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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... surrounded by a double ring of walls and moats , was almost totally rebuilt during the Renaissance and underwent substantial renovations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , taking on the appearance of a sumptuous late Baroque ...
... surrounded by a double ring of walls and moats , was almost totally rebuilt during the Renaissance and underwent substantial renovations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , taking on the appearance of a sumptuous late Baroque ...
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... surrounded by defensive walls and guarded by a tower , and has a number of satellite communities , the skite , monastic cen- tres without walls , dependent upon a neigh- bouring monastery to which they pay a tribute or by which they are ...
... surrounded by defensive walls and guarded by a tower , and has a number of satellite communities , the skite , monastic cen- tres without walls , dependent upon a neigh- bouring monastery to which they pay a tribute or by which they are ...
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... Surrounded by the French - style garden , in which. www.w Leones ) pride of place belongs to a marble fountain , set at the point of intersection of two small perpendicular channels ; the basin is sup- ported by twelve carved lions , all ...
... Surrounded by the French - style garden , in which. www.w Leones ) pride of place belongs to a marble fountain , set at the point of intersection of two small perpendicular channels ; the basin is sup- ported by twelve carved lions , all ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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