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The Red Army Memorial Museum (丙安红一军团纪念馆) is located in the rural Bing’an Warf (丙安滩), a shoal in the middle of Chishui river, at the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China. Nowadays the village of Bing’an counts around 700 residents and its long history dates back to the Ming Dynasty (17th Century). During Qing Dynasty (18th…
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Borgund Stave Church is a stave church located in the village of Borgund in the municipality of Lærdal in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. It is also the best preserved of Norway’s 28 extant stave churches.
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Cordoba is famous for it’s courtyards, and once a year during the festival de los patios cordobeses, private houses all over the city open up their courtyards to the public for 2 weeks in competition.
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The Great Mosque of Djenné located in the city of Djenné, Mali, on the flood plain of the Bani River dates from 1907. The building is considered to be one of the greatest achievements of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style. The first mosque on the site was built around the 13th century as the centre of the community of Djenné, it is one of…
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The Yanomami of Southern Venezuela (and northen Brazil) live in large communal circular dwellings called Shabono (also xapono, shapono, or yano). The building has to be rebuilt every few years and so it grows or contracts in diameter according to the size of the community; as if the house would breath with its inhabitants.
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Pueblo Bonito was a monumental public building that served surrounding communities and the region when Chaco was a major center of Puebloan culture between A.D. 850 and 1150.
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