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  2. File:Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, V&A (Room 50a).jpg

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  3. Solar (room) - Wikipedia

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    The solar was a room in many English and French medieval manor houses, great houses and castles, mostly on an upper storey, designed as the family's private living and sleeping quarters. [1] Within castles they are often called the "Lords' and Ladies' Chamber" or the "Great Chamber".

  4. Castel del Monte, Apulia - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Castel del Monte was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which described it as "a unique masterpiece of medieval military architecture". [3] Described by the Enciclopedia Italiana as "the most fascinating castle built by Frederick II", [ 4 ] it also appears on the Italian version of the one cent Euro coin .

  5. Albrechtsburg - Wikipedia

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    Between the two rooms there is a musician's gallery above the connecting door, which could serve both rooms as required. Around these two large rooms are grouped three independent apartments as living and office areas, each consisting of an oven-heated parlour as the main room and one or more subordinate chambers as sleeping and storage rooms.

  6. Castle of Almourol - Wikipedia

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    A view of the Tagus River from the castle, showing the granite outcropping and its 18-metre rise over the waterway.. It is believed that the castle was constructed on the site of a primitive Lusitanian castro that was later conquered by the Romans during the 1st century B.C.E. [1] It was later remodeled by successive invading forces, including the Alans, Visigoths and the Arabs, although it is ...

  7. Chapter house - Wikipedia

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    The Carolingian Plan of St Gall (c. 820) is the plan for an ideal 9th century monastery, with a great variety of buildings and rooms, but none that really can be assigned the function of chapterhouse; nor is such a room mentioned by Saint Benedict. But the chapter house is mentioned in the proceedings of the Council of Aachen in 816.

  8. Painted Chamber - Wikipedia

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    The chamber was gutted in the devastating fire in 1834, but the thick medieval walls survived. Wood salvaged from the Painted Chamber was used to make souvenirs. The room was re-roofed and re-furnished to be used temporarily by the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament on 23 February 1835.

  9. Medieval architecture - Wikipedia

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    Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque , Romanesque , and Gothic . In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style , marking the end of the medieval period.