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Topic: Cool Historical Buildings Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 10:53 |
Kolah Farangi (French/European Hat) in Birjand This building which looks like a ziggurat is in fact a 6-storey palace which was built about 350 years ago.
Ancient Birjand Citadel This building which looks like a Giant Sandcastle, is one of the best preserved ancient Persian citadels (probably belongs to Sassanid period).
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 13:05 |
Khaju Bridge in Isfahan Or better to say a free hotel with some restaurants and teahouses!!
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 19:01 |
They seems to be well maintaned. The metal handmade objects are very photogenic.
Look some of Romania and Ukraina:
The palace of Constantin Brncoveanu voivod at Potlogi (end of 17th century), close to Bucharest
Cisnadioara / Michelsberg, near Sibiu. On the hill is a Romanesque basilica from 1200. It is one of the oldest monuments of Saxon colonists:
Hotin, on the Dniestr river (today in Ukraina) was built in the present form in 1400 by Moldavian prince Aleander the Kind. Read more: Khotyn
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 21:18 |
Brncovenesti/Marosvecs, a 16th century castle having a dominant position on the river Mures, near Reghin city (Mures county)
The former Radu Voda monastery in Bucharest, 16-17th century. Until 19th century it has a fortified cells enclosure
Moigrad, Salaj county (Crisana, North-West Romania) is the locality on the place of ancient Dacian and Roman town of Porolissum. This was one of Roman Dacia's most important cities, together with Apulum and Sarmisegetusa Regia. It was the most advanced Roman settlement in the Barbaricum, a city at the edge of imense unknown world for them. Paradoxaly, here the Christianism was the most developed in 4th century. The image shows thevestiges of the Roman arena. Only two arena existed in Roman Dacia, one at Sarmisegetusa Regia (the capital of the province) and the second is this:
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 21:23 |
Those places look absolutely amazing. If you guys have any more, I would love to see them.
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 21:46 |
Unirii Square in Timisoara, a magnificent Baroque ensamble of 18t century
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 22:43 |
Cotmeana monastery, 14th century, one of the few monuments in Byzantine style in Romania:
Comana monastery, 16-17th century (founded in 15th century), South of Bucharest
Sitaru, a 17th century hermitage some tens kms of Bucharest. Is placed in a vestige of Codrii Vlasiei (the Vlasia forest). The intermiable forests were covering Romania in Antiquity and Middle Age
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Posted: 02-Jan-2007 at 23:23 |
The Colt Castle in Ru de Mori, Hunedoara county (South Transylvania) was built by a 14th century Romanian nobiliary family (cnyazes) called Cndea who later magyarized
The Rmet monastery (Alba county, near Aiud) was founded in 13 or 14th century, from which period the church is. It was the most important religious center of Romanians in Transylvania
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Posted: 04-Jan-2007 at 09:19 |
I love all those ancient tranquil houses and small towns, I dream one day I could live there for a while, throwing off the uproar and pressure the city has imposed on me.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 02:28 |
I don't see an urbanite being able to deal with such enviroments for longer then a few weeks.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 09:05 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Ancient Birjand Citadel This building which looks like a Giant Sandcastle, is one of the best preserved ancient Persian citadels (probably belongs to Sassanid period).
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Oh i'm falling in love with this Wonder I like very much Meteora's monasteries in Greece And another, totally different, beautiful place, the Sijiriya's citadel in Sri Lanka
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 09:57 |
Meteora's monasteries remind me of "Babak Castle"
This 2,200 years old castle is located 148 Km from Tabriz at about 3,000 meters above sea level. Surrounding the castle are valleys and only access to this structure is through a narrow track. It was from this unconquerable castle that Babak Khorram Din and his followers fought against the Arabs for 22 years. Historical evidences show that this castle was the center of rule in the 6th and 7th century, of the territory.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 11:59 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Meteora's monasteries remind me of "Babak Castle"
This 2,200 years old castle is located 148 Km from Tabriz at about 3,000 meters above sea level. Surrounding the castle are valleys and only access to this structure is through a narrow track. It was from this unconquerable castle that Babak Khorram Din and his followers fought against the Arabs for 22 years. Historical evidences show that this castle was the center of rule in the 6th and 7th century, of the territory.
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Hey man, that is a fake
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 12:26 |
It has an aerial photo of the citadel imposed onto the suirrounding landscape of the mountain which it is perched.
The rebellion thre started when Arabs tried to settle onto the Iranian lands, apparently hundreds of thousands of Arabsand Caliphate soldiers were killed over the 22 year period.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 14:31 |
Aquileia
Situated between Venice and Trieste, the city was a great metropolis in Roman times, having a population of 200.000 in the time of Octavian Augustus, being an important point on the routes between East and West of the Empire.
Here a Patriarchate existed in the Middle Age.
In 313, just the year of religous tolerance gived by emperor Constantine the Great, at Aquileia (a strong Christian center in the period of persecutions) are elevated the first Christian basilicas in the word. They were two great halles with the floors decorated with imense and perfect preserved till today mosaics.
In the next centuries the two halls have been several times destroyed and rebuilt. One of them was no more rebuilt after the Hunnish destruction in 5th century.
The other basilica was rebuilt one time more during Charlemagne cultural revolution (from that epoch are the actual Baptistery and the crypt) and in 1070 was built the basilica which we can see today.
The mosaics have been discovered in 1909 under the floor of the medieval basilica. The mosaics in the basilica from 1070 have been recently (few years ago) protected against stepping directly on them (this was the situation anteriorly) by implementing some glass circulatories for visitors.
The mosaics from the basilica which vanished are amenaged with glass circulatories too, in a museal space accesible from the 1070 basilica.
From the Roman city of Aquileia can be seen the amphitheater, the port (now inland due to colmatation).
The floors in the basilica
The carolingian crypt (begining of 9th century) decorated with frescoes in 12th century
Aerial view with the belltower of 1070 and octogonal Carolingian baptistery (begining of 9th century)
A movie with the mosaics of the vanished basilica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlguNGr5_Zo
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 14:41 |
Grado
In Roman times the city, known as ad Aquas Gradatas, was first port for ships entering the Natissa (Natisone), headed upstream to Aquileia.
Quite close is the ancient Roman city of Aquileia; during the late years of the Western Roman Empire many people fled from Aquileia to Grado in order to find a safer place, more protected from the invasions coming from the east. In 452 Nicetas, Bishop of Aquileia, took refuge briefly at Grado; of the same period is the earliest construction of Grado's first Cathedral, the first church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and the Baptistery. Grado was the home base of the Patriarchate's fleet.
In 568, after the invasion of the Lombards, the seat of the Patriarchate of Aquileia was transferred here by the Patriarch Paulinus. After the "Schism of the Three Chapters", two different Patriarchs were elected: that of Grado exerted its jurisdiction over the Latin-origin people living in the coast and in the Venetian Lagoon, while that Aquileia, later moved to Cividale, had its jurisdiction on the mainland. A long lasting dispute over the authority of the two patriarchs ensued: in 993 the patriarch of Aquileia, Popo, conquered Grado, but was unable to maintain it. The matter was settled only in 1027 when the Pope declared the supremacy of the seat of Aquileia over Grado and the Venetian province.
The seat of the Patriarchate was transferred to Venice in 1451 by Pope Nicholas V. Reduced to a minor hamlet, Grado was sacked by the English in 1810 and by the French in 1812. Grado was handed acquired by Austria in 1815, to which it remained until 1918.
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Aerial views
Basilica S. Piero, 6th century
6th century basilica of Saint Eufemi, exterior and interior
Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie, 6th century
The Baptistery, 6th century
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 14:54 |
Cividale del Friuli
Cividale was founded as a Roman municipium by Julius Caesar in 50 BCE on the newly built Via Julia Augusta, which passed through Utina (Udine) on its way north, with the name of Forum Iulii ("Julius' Forum"; Frjus had the same Roman name).
After the decay of Aquileia and Iulium Carnicum (Zuglio), it became the chief town of the district of Friuli and gave its name to it.
In 568 the city was the first major centre occupied by Alboin's Lombard invasion of Italy, then part of the Byzantine Empire. The city was chosen as first capital of the newly-formed Lombard Kingdom. After the latter was defeated by the Franks, in the 8th century, Cividale changed its name to Civitas Austriae, whence the current name stems.
The patriarchs of Aquileia resided here from 773 to 1031, when they returned to Aquileia, and finally in 1238 removed to Udine.
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The most important monument of Cividale is the Tempietto, a the only one example in the world of Lombard architecture. it was built in 8th century and is decorated with Barbarian style sculpted elements. The most intriguind are the figures of 6 personages in ronde-bosse. The scholars doubted about their creation in 8th century but finaly this is the accepted conclussion.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2007 at 15:24 |
Very nice pictures, keep them coming!
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Posted: 07-Feb-2007 at 20:36 |
Please keep this thread going. Breathtaking!
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Posted: 07-Feb-2007 at 21:44 |
You gotta love these rock-hewn Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. The amount of dedication that would take...incredible.
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