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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... Paris's Notre - Dame , when the upper sections were entirely rebuilt around 1225 . Much less care , compared with the atten- tion and focus that was devoted to the stained glass windows , was lavished on the stone and masonry work on ...
... Paris's Notre - Dame , when the upper sections were entirely rebuilt around 1225 . Much less care , compared with the atten- tion and focus that was devoted to the stained glass windows , was lavished on the stone and masonry work on ...
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... Paris : the elevation is en- tirely resolved in the large windows , divided into two twin - light windows contained with- in pointed arches , with quadrifoil tracery and surmounted by a six - lobe rose window . Over the course of the ...
... Paris : the elevation is en- tirely resolved in the large windows , divided into two twin - light windows contained with- in pointed arches , with quadrifoil tracery and surmounted by a six - lobe rose window . Over the course of the ...
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... Paris in 1876 , on the occasion of the first centennial of the American Declaration of Independence , by the sculptor Frédéric- Auguste Bartholdi . But the original idea for that monument had been conceived by Édouard de Laboulaye , who ...
... Paris in 1876 , on the occasion of the first centennial of the American Declaration of Independence , by the sculptor Frédéric- Auguste Bartholdi . But the original idea for that monument had been conceived by Édouard de Laboulaye , who ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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