Architecture

Under Justinian I the Great, the Byzantine Empire reached its greatest power.

The growing family of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert required additional staff and accommodation.

Every year, the Christ the Redeemer Monument is visited by almost 2 million tourists.

In 1923, the palaces of King Ludwig II, including Neuschwanstein, were transferred to state ownership.

In the Statue's outstretched right hand is placed a torch, the flame of which is made of 24 karat gold.

According to the reports of Herodotus, the Great Pyramid, like other pyramids, was repeatedly plundered before the New Kingdom period existing from the sixteenth to the eleventh century BC.

Every Good Friday since 1750, the Pope leads a torchlit “Way of the Cross” procession from around the Colosseum.

It could host up to 50,000 people, although, according to the Chronograph of 354—the first illustrated codex, created by Roman scribe and stone engraver Furius Dionysius Filocalus in 354 AD—it could actually host up to 87,000 viewers.

Facing the main square of the Notre-Dame is the zero kilometer - the point from which distances are measured on maps and signposts.

Bedouins also explain why Perta was a secret for so long.