As one of the most important modern areas in the city of Athens, Syntagma Square has become a hub of activity for the capital of Greece. Buses, trolleys, trams, and the metro all stop in Syntagma Square, while sitting in the shadow of the Greek Parliament building and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier helps […]
While the Sydney Opera House has become the gold standard around how a building can define a city, the Oslo Opera House has similarly helped to shape the identity of Oslo and Norway as a whole. However, its’ lack of a distinct feature to create an icon for the city like the Little Mermaid in […]
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a world-famous icon of Italy that attracts visitors from all over the world every year. Completed in 1334, the Tower of Pisa is 177 feet in height, contains 6 bells and leans over 15 feet. More than 4,500 miles away, in Niles, Illinois, resides a half-size replica of the […]
The question of what to do with monuments erected by and dedicated to political regimes that are no longer in power is an issue that many former Soviet Union countries are working through, but the issue exists on an entirely different level in Germany. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, aka the Nazi Party, controlled […]
The Monument to the Heroes of Warsaw, better known by locals as the Warsaw Nike, commemorates the people who died in Warsaw between 1939-1945. That includes the participants of the defense of Warsaw in September 1939, participants of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising, and the victims of the German terror during the […]