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The incredible life of Marcus Poncius Europaeus

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Carnac
The Carnac stones were erected during the Neolithic
period which lasted from around 4500 BC until 2000 BC.
The precise date of the stones is difficult to ascertain as
little dateable material has been found beneath them,
but the site's main phase of activity is commonly
attributed to c. 3300 BC. One interpretation of the site
is that successive generations visited the site to erect a
stone in honour of their ancestors.
The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense
collection of megalithic sites around the French
village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of
alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs.
More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were
hewn from local rock and erected by the
pre/proto-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the
largest such collection in the world.
Most of the stones are within the Breton village of
Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinit-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some
stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as
4500 BC.

Although the stones date from 4500 BC, modern myths were formed which resulted from 1st
century AD Roman and later Christian occupations, such as Saint Cornelius a Christian myth
associated with the stones held that they were pagan soldiers in pursuit of Pope Cornelius
when he turned them to stone. Brittany has its own local versions of the Arthurian cycle. Local
tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly straight lines is that they are a
Roman legion turned to stone by Merlin.
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Roman Theatre of Mrida

Mrida's most spectacular Roman monument,
the Roman Theater was built by the Roman
consul Marcus Vespasiano Agripa in 15 B.C. He
was the son-in-law of Augustus Caesar. It had a
capacity for 5,800 spectators, divided into three
levels, and with a semi-circular shape.

The theater was built to give good acoustics

for the public and it was built on the hill of
San Albin, whose inclination favors the good
acoustics. The stage has three access doors
and a podium 2.5 meters high. The stone
columns have been well preserved. Beside
the orchestra pit is the stage, which has very
high Corinthian columns that are 18 meters
high, and is decorated with sculptures of the
gods and imperials figures.
One remodeling of the theater happened
during the reign of Trajan at the end of the
1st century. The other remodeling took place
during the reign of Constantine, around 330
AD. When the Christians came into power,
the theater was abandoned because the
Christians thought that it was immoral, and
the theater became covered with earth
because of the disuse of the building, and
only the top of the seats became visible.
Since 1933 the theater has been the site of the Festival of Classical Theater. Today the
theater is the most visited monument in the city.

The old Government

of Safranbolu
Safranbolu (from Greek: ) is a town
and district of Karabk Province in the Black Sea
region of Turkey. It is about 200 kilometres (120 mi)
north of Ankara and about a 100 km south of the
Black Sea coast, or more precisely about 9 km north
of the city of Karabk.
The Old Town preserves many old buildings, with
1008 registered historical artifacts. These are: 1
private museum, 25 mosques, 5 tombs, 8 historical
fountains, 5 Turkish baths, 3 caravanserais, 1
historical clock tower, 1 sundial and hundreds of
houses and mansions.

The Old Government Building which inspires

the painters' drawings is making a significant
difference with its architectural beauty and
commanding to the city of Safranbolu.

It's the most suitable place to enjoy the

fascinating sunset in the city. It was built on a
hill called "Castle" in 1904 by the Governor
of Kastamonu, Enis Pasha, and the
administrator of the town, Ahmet Bey. The
building, which was made of stone, is 3 floored.
Throughout its history, the building was used for military, administrative and judical
management purposes. The building burned down as a result of a fire on 19th January, 1976.
The Old Government Building's restoration was completed by the Ministry of Culture and
Tourism, and nowadays it is used as a cultural centre and museum.

The cathedral of Sant'Agata

The cathedral of Sant'Agata was built over the
Roman Baths of Achilles at the very point where
the holy martyr Agatha died in 251. The
Normans began with the construction of the
first cathedral in 1090 which was restored after
the earthquakes 1140 and 1169 and finally
completely reconstructed from scratch after the
great earthquake of 1693. The architects
Girolamo Palazzotto and Giovanni Battista
Vaccarini, who designed the faade of the
cathedral, were responsible for the construction
of the Baroque facade. Today, traces of the original Norman edifice include part of the
transept, the two towers and the three semicircular apses, composed of large lava stones,
most of them recovered from imperial Roman buildings.
The cathedral of Sant'Agata consists of a three-nave longitudinal building
with a transept and three Norman apses made of lava rock. The apses
were stripped of their baroque decorations in the 20 thCentury so that you
can take a look at the original construction of the Norman cathedral. The
dome dates from 1802. The bell tower was originally erected in 1387, with
a height of some 70 meters. In 1662 a clock was added, the structure
reaching 90 meters. After the destruction of 1693 it was rebuilt, with the
addition of a 7.5 t bell, the third largest in Italy after those in St Petrs
Basilica and in Milan Cathedral. He used six ancient pillars which already
adorned the ruined Norman cathedral.
The interior of the cathedral is equipped as the pantheon of Catania and is
imposing in its proportions and dimensions. On the second pillar on the
right there is the simple grave of the famous composer and citizen of
Catania, Vincenzo Bellini. Also noteworthy is the right transept where you
will find the Chapel of the Madonna with numerous graves of Aragonese
kings and two sarcophagi - Constance of Aragon, the wife of Frederick III, is
buried in one of them. The citys patron saint is venerated in the right apse
of the adjoining Chapel of Saint Agata. The life of St. Agata is also the
subject of the carvings in the choir stalls in the chancel. Here you can also
find more tombs of the Aragonese kings of Sicily. Also worth seeing in the
sacristy is the fresco of the Mount Etna eruption in 1669. In the fresco, which was painted by
an eyewitness of the disaster, you can see Mt Etna, the city and the lava flow that reaches the
Castello Ursino.

The Cathedral of Wroclaw

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wrocaw is the seat of
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocaw and a landmark
of the city of Wrocaw in Poland.
A first church at the location of the present cathedral was built
under Pemyslid rule in the mid 10th century. After the Polish
conquest of Silesia, this Bohemian church was replaced by a
larger basilical structure with three naves, a crypt, and towers
on its eastern side. The first cathedral was however soon
destroyed, probably by the invading troops of Duke Bretislaus
of Bohemia around 1039. A larger, Romanesque-style church
was soon built in its place in the times of Duke Casimir I.

After the end of the Mongol invasion, the church was again
largely rebuilt in the present-day Brick Gothic style. It was the first
building of the city to be made of brick when construction of the
new choir and ambulatory started in 1244.
On June 19, 1540, a fire destroyed the roof, which was restored
16 years later in Renaissance style. In the 19th century, Karl
Ldecke rebuilt the interior and western side in neogothic style.

The cathedral was almost entirely destroyed (about

70% of the construction) during the Siege of Breslau
and heavy bombing by the Red Army in the last days of
World War II. Parts of the interior fittings were saved
and are now on display at the National Museum in
Warsaw. The initial reconstruction of the church lasted
until 1951, when it was reconsecrated by Archbishop
Stefan Wyszyski. In the following years, additional
aspects were rebuilt and renovated. The original,
conical shape of the towers was restored only in 1991. The cathedral holds the largest pipe
organ in Poland, built in 1913 by E.F. Walcker & Sons of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wrttemberg,
Germany, for the Centennial Hall formerly the largest organ in the world.

The Parthenon
The Parthenon, dedicated by the Athenians
to Athena Parthenos, the patron of their
city, is the most magnificent creation of
Athenian democracy at the height of its
power. It is also the finest monument on
the Acropolis in terms of both conception
and execution. Built between 447 and 438
BC, as part of the greater Periklean building
project, this so-called Periklean Parthenon
(Parthenon III) replaced an earlier marble
temple (Parthenon II), begun after the victory at the battle of Marathon at approximately 490
BC and destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC. This temple had replaced the very first Parthenon
(Parthenon I) of c. 570 BC. The Periklean Parthenon was designed by architects Iktinos and
Kallikrates, while the sculptor Pheidias supervised the entire building program and conceived
the temple's sculptural decoration and chryselephantine statue of Athena.
The Parthenon is a double peripteral Doric temple
with several unique and innovative architectural
features. The temple proper is divided into pronaos,
cella and opisthodomos, with a separate room at the
west end, and is surrounded by a pteron with eight
columns on each of the short sides and seventeen
columns on the long ones.
The Parthenon construction cost the Athenian
treasury 469 silver talents.
One talent was the cost for paying the crew of a warship for a
month (D. Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, 61). According to
Kagan, Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war had 200
triremes in service, while the annual gross income of the city of
Athens at the time of Perikles was 1000 talents, with another
6000 in reserve at its treasury.

Theatre Piccinni of Bari

Teatro Piccinni is a theatre in the city
of Bari, Apulia on the east coast of
Italy. It was founded in 1854 and
opened on 30 May of that year. The
municipal theatre Niccolo Piccinni is
the oldest theater in the city of Bari.

The construction of the structure was

completed in 1854, the year in which it took
place the inauguration of the theater Piccinni,
which opened its doors to the public with a
performance of Donizetti Poliuto Gaetrano.
The dedication to the composer Piccinni of Bari
took place the following year at the opening.

Because of the fire in 1991 destroyed the

Petruzzelli Theatre, has been for nearly
two decades the most important room in
the capital for both capacity and for
tradition. The Piccini is also in size, the
fourth Italian theater in the region after
the Petruzzelli theatre, the Greek
Politeama of Lecce and the Verdi of San
Severo.

The theater is located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, a major city street, near the Gardens
Isabella of Aragon.