Square du Vert-Galand Paris

Filed Under (Europe) by admin on 29-12-2008

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Great place for a picnic this place Vert-du-GALAND. At the top of the Ile-de-la-City, on the banks of the Seine, is the ideal place to sit and relax in Paris. The nearest subway stop Pont Neuf film shot in and around this area means the love of lovers on the bridge or the fans of Pont-Neuf with Juliette Binoche.

Tower of London

Filed Under (Europe) by admin on 27-12-2008

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http://www.london-architecture.info/044-Tower_of_London2C_Traitors_Gate_small.jpgTower of London is a landmark in central London in London’s Tower hamlets in the vicinity of the city of London.  White Tower, the area of the building with towers on each corner, gave him the title, in fact, in the midst of a complex of several buildings along the Thames in London as forts, arsenals, farms, zoos / menagerie, mints, palaces, squares execution, state registers, observatories, shelters and prisons (including prisoners in the upper class). This last method has resulted in the word “tower” which means “prison”. An example of this is well known that Elizabeth I was at some time in the tower, and her sister Mary’s reign.
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The British Museum

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http://www.london-architecture.info/049-British_Museum_Great_Court_roof_small.jpgThe area of the British Museum in London was again the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, known as the Great Court in 1990. It was founded by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. Court mosaic glass in the roof of Foster & Partners (architect) and the Bureau Happold (engineer), all the court and move the reading room of the British Museum in the center, now a museum. It is the largest covers an area of Europe. The glass ceiling is made of steel and 1656 pairs of windows , each with a unique way because of the hilly nature of the roof.

The Hagia Sofia, Istanbul

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hagia sofia, istanbul

Hagia Sophia (Church of) Holy Wisdom, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, a former Eastern Orthodox church into a mosque in 1453 on the islands of Turks and converted into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey. It has traditionally been regarded as one of the great historic buildings. His conquest of the empire in the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the greatest tragedies of Christianity in the Greek Orthodox faithful.
The name comes from the Greek names Ἁγία Σοφία, compression Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, in the sense of “Holy Wisdom of God.” He is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Although sometimes referred to as “Santa Sofia” in English is not the name on behalf of St. Sophia - the Greek word Sophia means “wisdom”.

Casa Mila Barcelona

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Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí challenge to the rigid geometry in the development of Casa Mila, Barcelona. Casa Mila in Barcelona this house with a touch of fantasy. Corrugated walls seem to volnistym and comic series of chimney stacks dance around the roof. “The straight line belongs to the people, the curve to God,” said Gaudi.

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