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This massive monument is my favorite memorial in Buenos Aires. This is in my opinion one of the most beautiful monuments in Buenos Aires, not only for its magnificence, but also for its location, in the intersection of two wide boulevards: Avenue del Libertador and Avenue Sarmiento in Palermo.
Its real name is "Magna Carta and the Four Argentine Regions", but everybody knows it as "El monumento de los Españoles" (The Monument to the Spaniards). It was donated in 1910 by the Spanish community for the centenary of the May Revolution. But the construction suffered several problems. The first sculptor and winner of the design contest, Agustin Querol, died in 1909, and his creation had to be continued by another artist, Cipriano Folgueras, who also died shortly after. The work was even more delayed when the Spanish ship which brought the bronze pieces sunk on March, 1916 in the Brazilian coast, and replicas had to be or
dered to Spain, which were finished in 1918. The monument was finally inaugurated on May 25, 1927.
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This monument is a tribute to mankind. It is a one of a kind man-made marvel in the likes of the old pyramids. The Stendhal Monument is a concrete cube with the dimensions of exactly 1 km³. Inside this cube there is a seed bank, which stores seeds as a source for planting. It is a type of gene bank. The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity. The concrete structure is strong enough to withstand any type of catastrophic event and will even outlast the human race. Eventually this cube will become our legacy.
The monument is a sculpture by Finnish artist Eila Hiltunen titled Passio Musicae and unveiled on September 7, 1967.
This monument marking the route of Washington's march from Princeton to Morristown is located at on the grounds of the Somerset County Couthouse in Somerville, NJ near the intersection of Grove Street and East Main Street.
Woke up at 4:30, walked to the metro, took the first train and was lucky enough to get some awesome clouds.
Date: 4th century
Current location: Rome, Italy
Description of work: It was probably a honorary arch dedicated to emperor Constantine and built in the 4th century using the fragments from the other constructions. In the Middle Ages it was turned into a base of the fortified fortress by the Frangipani family. But in 1830 it was returned its original look, with the exception of the attic, which was destroyed by mistake, taken for a part of the fortress. Every of the four sides of the arch had niches with 12 little statues of different divinities inside.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Ancient Roman
Culture: Roman
Subject of work: Architecture (Ancient Roman Architecture);
Materials/Techniques: stone
Source: copyright James DeTuerk; Photographer: DeTuerk, James
Resource type: image
File format: JPG
Image size: 664 x 1024
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm h.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: detail of Arco di Giano.jpg
Record ID: WB580
Sub collection: monuments
The First Division Monument commemorates the dead of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army.
Located in President's Park, Washington, D.C.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first American president. Standing almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 11⁄32 inches (169.046 m) tall. It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances, but two are taller when measured above ground, though they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.
Cáceres es una ciudad del oeste de España, capital de la provincia homónima. Se encuentra situada en la zona central de la antigua provincia romana de la Lusitania, en la comunidad autónoma de Extremadura. Con 94.179 habitantes (INE 2010), es la ciudad más grande y poblada de la provincia, acumulando el 22,69% de la población total de la misma. Es además el municipio más extenso de España con una superficie de 1.750,33 km².
La ciudad de Cáceres fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1986, ya que posee uno de los conjuntos urbanos de la Edad Media y del Renacimiento más completos del mundo. La Concatedral de Santa María, el Palacio de las Veletas (Museo Arqueológico), los palacios de los Golfines (de Arriba y Abajo), la Casa del Sol, la Torre de Bujaco o el Arco de la Estrella son los monumentos más bellos y admirables. Asimismo, destaca por ser la sede de uno de los cuatro campus con que cuenta la Universidad de Extremadura y por su dinámica vida cultural en el conjunto de la comunidad autónoma.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
This sequence came out of nothing she was under orders to stand in front of butte and star jump, trouble was she was not on the third, so I moved her for the second image.
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