Architecture

Initially, the Zwinger functioned as an orangery and garden, as well as a representative area.

Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and the longest-used castle in Europe.

A Gallio-Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter is said to have stood on the cathedral's site in pre-Christian times.

Construction took two years, two months and five days.

The Empire State Building has 103 floors.

The Forbidden City is a palace complex in the Dongcheng district of Beijing.

In designing the opera house, Garnier combined architectural elements of the French Renaissance, Palladian architecture, and the French Baroque, giving it coherence and harmony.

The reconstruction of the Palace of Westminster lasted until 1858.

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.

An interesting element of the villa’s construction is a freestanding wall made of precious onyx marble (so-called “false onyx”).