St John the Baptist Church, Laon, France

One of the oldest churches in the Laon is St John the Baptist, in the nearby neighborhood of Vaux-sous-Laon, which dates from the 11th through 13th centuries and is built in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles.

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Volodymyr Kravchenko (4 years ago)
Histórico , turístico

Jean-Marie Devoucoux (4 years ago)
Church very bright

Danièle Danièle (4 years ago)
Possible in wheelchair ... super priest

Oxitrone [ӾøŁ] (5 years ago)
small church that produces EXORBITANT amounts in euros. SCAM.

papijean40 Jean-Marie (7 years ago)
The most beautiful church in France ... a little chauvinistic: it's all my youth!

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The ancient Argos Theater was built in 320 BC. and is located in Argos, Greece against Larissa Hill. Nearby from this site is Agora, Roman Odeon, and the Baths of Argos. The theater is one of the largest architectural developments in Greece and was renovated in ca 120 AD.

The Hellenistic theater at Argos is cut into the hillside of the Larisa, with 90 steps up a steep incline, forming a narrow rectilinear cavea. Among the largest theaters in Greece, it held about 20,000 spectators and is divided by two landings into three horizontal sections. Staircases further divide the cavea into four cunei, corresponding to the tribes of Argos A high wall was erected to prevent unauthorized access into the theatron and may have helped the acoustics, but it is said the sound quality is still very good today.

Around 120 CE, both theaters were renovated in the Roman style.

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