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Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...
Buildings in the style of 'Mazovian Gothic' come from the mid-sixteenth century, i.e. from the time when the Renaissance was already well established in other parts of Europe. Maybe that's why in ...
Paris is an unforgettable place, but the City of Lights can get crowded -- and expensive. Not too far away, though, is ...
By the early 1800s though, scholarship on medieval Gothic was growing, and a more archaeological approach emerges. This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, ...
The Barri Gòtic, or Gothic Quarter, sits at the heart of ... Here you'll find beautiful examples of Roman and Medieval-era architecture rubbing elbows with the many shops, restaurants, alfresco ...
By the 1300s, the city had a population of 35,000 and the most important textile market in northern Europe. A century ... ringed by great old gabled buildings and crowned by a leaning belfry ...
Criterion (ii): Both the Victorian Gothic and the Art Deco ensembles exhibit an important exchange of European and Indian human values over a span of time. The Victorian assemblage of grand public ...