until they read more like lace than masonry, and the plaster is carved into dense geometric and vegetal patterns. The small private mosque is the jewel: a square room with chamfered corners that give it an octagonal feel, a horseshoe-arched mihrab turned towards Mecca, and walls covered with blind interlaced arches.
Did you know? Its layout follows the eighth-century Umayyad desert castles of Syria and Jordan: a square enclosure with round towers and a central courtyard with pools.
24 Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni
L-Ipogew ta’ Ħal Saflieni
Malta · 3.4 km from Valletta35.870° N 14.507° E
- UNESCO World Heritage
-jkb- · CC BY-SA 3.0 The complex descends through three levels. The upper one, only about a metre below the street, is the oldest; the middle and lower levels were carved out later, linked by steps, lintels and doorways that copy in solid rock the trilithon gateways of the surface temples. In the middle level, the so-called Holy of Holies has nested trilithon openings, and the Oracle Room is known for its powerful acoustic resonance: sound made in it carries through the surrounding chambers. Parts of the walls and ceilings still carry painted decoration in red ochre, with spirals, discs and honeycomb patterns.
Did you know? Its chambers were hollowed out of soft globigerina limestone with simple tools of antler, flint, chert and obsidian, possibly enlarging a natural cave.
25 Scott Monument
United Kingdom · 1.7 km from Edinburgh55.952° N 3.193° W
Image by eduardovieiraphoto from Pixabay Its story belongs to its designer. After Scott's death in 1832 a competition was held for a memorial, and the winning entry, chosen in 1838, came from George Meikle Kemp, a self-taught joiner and draughtsman of forty-five who had submitted it under the pseudonym "John Morvo", borrowed from a medieval master mason of Melrose Abbey, for fear that his lack of training would count against him. The foundation stone was laid on 15 August 1840, Scott's birthday, and the tower went up over the following four years. Kemp never saw it complete: in March 1844 he drowned in the Union Canal on a foggy evening, and the monument was inaugurated in 1846 without him.
Did you know? One contemporary observer claimed the dust from its hard sandstone killed 23 of the finest stone hewers in Edinburgh.
26 Castlerigg Stone Circle
Castlerigg stone circle
United Kingdom · 32.7 km from Carlisle54.603° N 3.098° W
Image by ebor from Pixabay The circle is usually dated to around 3200 BC, which would make it one of the earliest stone circles in Britain. 3 metres high. 3-metre gap on the north side that may have been the entrance. Inside, against the eastern side, a rectangle of ten more stones is almost unique among British circles, and nobody knows what it was for. The only known rock art is a single lozenge carved on one stone on the western edge.
Did you know? In 1799 Samuel Taylor Coleridge visited with William Wordsworth and likened the surrounding mountains to an attentive gathering of white-robed wizards.
27 Buzludzha Monument
Бузлуджа
Bulgaria · 39.5 km from Stara Zagora42.736° N 25.394° E
Michał Derela · CC BY-SA 4.0 The place was chosen for its story. In 1891 a group of socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev met here in secret and founded the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, the party from which the Communist Party later grew. The architect was Georgi Stoilov, a former mayor of Sofia, and his design is pure state futurism of the era: a disc-shaped hall of concrete, steel and glass, and beside it the pylon, which carried two stars of red ruby glass, each 12 metres across. The whole project cost some 14 million leva, a vast sum for the time, much of it raised, at the architect's suggestion, through donations from the public.
Did you know? That battle inspired Hristo Botev's poem "Hadzhi Dimitar", one of the best-known works of Bulgarian literature.
28 Chronicle of Georgia
Georgia · 5.2 km from Tbilisi41.771° N 44.810° E
Eric Luth (WMSE) · CC BY 4.0 The monument is the work of Zurab Tsereteli, the Tbilisi-born sculptor known for monumental sculpture on a vast scale. He designed it in 1981 to mark two anniversaries, three thousand years of Georgian statehood and two thousand years of Christianity, and construction began in 1985 with Soviet state funding. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s the money ran out, and the Chronicle was never fully completed, although work has resumed intermittently since.
Did you know? Each bronze relief on the pillars is set within a cross-shaped frame, so the story of the nation is told in a pattern of crosses.
29 Steilneset Memorial
Norway70.370° N 31.092° E
Stylegar · CC BY-SA 4.0 The memorial confronts one of the darkest chapters of Norwegian history. Finnmark saw more accusations of witchcraft than any other part of Norway, and a far higher share of executions; in a series of mass trials, most of them held at Vardø, beginning in 1621 and peaking in 1662–1663, 77 women and girls and 14 men were put to death, most of them burned at the stake. Confessions were extracted under torture. The memorial stands on the shore at Steilneset, where the condemned are believed to have been burned.
Did you know? The texts beside the 91 windows were written by historian Liv Helene Willumsen of the University of Tromsø, working directly from the surviving court records.
30 Royal Alcázar of Seville
Spain · 2.5 km from Seville37.384° N 5.991° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Image by Danor from Pixabay The site began as a fortress around 913–914, under the Umayyad rulers of al-Andalus. Later Islamic dynasties enlarged it, and the Almohads, who made Seville their capital in the twelfth century, built a whole cluster of palaces here. After the Castilian conquest of 1248, Christian kings kept building rather than tearing down: Alfonso X raised a Gothic palace in the 1250s, and in the 1360s Pedro I of Castile commissioned the palace that is now the heart of the complex. It borrows the language of Islamic palaces, with inscriptions, geometric tilework and carved stucco, to express the power of a Christian king.
Did you know? Pedro's ally Muhammad V, the Nasrid ruler of Granada, probably sent craftsmen to help decorate the palace, which closely resembles parts of the Alhambra.
How this list is ranked
Places are chosen for how they look, not for how famous they are: each one has its own description and a photograph credited to its author. The order is a single world ranking that weighs the beauty of the place in curated photography together with how widely it is documented — the number of language editions of its encyclopedia article and how often that article is read in a year. The list is rebuilt as places are added, so the order and the counts on this page are always current.
Questions people ask
- What are the most remarkable monuments in Europe?
- On our list, Castel Sant'Angelo (Italy) ranks first, followed by Trajan's Column (Italy) and Fernsehturm Berlin (Germany).
- Which country has the most monuments in Europe?
- In our collection, the most come from Spain (7), Germany (5) and Italy (5).
- What was Castel Sant'Angelo originally built for?
- It was built as the mausoleum of the emperor Hadrian in the second century AD. Over the following centuries it was turned into a fortress and refuge for the popes, connected to the Vatican by a fortified passage.
- Is the Tower of Hercules still a working lighthouse?
- Yes. The Tower of Hercules in A Coruña is a Roman lighthouse that was restored in the eighteenth century and is still in use, which makes it the oldest working Roman lighthouse. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- What does the Atomium in Brussels represent?
- The Atomium represents a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified about 165 billion times. It was built for the Brussels World's Fair of 1958, Expo 58.
- How many monuments are on this list in Europe?
- The list covers 34 monuments in 17 countries. Spain has the most, with 7.