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The Rue du Gros-Horloge is the main public pedestrian thoroughfare in the French city of Rouen.
It takes its name from the Gros Horloge, one of the emblematic monuments of the city.
It is possible that the street is located on the axis corresponding to the decumanus of the Gallo-Roman city of Rotomagus, the former name of Rouen.
In 1527, the street was spanned by a ...
Rue Obscure ("Dark Street") in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. The street dates from the 13th Century and was originally open to the the sky. At some point, an enterprising person decided that he could enlarge his house by extending the upper levels over the street. Others soon followed, covering most of a 400 foot long section of the street. Villefranche-sur-Mer is a s...
The Ruined Arch atKew Gardens was designed as a mock Roman ruin by Sir William Chambers and built in 1759-60. Such follies were then fashionable. However, it originally carried a road across what is now Kew Road, so was not a complete folly at that time.
The Ruinenberg is a hill in the Bornstedt borough of Potsdam, located north of Sanssouci Park. In 1748, the Prussian king Frederick the Great had a water tank with a capacity of around 7,600 cubic metres (270,000 cu ft) built on top to supply the Sanssouci water features, and had it decorated with artificial ruins. From 1841 a surrounding landscape garden was laid out...
At 8:00 am on the morning of May 8, 1902, Mt. Pelee erupted sending a pyroclastic cloud of hot gases and ash on the city of Saint Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique. The city was destroyed and over 30,000 people were killed instantly.
These are the ruins of the theater.
Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site of a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini, associated with the Minoan civilization due to inscriptions in Linear A, and close similarities in artifact and fresco styles. The excavation is named for a modern Greek village situated on a hill nearby. The name of the site in antiquity is unknown. It was b...
The Bat Cave guano mine, located in the western Grand Canyon of Arizona at river mile 266, 800 feet (240 m) above Lake Mead, was an unusual, expensive and noteworthy mining operation. The natural cave was a bat habitat and contained an accumulation of guano.
The cave was apparently discovered in the 1930s by a passing boater. Several unsuccessful early attempts were m...
The most commonly accepted chronology of the mosque's construction is the one originally proposed by French scholars Henri Terrasse and Henri Basset during their study of Almohad monuments in the first half of the 20th century, with further refinements by Gaston Deverdun in his 1959 book about Marrakesh. According to this view, Abd al-Mu'min began const...
The ruins of Gedi are a UNESCO World Heritage site near the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Kenya. The site is adjacent to the town of Gedi (also known as Gede) in the Kilifi District and within the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest.
Gedi is one of many medieval Swahili coastal settlements that stretch from Barawa, Somalia to the Zambezi River in Mozambique. There are 116 known Swa...
Heracleion (Ancient Greek: ἩράκλειονHērákleion), also known as Thonis (Ancient Greek: ΘῶνιςThônis; from the Ancient Egyptian:Tȝ-ḥn.t; Coptic: ⲦϩⲱⲛⲓThōni, Late Coptic [dəˈhoːni]) and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion, was an ancient Egyptian port city located near the Canopic Mouth of the Nile,...
Karakorum was the capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, and of the Northern Yuan in the 14-15th century. Its ruins lie in the northwestern corner of the Övörkhangai Province of Mongolia, near today's town of Kharkhorin, and adjacent to the Erdene Zuu monastery. They are part of the upper part of the World Heritage Site Orkhon Valley Cultural Land...
Kilwa Kisiwani is a community on an island off the coast of East Africa, in present day Tanzania. A document written around AD 1200 called al-Maqama al Kilwiyya discovered in Oman, gives details of a mission to reconvert Kilwa to Ibadism, as it had recently been effected by the Ghurabiyya Shia doctrine from southern Iraq.
In the 11th century, the island of Kilwa ...
Loropéni is a market town in southern Burkina Faso, lying west of Gaoua. Local features include pre-European stone ruins, about which little is known. One theory is that they formed the enclosure of the courtyard of a Kaan Iya (king or paramount ruler of the Kaan people) from antiquity. There is a similar, though much-degraded ruin around the current royal cour...
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