Architecture

Thursday, 4 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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Lighthouse of Alexandria
At the time of its commissioning, the Faros lighthouse was the tallest structure that was not a pyramid.
Malbork Castle
The Teutonic Knights brought delicacies to Malbork that were very rare on other European tables, especially in northern Europe.
These included raisins, dates, lemons, and anise candies (particularly favorites of the monks). At t ...
Taj Mahal
An estimated 1,000 elephants were used to transport materials for the construction.
Eiffel tower
In 1923, Pierre Labric rode down the stairs on his bicycle.
He won the bet but was arrested by the police.
Space Needle
While going up the elevator on the snowstorm, an optical illusion makes the snowflakes fall upwards.
It is because of the difference between the speed of falling snowflakes (approximately 5 km/h) and the speed of the elevator (16 km/h).
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
It is located in Bilbao, Spain.
Bilbao is located in the Basque Country, an autonomous community in northern Spain located on the Ba ...
Stonehenge
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.
The outer ring (Y) comprised 30 holes, approximately 1.7 x 1.14 meters in diameter, tapering to a ba ...
Schönbrunn Palace
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave concerts at the palace.
Mozart’s concert as a six-year-old “child prodigy” probably took place in the palace’s Mirror Room o ...
Krak des Chevaliers
The Hospitallers (Sovereign Military Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta) expanded the castle and its fortifications.
The castle was expanded in the Gothic style. In the central part of the fortress, measuring 110 by 60 m, a church, a knights' hall, and several towers were built.
White house
Its construction began with cornerstone installation at noon on 13th October 1792.
The localization was chosen by President George Washington and urban planner Pierre L’Enfant. The bu ...