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Monastery of Saint - Gall (Switzerland)
The monastic period of the monastery took place in the ninth century under abbot Gozbert; then it was rebuilt in a new design that praised the Carolingien dynasty archit…
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Old city of Timgad (Algeria)
Timgad is the present name of the Roman city of Thaugadi founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan in 100 AD for the purpose of military defense in the north of the Aures Moun…
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Aksum City (Éthiopie)
Located in the region of Tigre in the northern part of Éthiopie, the city of Aksum was taken as the name of the famous Kingdom described in a second century Greek text.
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Garamba National Park (Daia)
Thanks to a joint project of WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Frankfurt Zoo (Federal Republic of Germany), Daia and Unesco Nature Protection within the framework of the Conven…
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Ancient capital Chan Chan (Pérou)
The unique relics of the ancient capital of Chimu said the greatness of a civilization that has now perished. Around 1200, Chimu replaced Mochica culture in the Moche va…
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Petra old city (Jordanie)
From the 1st century BC to the 1st century BC, Petra was a prosperous time and was the first time to build the first buildings. Being annexed to the Roman Empire in 106…
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Little Potosi (Bolivie)
The fate of Potosi, a small hamlet of 4000m in the Andes has changed dramatically starting in the 1540s with the intense exploitation of silver mines here, the largest s…
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Divrigi cathedral and hospital (Turkey)
This architectural complex of Medieval Turkey was founded by Chief Ahmet Mengucekid of Turkey in 1228-1229 in Eastern Anatalia, in the mountains of Divrigi.
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Sculpture in the Chien Dan tower
In 1989, at the Chaos tower group, during an excavation to reveal the tower base to prepare for the restoration, archaeologists found a system of decorative motifs with…
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Sculpture of communal house in Vietnam
The communal house, especially the communal house in the North, is a very rich treasure of Vietnamese sculpture in history. Sculpture also exists in pagodas, temples and…
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Mausoleum of the Emperor of the Chinese Ethnic Minorities
Tomb of the Emperor is the world of cypress trees. The old people here said, from Dong Xuyen to the North, hundreds of miles are all empty hills, but in Kieu Son alone,…
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Québec Historic Area (Canada)
The capital of Nouvelle - France was founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain on a plateau overlooking the river Saint - Laurent, a hill later known as the Cap-aux-Diamant…
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The meaning of giant statues
The giant human form - a statue many times larger than its true size continues to use convincing imagination for those who intend to remember a major national event or a…
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Temple in Arles
Arles is a very ancient city formed from a foreign trade office founded by the Greeks. By the time Emperor Caius Julius Caesar (Rome in 46 BC) it became an important cen…
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Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey is one of the most magnificent roof structures in the world. The outlines suggest the shocking and visible success of this round bowl, w…