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 32
... facing the City Hall and thus closed off the square formed by the buildings of the Castle , the Arsenal , the Cathedral , and the Museum . The façade derived from the front of Greek temples is set on a high socle , access to which is ...
... facing the City Hall and thus closed off the square formed by the buildings of the Castle , the Arsenal , the Cathedral , and the Museum . The façade derived from the front of Greek temples is set on a high socle , access to which is ...
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... facing the river and private residences . Among the various monumental complexes , certainly the oldest is the cathedral , built at the beginning of the twelfth century , when the need was felt to move the cathedral from the church of ...
... facing the river and private residences . Among the various monumental complexes , certainly the oldest is the cathedral , built at the beginning of the twelfth century , when the need was felt to move the cathedral from the church of ...
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... facing , as we find in the ' House of the Faun ' . The second style , which established itself in the Age of Augustus , is called the ' architectural framing ' style : the walls are divided by painted architectural elements , between ...
... facing , as we find in the ' House of the Faun ' . The second style , which established itself in the Age of Augustus , is called the ' architectural framing ' style : the walls are divided by painted architectural elements , between ...
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