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The Mouth of Truth in Rome stands very close to the Cloaca Maxima
Incredibly, the Mouth of Truth stands hard by the Great Drain. Amazing Rome
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Louis XIV, who nearly drowned in the Palais Royal fountain, gave the palace to his brother
As a child, Louis XIV nearly drowned in a fountain of the Palais-Royal, then known as the Palais-Cardinal, where Anne of Austria moved from the Louvre with her two sons after the death of Cardinal Richelieu. Broadly speaking, this unpleasant incident, together with the thoroughly distasteful impression left
Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Mores · Paris
The gilded apartment of Madame du Barry on the upper floor of the Palace of Versailles
Louis XV came to the apartments of his favourite, Madame du Barry, by a private staircase. The corridor leading to the countess's twelve-room suite is so narrow that two people can barely pass in it. As for the furnishings, Madame du Barry saw to it that her
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Possibly the most beautiful doors in Paris: the carriage entrance of the Hôtel of the Dutch Ambassadors in the Marais, an old eighteenth-century mansion that belonged to the immensely wealthy entrepreneur Louis Letellier, who let the house to a playwright
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A cannonball fired by Ottoman troops during the siege of Nice in 1543 is still embedded in the wall of a residential building in the city
A cannonball fired by Ottoman troops during the siege of Nice in 1543 is still embedded in the wall of a residential building in the city. How did it come to be there? The Turkish siege of Nice was one of many operations of the Franco-Ottoman military alliance against
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris stands firm, and is none the worse for wear
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Ruins of the American Embassy in Berlin, 1957
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The Paris Opera of the architect Charles Garnier, built in 1875
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Statue of Joan of Arc in gilded bronze in the Place des Pyramides in Paris
Architecture · The East · Geography · Heritage
This column of green marble in the corner of the stone wall of the Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul is mentioned in the text of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Çelebi writes that the architect Sinan set it up before building the
This column of green marble in the corner of the stone wall of the Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul is mentioned in the text of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Çelebi writes that the architect Sinan set it up before building the mosque exactly in the centre of
Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · Heritage
Monument to "the Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich of All Russia"
The monument to "the Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich of All Russia. 1881–1894", the work of the architect Alexander Pomerantsev and the sculptors Alexander Opekushin and Artemy Ober, was unveiled in Moscow beside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on 30 May
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