World Heritage: Monumental SitesThis second volume, dedicated specifically to monumental sites, focuses on forty-seven emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, providing each with a clear, well-documented explanatory text, enriched with in-depth boxes and a beautiful selection of pictures with detailed captions. This volume is a fabulous guide through wonderful sites such as the Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn, the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, Mount Athos, The Kremlin of Moscow, the Great Wall of China, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the Forbidden City in Beijing, The Taj Mahal, the Royal Palaces of Abomey, the Pueblo of Taos and the Statue of Liberty in New York among many others. |
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... Chinese men of letters of the eighth century , evoked in some of his verses . Beyond another bastion , the Great Wall of China , a meeting was taking place , instead of a separation : a meeting between a Chinese princess sent as hostage ...
... Chinese men of letters of the eighth century , evoked in some of his verses . Beyond another bastion , the Great Wall of China , a meeting was taking place , instead of a separation : a meeting between a Chinese princess sent as hostage ...
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... China had relations could be noth- ing other than a vassal state , to the point that ' empire ' , in Chinese , takes the name of tianx- ia , ' [ as much as lies ] under Heaven ' . — When in 1368 Zhu Yuanzhang had defeat- ed and indeed ...
... China had relations could be noth- ing other than a vassal state , to the point that ' empire ' , in Chinese , takes the name of tianx- ia , ' [ as much as lies ] under Heaven ' . — When in 1368 Zhu Yuanzhang had defeat- ed and indeed ...
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... Chinese dagoba , derives from the fusion of the Indian sikhara with the Chinese lou , a synthesis that took place from the third century A.D. The sikhara is an Indian reliquary tower ; it derives from the hypertrophic development of a ...
... Chinese dagoba , derives from the fusion of the Indian sikhara with the Chinese lou , a synthesis that took place from the third century A.D. The sikhara is an Indian reliquary tower ; it derives from the hypertrophic development of a ...
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The Palace and Gardens Roberta DAdda | 4 |
Roberta DAdda | 27 |
Cecilia Gibellini | 130 |
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