Architecture

Tuesday, 31 March 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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Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal is an Islamic mausoleum in the city of Agra.
Brandenburg Gate
The image of the Brandenburg Gate was on the reverse of the last series of German marks, with a denomination of 5.
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty measures 93 meters high (including the pedestal) and weighs 229 tons.
Windsor Castle
Windsor was expanded by subsequent rulers.
Henry II, who came to the throne in 1154, replaced the wooden palisade surrounding the upper castle with a stone wall interspersed with square towers and built the first Royal Gate.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a story that stretches over thousands of years. It begins in the Stone Age, continues into the Bronze Age, and probably goes back to the Iron Age.
First pits, into which pine pillars about 75 cm in diameter were inserted, date back to about 8,000 ...
Space Needle
The construction started in April 1961 and lasted for approximately 400 days.
Hagia Sophia
The temple was built on the initiative of Emperor Justinian I the Great. The first church on the site of the current Hagia Sophia was a church known as Magna Ecclesia - the Great Church (due to its size compared to the size of modern churches in the city).
It was consecrated in 360, during the reign of Emperor Constantius II. It was built next to the Grea ...
Taj Mahal
It took over two decades and around 22,000 laborers and artisans to complete the construction.
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 ...
Golden Gate Bridge
On the 50th anniversary, the number of tourists visiting the Golden Gate Bridge, estimated at 750,000 to 1,000,000, lowered the bridge by over 2 meters.