Architecture

Saturday, 8 August 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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Malbork Castle
In 1457, King Casimir Jagiellon ceremonially entered the castle in Malbork, which remained in the Kingdom of Poland for over 300 years.
Malbork was a royal castle, the king's temporary residence, and the banner of the Kingdom of Poland ...
Petra
In the Middle Ages, Petra was occupied by the Crusaders, who built two citadels there.
Great Pyramid of Giza
In 820 the first time the Arabs dug inside the pyramid.
By the orders of the caliph Al-Ma'mun they excavated a new entrance to the object, digging under the ...
Taj Mahal
It is a central part of a 17-ha complex.
The complex includes a mosque, a guest house, and a grand garden, surrounded by crenellated walls on three sides.
Statue of Liberty
The crown of the Statue is decorated with seven rays.
Unfortunately, the symbolism does not derive from the time of the Statue's creation, as the author d ...
Leaning Tower of Pisa
The story goes that Galileo used took advantage of the tilt of the tower in 1600 to conduct a scientific experiment regarding the free fall of bodies.
Galileo dropped spheres of different masses from the Leaning Tower and measured their fall time. At ...
Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain was restored in 1988, 1998, and 2014 - 2015, with work done to clean the stone of sediment caused by smog.
Petra
It is a residue of the ancient Nabataean kingdom's capital that flourished between the 3rd century BC and 1st century AD.
The Nabataeans were an ancient Arab people of herding origin. They came from northwestern Arabia, an ...
Lighthouse of Alexandria
At the time of its commissioning, the Faros lighthouse was the tallest structure that was not a pyramid.
Göbekli Tepe
We do not know what the social organization and hierarchy were in those times, but it seems that such a large enterprise had to be supervised by someone.
No traces of living quarters for the elite have been found, no graves with luxury goods, and no traces indicating differences in food quality.