Architecture

Sunday, 4 October 2026
29 facts about Palace of Versailles
29 facts about Palace of Versailles
Former residence of the kings of France
The Palace of Versailles is one of the largest palace complexes in Europe. It is part of the historical and cultural heritage of France, as a symbol o ...

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Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia is famous for the light that reflects everywhere inside the nave, giving the dome the appearance of floating above.
This effect was achieved by inserting forty windows around the base of the original structure. Inserting the windows into the dome structure further reduced its weight.
Arc de Triomphe
The finish line of the Tour-de-France is located under the Arc de Triomphe.
Windsor Castle
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.
In 1354, the earliest mechanical clock in England, powered by weight, was installed in the Round Tower.
Malbork Castle
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.
The Prussian Confederation, created from dissatisfied subjects (burghers and lay knights) of the Teu ...
Tower of London
The Tower has become known as a place haunted by ghosts.
Legend says that at night you can meet Anne Boleyn walking there, holding her head in her hands. Num ...
La Scala
When the theater was built, the area around it was densely built up.
Only in front of the theater ran a narrow road with a portico under which carriages passed. In 1857, ...
Empire State Building
The building uses more than 40 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.
Tower's peak electricity use tops out at about 9.5 megawatts.
Pompeii
The gigantic cemetery was considered a cursed place.
It was not until 1711 that a villager digging a well accidentally discovered the buried city.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The outer shell of the building is made of thirty-three thousand titanium plates.
These pates are arranged in a scalloped pattern on a galvanized steel structure. The museum’s titanium shell weighs just 60 tons-titanium weighs half as much as steel.
Eiffel tower
Construction took two years, two months and five days.
250 people worked building the tower and there were no serious injuries and deaths during construction.