Tower of Hercules

Many lighthouses were built around the Mediterranean and around the shores of their expanding empire, including the Tower of Hercules at A Coruña in northern Spain, a structure which still survives to this day.

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Chronicle descriptions make it clear the decorations, carved and painted had martial iconography ; " The foregate of the same palace or place with great and mighty masonry by sight was arched, with a Tower on every side of the same portered by great craft, and inbatteled was the gate and Tower, and in the fenesters, and windows, were images resembling men of warre redie to cast great stones: also the same gate or Tower was set with compassed images of ancient Princes, as Hercules, Alexander and other, by entrayled worke, richly limned with gold and Albyn colours, .... also the tower of the Gate as seemed was built by great masonry, ... for the sundrie countenances of every Image that their appeared, some shooting, some casting, some ready to strike, and firing of gonnes, which shewed very honourably.

One of them, Breogán, built a tower at a place called Brigantia ( probably in the coast of Galicia, near A Coruña ( Corunna ), which was then " Brigantia " ( today Betanzos ) and where a Celtic tribe called " Brigantes " is attested in ancient times — see Tower of Hercules ) from the top of which he, or his son Íth, first saw Ireland.

Tower of Hercules ( A Coruña, Galicia ( Spain ) | Galicia ) rebuilt 2nd and 18th centuries: According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Breogán was the father of Ith, the leader of an expedition to Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula ; from Breogán's Tower Ith first saw Ireland, 900 kilometres north

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A large statue of Breogán has been erected near the Tower of Hercules.

The Tower of Hercules ( Galician and Spanish: Torre de Hércules ) is an ancient Roman lighthouse on a peninsula about from the centre of A Coruña, Galicia, in north-western Spain.

The Tower of Hercules is a National Monument of Spain, and since June 27, 2009, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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They also built many lighthouses, such as the Tower of Hercules in northern Spain, which survives to this day as a working building, and the equally famous lighthouse at Dover Castle, which survives to about half its original height as a ruin.

Tower of Hercules, a Roman lighthouse at La Coruna modelled on the Lighthouse of Alexandria | Pharos

A famous example is the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña, Spain, and there is another at Dover, England which still stands to about half its original height.

The intact Tower of Hercules at A Coruña and the ruins of the Dover lighthouse give insight into construction ; other evidence about lighthouses exists in of depictions on coins and mosaics, of which many represent the lighthouse at Ostia.

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Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).

Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London-originally a dependency of Barking Abbey in Barking, Essex, of an ancient Suffolk family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, Rawreth ; his father, Thomas, was master of Trinity House.

The Book of Ether tells of an ancient people ( the Jaredites ), descendants of Jared and his companions who were led by God to the Americas shortly after the confusion of tongues and the destruction of the Tower of Babel.

The most known are the Tower of the Comentini ( 13th century ), the octagonal Torre de Regibus and Torre Troyana ( 13th century ), as well as the ancient Rossa di San Secondo, built during the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus.

According to the Bible, the Tower of Siloam was an ancient tower in Siloam in south Jerusalem, which fell during the time of Jesus, killing 18 people.

Visitors can take the " Tower Tour " where the interior of the hollow spire, with its ancient wood scaffolding, can be viewed.

This may be due to a shortage of resources, although the battery's position: obscuring the ancient David's Tower ; and enhancing the prominence of the palace, has been seen as a significant decision.

Its situation overlooks the pass through the hills taken by the Pilgrims ' Way, and also, presumably, once overlooked the ancient ford across the Wey, thus giving a key point of military control of this important East-West route way across the country ; just as Windsor Castle and the Tower of London once guarded the Thames.

Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).

In rebuilding the Chenonceau château in the 16th century, Thomas Bohier razed the castle-keep and the fortified mill of the Marques family, erecting the new château upon the piers of the former mill and keeping only the ancient donjon: The Marques Tower, which he transformed in Renaissance style.

Stepney formed a large ancient parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex ; bounded by Bromley and West Ham to the east, the River Thames to the south, Shoreditch and Hackney to the north and the City of London and the Liberties of the Tower of London to the west.

It was centred around an architecturally appealing 18th century building: the Radcliffe Observatory, which is modelled after the ancient " Tower of the Winds " in Athens.

Pottergate Tower, at the other side of the town, also stands on the site of an ancient gate, but the tower itself was rebuilt in the 18th century.

* the Hotspur Tower, part of the remains of the ancient town wall, and named for Sir Henry Percy, also called Harry Hotspur, the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland and a major character in Henry IV, Part 1.

File: Fraserburgh Lighthouse ( Kinnaird Castle ) and the Wine Tower. jpg | Kinnaird Head and the ancient Wine Tower

The Burana Tower is a minaret built in the 11th century on the ruins of the ancient city Balasagun.

The nature of the Tower's origin and its purpose were fundamentally altered, with the Tower now being a weapon created by the game's antagonist, and the protagonist has been elevated to a hero of ancient prophecy destined to save the world.

He realises the Librarian has saved the books by hiding them in the ancient Tower of Art.

David Rohl theorized that the Tower was actually located in Eridu, which was once located on the Persian Gulf, where there are ruins of a massive, ancient ziggurat worked from bitumen.

* The Tower of Babel, according to Rohl, was built in the ancient Sumerian capital of Eridu.

One of Mary's first actions as queen was to order the release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment in the Tower of London, as well as her kinsman Edward Courtenay.

Other noble examples can be seen in the churches of St. Didier, St. Peter and St. Agricola, as well as the Clock Tower, and in the fortifications built between 1349 and 1368 for a distance of some three miles ( 5 km ), and flanked by thirty-nine towers, all of which were erected or restored by the Roman Catholic Church.

Leopard domestication has also been recorded — several leopards were kept in a menagerie established by King John at the Tower of London in the 13th century ; around 1235, three of these animals were given to Henry III by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

The remains of the East Tower of Porta Praetoria from Ancient Roman times

Three towers survive from the medieval Conciergerie: the Caesar Tower, named in honor of the Roman Emperors ; the Silver Tower, so named for its ( alleged ) use as the store for the royal treasure ; and the Bonbec (" good beak ") Tower, which obtained its name from the torture chamber that it housed, in which victims were encouraged to " sing ".

Like other towers in the town, from 1686 onwards, the Constance Tower was used as a prison for the Huguenots who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism.

Bethnal Green forms a part of Tower Hamlets and Hackney, centred around the Central Line tube station at the junction of Bethnal Green Road, Roman Road and Cambridge Heath Road.

* The nearby Mont Cavalier is crowned by the Tour Magne (" Great Tower "), a ruined Roman tower.

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

In an example of an architectural frieze on the façade of a building, the octagonal Tower of the Winds in the Roman agora at Athens bears relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze.

Buildings of note are Saint Cadoc's Church, the National Roman Legion Museum, the Roman Baths Museum, The Mynde, The Priory Hotel, Caerleon Catholic Church and Rectory, Caerleon Endowed School, the Round Tower, the Toll House at Caerleon Bridge, The Malt House hotel, University of Wales, Newport Caerleon Campus and St Cadoc's Hospital.

Despite begging for mercy, and claims of conversion to Roman Catholicism, he was executed by Jack Ketch on 15 July 1685, on Tower Hill.

Religious landmarks include Birkenhead Priory & St. Mary's Tower, St. James ' Church and St. Werburgh's Roman Catholic Church.

The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion ( timepiece ), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Roman agora in Athens.

Opposed to the growth of " popery and arbitrary government ", throughout the latter half of the 1670s Shaftesbury argued in favour of frequent parliaments ( spending time in the Tower of London, 1677-1678 for espousing this view ) and argued that the nation needed protection from a potential Roman Catholic successor to King Charles II.

The compass rose is an old design element found on compasses, maps and even monuments ( e. g. the Tower of the Winds in Athens, the pavement in Dougga, Tunis, during Roman times ) to show cardinal directions and frequently intermediate direction.

* Tower ( Castle ) of Bramafan, built in the 11th century over a Roman bastion.

Notable are the Tower and Mausoleums, Casieri Bagnoli and Barbarossa, and the Arch of Gaius Terentius Varro, opus latericium and the opus reticulatum monuments dedicated to the passage of the Roman consul in the Battle of Cannae.

Other active churches include Christ Church Anglican Church, the KingsWay independent church, Glenorchy United Reform Church, the Tower Street Methodist Church, The Ichthus Community Church, the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church and Exmouth Baptist Church.

Statue of Trajan in front of a section of the Roman wall, Tower Hill.

The name Streoneshalh is thought to signify Fort Bay or Tower Bay in reference to a supposed Roman settlement that previously existed on the site.