Cultural heritage of the area includes several monuments, particularly St George's Church of Jgëræg ( the 10th century ), the Archangel Church of Thargizel ( the 9-10th centuries ), Tekal Church ( the 10-11th centuries ), Lentekhi Castle of the Dadiani, and the famous Svanetian towers in the village Leksuri.

The city is synonymous with Mount Uludağ which towers behind its core and which is also a famous ski resort.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

Numerous statues and memorials dot the cities, towns, and countryside of Germany, and the famous Bismarck Memorial in Berlin, not to mention numerous Bismarck towers on four continents.

Upon seeing Helen, Faustus speaks the famous line: " Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium.

In the famous face towers of the Bayon, the king represented himself as the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara moved by compassion for his subjects.

Thirty towers from the Islamic period still stand in Cáceres, of which the Torre del Bujaco is the most famous.

Sima Qian, in his most famous work, Shiji, completed a century after the mausoleum completion, wrote that the First Emperor was buried with palaces, towers, officials, valuable artefacts and wonderful objects.

During the Reconquista, the Kingdom of León in northern Spain built three churches famous for their domed crossing towers, called " cimborios ", as it acquired new territories.

Several stages for a pair of towers on the west end were completed before the project was abandoned in favour of the present central tower with a famous onion dome and facetted multi-staged lantern.

Skien Church is the largest church in Telemark county, and is famous for its two twin Church towers and great Church organ.

A total of seven bridges are part of the Krifast system, the most famous one being the suspension bridge Gjemnessund Bridge from the island of Bergsøya to the mainland of Gjemnes, with high towers and a span between them of.

During this war the city of Cairhien was burned and partially destroyed, and as of the rise of the Dragon Reborn, its famous " topless towers " had not yet been totally rebuilt.

In the early 17th century, Urban VIII Barberini tore away the bronze ceiling of the portico, and replaced the medieval campanile with the famous twin towers ( often wrongly attributed to Bernini ) called " the ass's ears ," which were not removed until the late 19th century.

The museum is housed in the towers of the famous bridge built between 1916 and 1918.

The urban heart of the city was protected by three towers: the first, Guaita, constructed in the 11th century, was famous for being impenetrable, which to a great extent discouraged attacks on the city.

The towers had already become famous and there was opposition from around the world.

Elements of Lasdun's most famous style, which combined cubic towers, bare concrete and jutting foyers, which was compared by some to Frank Lloyd Wright, can be found in his first educational buildings, the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Physicians in Regent's Park, the latter of which compared favourably to the surrounding buildings by John Nash.

The upper terrace is home to the famous " face towers " of the Bayon, each of which supports two, three or ( most commonly ) four gigantic smiling faces.

* Philippe Petit French highwire-walker, famous for his walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in 1974

The famous medieval artist Villard de Honnecourt made detailed drawings of one of the towers of Laon, ca.

The site is now Pan-Pacific Park and has a scaled-down replica of one of the famous towers.

In the outskirts, you can visit the spectacular Chullpas de Sillustani, a complex of impressive burial towers built by the Kollas, Juli, famous for its beautiful Colonial churches, Lampa with its vice royal church built between 1675 and 1685, Llachón, a community that still maintains its centuries old customs and cultural expressions, and Pucará, known for its pre-Inca pottery and for the " toritos de Pucará " that the artisans of today create from clay.

The biggest and most famous is mount Igman, whose peak towers above the city.

By the end of the 12th century, England and Ireland saw a handful of innovative angular or polygonal keeps built, including the keep at Orford Castle, with three rectangular, clasping towers built out from the high, circular central tower ; the cross-shaped keep of Trim Castle and the famous polygonal design at Conisborough.

The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it ( most notably the Parthenon ), is known without qualification as the Acropolis.

A famous example is the Iron Pillar of Delhi, erected by order of Kumara Gupta I around AD 400.

In its first chapter, titled " The Mystery of the Church ," is the famous statement that " the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as ' the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

Shahanshah Shah Jahan erected many splendid monuments, the most famous of which is the Taj Mahal at Agra, built in 1632-1648 as a tomb for his beloved wife, Empress Mumtaz Mahal.

In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

In its first chapter, titled " The Mystery of the Church ," is the famous statement that " the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as ' the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

Omphalos stones used to denote this point were erected in several areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea ; the most famous of those was at the oracle in Delphi.

Among these houses, Bevacqua remember the Villa Villa and Cumbo, S. Marina, and the ancient church of ' Spadafora, S. Peter. Among the most famous are those of the Fatherland Fallen Milazzo ( located in Piazza Roma and erected in 1924 ), the source of the mythical and ancient Apple ( opposite the Church of the Carmine ), the ' Statue of Liberty, built in honor of Garibaldi, the Statue of Luigi Rizzo, the monument Milazzo Bridge, erected to commemorate the famous battle of 20 July 1860 ; the large floor mosaic depicting the coat of arms, located in the Atrium of the Carmine.

A more famous example, and the first documented use of the Corinthian order on the exterior of a structure, is the circular Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, erected ca 334 BC.

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark and tourist attractions that was erected in memory of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China.

Other well-known examples are the Memphis Stele ( Memphis Stone ), bearing the Decree of Memphis, about 218 BC, passed by his son, Ptolemy IV, and the famous Rosetta Stone erected by Ptolemy Epiphanes, his grandson, in 196 BC.

The importance of Benevento in classical times is vouched for by the many remains of antiquity which it possesses, of which the most famous is the triumphal arch erected in honour of Trajan by the senate and people of Rome in 114, with important reliefs relating to its history.

He amassed a large fortune, erected magnificent buildings and purchased the famous gardens of Maecenas.

This event is commemorated in The Burghers of Calais ( Les Bourgeois de Calais ), one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, erected in the city in 1888.

In the square dedicated to him, facing the palace of the Archiginnasio, the ancient seat of the University of Bologna, a big marble statue has been erected to the scientist while observing one of his famous frog experiments.

Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.

* The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award, saluting actual dubious achievements by the government or famous people, such as the announcement of a new Veterans Administration hospital to be erected in Southern California shortly after another such facility was destroyed in the Sylmar earthquake of 1971.

The town's most famous landmark is a Redstone ballistic missile erected in the center of the village green.

* Frances Horwich, also known as " Miss Frances ", an early television performer famous for Ding Dong School ; a monument to her was erected in Ottawa in 2006

Sidney offers an historic downtown featuring the famous Louis Sullivan designed People's Savings & Loan building, the Monumental Building ( erected as a monument to those Shelby Countians who died in the Civil War ), and the Shelby County Courthouse.

In 1930, the local Hondo Lions Club erected the now somewhat famous sign reading " This is God's Country, Don't Drive Through It Like Hell " at the city limits with the intention of slowing down those speeding while traveling through town.