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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... later at the Academy , focusing his interests upon architecture . He moved in 1878 to Paris and worked in the atelier of the architect and decorator Jean Dubuysson , then resumed his studies in Brussels at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ...
... later at the Academy , focusing his interests upon architecture . He moved in 1878 to Paris and worked in the atelier of the architect and decorator Jean Dubuysson , then resumed his studies in Brussels at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ...
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... later lost ) , and possibly executed with the specific intention of handing down and spreading the inventions of the great Italian masters at work in the palace . Later the definition was extended to indicate a tendency found in the ...
... later lost ) , and possibly executed with the specific intention of handing down and spreading the inventions of the great Italian masters at work in the palace . Later the definition was extended to indicate a tendency found in the ...
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... later , however , the court decided to move a little further away from the Great Wall , and it fell easy prey to the irre- sistible invasion of the Manchu . The definitive transfer to the new northern court finally took place in 1420 ...
... later , however , the court decided to move a little further away from the Great Wall , and it fell easy prey to the irre- sistible invasion of the Manchu . The definitive transfer to the new northern court finally took place in 1420 ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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