Architecture

There are 890 palaces in the Forbidden City. These palaces, along with numerous pavilions, contain 8886 rooms.

On the arch walls are engraved the names of 128 towns where battles of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars took place.

Historian Michael Lynch said, "Balmoral's Scottishness helped give the monarchy a truly British dimension for the first time."

The Empire State Building was a scenery for the famous 1933 King Kong movie.

For the first time in history, the clock stopped before 1878 - it was caused by very heavy snowfall.

In the southern part of Spanish Square, opposite the Spanish Embassy, rises the column of the Immaculate Conception from the 19th century, which combines antiquity (Corinthian column) with modern times (statue of the Virgin Mary on the top).

The China Wall is visited by 50 million tourists a year.

The statue was chosen in 2007 as one of the new seven wonders of the world.

Building materials were transported from various countries.

It was built on the island of Pharos, which was located at the entrance to the port of Alexandria, Egypt.