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The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign has been attributed to the famous eighteenth century architect Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov.

The distinctive wooden architecture of the Church of Saints Cosmos and Damian reflects the unique cultural and religious traditions the Greek Orthodox Church maintained in Slovakia.

Prisoners confined to Terra del Sole's nine cells passed time carving messages into the walls or rendering scenes of the city visible through their window bars.

Emperor Minh Mạng (1820-1841), the second ruler of the Nguyễn Dynasty, ruled southern and central Vietnam from 1820 to 1841.

In the 16th and 17th centuries colonial Catholic missions were established in the Oyón Valley in Peru and built in a style described as Rural Andean Baroque.

Built in 1909 for a Jewish agricultural community in Argentina, the Brener Synagogue was the area's primary place of worship for more than 70 years.

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.