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 254
... founded across from it his own capital , al - Fustat ( from the Arabic word for ' tent ' , or , according to others , from the Latin ' fossatum ' , meaning ' moat ' or ' ditch ' ) , sur- rounded by an enclosure wall . There he built the ...
... founded across from it his own capital , al - Fustat ( from the Arabic word for ' tent ' , or , according to others , from the Latin ' fossatum ' , meaning ' moat ' or ' ditch ' ) , sur- rounded by an enclosure wall . There he built the ...
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... founded in the eleventh and twelfth centuries as trading and religious centres serving the caravans crossing the Sahara , and be- came focal points of Islamic culture . They have ably preserved an urban fabric built up between the ...
... founded in the eleventh and twelfth centuries as trading and religious centres serving the caravans crossing the Sahara , and be- came focal points of Islamic culture . They have ably preserved an urban fabric built up between the ...
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... founded in 1498 , was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World . ECUADOR City of Quito Quito , the capital of Ecuador , was founded in the sixteenth century on the ruins of an Inca ...
... founded in 1498 , was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World . ECUADOR City of Quito Quito , the capital of Ecuador , was founded in the sixteenth century on the ruins of an Inca ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
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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