Architecture

This complex includes a tomb with underground vaulted corridors and a spacious inner chamber containing the urn. In Byzantine times, that tomb was converted into a church.

These people nomadized in small tribal groups that subsisted by gathering plants and hunting. To bui ...

At the entrance to the Great Gallery there is a horizontal shaft leading to the descending corridor ...

Among them is a Jackson magnolia, reportedly grown from a shoot taken from a favorite tree of Jackso ...

This effect was achieved by inserting forty windows around the base of the original structure. Inserting the windows into the dome structure further reduced its weight.

The Petra Basin covers almost 100 km² (38.6 sq mi). It is full of limestone mounds, undulating sandstone hills, cut by narrow valleys and broad plains.

In its heyday, 6300 cubic meters of water were used per hour during a three-hour show (they were powered by water from the Seine).In 1999, a storm knocked down 18.500 trees in the park.

During the four-year period of work, many apartments of princes and courtiers were liquidated - from ...

Eleonora Gonzaga was the second wife of Emperor Ferdinand II. After his death, she became the owner ...