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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... Castle T The Castle of Kronborg stands on the point that closes off to the east the port of Helsingør ( Elsinore ) , overlooking the Øresund , the stretch of sea that separates the coast of Denmark from the southern coast of Sweden at ...
... Castle T The Castle of Kronborg stands on the point that closes off to the east the port of Helsingør ( Elsinore ) , overlooking the Øresund , the stretch of sea that separates the coast of Denmark from the southern coast of Sweden at ...
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... castles built at the be- hest of Frederick II of Swabia , King of Naples from 1208 to 1250 ( and Holy Roman Em- peror from 1220 ) . The castle takes its name from the fact that it stands on an isolated highland in the Murge , and it ...
... castles built at the be- hest of Frederick II of Swabia , King of Naples from 1208 to 1250 ( and Holy Roman Em- peror from 1220 ) . The castle takes its name from the fact that it stands on an isolated highland in the Murge , and it ...
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Monumental Sites Unesco. The Castle of Kroměříž A s early as the ninth century A.D. , there was a castle in the Bohemian city of Kroměříž , whose strategic function was bound up with its proximity to the River Morava and the intersection ...
Monumental Sites Unesco. The Castle of Kroměříž A s early as the ninth century A.D. , there was a castle in the Bohemian city of Kroměříž , whose strategic function was bound up with its proximity to the River Morava and the intersection ...
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The Palace and Gardens Roberta DAdda | 4 |
Roberta DAdda | 27 |
Cecilia Gibellini | 130 |
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| Title | World Heritage: Monumental Sites Treasury of World Culture UNESCO World Heritage Volume 2 of World heritage |
| Author | Unesco |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Skira, 2003 |
| ISBN | 9231039199, 9789231039195 |
| Length | 383 pages |
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