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France

Eiffel Tower-

Located: Paris, France

The Eiffel tower was built for commemorating the centenary of the French revolution; and This is a structure built in 1889 as the entrance to the Worlds Fair.

Louvre Musée-

Located: Paris, France

The worlds greatest art museum fi rst started out as a public art exhibition. It is a world wide museum open to the public to display art of all nature.

Musée D’Orsay-

Located: Paris, France

This museum was originally installed as a orsay railway station built for the universal Exhibition of 1900. They saw the building more as a work of art, so it was created into a historic Art Musée (Museum).

Musée de Bretagne-

Located- Bretagne, France

The Museum of Brittany is the ground floor of a grand building in the centre of Rennes. The first floor is the Musée des Beaux Arts. It was created after the second world war. The museum houses a fine collection of archaeological and ethnological artifacts, dating from Neolithic times and ancient Armorica, to the present day. It is a fine introduction to the various aspects of the region and also the development of Rennes.

Fontaine Sainte-Marie-Madeleine –

Located- Bretagne/ Quebec, France

Parts of this palace has been moved to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Quebec.  

Musée de l'Orangerie-

Located- Paris, France

The Musée de l'Orangerie is an Art Museum made up of famous paintings. It was originally built in 1852 by the architect Firmin Bourgeois and completed by his successor, Ludovico Visconti to shelter the orange trees of the garden of the Tuileries. Used by the Third Republic in the nineteenth-century as deposit for goods, an examination room, and place of lodging for mobilized soldiers, it also served the general-purpose of housing sporting, musical, and patriotic events. Additionally, it was a place to display exhibitions of industry, animals, plants, as well as rare displays of painting.

Ireland

Renvyle Castle-

Located: County Galway, Ireland

It is a mirror for the unpredictable changes that troubled Ireland, but it’s more commemorated for it’s resilience/ capacity to survive.

Twelve Bens-

Located: northeast of Roundstone in Connemara

Twelve Bens is a Mountain Range where usually runners attempt to hike all twelve peaks in a single day. Hence the name TWELVE Bens.

Four Courts-

Located: Kerry, Ireland

The Designer of this building was Thomas Cooley. It was made as a Public Records Offi ce of Ireland.

Grafton Street à Dublin-

Located- Dublin, Ireland

Grafton Street is one of the two principal shopping streets in Dublin city centre, the other being Henry Street. It runs from St. Stephen's Green in the south (at the highest point of the street) to College Green in the north (to the lowest point).

Dunguaire Castle-

Located- Dublin, Ireland

The castle was built by the Hynes clan in 1520, a family who may have been associated with the area since 662, when the site is believed to have once been the royal palace of Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, the legendary king of Connacht and progenitor of the clan.

Athenry-

Located- Dublin, Ireland

The castle was built by Meiler de Bermingham in the middle of the 13th century, and is very much linked with the medieval town.

England

Battle of Britain Memorial-

Located- London, England

This is a Memorial Site to represent the people who died in the Battle of Britain.

Firefighters at night-

Located- London, England

The drama of John W. Mills' memorial sculpture 'Blitz' heightened by the cloudy night sky. It was originally intended as a tribute to those "heroes with grimy faces" who saved so many lives during the wartime bombing of London on 57 consecutive nights. More recently (1991) it was moved from its earlier location in Old Change Court to here on the corner of Sermon Lane, to become a national memorial to all firefighters who have died in the course of duty. 1192 names were added to the plinth.

War Memorial, St Leonard's Church-

Located- Swindon, England

The memorial commemorates soldiers of the village who died in WWII.

Blenheim Palace-

Located- Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England

Blenheim Palace is a monumental stately home. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between 1705 and circa 1724. UNESCO recognised the palace as a World Heritage Site in 1987.

Wells Cathedral-

Located- Somerset, England

This building is a church for British. The first building phase took about eighty years, building from east to west, culminating in the magnificent West Front. About 300 of its original medieval statues remain: a glorious theatrical stone backdrop for feast day processions.

Church of England-

Located- England

This church is the official establishment of the Christian Church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church limits itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment to England by St. Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597.

Sweden

Slottet-

Located- Norway, Sweden

This is a Viking Museum built to tell about the past Vikings, and how they survived in Sweden during there time. The Royal Palace in Oslo was built in the first half of the 19th century as the Norwegian residence of Norwegian and Swedish king Charles III and is the official residence of the present Norwegian Monarch. The crown prince couple resides at Skaugum in Asker west of Oslo.

The Viking Ship Museum-

Located- Oslo, Norway, Sweden

In 1913, Swedish professor Gabriel Gustafson proposed a specific building to house Viking Age finds that were discovered at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The Gokstad and Oseberg ships had been stored in temporary shelters at the University of Oslo.

Vasamuseet-

Located- Stockholm, Sweden

From the end of 1961 to 1988, Vasa was housed in a temporary structure called Wasavarvet where she was treated with polyethylene glycol. Visitors could only view the ship from two levels and the maximum distance was only 5 m (17 ft). In 1981, the Swedish government decided that a permanent Vasa museum was to be constructed and an architects' competition for the design of the museum building was organized. A total of 384 architects sent in models of their ideas for the most suitable building to house the Vasa, and the final winners were Marianne Dahlbäck and Goran Mansson.

Gołoborze/Steniga glade

Located- Stockholm, Sweden

It’s a lake found in Sweden popular to the people.

Jakt torn i gysselhyttan-

Located- Stockholm, Sweden

It’s a lake found in Sweden popular to the people.

Przydrożne jezioro/Vägarna Lake-

Located- Stockholm, Sweden

It’s a lake found in Sweden popular to the people.

Italy

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore-

Located- Italy

The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.

Fontana di Trevi-

Located- Rome, Italy

Largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.

Pantheon-

Located- Rome, Italy

It is one of the best preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a Roman Catholic church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa Maria della Rotonda." The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda.

Terme di Caracalla-

Located- Rome, Italy

Public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Chris Scarre provides a slightly longer construction period 211-217 AD. They would have had to install over 2,000 tons of material every day for 6 years in order to complete it in this time period. Records show that the idea for the baths were drawn up by Septimius Severus, and merely completed or opened in the lifetime of Caracalla. This would allow for a longer construction time frame.

Colosseum Located- Rome, Italy

The Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an ancient building in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.

Piazza del Popolo Rome-

Located- Rome, Italy

Left the 'Santa Maria di Monte Santo and left the Santa Maria dei Miracoli. Both churches (twins) built in the late 17th century under the leadership of Carlo Fontana. Bernini helped in the decoration of the Monte Santo.

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