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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... tradition : the two buildings are in fact the historical settings for , respectively , royal coronations and assem- blies of Parliament , which still take place there . Both buildings boast long - ago medieval origins , which are ...
... tradition : the two buildings are in fact the historical settings for , respectively , royal coronations and assem- blies of Parliament , which still take place there . Both buildings boast long - ago medieval origins , which are ...
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... tradition of the fan vault , in which an intricate array of ribbings run out from a single base point . View of the ... traditional typology , the Gothic ideal of the ' glass cage ' was attained , similar to the model of the upper chapel ...
... tradition of the fan vault , in which an intricate array of ribbings run out from a single base point . View of the ... traditional typology , the Gothic ideal of the ' glass cage ' was attained , similar to the model of the upper chapel ...
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... tradition of Persian Islam and the tradition of Indian decoration . Long before the time of Shah Jahan , in fact , Indian stonemasons were famous throughout the East for their remarkable skills ; when , in the fourteenth century ...
... tradition of Persian Islam and the tradition of Indian decoration . Long before the time of Shah Jahan , in fact , Indian stonemasons were famous throughout the East for their remarkable skills ; when , in the fourteenth century ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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