PERGOLESI MUSEUM
PERGOLESI MUSEUM His early death and the prodigious reputation of just two of his works – the intermezzo La serva padrona and the Stabat mater, composed on his deathbed …
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PONT NEUF BRIDGE MAP
PONT NEUF BRIDGE MAP Crossing Seine River, Paris Designer/Engineer Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau Completed 1606 Length 761 feet (232 meters) Materials Masonry Type Arch The bridge opened up panoramic …
ERASMUS BRIDGE MAP
ERASMUS BRIDGE MAP To meet multiple demands, the Erasmus combines three bridgescable-stayed, viaduct, and basculein one. The Erasmus Bridge, Ben van Berkel’s glorious arching portal over the Maas River, …
SAINT-SAENS MUSEUM
SAINT-SAENS MUSEUM Camille Saint-Saens was a Parisian. He was born in the Latin Quarter, at 3 Rue du Jardinet, on 9 October 1835. But his family came from the …
SPOHR MUSEUM
SPOHR MUSEUM A museum to Louis Spohr was established in Kassel as early as 1912. He spent nearly 40 years in the city, first as musical director of the …
EADS BRIDGE MAP
EADS BRIDGE MAP Steamboats traveling up and down the mighty Mississippi had brought St. Louis great prosperity. By 1860, however, the city was losing business to Chicago, which was …
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV MUSEUM
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV MUSEUM To a traveller unused to Russia, a tour of Rimsky-Korsakov sites – his birthplace in Tikhvin, his St Petersburg apartment and grave, and his summer homes near …
CONFEDERATION BRIDGE MAP
CONFEDERATION BRIDGE MAP Extreme ice and the well-being of lobsters determined the bridge design. In 1997 the Confederation Bridge, one of the world’s longest continuous multispan bridges, opened, crossing …