Architecture

Despite many destructions, the Brandenburg Gate was the only preserved city gate after World War II.

The La Scala theater building was built on the site of the deconsecrated, demolished former church of Santa Maria della Scala, from which the theater took its name.

After the Teatro Regio Ducale caught fire, Giuseppe Piermarini was commissioned to design two new theaters in the area surrounding the Royal Palace.

At the southern end of Spanish Square is the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide, seat of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

It has been completed in ten years.

Members of the Yeomen Warders are popularly called Beefeaters, i.e. beef eaters.

Part of the temple's masonry has been used to assemble other buildings.

After the Battle of Grunwald and as a result of previous military operations in the years 1409-1411, the Teutonic treasury, until then the most powerful and richest in Europe, began to run empty.

On January 30, 1933, the Sturmabteilung NSDAP units celebrated the party's victory with an evening torchlight march, including to the Brandenburg Gate.

With its neo-baroque style and richly decorated interiors, characterized by classicism and historicism, the Opéra Garnier is unique among Parisian buildings of the time.