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Contents. Spanish Colonial architecture. Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on the cities and towns of its former colonies, and is still seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. These two visible aspects of the city are connected and complementary.
Machu Picchu[ a ] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [ 9 ] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [ 10 ] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [ 11 ] above the ...
Website. Official website. Segovia (/ sɪˈɡoʊviə / sig-OH-vee-ə, [ 2 ] US also / seɪˈ -/ say-GOH-, [ 3 ]Spanish: [seˈɣoβja] ⓘ) is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia.
RI-51-0000009. The Alhambra (/ ælˈhæmbrə /, Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء, romanized:al-ḥamrāʼ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to ...
Tenochtitlan,[a]also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan,[b]was a large Mexican altepetlin what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city.[3]
The Diccionario de la lengua española[a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as the ...
Iguazú Falls. Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls (Guarani: Chororõ Yguasu [ɕoɾo'ɾõ ɨɣʷa'su], Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú [kataˈɾatas ðel iɣwaˈsu]; Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu [kɐtɐˈɾatɐz du iɡwɐˈsu]) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná.
The Templo Mayor (English: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. The temple was called Huēyi Teōcalli [we:ˈi teoːˈkali] [ 1 ] in the Nahuatl language. It was dedicated ...