Architecture

The clock was built by Edmund Beckett Denison and the EJ Dent&Co company in 1854.

The lighthouse had a system of mirrors made of polished metal that allowed its light to be seen from places miles away.

The largest door in Hagia Sophia is the Imperial Gate, an entrance used exclusively by the emperor, his personal bodyguard and entourage.

In former times two roads led down from the church along the hillside, steep and muddy, inaccessible to carriages.

The first person to cross the bridge was a woman - Emily Warren Roebling.

It spans 2,7 kilometers.

It could host up to 50,000 people, although, according to the Chronograph of 354—the first illustrated codex, created by Roman scribe and stone engraver Furius Dionysius Filocalus in 354 AD—it could actually host up to 87,000 viewers.

It was built on previously leveled terrain with height differences of only 2.1 cm.

At the time of its commissioning, the Faros lighthouse was the tallest structure that was not a pyramid.

The Sempergalerie’s most magnificent work is Rafael Santi’s “Sistine Madonna.”