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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Page 98
... adorned with mosaics around 450 at the behest of the Bishop Neon . The interior of the Church of Sant'Apollinare in Classe is subdivided by two lines of twelve columns in Greek marble adorned with Byzantine capitals and concluded by a ...
... adorned with mosaics around 450 at the behest of the Bishop Neon . The interior of the Church of Sant'Apollinare in Classe is subdivided by two lines of twelve columns in Greek marble adorned with Byzantine capitals and concluded by a ...
Page 158
... adorned with the portraits of the monarchs of Spain . 16116 the lecture room of canonical law with a por-. Opposite page View of the Roman bridge over the Rio Tormes and the historic nucleus of the city , dominated by the cathedral ...
... adorned with the portraits of the monarchs of Spain . 16116 the lecture room of canonical law with a por-. Opposite page View of the Roman bridge over the Rio Tormes and the historic nucleus of the city , dominated by the cathedral ...
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... adorned with bas - reliefs , columns , obelisks , and colos- si , which adorned the sacred way that led to the Temple of Mut . On the opposite bank of the river there grew up over the centuries the " Thebes of the Dead ' . For almost ...
... adorned with bas - reliefs , columns , obelisks , and colos- si , which adorned the sacred way that led to the Temple of Mut . On the opposite bank of the river there grew up over the centuries the " Thebes of the Dead ' . For almost ...
Contents
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