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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... represents one of the very rare examples of Arabic culture still present on European soil , in which is found an ... represented here by the buildings designed by Victor Horta , which made Brussels one of the capitals of Art Nouveau.
... represents one of the very rare examples of Arabic culture still present on European soil , in which is found an ... represented here by the buildings designed by Victor Horta , which made Brussels one of the capitals of Art Nouveau.
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... represented by an American Indian woman , adorned with feathers and seated on a crocodile ; Asia is rep- resented by an Indian woman on an elephant ; Africa is depicted as a black princess riding a camel ; and Europe , represented by ...
... represented by an American Indian woman , adorned with feathers and seated on a crocodile ; Asia is rep- resented by an Indian woman on an elephant ; Africa is depicted as a black princess riding a camel ; and Europe , represented by ...
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... represented for millennia a distinctive motif of Muslim art ( the religion forbade the depiction of the hu- man figure ) , which employed the elegant forms of its script to define architectural space and , above all , to offer to the ...
... represented for millennia a distinctive motif of Muslim art ( the religion forbade the depiction of the hu- man figure ) , which employed the elegant forms of its script to define architectural space and , above all , to offer to the ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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