Historic buildings and monuments

1. Test yourself  Historicbuildings and monuments Palfiová Veronika, sexta

2. What‘s the name of this tower? • The Sears Tower • Shukhov Tower • Tower of Pisa • The CN Tower • El Faro Tower

3. Fourlinesofcollosseum‘srostrumscontained more than: • 36000 spectators • 42000 spectators • 48000 spectators • 54000 spectators • 60000 spectators

4. The Louvre is in: • Greece • France • Italy • England • Austria

5. The area of Vatican is: • 0,26 km2 • 0,41 km2 • 0,44 km2 • 0,53 km2 • 0,61 km2

6. The Pantheon was built in 27-25 BC by: • Gaius Caesar Caligula • Marcus Agrippa • Pontius Pilate • Spartacus • Hadrian

7. The clock Bell is named Big Ben after: • Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Hall • Benjamin Moore • Walter Benjamin • Dan Benjamin

8. The White House is in: • Chicago • Las Vegas • New York • Houston • Washington DC

9. The Stonehenge was built in several stages from: • 3000 - 1800 BC • 2800 - 1800 BC • 2600 - 1800 BC • 2400 - 1800 BC • 2200 - 1800 BC

10. In TheValleyoftheKingswasdiscoveredthetombof: • Tutankhamun • Thutmose I. • Ramses II. • Cleopatra • Seti I.

11. The first Athenian king was: • Plate IX. • Thymoetes II. • Deucalion I. • Lycaon II. • Cecrops

12. The Great Wall of China stretches over(in total): • 5,800 km • 6,700 km • 7,600 km • 8,500 km • 9,400 km

13. The Taj MahalwasbuiltunderMughalEmperorShahJahan in memoryofhis: • favorite wife • favorite daughter • favorite son • favorite niece • favorite nephew

14. Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the: • Inca Empire • Aztec Empire • Maya Empire • Indian Empire • American Empire

15. Petra was built in the 3rd century BC by the: • Byzantines • Umayyads • Mamluks • Nabataeans • Romans

16. LeaningTowerofPisa • TheLeaningTowerofPisa or simplyTheTowerofPisaisthecampanile, or freestandingbelltower, ofthecathedraloftheItalian city ofPisa. Althoughintended to standvertically, thetowerbeganleaning to thesoutheastsoonaftertheonsetofconstruction in 1173. • Theheightofthetoweris 55.86 m fromtheground on thelowestside and 56.70 m on thehighestside. Itsweightisestimatedat 14,500 tonnes. Thetower has 296 steps. Thetowerleansatanangleof 3.97 degrees.

17. TheCollosseum • It is one of the most famous buildings in Rome. It was built almost 2000 years ago. The bulk of this amphitheatre is still in Rome. It shows, Romans were very good builders. This building is almost 201m long, 171m wide and 49m high. Long time ago people went to this amphitheatre to watch sports matches and importaint ceremonies. Four lines of rostrums contained more than 48000 spectators.

18. ThePalaceofLouvre • The Louvre in Paris, France, is the most visited and famous art museum in the world. Long time ago it was the palace of the king. Now it is the biggest museum in the world. • The building holds some of the world's most famous works of art, such as Leonardo D'Caprio's Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Madonna of the Rocks, Jacques Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo.

19. Vatican • It is the smallest country in the world. Vatican is in the centre of Rome. The area of this country is 0,44 km2. It has the population of about 1000 people. The pope of Rome is the head of Vatican and all Christians all over the world. Though Vatican is very small, but it has its currency, stamps. St. Patrick's basilica is a pride of Vatican. Famous museums of Vatican attracts millions of people.

20. ThePantheon • The Pantheon was originally built in 27-25 BC by the magistrate Marcus Agrippa. This original temple burned down in 80 AD. The Pantheon was completely reconstructed in 125 AD by Hadrian. The second temple was dedicated to every known god, from which the Pantheon gets its name. The Pantheon is widely praised for its feats of architecture and concept of space. At 43m wide and 43m high, it is a perfect sphere resting in a cylinder. With a span of 43.2 m, it was the largest dome in the world until Brunelleschi's dome in Florence of 1420-36.

21. Big Ben • The big clock on the tower of the Palace of Westminster in London is often called Big Ben. But Big Ben is really the bell of the clock. It weights 13,5 tons. The clock tower is 318 feet high. You have to go up 374 steps to reach the top. Its face is 23 feet wide. The minute hand is 14 feet long. The hour hand is 9 feet long. • The clock bell is named Big Ben after Sir Benjamin Hall. He was a member of Parliament. Sir Benjamin was a big man.One day he said in parliament: "Shall we call the bell St. Stephen's?" St. Stephen's is the name of the tower. But someone said for a joke: "Why not call it Big Ben?" Now the bell is known all over the world by that name.

22. TheWhiteHouse • The whole world knows the White House in Washington DC. It is the home of the President of the United States - George Bush. • It was designed by the Irish-American architect James Hoban and building was completed in 1800. It was partially destroyed by British troops in the War of 1812 and rebuilt by 1817 when the south portico was added.

23. TheStonehenge • This ancient monument of huge stones solitarily standing on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England has captured imaginations for centuries. Theories about who built it have included the Druids, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Atlanteans. Speculation on the reason it was built range from human sacrifice to astronomy. • Investigations over the last 100 years have revealed that Stonehenge was built in several stages from 2800 - 1800 BC. It seems to have been designed to allow for observation of astronomical phenomena - summer and winter solstices, eclipses, and more.

24. TheValleyoftheKings • TheValleyoftheKingsis a valley in Egypt wherefor a periodofnearly 500 yearsfromthe 16th to 11th century BC, tombswereconstructedforthekings and powerful nobles ofthe New Kingdom. Thevalleystands on thewest bank oftheNile, acrossfromThebes (modernLuxor), withintheheartoftheThebanNecropolis. Thewadiconsistsoftwovalleys, EastValley (wherethe majority oftheroyaltombssituated) and WestValley. • In moderntimesthevalley has becomefamousforthediscoveryofthetombofTutankhamun and isoneofthe most famousarchaeologicalsites in theworld. In 1979, itbecame a WorldHeritage Site, alongwiththe rest oftheThebanNecropolis.

25. AcropolisofAthens • The Acropoles of Athens is the best known as acropolis in the world. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007. The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 150 m above sea level in the city of Athens. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Kekrops or Cecrops, the first Athenian king.

26. TheGreatWallofChina • The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties. • The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,508 km from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km in total. At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men.

27. Taj Mahal • The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal (also "the Taj") is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, Turkish, Indian, and Islamic architectural styles. In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was cited as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage." While the white domed marble and tile mausoleum is most familiar, Taj Mahal is an integrated complex of structures that was completed around 1648. Ustad Ahmad Lahauri is generally considered as the principal designer of Taj Mahal.

28. Machu Picchu • Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 km northwest of Cuzco. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. It was built around the year 1450, but abandoned a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Forgotten for centuries, the site was brought to worldwide attention in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, an American historian. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction. It was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.

29. TheLost City of Petra • Petra was built in the 3rd century BC by the Nabataeans, who were a major power on the trade routes from Damascus to Arabia. The city has a large number of amazing facades carved directly into the cliffs. The site was then successively conquered by the Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads, Turks, Crusaders, and Mamluks. There are also remains of a mosaic floor from a 4th century.

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