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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... park for more than 1 kilometre , and which was dotted with a small fleet of pleasure boats available for the guests ... National du Château . François Girardon , Thomas Regnaudin , Apollo Served by the Nymphs , 1666-72 . Versailles , Fountain ...
... park for more than 1 kilometre , and which was dotted with a small fleet of pleasure boats available for the guests ... National du Château . François Girardon , Thomas Regnaudin , Apollo Served by the Nymphs , 1666-72 . Versailles , Fountain ...
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... National Park Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is an out- standing , well - preserved example of seventeenth- and eigteenth - century military architecture in a Caribbean context . Designed by the British and built by African slave ...
... National Park Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is an out- standing , well - preserved example of seventeenth- and eigteenth - century military architecture in a Caribbean context . Designed by the British and built by African slave ...
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... Park , make this an out- standing site . UNESCO added the site to the World ... national roots , it is a perfect ex- ample of an eighteenth - century ... State , the Studenica Monastery is the largest and richest of the Orthodox monaster ...
... Park , make this an out- standing site . UNESCO added the site to the World ... national roots , it is a perfect ex- ample of an eighteenth - century ... State , the Studenica Monastery is the largest and richest of the Orthodox monaster ...
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Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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