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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... linked to Ottonian art , related to palaeo - Christian iconography and encouraged by the Saxon House of the Ottonians , who at- tempted to re - establish the unity of the Roman Empire under the Christian religion . The treasure consists ...
... linked to Ottonian art , related to palaeo - Christian iconography and encouraged by the Saxon House of the Ottonians , who at- tempted to re - establish the unity of the Roman Empire under the Christian religion . The treasure consists ...
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... linked to a miracu- lous event : a local peasant woman found in the Abbey of Steingaden a statue of the Ecce Homo , executed for the procession of Good Friday in 1730 , but soon set aside because of its crude realism , considered ...
... linked to a miracu- lous event : a local peasant woman found in the Abbey of Steingaden a statue of the Ecce Homo , executed for the procession of Good Friday in 1730 , but soon set aside because of its crude realism , considered ...
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... linked by an elevated road to a temple in the valley ; to the south , a secondary pyramid rep- resented the cenotaph of the Kingdom of Up- per Egypt . The best preserved valley temple from the necropolis of Dashur is the one linked to ...
... linked by an elevated road to a temple in the valley ; to the south , a secondary pyramid rep- resented the cenotaph of the Kingdom of Up- per Egypt . The best preserved valley temple from the necropolis of Dashur is the one linked to ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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