Architecture

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey became a secular republic. Its first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered in 1934 that the temple serving more than 916 years to Christians and 481 years to Muslims, be turned into a museum.

The crown of the Statue is decorated with seven rays.

In 2015-2016, the Spanish Steps underwent a restoration.

Every year, the Christ the Redeemer Monument is visited by almost 2 million tourists.

In former times two roads led down from the church along the hillside, steep and muddy, inaccessible to carriages.

The island is located in the English Channel, in southwestern Normandy.

After the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt fought on October 14, 1806, the victorious Napoleon Bonaparte took the quadriga figure to Paris, where it was to be placed permanently.

Hagia Sophia combines the features of a basilica - an elongated building founded on a rectangular or Latin cross plan - and a central building - based on a circular plan.

There is a controversy regarding the “father” of the engineering marvel.

In the wind, the tower can bend 6 -7 centimeters sideways.