Architecture

Wednesday, 29 April 2026
13 facts about Palais Garnier
13 facts about Palais Garnier
Académie Nationale de Musique
The Opéra Garnier, officially known as the Palais Garnier, is an outstanding architectural work and symbolizes the golden age of opera and ballet in t ...

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Spanish Steps
Another street is the Via del Babuino, home to many antique shops, connecting the Piazza del Popolo with the Piazza di Spagna.
On the initiative of Pope Pius V, a new fountain decorated with a statue depicting an ancient deity ...
Temple of Artemis
It was located in ancient city of Ephesus.
Present-day, the ancient city lays on the edge of the town of Selçuk in western Turkey.
Big Ben
There are four smaller bells in the tower, which every quarter of an hour strike a variation of several bars modeled on that of the St. Mary's Church in Cambridge from Handel's "Messiah".
The bells can be heard on BBC Radio 4 at 6 pm and midnight and on the BBC World Service.
Balmoral Castle
The Prussian Prince Frederick III, who was visiting the Balmoral estate, asked for the hand of Princess Victoria, the first daughter of the royal couple.
Victoria was born in 1840 at Buckingham Palace in London. When she was born, the doctor exclaimed sa ...
Leaning Tower of Pisa
In 1950, Louis Nichilo designed a gold lipstick container in the Leaning Tower's shape.
Big Ben
The clock was built by Edmund Beckett Denison and the EJ Dent&Co company in 1854.
The clock face was designed by Augustus Pugin and set in a steel frame with a diameter of 7 meters, ...
Christ The Redeemer
The monument is exposed to various weather factors, such as strong winds, which damage the monument's slabs.
However, the biggest problem is lightning, which damages the monument (in 2014, lightning broke off the end of one of the figures' fingers).
Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known throughout the world, and for Italians, who hold it particularly dear, it is one of the country's symbols.
Windsor Castle
Windsor was expanded by subsequent rulers.
Henry II, who came to the throne in 1154, replaced the wooden palisade surrounding the upper castle with a stone wall interspersed with square towers and built the first Royal Gate.
Villa Tugendhat
The treaty on the division of Czechoslovakia was signed at the Tugendhat villa.
In 1992, a summit meeting was held there, at which the treaty on the division of Czechoslovakia into ...