Architecture

Construction of the lighthouse may have taken 14 to 20 years.

The original artifacts found in Pompeii are in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

The Tower has become known as a place haunted by ghosts.

Traditionally, the Forbidden City is divided into two parts.

Around the eastern and southern ends of the Upper Court, Edward ordered the construction of luxurious, self-contained apartments for his court, creating a modern quadrilateral shape.

The decorative rims of the clock faces are gilded.

In the southern part of Spanish Square, opposite the Spanish Embassy, rises the column of the Immaculate Conception from the 19th century, which combines antiquity (Corinthian column) with modern times (statue of the Virgin Mary on the top).

In 2020, in August, the figure of Christ was illuminated for an hour with the inscription "Solidarity 1980-2020", written in an original font, the so-called solidarica.

In 1995, the Armed Islamic Group planted and detonated an explosive charge under the arch, injuring 17 people.

There were over 2400 water effects in the Park of Versailles, of which about 600 have survived to this day.