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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... tion of the Museum of the Renaissance found financing . The building , set at the tip of the Island of Museums , was constructed to plans by the architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne , Court Counsellor for Construction ; work be- in 1897 ...
... tion of the Museum of the Renaissance found financing . The building , set at the tip of the Island of Museums , was constructed to plans by the architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne , Court Counsellor for Construction ; work be- in 1897 ...
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... tion of the transportation and erection of the stone blocks of enormous size and weight by a prehistoric society that was certainly not technologically ad- vanced . In the second place , debates still rage over the function that the ...
... tion of the transportation and erection of the stone blocks of enormous size and weight by a prehistoric society that was certainly not technologically ad- vanced . In the second place , debates still rage over the function that the ...
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... tion at the centre of the country but in com- munication via the Kamo River with the coast and the great port city of Osaka , Kyoto was founded by the Emperor Kammu , who moved there in A.D. 794 ; he named it Heian - Kyo , ' city of ...
... tion at the centre of the country but in com- munication via the Kamo River with the coast and the great port city of Osaka , Kyoto was founded by the Emperor Kammu , who moved there in A.D. 794 ; he named it Heian - Kyo , ' city of ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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