World Heritage: Archaeological Sites and Urban CentresFirst volume of three that Skira and UNESCO are launching to illustrate and describe world heritage places. This volume, devoted specifically to archaeological areas and urban centres, focuses on forty-six emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, distant in time and space, but presented together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection. With this instrument for learning and understanding, and through a particularly rich array of images, places of all sorts, distant in time and space, can be found together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection devoted to the complex paths of human history and culture: a true heritage of every nation and every individual. |
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... church of Ravenna with that of Saint Sofia in Con- stantinople . Clearly Byzantine in style is the splendid decorative apparatus , consisting of wall coverings in precious marble and ex- ceedingly elegant fretwork capitals ; covering ...
... church of Ravenna with that of Saint Sofia in Con- stantinople . Clearly Byzantine in style is the splendid decorative apparatus , consisting of wall coverings in precious marble and ex- ceedingly elegant fretwork capitals ; covering ...
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... churches , like the Church of Saint Nicholas ( 1770 ) , in which the traditional motifs of wooden buildings and the local decorative el- ements are blended ; or the Church of the Em- peror Constantine ( 1707 ) , its façade entirely ...
... churches , like the Church of Saint Nicholas ( 1770 ) , in which the traditional motifs of wooden buildings and the local decorative el- ements are blended ; or the Church of the Em- peror Constantine ( 1707 ) , its façade entirely ...
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... church and the castle church where , on 31 October 1517 , Luther posted his famous '95 Theses ' , which launched the Re- formation and a new era in the religious and polit- ical history of the Western world . The Zollverein Coal Mine ...
... church and the castle church where , on 31 October 1517 , Luther posted his famous '95 Theses ' , which launched the Re- formation and a new era in the religious and polit- ical history of the Western world . The Zollverein Coal Mine ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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adorned Aerial view ancient Angkor archaeological arches architect architecture artistic Baalbek Baroque basilica buildings built Bukhara Campo dei Miracoli capital carved cathedral century B.C. Church city's columns complex construction Convention Copán courtyard cultural and natural Cuzco date back decorated dedicated depicting developed dome dynasty Emperor Empire enclosure walls façade Fatimid fifteenth fortified Forum founded frescoes Galla Placidia Gothic Greek Heian period Historic Centre houses Imperial Forums important Inca interior Islamic kilometres King layout Leptis Magna masterpieces medieval metres monasteries monumental Mosque Museum Nabataean natural heritage Old City Omayyad outstanding paintings Palace Palazzo period plaza portico preserved protection Pyramid religious Renaissance River Roman Romanesque Rome ruins sacred Saint San'a sculpture Septimius Severus settlement side sixteenth century sixth century square statues stone structure style Suzdal Temple tenth century tion tombs towers town tradition Trajan tury twelfth century urban Vatican World Heritage World Heritage Site