Architecture

There was a clear division into social status in the stands.

Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, and Ray Charles, among others, played their concerts in the Colosseum arena.

According to the Bedouins, Petra is where the biblical Moses split a rock from which water gushed out.

It is the official residence and workplace of the President of the US.

During the period of Roman rule in Armorica (a historical land in ancient Gaul), the island was known as Mont Tombe (Cemetery Mountain).

In 1950, Louis Nichilo designed a gold lipstick container in the Leaning Tower's shape.

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.

The Old Masters Picture Gallery houses a sizable collection of European paintings of the 15th-18th centuries.

There is a copy of the Statue in Paris, France, four times smaller than the original and reaching 11.5 meters in height.

Until 1918, passage through the middle of the gate was reserved exclusively for members of the imperial family, the Pfuel family and their guests.