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Romania, Viscri Fortified Church
The Viscri fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Viscri Bra_ov County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of...
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Romania, Saschiz Fortified Church
The largest fortified church in southeastern Europe, Prejmer was built by Teutonic knights in 1212-1213. The church, built in a cross-like plan, was completed in 1225 and later adapted to the Cistercian style. The nave features...
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China, Sichuan - Huanglong National Park
Due to thousands of years of geological evolution, Huanglong consists of numerous unique landscapes of geological landforms. Glacial revolution, terrane structure, stratum of carbonic acid rock, tufa water and climatic conditions such as...
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China, Sichuan - Jiuzhaigou National Park
The Jiuzhaigou valley is part of the Min Mountains on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and stretches over 72,000 hectares . It is known for its many multi-level waterfalls, colorful lakes, and snow-capped peaks. Its elevation ranges from...
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Romania, Prejmer Fortified Church
The largest fortified church in southeastern Europe, Prejmer (Tartlau in German)
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Romania, Biertan Fortified Church
Biertan was founded by Transylvanian Saxons in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. It was allowed to organize a market, placing it in competition with Media_ and Mo_na; it was also the see of the Saxon Lutheran Church from 1572 to 1867....
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Portugal, Sintra - Monserrate Palace
According some legends there was a chapel dedicated to Virgin built by Afonso Henriques after the reconquest of Sintra. On its ruins another chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Monserrate was constructed on the top of the hill In 1540. The...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias - Aphrodite Temple
The Temple of Aphrodite was a focal point of the town, but the character of the building was altered when it became a Christian basilica. The Aphrodisian sculptors became renowned and benefited from a plentiful supply of marble close at...
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Italy, Agrigento - Valley of the Temples - Temple of the Olympian Zeus
The Valley of the temples, is an archaeological site in Agrigento. It is one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and architecture, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily as well as a national monument of Italy....
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Portugal, Sintra - Pena Palace
The castle's history started in the Middle Ages when a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena was built on the top of the hill above Sintra. According to tradition, construction occurred after an apparition of the Virgin Mary. In 1493,...
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Cave Dwellings: Kandovan Community Life
Kandovan Caves, Iran part 2/2: This video showcases the village's culinary traditions, weaving industry, and sheep farming, which have been passed down through generations. It also highlights how the increase in tourism has brought a new...
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Republic of Macedonia, Lake Ohrid with the Bay of the Bones
Lake Ohrid straddles the mountainous border between southwestern Macedonia and eastern Albania. It is one of Europe's deepest and oldest lakes, preserving a unique aquatic ecosystem that is of worldwide importance, with more than 200...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias Sebasteion
The Sebasteion, or Augusteum, was jointly dedicated, according to a 1st-century inscription on its propylon, "To Aphrodite, the Divine Augusti and the People". A relief found in the ruins of the south portico represented a...
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Portugal, Alcobaca Monastery
The Alcobaca Monastery is one of the first foundations of the Cistercian Order in Portugal. It was founded in 1153 as a gift to Bernard of Clairvaux, shortly before his death, from the first Portuguese King, Afonso Henriques, to...
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Italy, Campania - Caserta Palace
The construction of the palace was begun in 1752 for Charles VII of Naples, who worked closely with his architect, Luigi Vanvitelli. When Charles saw Vanvitelli's grandly scaled model for Caserta, it filled him with emotion "fit to tear...
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Ksar Mud House, Morocco: Pre-Saharan Habitats in Morocco
Ksar Mud House, Morocco part 1/3: This video explores the ancient fortified village of Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou in Morocco, built entirely out of the earth beneath it by the Amazigh people. The village is a prime example of pre-Saharan...
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Portugal, Sintra National Palace
The history of the castle begins in the Moorish Al-Andalus era, after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 8th century, when Sintra had two castles. One was located atop of a hill overlooking Sintra. It is known as the Castelo dos...
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Spain, Barcelona - The Sagrada Familia Basilica
The Basilica Sagrada Familia, Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Gaudi's work on the building is part of a...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias Stadium
The Stadium was built in the later first century AD and with the Theatre completed the town's need for large-capacity spectator buildings. Unusually for a Greek stadium, it is closed at both ends. It measures c. 270 X 60 m, and has...
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Romania, Valea Viilor Fortified Church
Located in the Vineyards Valley, this fortified church was built in 1263 in gothic style and was enlarged and fortified in the 15th and 16th centuries by adding a range of 26-foot-tall and five-foot- wide walls. A unique element is the...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias - the Theatre
The original theatre of Aphrodisias in Asia Minor in Turkey, dates from the Late Hellenistic period, but it was extensively renovated between 38 and 28 BC. An architrave inscription records that the remodeled theater was dedicated to...
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Romania, Fortified Churches
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania are seven villages (six Saxon and one Szekely) founded by the Transylvanian Saxons. They are dominated by fortified churches and characterized by a...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias - the Bouleuterion (Odeon)
The bouleuterion (council house), or odeon, is centered on the north side of the North Agora. As it stands today, it consists of a semicircular auditorium fronted by a shallow stage structure about 46 m wide. The lower part of the...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias - Hadrian's Baths
Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, came to Aphrodisias in one of his travels in Anatolia. The city council had erected these baths the memory of this visit. Baths consists of two large sections of men and women, who washed separately. There is...