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PMR-D8053 Norway, Oslo: Vigeland Sculpture Park within Frogner Park, a collection of the life work of sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943), comprising more than 200 sculptures of bronze, granite and forged iron. Scenes of Norwegian family life surround the central monolith. Keywords: picturesque, capital city, Scandinavia, architecture, artistic, culture, statues, doubt. regret, persuasion, compassion
PMR-D6415 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Creglingen: the Virgin Mary's retable in the Herrgottskirche (Church of Our Lord), a masterpiece of woodcarving by Tilman Riemanschneider (1460-1531) depicting the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven. The shrine is made of pinewood but the figures are carved in softer limewood. Keywords: picturesque, colourful, historic, heritage, mediaeval, culture, Romantic Road, Romantische Strasse, architecture, gothic, religious, famous, moving, compassion, expressive, artistic
PMR227-01 Greece, Athens: Tower of the Winds, in the Roman Agora, decorated with figures representing the winds from 8 compass points. Built in the 1st century BC to contain an ingenious water clock designed by Andronikus Kyrrhestes. Keywords: historic, antiquity, culture, art, Greek, masonry, ruin, archeology, excavations, architecture, classical, heritage, monument, capital city
PMR-D1234 People's Republic of China, Tibet: Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet, founded in the late 8th century in the reign of King Trisong Detsen, is laid out in the form of a mandala, representing the Buddhist cosmos. This picture: the green stupa, one of four, including black, white and red, standing at the four points of the compass. Keywords: architecture, heritage, historical, picturesque, temples, Buddhist, Asian, colourful, religion
PMR052K-08 Spain, Galicia, La Coruna: mosaic compass, set into the rock at the base of the Tower of Hercules.

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