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The columns and ceiling at the southeast corner of the Walhalla memorial.
The Walhalla memorial is a hall of fame that honours distinguished people "of the German tongue".
The idea for such a memorial is from (at that time) Crown Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1807. The building in neoclassicistic style, modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, was finally begun in 1830 and completed in 1842.
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The Char Minar, 1807, ( Four Minarets) was part of a madrassa built by a Turkoman merchant called Khalif Niyazkul. The madrassa is long gone, The beautiful minarets are all that is left.
Early morning light on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument. (11/06/2016).
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...across the Trocadero, where the reception took place, including lots of pigeons. They are just everywhere, aren´t they? Impressive!
The columns of the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, bathed in eerie red light.
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath Istanbul. [Wikipedia]
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I visited the Tate Britain museum only a day or two after it opened its doors to the public after lockdown. It was virtually empty, quite extraordinary for a landmark museum that is usually buzzing with people.
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View of Forum Romanum with the temple of Saturn and the temple of Vespasian and Titus.
The cult of the god Saturn in Rome is quite old - the temple remains are in comparison quite new (as an ancient Roman temple goes). The first temple in this spot was built around 497 B.C. These columns on the other hand dates to a temple building from 360-380 A.D. when the previous building had been destroyed by a fire. Much of this temple is built with parts from older buildings - but the columns are made in the style of late Antiquity, in white Thasian marble.
The two columns (it's actually three, but the third one is hidden from view) with a bit frieze remaining is the temple of emperor Vespasian and his son Titus. It was an expression of the Roman imperial cult - the temple was started by Titus after the death of his father, and then after Titus' death it was continued by his brother Domitian and finished some time around 87 A.D.