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Monument to King Danylo
One of the relatively new Lviv monuments. The monument was erected in 2001 according to the project of sculptors Vasyl Yarych and Roman Romanovych, architect Yarema Churylyk.
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8 months ago
Three columns of Sigismund
Sigismund's Column is the most famous monument of Warsaw and - next to the Little Mermaid - a symbol of the city. But does everyone, even the residents of Warsaw, know when it was built, who built it, and how many columns there actually were?
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1 year ago
Church of St. Martin
The Augustinian church and the monastery of St. Martin remained the property of the monastery until the dissolution of the order in 1866. This monastery, founded in 1353 by Prince Semowit Mazowiecki and built in the Gothic style, underwent further reconstructions in the seventeenth and eighteenth ce...
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1 year ago
Area 1866
It is more of a park or square than a square. It is all planted with trees and bushes. Previously, it was part of the territory of a large Ottoman cemetery. The square is named after the Cretan Revolution of 1866-1869.
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1 year ago
Barbican
For some reason, there is always "barbAkan" in Krakow. And in Warsaw there is a barbican, then a barbican. A sixteenth-century fortification that is part of the city's defensive walls.
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1 year ago
Basilica of St. John the Baptist
Arch-Cathedral Basilica of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (XIV century, rebuilt in the XVII, XIX, XX centuries) The oldest church in Warsaw. Its creation dates back to the turn of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries.
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1 year ago
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Warsaw Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was opened on November 2.1925 under the colonnade of the Saxon Palace. On this day, the remains of a nameless soldier, brought during a special ceremony from the cemetery of the defenders of Lviv, were laid to him.
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1 year ago
Saxon garden
The Saxon Garden in Warsaw is a beautiful green park area in the center of the capital. Originally a geometric French garden, founded in 1724–1748 for King Augustus II the Strong, designed by Matthieu Daniel Peppelmann and Zacharias Longueulun in collaboration (from 1733) with Karl Friedrich Peppelm...
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1 year ago
Church on Three Crosses Square
The classicist church of St. Alexander on Three Crosses Square is undoubtedly one of the most famous churches in Warsaw. Although it is only 193 years old, its history is as stormy and complex as few of Warsaw's churches.
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1 year ago
Krasinski Palace
The palace was built in the Baroque style in 1677-1695 for the governor of Plock, Jan Dobrogost Krasinski, and its author was the architect Tilman from Gameran. Construction began in the spring of 1677 and by 1682 the main building was ready in its raw state.
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1 year ago
Royal Castle
In 1596, a decision was made - Warsaw will be the capital of Poland. However, a few years ago, King Sigismund III Vasa moved with his court to the castle in Warsaw, which was then "royal".
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1 year ago
Basilica of Santa Maria de Servi
The brothers of the Order of the Servants of Mary came to Bologna from Florence and in 1233 they settled at Borgo San P'etro. Here the stench woke up the church, in which they roamed and practiced until 1345, when Taddeo Pepoli, lord of Bologna, having presented them with a great plot of land, where...
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2 years ago
Palazzo Bocchi
Erected in 1546 by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignoli and finished inside by a pupil of Ottaviano Mascherino, the author of the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, the building, which belonged to the Bolognese humanist Achille Bocchi (1488-1562), soon became the seat of the academy he founded.
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2 years ago
Church of St. Peter
Many tourists think that the glorious temple of San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore is the main cathedral of Bologna. But not so. The Cathedral of the city is the church of St.
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2 years ago
Palazzo Ercolani
Palazzo Ercolani - a great wake-up call in the style of rococo or neoclassicism in the historical center of Bologna, the School of Political Science of the University of Bologna has been redistributed at once.
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2 years ago
Basilica of San Domenico
One of the main and most valuable temples of Bologna. The interior of the church houses numerous works of art masters, including sculptures by Michelangelo. The square in front of the temple is paved with river pebbles, just like in ancient times.
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2 years ago
Palazzo Marescotti
The building was built at the beginning of the sixteenth century, a period when the Marescotti and Bentivoglio families were fighting each other. Ercole Marescotti de Calvi, in alliance with Pope Julius II, was one of the supporters of the destruction of the Bentivoglio Palace in 1507.
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2 years ago
Spanish College
The College of Spain, founded by Cardinal Egidio Albornos (1310-1367) as the "domus hispanica", also known as the Royal College of San Clemente degli Spagnoli and the Royal College of Spain, is a university college for Spanish students based in a medieval university, the most famous of the twenty fo...
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2 years ago
Church of St. Jacob
St. Jacob's Cathedral is the main Catholic church in Latvia. It appeared in Riga in the 13th century, at the same time as the Dome Cathedral and St. Peter's Church. However, its architecture is noticeably simpler than its peers, since it was not intended for the city, but for a rural parish.
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2 years ago
Old fountain
The fountain was designed by the architect Tommaso Lauretti from Palermo and erected in 1565. Water was supplied to the fountain by an underground water supply from a cistern located in the courtyard of the Palazzo Comunale.
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2 years ago
"Three Brothers"
"Three Brothers" is the oldest complex of residential buildings preserved in Riga from the 15th century. The medieval buildings, closely pressed together, got their name a long time ago - according to legend, they were actually built by three men of the same family.
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2 years ago
Dome Cathedral
The cathedral, one of the symbols of Riga. The main church of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church. The cathedral church is the only complex of a cathedral-type church and a cathedral monastery in the Baltic States.
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2 years ago
Church of the saint
One of the oldest buildings in Riga - the Church of St. John, is an interesting combination of different architectural styles from late Gothic, Northern Revival and Mannerism to Baroque.
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2 years ago
Pinakothek
The complex was built according to the project of the architect A. Torregiani in 1728-1735 to accommodate the church of San Ignacio and the Jesuit monastery. In 1803, the Pinacoteca and the Academy of Arts, which was founded in 1710 under the name Accademia Clementina, were located here.
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2 years ago
Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The sacred building is the work of Edoardo Collamarini (1864–1928), an artist of high culture and fine sensitivity. The sanctuary has been identified as the most beautiful Sacred Heart church erected in Italy, and certainly one of the most monumental sacred buildings erected at the time.
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2 years ago