Architecture

The British set fire to the White House in 1814, during the War of 1812.

In the southern part of Spanish Square, opposite the Spanish Embassy, rises the column of the Immaculate Conception from the 19th century, which combines antiquity (Corinthian column) with modern times (statue of the Virgin Mary on the top).

The name Taj Mahal means the Palace of the Crown.

Bathing in the Trevi Fountain is forbidden and punishable by law.

The city was surrounded by a fortified wall about 3 km long.

Justinian I the Great spared no expense in furnishing the church. Porphyry and marble were used to decorate the temple and as wall and pillar coverings.

The Nabataeans' descendants exist to this day, inhabiting caves and tombs.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey became a secular republic. Its first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered in 1934 that the temple serving more than 916 years to Christians and 481 years to Muslims, be turned into a museum.

Windsor Castle is a royal residence in the city of Windsor, in the English county of Berkshire.

The Cornish island of St. Michael's Mount, which is also tidal, is considered the British equivalent of Mont Saint-Michel.