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Eiffel Tower-
Located: Paris, France
The Eiffel tower was built for commemorating the centenary of the French
revolution; and This is a structure built in 1889 as the entrance to the
Worlds Fair.

Louvre Musée-
The worlds greatest art museum first started out as a public art exhibition.
It is a world wide museum open to the public to display art of all nature.

Musée D’Orsay-
This museum was originally installed as a orsay railway station built for the
universal Exhibition of 1900. They saw the building more as a work of art, so
it was created into a historic Art Musée (Museum).

Musée de Bretagne-
Located- Bretagne, France
The Museum of Brittany is the ground floor of a grand building in the centre of Rennes. The
first floor is the Musée des Beaux Arts. It was created after the second world war. The
museum houses a fine collection of archaeological and ethnological artifacts, dating from
Neolithic times and ancient Armorica, to the present day. It is a fine introduction to the
various aspects of the region and also the development of Rennes.

Fontaine Sainte-Marie-Madeleine –
Located- Bretagne/ Quebec, France
Parts of this palace has been moved to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Quebec.

Musée de l'Orangerie-
Located- Paris, France
The Musée de l'Orangerie is an Art Museum made up of famous paintings. It was originally
built in 1852 by the architect Firmin Bourgeois and completed by his successor, Ludovico
Visconti to shelter the orange trees of the garden of the Tuileries. Used by the Third
Republic in the nineteenth-century as deposit for goods, an examination room, and place of
lodging for mobilized soldiers, it also served the general-purpose of housing
sporting, musical, and patriotic events. Additionally, it was a place to display exhibitions of
industry, animals, plants, as well as rare displays of painting.

Renvyle Castle-
Located: County Galway, Ireland
It is a mirror for the unpredictable changes that troubled Ireland, but it’s
more commemorated for it’s resilience/ capacity to survive.

Twelve Bens-
Located: northeast of Roundstone in Connemara
Twelve Bens is a Mountain Range where usually runners attempt to hike all
twelve peaks in a single day. Hence the name TWELVE Bens.

Four Courts-
Located: Kerry, Ireland
The Designer of this building was Thomas Cooley. It was made as a Public
Records Office of Ireland.

Grafton Street à Dublin-
Located- Dublin, Ireland
Grafton Street is one of the two principal shopping streets in Dublin city centre, the
other being Henry Street. It runs from St. Stephen's Green in the south (at the highest
point of the street) to College Green in the north (to the lowest point).

Dunguaire Castle-
The castle was built by the Hynes clan in 1520, a family who may have been associated
with the area since 662, when the site is believed to have once been the royal palace of
Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, the legendary king of Connacht and progenitor of the
clan.

Athenry-
The castle was built by Meiler de Bermingham in the middle of the 13th century, and is
very much linked with the medieval town.

Battle of Britain Memorial-
Located- London, England
This is a Memorial Site to represent the people who died in the Battle of Britain.

Firefighters at night-
Located- London, England
The drama of John W. Mills' memorial sculpture 'Blitz' heightened by the cloudy night
sky. It was originally intended as a tribute to those "heroes with grimy faces" who
saved so many lives during the wartime bombing of London on 57 consecutive nights.
More recently (1991) it was moved from its earlier location in Old Change Court to
here on the corner of Sermon Lane, to become a national memorial to all firefighters
who have died in the course of duty. 1192 names were added to the plinth.

War Memorial, St Leonard's Church-
Located- Swindon, England
The memorial commemorates soldiers of the village who died in WWII.

Blenheim Palace-
Located- Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
Blenheim Palace is a monumental stately home. It is the seat of the Dukes of
Marlborough. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between 1705
and circa 1724. UNESCO recognised the palace as a World Heritage Site in 1987.

Wells Cathedral-
Located- Somerset, England
This building is a church for British. The first building phase took about eighty
years, building from east to west, culminating in the magnificent West Front. About
300 of its original medieval statues remain: a glorious theatrical stone backdrop for
feast day processions.

Church of England-
Located- England
This church is the official establishment of the Christian Church in England and
the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church limits itself
within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment to
England by St. Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597.

Slottet-
Located- Norway, Sweden
This is a Viking Museum built to tell about the past Vikings, and how they survived in Sweden during
there time. The Royal Palace in Oslo was built in the first half of the 19th century as
the Norwegian residence of Norwegian and Swedish king Charles III and is the official residence of the
present Norwegian Monarch. The crown prince couple resides at Skaugum in Asker west of Oslo.

The Viking Ship Museum-
Located- Oslo, Norway, Sweden
In 1913, Swedish professor Gabriel Gustafson proposed a specific building to house Viking Age finds
that were discovered at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The Gokstad and
Oseberg ships had been stored in temporary shelters at the University of Oslo.

Vasamuseet-
Located- Stockholm, Sweden
From the end of 1961 to 1988, Vasa was housed in a temporary structure called Wasavarvet where she
was treated with polyethylene glycol. Visitors could only view the ship from two levels and the maximum
distance was only 5 m (17 ft). In 1981, the Swedish government decided that a
permanent Vasa museum was to be constructed and an architects' competition for the design of the
museum building was organized. A total of 384 architects sent in models of their ideas for the most
suitable building to house the Vasa, and the final winners were Marianne Dahlbäck and Goran Mansson.

Gołoborze/Steniga glade
It’s a lake found in Sweden popular to the people.

Jakt torn i gysselhyttan-

Przydrożne jezioro/Vägarna Lake-

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore-
Located- Italy
The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until development of new structural
materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It remains the
largest brick dome ever constructed.

Fontana di Trevi-
Located- Rome, Italy
Largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the
world.

Pantheon-
It is one of the best preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use
throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a Roman
Catholic church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa
Maria della Rotonda." The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda.

Terme di Caracalla-
Public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of
the Emperor Caracalla. Chris Scarre provides a slightly longer construction period 211-
217 AD. They would have had to install over 2,000 tons of material every day for 6 years
in order to complete it in this time period. Records show that the idea for the baths
were drawn up by Septimius Severus, and merely completed or opened in the lifetime
of Caracalla. This would allow for a longer construction time frame.

Colosseum
The Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an ancient building in the
centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is
considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.

Piazza del Popolo Rome-
Left the 'Santa Maria di Monte Santo and left the Santa Maria dei Miracoli. Both
churches (twins) built in the late 17th century under the leadership of Carlo Fontana.
Bernini helped in the decoration of the Monte Santo.

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