Sentence examples for splendid monuments from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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).

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.

Even in the secular sphere, piety and asceticism forbade the building of splendid palaces and monuments.

The splendid stainless steel monument, created by the brothers Toby and Gideon Petersen, is now an admired feature of Llandovery's townscape.

They planned to depart at 8 A.M. and, three hours later, converge at the Invalides — a splendid mélange of museum, military monument, and mausoleum.

It will completely change the way we think about the landscape around Stonehenge. "People have tended to think that as Stonehenge reached its peak, it was the paramount monument, existing in splendid isolation.

Almost all the sculpture on this splendid arch was snatched from earlier monuments: a battle frieze from the forum of Trajan, a series of Hadrianic roundels, and eight panels from a Marcus Aurelius monument.