Architecture

The villa was commissioned by Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta.

After Gaudi's death, several architects took over the completion of the building.

Gaudi's architecture is based on the geometry of complex curves, including the elliptical paraboloid.

La Scala suffered during World War II.

Annually, it is visited by approximately 1,3 million tourists.

The temple was built on the initiative of Emperor Justinian I the Great. The first church on the site of the current Hagia Sophia was a church known as Magna Ecclesia - the Great Church (due to its size compared to the size of modern churches in the city).

According to legend, in 709 CE the Archangel Michael appeared to the Bishop of Avranches, St. Aubert, asking him to build a shrine on a rock.

Windsor was not used as a royal residence from the beginning.

Austria’s longest-reigning Emperor, Franz Joseph, was born and spent much of his life in Schönbrunn.

The Teutonic Knights brought delicacies to Malbork that were very rare on other European tables, especially in northern Europe.