Architecture

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

Legend says that the first guards of the Tower were guaranteed a ration of meat as a reward. Accordi ...

The horseshoe made of trilithons was a symmetrical structure. Each of the stones weighed about 50 tons and was linked using fanciful techniques.

Ephesians gracefully declined an offer with the words "it would be improper for one god to build a temple to another." They managed to raise enough money to rebuild it on their own a few years later.

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

The fortress was built of over 30 million bricks.

Corcovado (Portuguese for hunchback) is a 710 m high granite mountain located in the southwest of Ri ...