The funding is the largest single investment ever made by the Department of the Environment in support of an historic monument.
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The abbey, listed as an ancient monument, includes the Spanish Barn, which was built to store taxes in the form of grain and hay, and also houses an art collection including pieces by William Blake.
Mr Sicilia has called for the "Tower of Light", an existing monument built for the bicentennial of Mexico's independence, to be turned into a "Tower of Peace", in memory of the victims of the drug war.
Unlike other temples at Angkor, Ta Prohm has been left as it was found, preserved as an example of what a tropical forest will do to an architectural monument when the protective hands of humans are withdrawn.
There is an elaborate gilded monument to the estimated 14, 000 victims in the nearby village of Stryzhavka.
But for many in Swiebodzin and across Poland, the monument is an object of veneration.
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They had decided to build an education center and monument about the Holocaust on some of the most expensive land in Berlin.
The Washington Monument becomes an island.
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The crumbling concrete of the palace reconstruction was recently restored on the grounds that it formed an integral part of the monument's history.
It was here that two years ago archeologists announced the discovery of a large stone which Buddhists believe was placed by an ancient king as a monument to the birthplace of the Buddha.
As I watched them walk past a Confederate monument and enter an orange-brick building where African-Americans in the 1960s were arrested for demanding equal voting rights, it was hard not to see the parallels.
CAGW, Birmingham decided in 1999 that the monument did not need an overhaul.
The monument, which depicts an axe-wielding Bruce on his war horse, was originally cast in bronze but it has been weathered over the decades and is slowly turning green.
About a dozen areas would be considered under Babbitt's proposed system, including Steens Mountain and Soda Mountain in Oregon, an expansion of the Colorado National Monument and the Carrizo plain in California's San Joaquin Valley.
A. in New York, my wife and I took a day trip to Plymouth, MA. Visiting with the typical expectations, which were largely met, I was surprised by a monument marker that described an 41-year-old protest march and rally led by the United American Indians of New England.
His interviews will form part of an audio guide for visitors to the monument.
Part promenade, part monument, the structure is an event, a happening, a unique combination of social and visual drama.
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This temple, built in the late 15th century, is a major monument of Jain architecture, an ancient ascetic faith based on nonviolence.
It is evident in the 1, 200 sculptures, large and small, he created in, as he proudly noted, seven continents. (A de Weldon monument of Richard Byrd, an American polar explorer, is in McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).
The ex-soldier said it was "a monument to ordinary soldiers and I was an ordinary soldier".
The former chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe believes that President Barack Obama could use an executive order to make the site a national monument.
Next year archaeologists hope to open to the public Augustus's mausoleum - once a monument in white travertine marble that is now an overgrown ruin.
In 1820, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss proposed cutting an enormous right triangle into the Siberian pine forest, creating a monument to the Pythagorean theorem big enough to see from outer space.
Backstage, Michael Jackson songs were being played in tribute, and fans talked of an impromptu memorial for the late singer at the "Stone Circle, " a neolithic monument in the grounds of the venue.
Tatlin's 1920 "Monument to the Third International" is here in a massive 1979 reconstruction and belongs to an older tradition of visionary architecture as much as it does to the innovations of abstraction.
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