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An amazing way to see our main monuments!

Carnac

The Carnac stones were erected during the Neolithic

period which lasted from around 4500 BC until 2000 BC.

The precise date of the stones is difficult to ascertain as

little dateable material has been found beneath them,

but the site's main phase of activity is commonly

attributed to c. 3300 BC. One interpretation of the site

is that successive generations visited the site to erect a

stone in honour of their ancestors.

The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense

collection of megalithic sites around the French

village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of

alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs.

More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were

hewn from local rock and erected by the

pre/proto-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the

largest such collection in the world.

Most of the stones are within the Breton village of

Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinit-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some

stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as

4500 BC.

Although the stones date from 4500 BC, modern myths were formed which resulted from 1st

century AD Roman and later Christian occupations, such as Saint Cornelius a Christian myth

associated with the stones held that they were pagan soldiers in pursuit of Pope Cornelius

when he turned them to stone. Brittany has its own local versions of the Arthurian cycle. Local

tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly straight lines is that they are a

Roman legion turned to stone by Merlin.

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Roman Theatre of Mrida

Mrida's most spectacular Roman monument,

the Roman Theater was built by the Roman

consul Marcus Vespasiano Agripa in 15 B.C. He

was the son-in-law of Augustus Caesar. It had a

capacity for 5,800 spectators, divided into three

levels, and with a semi-circular shape.

The theater was built to give good acoustics

for the public and it was built on the hill of

San Albin, whose inclination favors the good

acoustics. The stage has three access doors

and a podium 2.5 meters high. The stone

columns have been well preserved. Beside

the orchestra pit is the stage, which has very

high Corinthian columns that are 18 meters

high, and is decorated with sculptures of the

gods and imperials figures.

One remodeling of the theater happened

during the reign of Trajan at the end of the

1st century. The other remodeling took place

during the reign of Constantine, around 330

AD. When the Christians came into power,

the theater was abandoned because the

Christians thought that it was immoral, and

the theater became covered with earth

because of the disuse of the building, and

only the top of the seats became visible.

Since 1933 the theater has been the site of the Festival of Classical Theater. Today the

theater is the most visited monument in the city.

The old Government

of Safranbolu

Safranbolu (from Greek: ) is a town

and district of Karabk Province in the Black Sea

region of Turkey. It is about 200 kilometres (120 mi)

north of Ankara and about a 100 km south of the

Black Sea coast, or more precisely about 9 km north

of the city of Karabk.

The Old Town preserves many old buildings, with

1008 registered historical artifacts. These are: 1

private museum, 25 mosques, 5 tombs, 8 historical

fountains, 5 Turkish baths, 3 caravanserais, 1

historical clock tower, 1 sundial and hundreds of

houses and mansions.

The Old Government Building which inspires

the painters' drawings is making a significant

difference with its architectural beauty and

commanding to the city of Safranbolu.

It's the most suitable place to enjoy the

fascinating sunset in the city. It was built on a

hill called "Castle" in 1904 by the Governor

of Kastamonu, Enis Pasha, and the

administrator of the town, Ahmet Bey. The

building, which was made of stone, is 3 floored.

Throughout its history, the building was used for military, administrative and judical

management purposes. The building burned down as a result of a fire on 19th January, 1976.

The Old Government Building's restoration was completed by the Ministry of Culture and

Tourism, and nowadays it is used as a cultural centre and museum.

The cathedral of Sant'Agata

The cathedral of Sant'Agata was built over the

Roman Baths of Achilles at the very point where

the holy martyr Agatha died in 251. The

Normans began with the construction of the

first cathedral in 1090 which was restored after

the earthquakes 1140 and 1169 and finally

completely reconstructed from scratch after the

great earthquake of 1693. The architects

Girolamo Palazzotto and Giovanni Battista

Vaccarini, who designed the faade of the

cathedral, were responsible for the construction

of the Baroque facade. Today, traces of the original Norman edifice include part of the

transept, the two towers and the three semicircular apses, composed of large lava stones,

most of them recovered from imperial Roman buildings.

The cathedral of Sant'Agata consists of a three-nave longitudinal building

with a transept and three Norman apses made of lava rock. The apses

were stripped of their baroque decorations in the 20thCentury so that you

can take a look at the original construction of the Norman cathedral. The

dome dates from 1802. The bell tower was originally erected in 1387, with

a height of some 70 meters. In 1662 a clock was added, the structure

reaching 90 meters. After the destruction of 1693 it was rebuilt, with the

addition of a 7.5 t bell, the third largest in Italy after those in St Petrs

Basilica and in Milan Cathedral. He used six ancient pillars which already adorned the ruined Norman cathedral.

The interior of the cathedral is equipped as the pantheon of Catania and is

imposing in its proportions and dimensions. On the second pillar on the

right there is the simple grave of the famous composer and citizen of

Catania, Vincenzo Bellini. Also noteworthy is the right transept where you

will find the Chapel of the Madonna with numerous graves of Aragonese

kings and two sarcophagi - Constance of Aragon, the wife of Frederick III, is

buried in one of them. The citys patron saint is venerated in the right apse

of the adjoining Chapel of Saint Agata. The life of St. Agata is also the

subject of the carvings in the choir stalls in the chancel. Here you can also

find more tombs of the Aragonese kings of Sicily. Also worth seeing in the

sacristy is the fresco of the Mount Etna eruption in 1669. In the fresco, which was painted by

an eyewitness of the disaster, you can see Mt Etna, the city and the lava flow that reaches the

Castello Ursino.

The Cathedral of Wroclaw

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wrocaw is the seat of

the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocaw and a landmark

of the city of Wrocaw in Poland.

A first church at the location of the present cathedral was built

under Pemyslid rule in the mid 10th century. After the Polish

conquest of Silesia, this Bohemian church was replaced by a

larger basilical structure with three naves, a crypt, and towers

on its eastern side. The first cathedral was however soon

destroyed, probably by the invading troops of Duke Bretislaus

of Bohemia around 1039. A larger, Romanesque-style church

was soon built in its place in the times of Duke Casimir I.

After the end of the Mongol invasion, the church was again

largely rebuilt in the present-day Brick Gothic style. It was the first

building of the city to be made of brick when construction of the

new choir and ambulatory started in 1244.

On June 19, 1540, a fire destroyed the roof, which was restored

16 years later in Renaissance style. In the 19th century, Karl

Ldecke rebuilt the interior and western side in neogothic style.

The cathedral was almost entirely destroyed (about

70% of the construction) during the Siege of Breslau

and heavy bombing by the Red Army in the last days of

World War II. Parts of the interior fittings were saved

and are now on display at the National Museum in

Warsaw. The initial reconstruction of the church lasted

until 1951, when it was reconsecrated by Archbishop

Stefan Wyszyski. In the following years, additional

aspects were rebuilt and renovated. The original,

conical shape of the towers was restored only in 1991. The cathedral holds the largest pipe

organ in Poland, built in 1913 by E.F. Walcker & Sons of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wrttemberg,

Germany, for the Centennial Hall formerly the largest organ in the world.

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, dedicated by the Athenians

to Athena Parthenos, the patron of their

city, is the most magnificent creation of

Athenian democracy at the height of its

power. It is also the finest monument on

the Acropolis in terms of both conception

and execution. Built between 447 and 438

BC, as part of the greater Periklean building

project, this so-called Periklean Parthenon

(Parthenon III) replaced an earlier marble

temple (Parthenon II), begun after the victory at the battle of Marathon at approximately 490

BC and destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC. This temple had replaced the very first Parthenon

(Parthenon I) of c. 570 BC. The Periklean Parthenon was designed by architects Iktinos and

Kallikrates, while the sculptor Pheidias supervised the entire building program and conceived

the temple's sculptural decoration and chryselephantine statue of Athena.

The Parthenon is a double peripteral Doric temple

with several unique and innovative architectural

features. The temple proper is divided into pronaos,

cella and opisthodomos, with a separate room at the

west end, and is surrounded by a pteron with eight

columns on each of the short sides and seventeen

columns on the long ones.

The Parthenon construction cost the Athenian

treasury 469 silver talents.

One talent was the cost for paying the crew of a warship for a

month (D. Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, 61). According to

Kagan, Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war had 200

triremes in service, while the annual gross income of the city of

Athens at the time of Perikles was 1000 talents, with another

6000 in reserve at its treasury.

Theatre Piccinni of Bari

Teatro Piccinni is a theatre in the city

of Bari, Apulia on the east coast of

Italy. It was founded in 1854 and

opened on 30 May of that year. The

municipal theatre Niccolo Piccinni is

the oldest theater in the city of Bari.

The construction of the structure was

completed in 1854, the year in which it took

place the inauguration of the theater Piccinni,

which opened its doors to the public with a

performance of Donizetti Poliuto Gaetrano.

The dedication to the composer Piccinni of Bari

took place the following year at the opening.

Because of the fire in 1991 destroyed the

Petruzzelli Theatre, has been for nearly

two decades the most important room in

the capital for both capacity and for

tradition. The Piccini is also in size, the

fourth Italian theater in the region after

the Petruzzelli theatre, the Greek

Politeama of Lecce and the Verdi of San

Severo.

The theater is located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, a major city street, near the Gardens

Isabella of Aragon.