Detail InformationEdit The Abbey of Cervara (Italian: Abbazia della Cervara or Abbazia di San Gerolamo) is a former abbey in the territory of Santa Margherita Ligure, Liguria, northern Italy, on the coastal road leading to Portofino. It is a National monument of Italy. The abbey’s altarpiece, painted by Gerard David in 1506, was commissioned by […]
Detail InformationEdit The Basilica of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe is an important monument of Byzantine art near Ravenna, Italy. When the UNESCO inscribed eight Ravenna sites on the World Heritage List, it cited this basilica as “an outstanding example of the early Christian basilica in its purity and simplicity of its design and use of […]
Detail InformationEdit The Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of […]
Detail InformationEdit The Palladian Villas of Veneto are villas designed by architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in Veneto, the mainland region then under the political control of the Venetian Republic. The villas are protected by UNESCO as part of a World Heritage Site named City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas […]
Detail InformationEdit Statue Square is a public pedestrian square in Central, Hong Kong. Built entirely on reclaimed land at the end of the 19th century, Statue Square consists of two parts separated by Chater Road into a northern and a southern sections. It is bordered by Connaught Road Central in the north and by Des […]
Detail InformationEdit This is former residence of the Loitzs, merchants and bankers of Szczecin. Now it is The Art School. Originally, the building was a kind of a four-winged Renaissance town castle built in the 1540. The only remaining part of the residence, namely its western wing, emerged as a result of connecting two Gothic […]
India /Tamil Nadu /Thiruvannamalai /Thiruvannamalai Thiruvannamalai is a famous holy town perched on a hill (malai) in the district of Thiruvannamalai of Tamil Nadu state of India and is the most scared pilgrim center of Hindus in the region. The region was known as ‘Thondai Mandalam’ in the ancient period. This holy town is the […]
Detail InformationEdit Commerzbank Tower, located in the city centre of Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, is the second-tallest completed skyscraper in the European Union. After it was completed in 1997 it ranked as the tallest skyscraper in Europe until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow. It was surpassed by the Shard London Bridge […]
Detail InformationEdit The Observatoire de Nice (Nice Observatory) is an astronomical observatory located in Nice, France on the summit of Mont Gros. The observatory was founded in 1879 by the banker Raphaël Bischoffsheim. The architect was Charles Garnier, and Gustave Eiffel designed the main dome. The 77 cm (30.3 inch) refractor telescope made by Henry […]
Mandelieu-La Napoule is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France, located on the French Riviera just to the southwest of Cannes and northeast of Théoule-sur-Mer. It is known for the Château de la Napoule, a fortified castle of the 14th century. In the 20th century, Henry Clews Jr (son of the wealthy New […]