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.

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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.

* Tower of Hercules, an ancient Roman lighthouse at A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

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Tower of Hercules.

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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He was the 996th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the 104th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword in 1861 and the 775th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1881.

King Charles John was the 909th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain and the 28th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

* Windsor Tower, a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, which was destroyed in a fire in 2005

He was the 649th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1816, the 947th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain in 1835 and the 35th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

He was invested as the 1, 154th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain in 1923, the 355th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword in 1927 and the 833rd Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1935.

Gustaf V was the 1, 062nd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the 828th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1905 and the 216th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

Frederick VIII was the 1, 065th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the 806th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1896, Colonel-in-Chief of The Buffs ( Royal East Kent Regiment ) and the 152nd Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

His Montjuic Communications Tower in Barcelona, Spain ( 1991 ) in the heart of the 1992 Olympics site, as well as the Allen Lambert Galleria in Toronto, Canada ( 1992 ), were important works and turning points in his career, leading to a wide range of commissions.

* 1992, Montjuic Communications Tower at the Olympic Ring, Barcelona, Spain

In the spring of 1556 he visited Brussels to see his wife ; on his way back, between Brussels and Antwerp, he and Sir Peter Carew were seized ( 15 May ) by order of Philip II of Spain, taken to England, and imprisoned in the Tower.

In the 1970s and 1980s Butlins also operated numerous large hotels including one in Spain, a number of smaller holiday parks in England and France, and a revolving restaurant in the Post Office Tower in London.

With the Moorish conquest of Spain, were introduced the mills from which the town takes its name ( meaning " Tower of the Mills ").

File: Alcázar of Segovia 15. jpg | Turrets on the Tower of John II of the Alcázar of Segovia, Spain

Tower of the Church of Santa María la Mayor, in Ronda, Spain, which served as inspiration for the Hearst Castle towers.

Originally completed in 1925 as the headquarters and printing facility of the newspaper The Miami News, it is an example of Mediterranean Revival style with design elements borrowed from the Giralda Tower in Seville, Spain.

Torre Picasso ( Picasso Tower ) is a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain.

The Windsor Tower () was built in 1979 in the financial center of Madrid, Spain.

* NAMC Worldwide Newsroom, Horrific Fire at the Windsor Tower in Madrid Spain Shakes the Capital.

3D scanner | Laser scan section of the four-story Square Tower House, data collected by a CyArk / National Park Service partnership

File: Abensberg Kuchlbauerturm von Hundertwasser. JPG | Kuchlbauer Tower

Foshay Tower | The Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; designed by Léon Eugène Arnal, built 1929

A view of Ann Arbor toward Liberty and State streets, showing the Burton Memorial Tower, Michigan Theater ( Ann Arbor ) | Michigan Theater, the Borders Group | Borders bookstore No. 1 ( now closed following the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy ), and several buildings of the University of Michigan

Post Tower, headquarters of Deutsche Post / DHL Express | DHL.

File: Tophane saat kulesi, Bursa. jpg | Bursa Clock Tower in the historic Tophane district

The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

File: Coptic Cairo2. JPG | Tower of a Coptic Church, Coptic Cairo, Egypt

The Fernsehturm Berlin | Fernsehturm ( TV Tower ) is visible in the background

Atrium Lobby of the Jin Mao Tower | Shanghai Grand Hyatt, Shanghai, China

Hearst Tower ( New York City ) | Hearst Tower, in September 2006

The disastrous failure of glass panels on the John Hancock Tower | Hancock Tower demanded the use of huge wood panels ; some called it " the world's tallest wooden building ".

Pei felt that his design for the Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong | Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong needed to reflect " the aspirations of the Chinese people ".

File: Jadavpur University Tower. jpg | The Jadavpur University Tower

Image: Blythe's tower and Kinglassie 2007. JPG | Kinglassie from the South with Blythe's Tower atop Redwells hill to the North.

File: Rainier Tower Seattle Washington. jpg | Rainier Tower in Seattle