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Welsh slate region to be nominated as Unesco world heritage site

Heritage minister says Gwynedd quarries shaped buildings across the world

Plymouth’s historic Drake’s Island fortress on sale for £6m

Island where Sir Francis Drake set sail to circumnavigate the globe could house luxury hotel

Developers fight on to make famed Edinburgh neoclassical building into luxury hotel

Urbanist Hotels’ latest appeal against its rejected plans for Old Royal High School reopens battle with group wanting site for St Mary’s Music School

Fez’s medina gets new riads, restaurants and restored monuments

Morocco’s medieval cultural capital is coming out of Marrakech’s shadow, with thousands of old buildings, including probably the world’s oldest library, being reopened – and new direct flights making it easier to get there

Cabbies’ shelter and ‘hobbit house’ Grade II-listed for 70th anniversary

Grosvenor Gardens shelter and Underhill in Yorkshire added to system that has preserved important buildings since the end of the second world war