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Hagia Sophia and Pantheon 600 - College Essay

Hagia Sophia and Pantheon 600

So one country that I have been lucky enough to travel to is Italy with my dad and we stayed in Rome - true experience - so thought I would write about what I actually saw. We were both excited to see both the Pantheon, which is one of the greatest structures of all time.
Once you get to the building - it is not all that impressive from the outside - it is built like a Greek temple with eight columns in the front And from the outside it really doesn't seem very impressive. The Pantheon is built like a Greek temple on the front, with eight columns across the front and a pediment in the front of the building (a triangular shaped gable). Where is gets impressive is on the inside. The ...

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a drain system that takes the water and melted snow away. The interior is very beautiful, the pediments are inside are smaller, ornate and decorated unlike the exterior ones. There are niches with the statues of the kings of Italy and behind is where the tombs are.
A trip I would like to take some day would be to Turkey to see the Hagia Sophia. This is what I would expect to see. Stepping through a huge doorway into the inside of the Hagia Sophia is amazing, of course, and this once church, once mosque, and now a museum, doesn't fail to impress one. You can see the remains of the Byzantine gold tiles next to the large canvases of Arabic inscriptions. It reminds me of the Pantheon that was built for the Roman royalty and is now a Christian church and mosque in the post world. It was built as a Christian church and, for over a thousand years, was the largest cathedral in the world! It is still impressive, although, as you can imagine, its age shows in the sagging ...

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Added: 3/21/2011 11:24:48 PM
Submitted By: gloriamcm
Category: Architecture
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 672
Pages: 3

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