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A list of twelve iconic heritage sites, one in each of England’s Historic Cities. An app allows visitors to explore each attraction and unlock its stories at various points on site.

Free and imperial cities were special urban areas in the Holy Roman Empire with a certain degree of independence and autonomy that were directly subordinate to the emperor.

The Décapole, originally Richestette gemeinlich im Elsass, was an alliance of nine to eleven free imperial cities in the Alsace in the Holy Roman Empire that was founded in 1354.

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in North­western and Central Europe that dominated Baltic maritime trade for three centuries.