Architecture

Saturday, 10 October 2026
18 facts about Hagia Sophia
18 facts about Hagia Sophia
The most significant work of Byzantine architecture
The Hagia Sophia's Temple, now an Istanbul mosque, was initially built as the Church of Divine Wisdom. It was the highest-ranking temple in the Byzant ...

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Villa Tugendhat
The villa was commissioned by Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta.
The Tugendhats were a German-Jewish family of textile and oil industrialists. The couple received th ...
Statue of Liberty
Since 1984, the Statue of Liberty has been listed as a UNESCO National Heritage Site.
Alcázar of Seville
This Moorish palace is located in Seville, the capital of the Spanish region of Andalusia.
Balmoral Castle
Two mounds were built on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
In the village of Ballater (in Aberdeenshire, on the River Dee), 60 stones were laid, one for each y ...
Neuschwanstein Castle
Hohenschwangau Palace was the boyhood residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
It was also the official hunting and summer residence of Maximilian II, his wife Maria of Prussia, a ...
Spanish Steps
In former times two roads led down from the church along the hillside, steep and muddy, inaccessible to carriages.
The difference in elevation clearly separated the church from the city below. There were several pro ...
Hagia Sophia
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.
In 2020, an administrative court in Turkey annulled the 1934 decree converting Hagia Sophia into a m ...
Notre-Dame
On April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame de Paris went up in flames. The fire lasted fifteen hours.
The fire broke out in the attic at 6:18 pm when the alarm system went off. Unfortunately, the system ...
Eiffel tower
In 1889, the tower was the entrance and main attraction of the International Exposition in Paris.
Petra
No written sources about everyday life in Petra have survived.
Few inscriptions and ancient texts tell of mighty kings, lovers of democracy, gods and feasts, great victories, and women's right to possess assets.