Architecture

Saturday, 5 July 2025
13 facts about Palais Garnier
13 facts about Palais Garnier
Académie Nationale de Musique
The Opéra Garnier, officially known as the Palais Garnier, is an outstanding architectural work and symbolizes the golden age of opera and ballet in t ...

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Big Ben
The clock tower was placed on a square concrete slab with sides 15,2 m and 3 m thick.
Its height is 96,3 m, and each of the four clock faces is 7 m in diameter. A spiral staircase of 334 ...
Malbork Castle
The castle in Malbork covers an area of 18 hectares and is the largest medieval castle in Europe.
The fortress was built of over 30 million bricks.
Empire State Building
By the 1940s, a large part of the office building's space did not find tenants.
Therefore the building was humorously referred to as the Empty State Building.
Mont Saint-Michel
According to legend, in 709 CE the Archangel Michael appeared to the Bishop of Avranches, St. Aubert, asking him to build a shrine on a rock.
The bishop twice disregarded the request made in the apparition, until finally St. Michael touched t ...
Göbekli Tepe
The excavated area comprises a cluster of stone circles, each surrounded by a high wall intersected by pillars.
The circles are arranged in the same pattern. They are made of limestone columns in the shape of giant beams or a capital letter T. The columns have sharp edges.
Mont Saint-Michel
The Cornish island of St. Michael's Mount, which is also tidal, is considered the British equivalent of Mont Saint-Michel.
It also has a religious site - the 15th century Chapel of St. Michael.
Colosseum
The present name most likely comes from the statue of Colossus of Nero—an enormous sculpture erected at Nero’s request, that stood nearby to the site where the Colosseum was built.
The Colossus of Nero’s author was a Greek sculptor, Zenodoros, who designed the sculpture and was re ...
Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat is a luxury single-family home located in Brno, Czech Republic.
It is located near the center of Brno, the largest city in Moravia and the second most populous city ...
Statue of Liberty
Since 1984, the Statue of Liberty has been listed as a UNESCO National Heritage Site.
Notre-Dame
Upon the 800th anniversary of the cathedral's construction, its facade was cleaned. André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, ordered a thorough restoration of the walls, which had turned black from dirt and soot over the past centuries.
Once the work was completed, the cathedral regained its white-red color. However, more restoration work was carried out between 1991 and 2000.