Architecture

Saturday, 29 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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La Sagrada Familia
Sagrada Familia was designed not to exceed a height of 173 m because this is the height of Barcelona's Montjuic mountain.
Gaudi believed that a natural, God-created mountain should tower over the city, not a man-made structure.
Zwinger
The Zwinger was not residential, but only of a representative nature, and served as a gallery for storing valuable royal collections and for holding lavish court ceremonies.
The complex contains six stored pavilions (Clock, German, Porcelain, Embankment, French, Mathematica ...
Space Needle
CHEESE, short for The Committee Hoping for Extra-terrestrial Encounters to Save the Earth, believes that Space Needle was built to transmit signals to other advanced civilizations from outside our Solar System.
Great Pyramid of Giza
It was built on previously leveled terrain with height differences of only 2.1 cm.
Remember, it was over 4500 years ago!
Empire State Building
The building serves as a lightning rod. About 100 lightning strikes the spire of the skyscraper each year.
La Scala
The less affluent residents of Milan watched performances standing, on the first floor of the theater.
This was the case until 1897 when seats were installed there (now more than 2000 people can sit ther ...
Taj Mahal
It took over two decades and around 22,000 laborers and artisans to complete the construction.
Tower of London
The Tower of London was both a defensive and palace building for the monarchs of England, but the last ruler to use it was James I.
It was at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Christ The Redeemer
The statue is 30 meters high and is placed on an 8-meter pedestal.
The head is 3.5 meters high and the distance between the fingertips of the hands is 28 meters. The monument weighs over 600 tons.
Balmoral Castle
Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle on September 8, 2022.
She arrived at her beloved castle less than a month earlier, following the tradition she had cultiva ...