“his great shadowy palace where he sits in state mocking at the relics of human glory and spreading dust and forgetfulness on the monuments of princes.” And not only princes. To walk in the ...

The historic fabric inside the fortress reflects the different changes and influences over the centuries. The existent monuments of the Portuguese period are: the ramparts and their bastions, the ...

all the fortifications are shown in the land development plan for the territory of the Bellinzona Commune as monuments of cantonal and national interest and thus benefitting from all the instruments ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

What is a National Monument? Who gazettes them? How many national monuments are there in Singapore? To date, the Preservation of Sites and Monuments, a division of National Heritage Board, has ...

These are some of the more surprising findings of the first comprehensive survey of America’s public monuments, the results of which were released today. The report’s creators sifted through ...

What is a National Monument? Who gazettes them? How many national monuments are there in Singapore? To date, the Preservation of Sites and Monuments, a division of National Heritage Board, has ...

What is this monument dedicated to? The delicate column with its modified Corinthian capital is believed to have been originally erected in the second century A.D. by Romans in the ancient Jordanian ...

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The animal motifs for these fanciful bronze grillwork gates, designed by architects Clarke and Rapuano, ...

In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, the speaker tells us about the beauty and power of writing poetry (and building monuments) about those that we love: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see/ So long ...

The artist, whose website notes he has previously made monuments to previous presidents John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, is currently raising funds to build a nine-foot-tall ...