Architecture

The painting was commissioned by the monks of the Benedictine monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza as ...

Construction work finished around 560 BC. It was made with marble and Lebanon cedar. Temple's walls and columns were ornamented with bas-reliefs and precious metals like gold and silver.

After the assassination attempt in 1858, Napoleon III decided to build a new opera house that could ...

The assassination attempt occurred on 14th January 1858, when the imperial couple was going to the t ...

He did it by turning on the lighting from a yacht moored in the port of Genoa.

It was considered a risky operation since it was the time of the Great Depression.

It contains deposits of limestone dating from the Late Cretaceous period (100.5 to 66 million years ago).

The Statue is a federal property administered by the National Park Service, but territorially it is under the jurisdiction of New York City.

For lazy people there is of course the possibility to use an elevator.