Architecture
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Cité de Carcassonne
Building (medieval walled city / fortress) · Anonymous (Roman, Visigothic, and medieval master masons; restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 1853-1879)
The Cité de Carcassonne is the largest intact medieval walled fortress in Europe. The walls began as a Gallo-Roman fortification in the 1st century CE, were expanded by the Visigoths after 460, fortif
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence Duomo)
Building (cathedral) · Filippo Brunelleschi (dome architect); Arnolfo di Cambio (original architect)
Construction of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore began in 1296 under Arnolfo di Cambio and continued for more than a century before the cathedral's defining feature, Brunelleschi's dome, was beg
Westminster Abbey
Building (abbey church) · Anonymous (medieval master masons; Henry Yevele; Christopher Wren; Nicholas Hawksmoor)
Westminster Abbey, the Royal Peculiar church on the north bank of the Thames in London, has been the coronation site of every English and British monarch since William the Conqueror in 1066. The curre
Hagia Sophia
Building (former cathedral / former mosque / current mosque) · Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus (architects)
Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) was completed in 537 CE under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, designed by the mathematician-architects Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus. The building was the s
Notre-Dame de Paris
Building (cathedral) · Anonymous (medieval master masons, 1163-1345)
Construction of Notre-Dame de Paris began in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and was substantially complete by 1345. The cathedral stands on the Île de la Cité on the site of an earlier Romanesque
Mont-Saint-Michel
Tidal island and monastery · Bishop Aubert of Avranches (708) and successors
Mont-Saint-Michel is, before any other description, a problem in masonry. The granite outcrop rising from the tidal flats at the Normandy-Brittany border is eighty meters high. The abbey on top is twe
