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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... mission of evangelizing the Earth . The three Romanesque portals of the Church of Vézelay are visible from the narthex which , around 1140 , was added to the building on the western side . On the facing page The narthex , which offers ...
... mission of evangelizing the Earth . The three Romanesque portals of the Church of Vézelay are visible from the narthex which , around 1140 , was added to the building on the western side . On the facing page The narthex , which offers ...
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... mission to Venice in search of Italian archi- tects . That was how the Bolognese architect Aristotele Fieravanti came to supervise the re- construction of the Cathedral of the Assump- tion between 1475 and 1478 , the Milanese ar ...
... mission to Venice in search of Italian archi- tects . That was how the Bolognese architect Aristotele Fieravanti came to supervise the re- construction of the Cathedral of the Assump- tion between 1475 and 1478 , the Milanese ar ...
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... mission from the Getty Conservation Institute launched a campaign for the restoration of the bas - reliefs that decorated the palaces . In the course of this project , which lasted four years , fifty of the fifty - six original bas ...
... mission from the Getty Conservation Institute launched a campaign for the restoration of the bas - reliefs that decorated the palaces . In the course of this project , which lasted four years , fifty of the fifty - six original bas ...
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Westminster Abbey in London | 4 |
Denmark | 28 |
The Kronborg Castle Cecilia Gibellini | 154 |
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