Isbn: 9780486423326 - castles of the western world: with 240 illustrations: with 140 illustrations (4 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 240 pages. Travel beyond the threatening tides of the Atlantic to the striking, fortifie d island of Mont St. Michel. Visit the extraordinary Swiss castle that belonged to the Count of Savoy and inspired The Prisoner of Chillon, a world-famous poe m by Lord Byron. Scale the walls of Cracassonne, a historic French city more tha n 2,000 years old. This excellent collection of photographs and detailed line dr awings of castles of the Western world makes it possible. A painstakingly resear ched study of the castles' construction, architecture, siting, purpose, and rema ins, this superb archive focuses on more than 200 structures ? from temples, p alaces, and walls of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to Romanesque strongholds of the Normans and Gothic edifices of the crusaders and Teutonic knights to lavi sh palaces built in Italy, France, England, Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia.Included are such famous castles as the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, the To wer of London, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, the family towers of San Gimignano, a reconstruction of the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria, Pierrefonds in France, Caer narvon in Wales, Gravensteen in Belgium, the Archbishop's Palace of Hohensalzbur g in Austria, and crusader castles in the Levant as well as fortresses and tower s in Sicily, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, and Ireland.Sure to fascina te anyone intrigued by these magnificent citadels of long ago, this volume will also be of great value to architectural historians. …