The World's Oldest Everything
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Eat & Drink
Sobrino de Botín
The oldest restaurant in the world, serving since 1725 according to Guinness. Its wood fired oven has reportedly never gone cold, and a young Goya is said to have washed dishes here. Order the cochinillo asado, the roast suckling pig they have made for three centuries. #restaurant #over250years
St. Peter Stiftskulinarium
Claimed to be the oldest restaurant in Europe, first mentioned in 803 by Alcuin, a scholar at Charlemagne's court. It sits inside the rock walls of St Peter's Abbey in Salzburg and has been feeding guests, allegedly including Mozart, for some 1200 years. #restaurant #over1000years
Honke Owariya
Kyoto's oldest restaurant, founded in 1465 as a confectionery before becoming the city's soba institution. It served noodles to the imperial palace and to generations of Zen monks, and the 16th generation of the family still runs it. #restaurant #over500years
Sean's Bar
The oldest pub in Ireland and claimed oldest bar in the world, dating to around 900. Renovations uncovered walls of wattle and daub from the original inn that served travelers crossing the River Shannon. Records exist for every owner across eleven centuries. #bar #over1000years
Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
The oldest still operating brewery in the world, brewing since 1040 when the Benedictine monks of Weihenstephan Abbey obtained a license. Nearly a thousand years later it still brews on the same hill above Freising, now alongside a famous brewing university. #brewery #over500years
Caffè Florian
The oldest café in continuous operation in the world, pouring coffee on Piazza San Marco since 1720. Casanova courted here, Goethe and Byron were regulars, and the gilded salons look much as they did three centuries ago. #cafe #over250years
Le Procope
The oldest café in Paris, founded in 1686 by the Sicilian Procopio dei Coltelli. Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot argued philosophy at its tables and much of the Encyclopédie was plotted here. Today it runs as a restaurant steeped in Revolution era relics. #cafe #over250years
Old Vine, Maribor
The oldest producing grapevine in the world, over 400 years old and recognized by Guinness. It survived Ottoman sieges, fires and both world wars, and still yields grapes each year that are bottled into tiny highly prized bottles of Žametovka wine. #vine #over250years
Sleep
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan
The oldest hotel in the world, welcoming guests since 705 and certified by Guinness. This hot spring inn deep in the Yamanashi mountains has been run by more than 52 generations of the same family, and its free flowing onsen water still comes straight from the source. #hotel #over1000years
Hoshi Ryokan
Among the oldest hotels on Earth, founded in 718 when a monk was told in a dream to dig for healing waters at Awazu Onsen. The Hoshi family has run it for 46 generations, and it held the Guinness record for oldest hotel until Keiunkan's papers surfaced. #hotel #over1000years
Gasthaus Zum Roten Bären
The oldest inn in Germany, with foundations from 1120, the very year Freiburg was founded. It has hosted travelers ever since and can name every innkeeper in an unbroken line back to 1387. The wine cellar sits in the medieval city wall. #hotel #over500years
Institutions
University of al-Qarawiyyin
The oldest existing university in the world, founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri, a merchant's daughter who spent her inheritance on it. Its library, restored in 2016, is also considered the oldest working library on Earth. Still teaching students in the heart of Fes. #university #over1000years
University of Bologna
The oldest university in the Western world, teaching since 1088. The very word universitas was coined here, and alumni include Dante, Petrarch and Copernicus. The Archiginnasio's anatomical theatre is the showpiece. #university #over500years
University of Oxford
The oldest university in the English speaking world, with teaching recorded as early as 1096. It grew fast after 1167 when English students were barred from Paris, and it has been shaping prime ministers, poets and scientists ever since. #university #over500years
Þingvellir (Althing)
The site of the world's oldest parliament, the Althing, where Icelandic chieftains first assembled in 930 in a rift valley between two tectonic plates. The assembly met here for over 800 years and Iceland's parliament still carries its name. #parliament #over1000years
Palazzo Salimbeni (Monte dei Paschi)
Headquarters of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest bank in the world still operating, founded in 1472 as a civic pawn institution to help the poor of Siena. It has survived plagues, wars and modern financial storms alike. #bank #over500years
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
The oldest zoo in the world, created in 1752 as the imperial menagerie of Emperor Franz I at Schönbrunn Palace. The baroque central pavilion where the emperor took breakfast among the animals is still there, now surrounded by a modern conservation zoo. #zoo #over250years
Bakken
The oldest amusement park in the world, going since 1583 when crowds gathered around a newly discovered spring in the Dyrehaven deer park. Entertainers followed the crowds and never left. Its wooden coaster from 1932 is still running too. #amusementpark #over250years
The Old Course, St Andrews
The oldest golf course in the world, where the game has been played since the early 1400s. A 1552 charter confirmed the townsfolk's right to play on the links, and golf's 18 hole standard was set here. Anyone can walk the course on Sundays. #golf #over500years
Raeapteek
The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe, selling remedies on Tallinn's Town Hall Square since at least 1422. It once dispensed burnt hedgehog powder and marzipan as medicine, and it still fills prescriptions today beside a small museum room. #pharmacy #over500years
Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella
Among the oldest pharmacies in the world, founded in 1221 when Dominican friars began growing medicinal herbs beside their Florence basilica. It opened to the public in 1612 and still sells perfumes and elixirs made from centuries old recipes in frescoed halls. #pharmacy #over500years
Livraria Bertrand
The oldest bookstore in the world still in operation, certified by Guinness, selling books in Lisbon's Chiado since 1732. It survived the great 1755 earthquake by moving, then returned to this street where writers like Eça de Queirós held court. #bookstore #over250years
Eden Théâtre
The oldest cinema in the world still operating, opened in 1899 in La Ciotat, the town where the Lumière brothers filmed their famous arriving train. Restored in 2013, it still screens films just steps from where cinema itself was born. #cinema #over100years
Teatro Olimpico
The oldest indoor theatre in the world, completed in 1585. It was Palladio's final work, and its stage still holds the original trompe l'oeil streets of Thebes built for the opening night of Oedipus Rex. Performances still run every year. #theatre #over250years
Liverpool Road Station (Science and Industry Museum)
The oldest surviving railway station in the world, terminus of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway from 1830, the first true intercity line. The station building and warehouse now form part of the Science and Industry Museum. #railway #over100years
Baker Street Underground Station
One of the original stations of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway of 1863. Its brick vaulted platforms 5 and 6 still look much as they did when steam trains ran beneath London, making it the oldest metro station in use. #metro #over100years
Buildings & Structures
Hōryū-ji
Home to the oldest wooden buildings in the world. Founded around 607 by Prince Shotoku, its five story pagoda and Golden Hall date from the late 7th century and have stood through 1300 years of earthquakes, typhoons and wars. Japan's first UNESCO site. #temple #over1000years
Pantheon
The best preserved building of ancient Rome and arguably the oldest building in continuous use in the world, completed around 126 under Hadrian. Its unreinforced concrete dome is still the largest of its kind ever built, open to the sky through the oculus. #building #ancient
Arkadiko Bridge
The oldest bridge in the world still in use, a Mycenaean arch bridge built around 1300 BC on the road between Tiryns and Epidauros. Chariots once rolled over it and locals still walk across its 3300 year old stones today. #bridge #ancient
Pons Fabricius
The oldest bridge in Rome still in its original state, built in 62 BC by curator Lucius Fabricius, whose name is still carved into the arches. Pedestrians have crossed it to Tiber Island without interruption for over 2000 years. #bridge #ancient
Zhaozhou Bridge (Anji Bridge)
The oldest open spandrel stone arch bridge in the world, completed in 605 by engineer Li Chun. Its daring flat arch was centuries ahead of Europe, and the bridge has survived floods, earthquakes and 1400 years of traffic across the Xiao River. #bridge #over1000years
Tower of Hercules
The oldest working lighthouse in the world, built by the Romans in the 1st century and still guiding ships into A Coruña. Legend says Hercules buried a giant's head beneath it. The Roman core survives inside its 18th century shell. #lighthouse #ancient
Windsor Castle
The oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, founded by William the Conqueror around 1070. English and British monarchs have lived here for almost a thousand years, and it remains a working royal residence today. #castle #over500years
Westminster Abbey
Keeper of Britain's oldest door, a humble oak door made around 1050 for Edward the Confessor's original abbey and still swinging on its hinges in the corridor to the Chapter House. Tree ring dating proved the planks came from a single Essex oak. #door #over500years
Salisbury Cathedral
Home of the oldest working clock in the world, an iron machine from 1386 that has no face and simply strikes the hours, as it has for over six centuries. The cathedral also holds the best preserved original copy of Magna Carta. #clock #over500years
Göbekli Tepe
The oldest temple in the world, raised by hunter gatherers around 9500 BC, millennia before pottery, writing or the wheel. Its carved T shaped pillars rewrote the story of civilization, suggesting worship came before farming. #temple #ancient
Pyramid of Djoser
The oldest pyramid in the world, built around 2650 BC at Saqqara by Imhotep, the first architect whose name history remembers. Its six stepped tiers were the largest stone building of their time and the prototype for every pyramid that followed. #pyramid #ancient
Knap of Howar
The oldest standing stone house in northern Europe and among the oldest on Earth, a Neolithic farmstead on the tiny Orkney island of Papa Westray occupied around 3600 BC. Its stone cupboards and hearths are older than the pyramids. #house #ancient
Living Things
Jōmon Sugi
The oldest and mightiest cedar on Yakushima, estimated at anywhere between 2000 and 7000 years old. Reaching it takes a ten hour round trip hike through mossy UNESCO forest, which is exactly why it is still standing. #tree #ancient
Old Tjikko
A Norway spruce whose root system has been alive for about 9550 years, making it one of the oldest living clonal trees in the world. The visible trunk is young, but the roots beneath have persisted since the last ice age. Guided walks run in Fulufjället National Park. #tree #ancient
Methuselah Grove (Schulman Grove)
Home of Methuselah, the oldest known non clonal tree on Earth, a bristlecone pine nearly 4900 years old. Its exact location is kept secret to protect it, so you hike the grove among trees older than the pyramids and try to guess which one it is. #tree #ancient
Pando
The heaviest living organism on Earth and among the oldest, a single quaking aspen clone of some 47000 stems sharing one root system across 43 hectares of Fishlake National Forest. What looks like a forest is genetically one tree, thousands of years old. #tree #ancient
Llangernyw Yew
Among the oldest living trees in Europe, a yew estimated at up to 4000 years old growing in a quiet churchyard in north Wales. It was already ancient when the church was built beside it, and village life still flows around its split trunk. #tree #ancient
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
The oldest planted tree in the world with a known planting date, grown from a cutting of the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha reached enlightenment and planted in 288 BC. Pilgrims have tended it in Anuradhapura for over 2300 years without interruption. #tree #ancient
Cities
Ancient Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)
Among the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth, settled around 9000 BC. The mound of Tell es-Sultan hides more than twenty layers of settlement, including a stone tower built thousands of years before the pyramids. #city #ancient
Damascus (Umayyad Mosque)
Among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, settled by the third millennium BC. The Umayyad Mosque marks a spot where worship has never stopped for 3000 years, from a temple of Hadad to Jupiter to a basilica to the great mosque of 715. #city #ancient
Byblos
Among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, settled around 5000 BC. Its papyrus trade with Egypt was so famous that the Greeks named the book, and eventually the Bible, after the town. The Crusader citadel overlooks Phoenician ruins and a fishing harbor still in use. #city #ancient
Plovdiv (Ancient Theatre)
Among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, with settlement layers reaching back some 8000 years. The Roman theatre of Philippopolis, built in the 1st century, still stages concerts on summer nights above the old town. #city #ancient
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