Architecture

Water was brought to the rich houses, street fountains and baths by aqueducts.

Stonehenge 3 VI was the last phase of the construction, carried out around 1600 BC. During that stage, the last two circles of holes in the ground were hollowed out - the Y and the Z Ring.

Tower Bridge used to be a popular place for people to commit suicide.

You can reach the monument by taking a cable car, from the station of which you have to climb 222 steps to the observation point at the foot of the monument.

When, after the Battle of Grunwald, King Władysław Jagiełło and his Polish-Lithuanian troops besieged Malbork Castle, there was a traitor inside the castle who hung a red flag in the refectory window.

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

The cost of the construction is estimated at $35 million in the 1930s, which today is over $1,5 billion.

In 1995, the Armed Islamic Group planted and detonated an explosive charge under the arch, injuring 17 people.

The chambers inside the pyramid of Cheops are covered with blocks of granite that weigh up to 80 tons.

The opera house was built between 1861 and 1875.