u/FrankWanders
"The Chzar's Palace", a color photogrom of the Kremlin dating back to 1890-1900, just before Nicholas II abdicated as last Tsar in 1917, bringing an end to the 370-year-old Russian Tsarist Empire.
u/FrankWanders — 16 days ago
Did you know that the Colosseum (photo Altobelli & Molins, circa 1860) was a Christian pilgrim site with 14 edicules (small shrines) dating from 1750, depicting all Stations of the Passion of Jesus, and a cross in the center? They were removed in 1874 but to this day a small chapel of Pietà remains.
u/FrankWanders — 2 months ago
Rebuilding a medieval castle: 3D impression of moated castle Brederode near Haarlem. It was built ~1285 on cleared "Brede Roede" forest land, and it pioneered Dutch square castles with private toilets in towers. It was wrecked twice; in the Hook & Cod wars of 1351 and by the Spaniards in 1492.
u/FrankWanders — 2 months ago
Quah House in Conwy, Wales in 1902 and 2016. The 16th-century house is the smallest in Great Britain, with a floor area of 3.05 x 1.8 m. In 1900, the last resident, fisherman Robert James, who was 1.91 m tall, was forced to leave when the council declared the house uninhabitable.
u/FrankWanders — 6 months ago
Forteiland IJmuiden was built to protect Amsterdam against hostile invasion after it was connected to the North Sea by a canal in 1876 and later became part of the famous Atlantikwall in World War 2 (the Netherlands)
u/FrankWanders — 10 days ago