They form part of the Megalithic culture, found in many parts of the world, but nowhere in such a concentrated form.
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Monday, September 19, 2022
Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites - Korea
The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of examples of dolmens - tombs from the 1st millennium BC constructed of large stone slabs.
District of Columbia
Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States.
D.C. stands for "District of Columbia," the special federal district that covers the same territory.
The District of Columbia is named after an old, poetic name for the United States: Columbia.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz - Germany
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century.
Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.
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Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a district with the official title of city, in the urban county of West Midlands.
It is an industrial town and has a university and Wolverhampton is also the name of the Metropolitan Borough in which it is located.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery - Russia
The Ferapontov Monastery, in the Vologda region in northern Russia, is an exceptionally well-preserved and complete example of a Russian Orthodox monastic complex of the 15th-17th centuries, a period of great significance in the development of the unified Russian state and its culture.
The architecture of the monastery is outstanding in its inventiveness and purity.
The interior is graced by the magnificent wall paintings of Dionisy, the greatest Russian artist of the end of the 15th century.
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Zonguldak
Zonguldak is a province in Turkey.
The province is 3470 km² and has 597,524 inhabitants.
The capital is Zonguldak of the same name.
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae) - Hungary
In the 4th century, a remarkable series of decorated tombs were constructed in the cemetery of the Roman provincial town of Sopianae (modern Pécs).
These are important both structurally and architecturally, since they were built as underground burial chambers with memorial chapels above the ground.
The tombs are important also in artistic terms, since they are richly decorated with murals of outstanding quality depicting Christian themes.
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