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Bellagio's main town square, Piazza San Giacomo, or Piazza della Chiesa. The square is dominated by the town church, the Romanesque Basilica di San Giacomo, which is worth a visit for its frescoes and statues. Externally you can admire the attractive bell-tower and elegant apse. On the opposite side of the square is a medieval tower, once part of Bellagio's now-disappeared defences and now a tourist office where you can buy tickets and rendez-vous for the tours of Villa Serbelloni's gardens (highly recommended; see below). The fountain in the centre of the piazza is said to have been originally commissioned by a resident Englishman for his garden to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
Главная городская площадь Белладжио, Пьяцца Сан Джакомо или Пьяцца делла Кьеза. На площади доминирует городская церковь, романская базилика Сан-Джакомо, которую стоит посетить из-за ее фресок и статуй. Внешне вы можете полюбоваться привлекательной колокольней и элегантной апсидой. На противоположной стороне площади находится средневековая башня, которая когда-то была частью исчезнувшей теперь защиты Белладжио, а теперь туристический офис, где вы можете купить билеты и свидания для экскурсий по садам Виллы Сербеллони. Говорят, что фонтан в центре площади первоначально был заказан англичанином-резидентом для его сада в честь бриллиантового юбилея королевы Виктории.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
Тра́пани (итал. Trapani, сиц. Tràpani) — коммуна в Италии, административный центр одноимённой провинции Сицилии.
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Being the most populated country on Earth, with well over a billion people, at times it can seem like there's always people around everywhere you go. While the Great Wall in Simatai wasn't exactly deserted, it was relatively quiet. Plenty of wall to explore without running into someone else every step you take. It's a strong contrast from some of the other places I visited in China such as Huangshan or any of the more touristed cities.
It's not exactly hard to walk on the wall. It is uneven, and you are constantly going either up or down, so it can be tiring at times, but it's still a giant stone path. Just, elevated a bit. How much you want to cover is up to you. The various fortifications and watchtowers invite themselves to a little bit of a look around.
Anytime I visit such a historical site, I always try to imagine what it must've been like when it was built. Were the guards annoyed that they got sent off on 'wall duty'? Or was it a more coveted post? If nothing else, they got to look out into the vast mountainous beauty of the land.
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The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) includes existing and former buildings, memorials and other built structures in the famous Roman public plaza during its 1,400 years of active use.
The Temple of Saturn towers the ruins.
In Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, near the eponymous basilica, lies the Tempio della Vittoria dedicated to the Milanese war casualties. It was built between 1927 and 1930 based on a design by Giovanni Muzio, who collaborated with the architects Gio Ponti and Tommaso Buzzi. The monument, which is inspired by sixteenth century architecture, is the sum of various styles of funerary and monumental art, from the mausoleum of Teodorico in Ravenna to the Tower of Winds in Athens. The various sculptures are a sample of the aesthetic tastes of the '30s. The most famous work - by Adolfo Wildt - is located in the alcove opposite the entrance and depicts S. Ambroggio. The walls around the central nucleus of the crypt display bronze plaques with the names of ten thousand Milanese who died during the war. The temple is crowned by an electric light beam with four rotating rays, visible more than ten miles away.
Tempio della Vittoria - это мраморный мемориал, который находится рядом с казармами Гарибальди. Он был открыт 4 ноября 1928 года в 10 - ю годовщину Витторио Венето-битвы, выигранной итальянцами в Первой мировой войне. Этот памятник увековечивает память погибших в миланской войне. Мемориал был причиной для споров с самых первых дней проекта, возглавляемого Джованни Музио в сотрудничестве со своей командой, состоящей из Каби Оттавио, Альберто Новелло Альпаго и Джио Понти. Структура имеет восьмиугольную форму и три этажа. Впечатляющий ассортимент материалов был использован во время строительных работ Tempio della Vittoria. Внутри есть много красивых памятников, таких как Мавзолей di Rosa dei Venti Teodorico или di Atene. Сигнальный фонарь с верхней части здания можно увидеть ночью и на расстоянии 15 км. Во время Второй мировой войны мемориал получил значительные повреждения из-за бомбардировок.
Piazza Cordusio is a square in central Milan, Italy. The piazza takes its name from the Cors Ducis which was found in the square during Longobard times. It is well known for its several turn-of-the-19th-century Neoclassical, eclectic and Art Nouveau buildings, banks and post offices. Even though many of these have now relocated elsewhere, it is still an important commercial square in the city and hosts the Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali, the Palazzo del Credito Italiano and the Palazzo delle Poste, former Borsa di Milano. Piazzale Cordusio hosts the Cordusio metro station and is the starting point of the elegant pedestrian Via Dante which leads to the imposing medieval Castello Sforzesco, or Milan Castle. Opposite to Via Dante, Cordusio borders onto Piazza Mercanti, former city centre in the Middle Ages, which leads directly to Piazza del Duomo, today's city centre.
Площадь Кордузио - одна из красивейших площадей в центре Милана. Ее часто называют "квадрат банков", так как здесь расположены штаб-квартиры нескольких крупных банков: ЮниКредит, Интеза Санпаоло и Барклай, а также крупнейшая страховая компания Ассикурациони Дженерали. Название площади произошло от слов Cors Ducis или Герцогский суд, который был на этом месте в V-VII веках нашей эры. От площади берет свое начало пешеходная улица Via Dante, ведущая к замку Сфорца. Дворцы на площади Кордузио были построены на рубеже XIX - XX веков и прекрасно сохранились. Здесь расположены Палаццо делла Ассикурациони Дженерали, Палаццо делла Поста, Палаццо дель Кредито Италиано. В центре площади находится монумент великого итальянского литератора XVIII века Джузеппе Парини, архитектор Лука Бельтрами.
View of the magnificient frescos depicting Bible stories, inside the main prayer hall of Vank Cathedral (Holy Savior Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters), in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
The cathedral was established in 1606, dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. Pendentives throughout the church are painted with a distinctly Armenian motif of a cherub's head surrounded by folded wings. The ceiling above the entrance is painted with delicate floral motifs in the style of Persian miniature. Two sections, or bands, of murals run around the interior walls: the top section depicts events from the life of Jesus, while the bottom section depicts tortures inflicted upon Armenian martyrs by the Ottoman Empire.
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The gate church of Nile Stolobensky was built in 1751-1755 by the Selizhar peasant Foma Pavlov. He took the gate Tikhvin Church of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow as a model. This can be seen if we compare the two lower tiers of these temples. The upper part of the church of Nile Stolobensky was completely rebuilt in 1832-1838 in order to give it a resemblance to the new Epiphany Cathedral. Instead of the two upper tiers, a domed rotunda with a small dome was built.
Надвратную церковь Нила Столобенского построил в 1751-1755 гг. селижаровский крестьянин Фома Павлов. За образец он взял надвратную Тихвинскую церковь Донского монастыря в Москве. В этом можно убедиться, если сравнить два нижних яруса этих храмов. Верхнюю часть церкви Нила Столобенского полностью перестроили в 1832-1838 гг. для того, чтобы придать ей сходство с новым Богоявленским собором. Вместо двух верхних ярусов была сооружена купольная ротонда с небольшой главкой.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
i like the contrast between the geometric forms of the staircase and other built structures and the moving man. its kind of symbolistic for life itself.
Stone built structure on the quiet hillside of Morven. Thought to possibly be a sheepfold but I'm not too sure. Very intriguing.
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It's just after 8:30pm, and the sun is still a good deal above the horizon. Can I really call it sunset? I'm not sure, but with the midnight sun in Iceland, it never really truly gets dark. It's kind of a weird phenomena.
On the upside, your touring day can be as short or as long as you want since you always have a good deal of light available. Things do close, but nature is still open for business. It can be a bit eerie at times if you're out at say 12am, taking photos when no one else is around an otherwise busy location. Then again, you're out at 12am because you want to take photos when no one else is around an otherwise busy location!
There's not a whole lot to see and do in Akranes, besides this lighthouse. For me, it was a place with a few more dining options than some others villages in the region, and made for a nice stopping point for me that day. A visit to the Akranes Lighthouse was my post-dinner stroll.
If you're off to explore more of West Iceland, there's an undersea tunnel connecting Reykjavik and Akranes that shaves off a good 40 mins or so of driving. I generally found it to be quite pleasant to drive anywhere in Iceland, except for when I got closer to Reykjavik. Then there were more traffic circles to deal with, which posed a challenge for me as a new stick-shift driver not yet confident in my manual driving prowess.
Overall, the lighthouse is one of those 10-15 min stops. It's unlikely to be a place you're going to spend an hour or so exploring - for which, Iceland is filled with those. If I was short on time, I'd definitely choose a waterfall or volcano or any number of crazy amazing natural sights that are so common in Iceland over a lighthouse. If, like me, you just need somewhere peaceful to wind down your day, a visit to the Akranes Lighthouse is a nice way to catch the "midnight" sunset.
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Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
The announcement made in October 2009 by General Secretary Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, to have built 100,000 apartments in Pyongyang by 2012 officially aims at facing the housing shortage in the capital city. But it also represents a challenge to give evidence of the communist regime overall prosperity. The Stalinian regime had already pretended to amaze the rest of the world in the 1950’s claiming its ability to construct an apartment for a family in 14 minutes only!
This time it might be a little different. Despite the university students’ conscription and the mobilization of the army, many observers doubt the ability of North Korea to complete the buildings by its founder’s 100th birthday in 2012. In fact, it is not only a matter of housing: the energy and water supply as well as transports for 100,000 families need the building of extra-infrastructure.
Lately, reports have emerged of construction projects having been downsized and sites idling due to materials shortages. By the end of 2011, only 500 units are built, which forces the authorities to reduce the target to 20,000 to 25,000 apartments in total.
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