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Photograph of Hans, from the collection of pixabay.com (2013), used under the Pixabay License.
The third floor of the Hagenauer House, now transformed into a museum, located at number 9 Getreidegasse Street in Salzburg, Austria, was the residence of the Mozart family from 1747 and the birthplace, in January 1756, of their son Wolfgang Amadeus, who lived there until 1773.
Photograph by Oğuzhan EDMAN, displayed on unsplash.com (2022), used under Unsplash License.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of North Macedonia's independence, a 21-metre high arch called the Macedonian Gate was inaugurated on January 6th, 2012, in its capital Skopje, depicting the country's history through 32 scenes sculpted in bas-relief on marble.
Photograph by Beth, exhibited on flickr.com (2019), used under Creative Commons License.
St. Lucian Tower in Marsaxlokk, on the south coast of Malta, is one of six Wignacourt watchtowers built by the Order of St. John between 1610 and 1620, to which artillery was added in 1715, transformed into a fort in 1790 and rebuilt in a polygonal shape by the British in 1870.
Photograph by Heather Cowper, displayed on flickr.com (2011), used under Creative Commons License.
Built in 1874, the Pantomime Theater is an open-air stage located in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, characterized by architecture that recalls Chinese style and a peacock-shaped front curtain that requires several men to operate, earning it the name of Peacock Theater.
Photograph by Doc-wood, from the collection of pixabay.com (2017), used under the Pixabay License.
Built around 60 meters above sea level in the mid-5th century BC, the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, Greece, is the site from which King Aegeus mistakenly threw himself into the sea, thinking that the Minotaur had killed his son Theseus, who named the sea after his father.
Photograph by Fred Romero, exhibited on flickr.com (2018), used under Creative Commons License.
Opened in 1922 as a residence for the Karađorđević royal family, the New Palace in Belgrade, after a renovation that replaced royal symbols with communist ones, became the seat of the Yugoslavian government organs in 1953 and is now the seat of the Serbian government organs.
Photograph by Margaret Decker, from the collection of pixabay.com (2017), used under the Pixabay License.
Originally built in wood on an artificial hill that covered the remains of a Roman castrum from the 1st century, the Norman Keep, 9 meters high and 23 meters wide and surrounded by a deep outer moat, located in the center of Cardiff Castle, Wales, was rebuilt in stone in 1136.
Photograph by Ivana Djudic, displayed on unsplash.com (2018), used under the Unsplash License.
Consecrated in 1166 in honor of St. Tryphon Martyr, the Cathedral of Kotor in Montenegro, due to the damage received, among others, in the devastating earthquakes of 1667 and 1979, is a mix of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architectural styles, today a World Heritage Site.