by Susan | Oct 5, 2026 | Monuments, Uncategorized
The Destroyed City (Dutch: De verwoeste stad) is a 6.5m-high bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval center of the city. Unveiled in 1953, It is the largest...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2026 | Monuments
In 2005, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, took initiative for the worldwide organization Mayors For Peace, and Narvik was one of the municipalities that joined. Akiba donated a stone from the reputed zero-point field Hiroshima as a gift to Narvik. The stone...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2026 | Monuments
This equestrian statue by Karel Nepraš was installed in the Žižkov district of Prague, Czech Republic in 2005, having been completed by Karolína Neprašová after her father’s death. It is located in an area where Hašek lived during writing of his famous novel The...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2026 | Monuments
Jean Diot and Bruno Lenoir were two French men arrested and charged with the crime of homosexuality in Paris in 1750. They were the last persons executed in France as punishment for being gay. In 2014, Paris officials...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2026 | Monuments
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is the founding document of the French republic. A product of the 1789 French Revolution, it reflected a radically new view of human rights. The Monument to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the...
