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The Red Pyramid of Egypt ( c. 26th century BC ), named for the light crimson hue of its exposed granite surfaces, is the third largest of Egyptian pyramids.
Radiating from the centre of the city, the historic cathedral is surrounded by paved granite streets, tucked away in the old town, and separated from the newer part of the city by the largest of many parks throughout the city, Parque da Alameda.
Dartmoor represents one of the largest areas of exposed granite in the United Kingdom, covering an area of 368 square miles ( 954 square kilometres ).
The walls were built around eight massive 130-ton, 50-foot ( 15 m ) granite columns, sourced from Vinalhaven, Maine and said to be the largest in the world.
* The 11th-century, three-naved Basilica of San Gavino, which was built using only precious hardstones like marble, porphyry and granite, is the largest Romanesque church in Sardinia.
The largest ones can be found along the Periadriatic seam, the largest one is the Adamello granite.
By this time Looe had become a major port, one of Cornwall's largest, exporting local tin, arsenic and granite, as well as hosting thriving fishing and boatbuilding industries.
Measuring about 750 metres long and 500 metres wide this is the largest granite monolith in Australia.
It covers the low granite hills to the north of the town of Walpole and is covered largely by forests of karri ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ) and red tingle ( Eucalyptus jacksonii ), two of the world's largest trees.
Several granite quarries operated during this time, the largest of which was the Beattie Granite Quarry, near what is now North Quarry Street, near the corner of Locust.
The granite quarry is the largest open-face granite quarry in the world, and has been mined continuously since 1889 by the North Carolina Granite Corporation.
World's largest open faced granite quarry, near Mount Airy. There were 3, 667 households out of which 24. 3 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40. 6 % were married couples living together, 14. 0 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 41. 9 % were non-families.
One of the largest and most notable interiors of the first floor is the Hall of Twenty Columns, divided into three parts by two rows of grey monolithic columns of Serdobol granite, intended for the display of Graeco-Etruscan vases.
This large mass of igneous rock is the largest granite outcropping in North America.
The two granite columns at the main entrance, in diameter and high, were said to be the largest polished monolithic shafts in the country.
Rising above the vall is one of the world's largest basilicas, Basílica de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos ( Basilica of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen ), hewn out of a granite ridge, and the tallest memorial cross in the world, a 152. 4-metre-high construction of stone which strongly resembles the ancient stone or granite open air outdoor crosses of Kerala known as Nazraney Sthambas.
It also includes the Llano Uplift and the second largest granite dome in the United States, Enchanted Rock.
Numerous reference books and Georgia literature have dubbed Stone Mountain as “ the largest exposed piece of granite in the world ".
Purchased from the Aberdeen College of Education in 1968, the university claims that the St. Andrew Street building is the third-largest granite building in Europe ( the second-largest is Marischal College, also in Aberdeen, and the largest is the Escorial palace in Spain ).
The Centre, however, comprises a collection of structures spread across a granite plinth, all regulated, in three dimensions, and from the largest scale to the smallest, by a mathematically ordered, grid.
The exterior stone is Bethel White granite from Vermont, making the exterior dome the largest granite dome in the world.

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In most of these, a clear rectangle appears stones if only the four largest stones are considered.
In 1898, the Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities described the structure as " the largest of all the temples of Egypt, the so-called Labyrinth, of which, however, only the foundation stones have been preserved.
The largest stones including the lintels and gate jambs weighed well over 20 tonnes some may have been close to 100 tonnes.
In a tie with the city of Cayuga, those hail " stones " are the largest ever recorded in the state of Indiana.
The obverse and reverse, as well as the rim, are drawn full size, and moreover the morse with the precious stones set therein, including a diamond then considered the second largest in the world, is fully described.
The red sandstone used in this site's structures has been determined by petrographic analysis to come from a quarry 10 kilometers away — a remarkable distance considering that the largest of these stones weighs 131 metric tons.
A major fire in the park in 1926 revealed six more mounds near Streetly Lane, excavations of which uncovered charred and cracked stones within them and pits below the two largest mounds.
The collection of early medieval stones is one of the largest in Scotland, and includes the country's earliest surviving Christian memorial, the 5th century inscribed ' Latinus Stone '.
The high elevation point at the corner of present day Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, where the largest mass of cobble stones was disposed, was used as a Fort during both the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ) and the War of 1812 ( 1812 – 1814 ).
Pictish sculptured stones at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum | Meigle MuseumPictish remains are in abundance in this part of Scotland and one of the largest collections of Pictish sculptured stones is housed 5 miles to the East of the town at the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum.
Ideally, the largest stones are being placed at the bottom and the whole wall tapers toward the top.
The largest mountains are almost entirely barren ; above 1, 500 m ( 5, 000 ft ) nothing but the hardiest lichens grow on the bare stones.
In various parts of the Asuka region are unusual carved granite stones the largest of which is Masuda no iwafune.
* the " West " ( location of Steps of Deeper Slumber, the port of Dylath-Leen ( largest city of the Dreamlands ), the town of Ulthar ( where no man may kill a cat ), Hlanith ( a coastal jungle city ), Ilarnek ( a desert trade capital ), Mnar ( known for its grey stones in which are carved the protection sign against the Old Ones ), the ruins of Sarnath on the shores of a lake dedicated to Bokrug and Enchanted Wood );
Between the 4h and 2nd centuries B. C., the Salyens, the largest of the Celto-Ligurian tribes in Provence, built a rampart of stones on the peaks that surrounded the valley of Notre_Dame-de-Laval, and constructed an oppidum, or town, around the spring in the valley, which was known for its healing powers.
A recumbent circle is formed principally of a ring of stones, like all other stone circles ; however, there is one, large recumbent stone laid on its side, usually flanked by the two largest of the standing stones immediately on either side.
Named for the rusty reddish hue of its stones, it is also the third largest Egyptian pyramid, after those of Khufu and Khafra at Giza.
The stones used in the construction of these terraces are among the largest used in any building in prehispanic America and display a precision of fitting that is unmatched in the Americas.
The largest of the picture stones on Gotland is found in Änge in the parish of Buttle.
The largest of the Ardre image stones is Ardre VIII.
The largest and most famous of the stones is the Ardre VIII stone, dated to the 8th or 9th century, depicts scenes from Norse mythology, notably the Lay of Weyland the smith, Thor fishing for Jörmungandr, the punishment of Loki for the death of Baldr, and Odin riding to Valhalla on Sleipnir.

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