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The garden of the Villa Medici at Castello is the prototype for sixteenth-century Italian gardens.

Design and construction of the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti began in 1549 under Cosimo I de Medici.

The Church of Our Lady’s Assumption was founded in the mid-twelfth century within a Norbertine monastery.

The Peć Monastery comprises four churches built from the early-thirteenth through the mid-fourteenth century, the largest being that of Holy Apostles.

According to legend, the town of Tianshui was founded long ago when a crack opened in the Earth from which poured sweet water, creating a lake and springs that would never run dry.

Among rock shelters, ceremonial structures, houses, terraces, and funerary chambers is the cemetery of Los Pinchudos, a key feature of the National Park of Río Abiseo.

As the last steam-powered train of the Paraguay Railway came to a halt at the Sapucaí train yard in 1999, an era came to an end.

Located in the center of Fez, the Mosque of Al Azhar is an example of the austere Almohad style of architecture.

Founded in the tenth century, the fortified city of Anegundi on the northern bank of the mighty Tungabhadra River has played an integral role in Indian history.

Soon after British colonization, the first Fijian capital was established at Levuka in 1877.

Forest exploitation is damaging the ancient heartland of the Warao, one of the oldest cultures of the region.

The churches of Arani and Callapa are but two examples of the scores of adobe churches in Bolivia that face extinction, despite designation as National Monuments.