Architecture

An important part of Semper Gallery’s collection is Italian Renaissance painting.

In 2002, fragments of a meteorite fell to earth near Neuschwanstein.

Pompeii was bombed during World War II.

Such a number of people at the same time, even in a large palace, without adequate sanitary facilities, often resulted in an unpleasant smell in the living rooms.

The site for the Opéra Garnier was chosen by Georges-Eugene Haussmann, prefect of the French department of the Seine and considered the urban planner of Paris.

A medieval myth arose around Artemis Temple's columns.

Twice a year catholic pilgrims come to Mont Saint-Michel.

At the top of the pendulum is a small stack of old penny coins whose function is to adjust the time of the clock.

The Tower, as we know it today, was started by King Richard the Lionheart, who began its reconstruction into a fortress in the years 1189-1199.

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.