Architecture

The previous gate on which the Brandenburg Gate was built was built in 1734.

The first king to use Windsor Castle as a residence was Henry I, who celebrated Whitsunday at the castle in 1110.

On the site of the present fountain, there was an older one, dating back to 1435.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey became a secular republic. Its first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered in 1934 that the temple serving more than 916 years to Christians and 481 years to Muslims, be turned into a museum.

An arsonist Herostratus destroyed it in 356 BC.

The Hospitallers (Sovereign Military Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta) expanded the castle and its fortifications.

Around 8200 BC, work at Gobekli Tepe stopped, and the site fell into decay.

The cost of the construction is estimated at $35 million in the 1930s, which today is over $1,5 billion.

There are two open to the public observation decks in the building.

In the first half of the 13th century, the severe troubles in which the city was involved prevented the building's completion.