Architecture

Saturday, 27 December 2025
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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Neuschwanstein Castle
In 1923, the palaces of King Ludwig II, including Neuschwanstein, were transferred to state ownership.
They are currently managed by the Bavarian Palace Administration, a branch of the Bavarian Ministry of Finance.
Pompeii
A Theater, Amphitheater and Palestrina were built on the outskirts of the city.
Pompeian houses were decorated with magnificent mosaics. One can see inscriptions on the facades of the buildings, which may have been something like advertisements.
Taj Mahal
The chief architect of the mausoleum was Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.
He also laid the foundations of the Red Fort–a historic fort in Old Delhi, India, the main residence of the Mughal Emperors.
Christ The Redeemer
The sculpture, like the Statue of Liberty, was made in France and transported in parts by ship to Rio de Janeiro.
La Sagrada Familia
Although construction has been going on since 1882, it was not until late 2001 that stained glass windows appeared in the basilica.
A Spaniard, Joan Vila-Grau, made them.
Temple of Artemis
Temple was finally closed by Christians sometime in the 5th century AD.
Archbishop of Constantinopole John Chrysostom might be a person that destroyed the Temple of Artemis ...
La Scala
La Scala suffered during World War II.
During the bombing of Milan in 1943, on the night of 15th-16th August, bombs hit the theater buildin ...
Brandenburg Gate
After the fall of Napoleon, thanks to the efforts of Ernst von Pfuel, who was the commander of the Prussian sector in captured Paris, the quadriga figure was packed and sent back to Berlin.
During the renovation of the statue, a new symbol of power was added to it, namely the Iron Cross.
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia was built between 532 and 537 as the largest Christian church of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
It temporarily became a Roman Catholic cathedral during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261.
Hagia Sophia
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.
In 2020, an administrative court in Turkey annulled the 1934 decree converting Hagia Sophia into a m ...