Architecture

In keeping with Baroque architecture, the idea was to create long, deep perspectives that culminated in a monumental backdrop.

List includes 465 tons of Salzburg marble, 1550 tons of sandstone, 400,000 bricks and 2050 cubic meters of wood for scaffolding.

It was used as a dining room until October 1, 1851, and as a ballroom until 1856.

The plan he prepared, intended as the permanent seat of the US government, specified, among other th ...

From the entrance leads a descending corridor 105 m long. It leads to an unfinished chamber located under the pyramid at a depth of 27.5 m.

It was a watchtower occupied by the Kurdish military colony, Hosn Al Akrad, i.e. the Kurdish stronghold. It was probably an insignificant fort at that time, guarding an important route.

In 1992, a summit meeting was held there, at which the treaty on the division of Czechoslovakia into ...

Often it was a layman who benefited from the income of the monastery. The monastery depopulated, als ...

Shah Jahan’s wife, Mumtaz Mahal, called the Chosen One of The Palace, died in 1631 while in labor wi ...