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This site, which is provided for by the WebMuseum Paris, provides a brief but factual biography of Peter Paul Rubens with links to Rubens's contemporaries and work. Also you can link to a page that describes the Baroque Style.

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Unesco: Nicaragua: Leon Cathedral

For Students 9th - 10th

Built between 1747 and the early 19th century to the design of Guatemalan architect Diego Jose de Porres Esquivel, the monument expresses the transition from Baroque to Neoclassical architecture and its style can be considered to be...

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Unesco: Czech Republic: Litomysl Castle

For Students 9th - 10th

Litomysl Catle wa originally a Renaiance arcade-catle of the type firt developed in Italy and then adopted and greatly developed in central Europe in the 16th century. It deign and decoration are particularly fine, including the later...

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Unesco: Belarus: Mir Castle Complex

For Students 9th - 10th

The construction of this castle began at the end of the 15th century, in Gothic style. It was subsequently extended and reconstructed, first in the Renaissance and then in the Baroque style. After being abandoned for nearly a century and...

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Unesco: Mexico: Historic Centre of Morelia

For Students 9th - 10th

Built in the 16th century, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban planning which combines the ideas of the Spanish Renaissance with the Mesoamerican experience. Well-adapted to the slopes of the hill site, its streets still follow...

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Unesco: Brazil: Historic Town of Ouro Preto

For Students 9th - 10th

Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto (Black Gold) was the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil’s golden age in the 18th century. With the exhaustion of the gold mines in the 19th century, the city’s influence declined...

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Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th

The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...

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Unesco: Mexico: Historic Centre of Zacatecas

For Students 9th - 10th

Founded in 1546 after the discovery of a rich silver lode, Zacatecas reached the height of its prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries. Built on the steep slopes of a narrow valley, the town has breathtaking views and there are many...

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Unesco: Czech Republic: Gardens and Castle at Kromeriz

For Students 9th - 10th

Kromeriz stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which dominates the central part of Moravia. The gardens and castle of Kromeriz are an exceptionally complete and...

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Unesco: Czech Republic: Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc

For Students 9th - 10th

This memorial column, erected in the early years of the 18th century, is the most outstanding example of a type of monument specific to central Europe. In the characteristic regional style known as Olomouc Baroque and rising to a height...

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Unesco: Spain: Santiago De Compostela (Old Town)

For Students 9th - 10th

This famous pilgrimage site in north-west Spain became a symbol in the Spanish Christians' struggle against Islam. Destroyed by the Muslims at the end of the 10th century, it was completely rebuilt in the following century. With its...

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Unesco: Brazil: Sanctuary of Bom Jesus Do Congonhas

For Students 9th - 10th

This sanctuary in Minais Gerais, south of Belo Horizonte was built in the second half of the 18th century. It consists of a church with a magnificent Rococo interior of Italian inspiration; an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of...

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Unesco: Mexico: Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro

For Students 9th - 10th

The old colonial town of Queretaro is unusual in having retained the geometric street plan of the Spanish conquerors side by side with the twisting alleys of the Indian quarters. The Otomi, the Tarasco, the Chichimeca and the Spanish...

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Unesco: Peru: Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa

For Students 9th - 10th

The historic centre of Arequipa, built in volcanic sillar rock, represents an integration of European and native building techniques and characteristics, expressed in the admirable work of colonial masters and Criollo and Indian masons....

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Unesco: Belgium: Plantin Moretus House Workshops Museum Complex

For Students 9th - 10th

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is...

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Unesco: Italy: Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi Dei Rolli

For Students 9th - 10th

The Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli in Genoa’s historic centre date from the late 16th and early 17th centuries when the Republic of Genoa was at the height of its financial and seafaring power. The site represents...

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