The particular name of this historic period takes after the Nuraghi, the biggest megalithic edifices ever found in Europe, which still today represent a symbol for Sardinia.

Built over one of the most ancient Christian edifices of the city, it has today Baroque lines.

Indeed, the hammams built in Tripoli by the early Mamluk governors were splendid edifices and many of them are still present until today.

This practice of rounding corners in order to open up panoramic vistas was carried out with unprecedented frequency in the town of Monaghan and is still reflected today in the edifices of The Diamond, Church Square and Mill Street, helping to secure Monaghan's status as one of Ulster's more attractive large towns.

Perhaps the most famous of the surviving edifices is the Chehelsotoon ( Kolah Farangi ) mansion, today a museum in central Qazvin.

Houses generally faced the south, and plaza areas were almost always girt with edifices of sealed-off rooms or high walls.

Large piles of building were erected, with strong outside walls, capable of resisting the assaults of an enemy, within which all the necessary edifices were ranged round one or more open courts, usually surrounded with cloisters.

Many of these religious edifices are Christian in origin, with Roman Catholic structures particularly prevalent.

These edifices are considered, along with some similar buildings in southern France and Catalonia, to mark a transitory phase between the Pre-Romanesque and full-fledged Romanesque.

Grimshaw described these edifices as being " large, bare, shady buildings fitted with wide shelves, on which the men spread their mats and pillows to sleep ".

Meanwhile, the North-South Axis would have cut a giant swathe passing just to the west of Potsdamer Platz, some 5 km long and up to 100 m wide, and lined with Nazi government edifices on a gargantuan scale.

The two other temples are also prostrate, but the ruins have fallen with such regularity that the portions of almost every column lie on the ground as they have fallen ; and it is not only easy to restore the plan and design of the two edifices, but it appears as if they could be rebuilt with little difficulty.

The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.

In the 4th century, once the Imperial authorities had decriminalised Christianity with the 313 Edict of Milan, and with the activities of Constantine the Great and his mother Helena, Christians were prepared to build larger and more handsome edifices for worship than the furtive meeting-places ( such as the Cenacle, Cave-churches, House churches such as that of the roman consuls John and Paul ) they had been using.

One of the reasons for this close identification is that Finnegan is called a " man of hod, cement and edifices " and " like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth ", identifying him with the initials HCE.

The locality is lonely, and the neighbouring district wild and unimproved ; but it is still an interesting place as the seat of a large episcopal see, with a fine cathedral and the remains of other magnificent religious edifices.

During the 14th and 15th century, Timur and his successors adorned Samarkand and other Central-Asian cities with spectacular and stately edifices.

Pitcher railed at the " rottenness of the whole scheme of Chinese architecture ," and urged fellow missionaries " to erect unabashedly Western edifices of several stories and with towering spires in order to destroy nonsense about fung-shuy ".

* The town of Poros, with its neoclassical edifices, is built amphitheatrically on the slopes of a hill.

With the assistance of the famous architect, Pieter Post of Haarlem, he transformed Recife by building a new town adorned with splendid public edifices and gardens, which was called after his name, Mauritsstad.

The museum shows, for tourism and educational purposes, the machinery used in the meat and extract of meat process, the edifices, an 1893 Merryweather water pumping machine, a complete canning plant, an invaluable and extremely interesting plant where the meat was cooked, a laboratory full of chemicals and chemistry jars, flasks and stoves and hundred of photos and glass negatives with the Liebig's Company working life … Fray Bentos ´ industrial heritage of buildings and machinery is still intact.

In both edifices, each bay is tied to the others through brick arches tied by juniper beams, and masonry is made with rubble.

The central part is graced with Catharinian and Soviet edifices, bridges, and embankments.

It is unlikely that it is possible to reconstruct a historical Tower of Babel linguistic community in which all humans spoke a common language ( although we can say with confidence that large stone edifices built by large organized communities of people, which date to the Neolithic era at the earliest, weren't built by any culture on Earth until at least many tens of thousands of years after there was a hypothetical common language of all humans, or even of all Eurasians ), or to gain very specific insight about what the language the original proto-Eurasians or the earliest modern humans spoke, although the lack of instances of writing more than about 5, 500 years ago, despite the extensive recovery of earlier artifacts and art from prehistory, makes it unlikely that earlier humans had anything approaching a complete written language.

It maintains a flight training association on and off campus at nearby Brackett Airport, with a hangar and facilities made possible through donations from Sophia Clarke ( renowned for also providing generous gifts for the modern and stately, state-of-the-art Sophia B. Clarke theater and its adjacent equally photogenic edifices ).

His work filled Hitler with enthusiasm, and he planned and built state and municipal edifices throughout Germany.

* The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.

Spectacular and stately edifices erected by Timur and his successors in Samarkand and Herat helped to disseminate the influence of the Ilkhanid school of art in India, thus giving rise to the celebrated Mughal school of architecture.

He considered the Romans an early Aryan empire, and emulated their architecture in an original style inspired by both neoclassicism and art deco, sometimes known as " severe " deco, erecting edifices as cult sites for the Nazi Party.

The head office of the National Bank of Romania with the view of Lipscani Street is one of the most imposing and massive bank edifices in Romania, nowadays a historic, art monument, and protected as such.

Things were not helped by the very close proximity of Hitler's Reich Chancellery, just one block away in Voßstraße, and many other Nazi government edifices nearby as well, and so Potsdamer Platz was right in a major target area.

They are frequently mountains, trees, unusual rocks, rivers, waterfalls, and other natural edifices.

Their city is not built continuously, and has no splendid temples or other edifices ; it rather resembles a group of villages, like the ancient towns of Hellas, and would therefore make a poor show.

No other remains of buildings, beyond mere fragments and foundations, can be traced within the walls ; but the outlines of two large edifices, built of squared stones and in a massive style, are distinctly traceable outside the walls, near the northeast and northwest angles of the city, though their nature or purpose is unclear.

Many of its public buildings were destroyed, and the materials were used by the Ottomans in erecting their mosques and other edifices.

In some places columns and other architectural fragments from the ruins of more ancient edifices have been inserted.

Being a rustic god, Pan was not worshipped in temples or other built edifices, but in natural settings, usually caves or grottoes such as the one on the north slope of the Acropolis of Athens.

The neoclassical, Georgian, gothic, and modern architectural styles are all reflected among those six structures and many other prominent edifices in Washington.

According to Joanna's biographer Nancy Goldstone, shortly after her coronation, the Queen continued the Angevin tradition of constructing churches and other public edifices including hospitals, employing the use of celebrated artisans.

He painted in 1587 the same subject for the church of San Miguel, and he also painted in other public edifices at Seville.

Like many other ancient edifices, the monuments of the Angkorian region absorbed vast reserves of resources and human labor and their purpose remains shrouded in mystery.

" Ekankar ", when written in the Gurmukhī alphabet, is one of the two symbols of the Sikh faith ( the other being the khanda ) and can be found written or drawn on Sikh items, motor vehicles, and in all Sikh edifices and Gurdwāra ( temple ).

However, pre-existing edifices designed for other functions, such as Underground stations ( tube or subway stations ), tunnels, cellars in houses or basements in larger establishments, and railway arches, above ground, were suitable for safeguarding people during air raids.

Along with other architects, Troost planned and built State and municipal edifices throughout the country, including new administrative offices, social buildings for workers and bridges across the main highways.

The same authorities prove that it must have been under the Roman Empire a flourishing and opulent municipal town ; and this is further attested by existing remains, which include the vestiges of a theatre, baths, and other public edifices, besides numerous mosaics, statues, and columns of granite or marble.

He later went on to build numerous other edifices in his service.

Numerous such historical edifices and items are found in the northwestern Awdal province of Somalia, as well as other parts of the Horn region where the polity held sway.

* the upkeep of places of worship, e. g. mosques, prayer rooms, other similar edifices or meeting places.

The other volcanic edifices adjacent to Bud Dajo are: Matanding, located northeast of the Bud Dajo with an elevation of asl ; Guimba, east and elevation of asl ; and Sungal, southeast which is asl.

The same uniformity in appellations in popular parlance may also apply to other edifices built by Danishmends.

The commerce and trade, and the economic and even social development of the state, which came in the wake of this railway, confirmed Takhtsinhji in a policy of progressive administration, under which educational establishments, hospitals and dispensaries, trunk roads, bridges, handsome edifices and other public works grew apace.