Sentences with phrase «ancient buildings»

The old city is scattered with ancient buildings dating back to Roman times.

The dining room mixes ancient building materials with beautiful contemporary furniture and art, while the kitchen is all high - tech, all the time.

Currently, hybrid remains the most effective ancient build and play.

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Located in one of the most ancient buildings in Siena, this small relais offers spectacular views of Siena and captures the ambience of the surroundings.

Celebrate Christmas on the shores of Lake Bled, surrounded by tree - topped mountains, before exploring the iconic «Floating City» of Venice, where ancient buildings overlook the stunning lagoon that gives the city an international reputation.

Inspired by his own love of nature and by ancient building techniques, Dougherty fabricates monumental site - specific sculptural installations out of thin and malleable maple saplings.

Al - Radi despises the common practice of using cement to repair ancient buildings.

Thus it was easy to dismiss the large climate swings that an Arizona astronomer, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, reported from his studies of tree rings recovered from ancient buildings and Sequoias.

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The biggest ancient building of the ruins stands on the shores of the Mayan Riviera, or Coba ruins.

Because of his work, 17th - and 18th - century homebuilders began imitating ancient buildings like the Roman Parthenon.

Canon Anna Norman - Walker, from Exeter Cathedral, told Premier: «It's a beautiful ancient building and we've got a very close relationship with it.

Other reports say that the forces of the group, increasingly known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, are using bulldozers to demolish ancient buildings.

Construction crews preparing for the 2004 Athens competitions, scheduled to open August 13, keep hitting ancient buildings and artifacts.

The letter from Howard Barnes about applying the label «religious» to unexplained ancient buildings (7 December 2013, p 33) brings...

The island itself is a high security prison for the criminally insane, complete with hulking ancient buildings that loom before the central characters as they first arrive.

In Beijing, there is a big famous Ancient building that calls the Forbidden City, the main gate calls Tian» an men.

The magnificent Pantheon which was built between 27 and 25 B.C. by the consul Agrippa, Prefect of the Emperor Augustus, is reportedly the most complete ancient building in the city.

It's also popular for its lovely ancient buildings and picturesque cobbled streets — a great place to take some unique photos.

Chichen Itza is a sacred Mayan complex consisting of multiple ancient buildings.

The Pantheon is Italy's best - preserved ancient building, It started out as a pagan temple and then became a church.

Here you can tour across sights such as the famous Windmills, the colourful Little Venice and ancient buildings such as the whitewashed Panagia Paraportiani church, or alternatively, you can treasure hunt across museums such as the Archaeological Museum of Mykonos and the Folklore Museum.

A complex of extraordinary ancient buildings and temples, a UNESCO heritage site and the largest religious monument in world.

Bought at a public auction in 2013, it was relocated, restructured and put into the market by Zhu Caichang, a merchant of ancient buildings who comes from a woodcarver family.

In a section of his report entitled «The Hundred Dead Cities,» he described a site in northern Syria, near Aleppo, where ancient buildings were still standing in stark isolated relief, but they were on bare rock.

He recorded the verdant landscapes of Virginia and the coasts of Italy, closeup details of ancient buildings and sculptures, studio interiors, Mediterranean landscape; and still lifes of objects and flowers.

Ancient monuments and archaeological sites are perfectly preserved; the museums are bursting with the genius of Italy's finest sons: Raffaello, Michelangelo, Tiziano, Canova; contemporary architects are still inspired by ancient buildings and squares (piazzas).

The historic town of Stratford - upon - Avon has much to offer the visitor, from ancient buildings, town trails and the Shakespeare properties, Royal Shakespeare Theatres as well as a wealth of shops and restaurants all within easy walking distance of Ambleside Guest House.

I have always been attracted to pyramids and ancient buildings in general.

Built during the Song dynasty, the quaint town is filled with ancient buildings and old bridges over flowing rivers, which gives it a certain rustic charm.

Our future might reside in past practices, in how the ancients built but did not consume as we do.»

Do we know how the ancients built much of what they did, like the pyramids?

Governments are not in the business of either knowing about or «approving» the dating of ancient buildings, AND there is no reason to believe the entire structure was built at the same time.

Problems with lead in school water supplies have dragged on for years — aggravated by ancient buildings and plumbing, prolonged by official neglect and tight budgets, and enabled by a gaping loophole in federal rules that largely exempts schools from responsibility for the purity of their water.

Scientists and architects across the globe are trying to adapt this ancient building material for the demands of the modern city.

Churches are often floodlit at night to show off their architecture — but the lights are preventing bats from roosting in the ancient buildings

I have always been dismayed by archaeologists» lack of imagination — if an ancient building's purpose isn't obvious then it...

We are working to map, excavate and repair the ancient buildings.

Professor Mitchell's group is particularly interested in the association between increased pollution and the acceleration in recent years in the biodeterioration of ancient buildings and monuments.

«The data confirms that on New Year's Day 2019, New Horizons will be looking at one of the ancient building blocks of the planets.»

A collection of wonderful places, enchanted places and ancient buildings to answer the question: What to see in Verona?

The ancient building was no match for the blaze.

Among the eccentric characters who call the Tower's maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Tower's Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just found out she's pregnant; portly Valerie Jennings, who is falling for ticket inspector Arthur Catnip; the lifelong bachelor Reverend Septimus Drew, who secretly pens a series of principled erotica; and the philandering Ravenmaster, aiming to avenge the death of one of his insufferable ravens.

So my father, poised as it were on the very threshold of eternity, was brought for the last time into the cool, dim, silent shadow of the ancient building, perhaps there to find the peace he had been seeking.

I certainly hope that is some ancient build of WebOS tablet interface because if it comes to market in that state HP should just call it quits right now because that tablet looked as slow and unresponsive as the Android on X86 prototypes that Intel has over at their booth at Computex.

Set amongst the ancient buildings of Trastevere surrounded by restaurants and bohemian bars.