Sentence examples for splendid monument from inspiring English sources
The Paris Opera House (l'Opéra, or Palais Garnier), a splendid monument to the Second Empire, was designed in the neo-Baroque style by Charles Garnier.
This design by Robert Mills, one of the most renowned American architects of the time, was meant to be the world's largest and most splendid monument [Figure 1].
The single most splendid monument in the Baroque style, the Buen Retiro Palace just outside Madrid, has not survived (for a discussion of the fine porcelain manufactured there later, see Buen Retiro ware).
Market Street was once a glamorous destination for the western world, boasting of such landmarks as the Palace Hotel, the most expensive and luxurious hotel of its time, the Chronicle building's clock, the largest ever built, the Call building- one of the tallest in the world, and City Hall, a splendid monument to the city.
Historians suggest that although Henry VII later paid for a monument over Richard's grave – destroyed in the dissolution of the monasteries when the ruins were stripped of anything saleable, including what was probably a splendid monument for the mystery man – he may have hoped that in a minor church in a provincial town the last Plantaganet would soon be forgotten.
Its inscription reads: Johann Jakob von Wunsch, the son of Heidenheim, the splendid monument which the Prussian people have established on behalf of their King, Frederick The Great.
The challenge this presented to the central Javanese architects was met in a series of splendid monuments, completely original in conception.
The must-see food producers are in the surrounding countryside, but the splendid monuments of Parma are worth a day's sightseeing, too.
The splendid stainless steel monument, created by the brothers Toby and Gideon Petersen, is now an admired feature of Llandovery's townscape.
Even in the secular sphere, piety and asceticism forbade the building of splendid palaces and monuments.
Strewn with splendid Mughal forts, monuments and mausoleums, Delhi is imbued with history much the way Rome is.
