offered relatively good natural protection owing to the hill bank, a small corbelled tower, Pilsticker (“arrow-sharpener”). Three of these towers have been preserved. Stür den Kerl was demolished in the 18th century when the government administration building was being erected. The core of the fortress was taken up by the Convent House, built to a specific plan and the layout evolved in the course of the Order´s construction activities.In the 1920s the house, which had fallen into disrepair, was replaced with the building of the parliament of the Republic of Estonia that follows in general the layout of the medieval construction. The building was designed by Eugen Habermann and Herbert Johanson, who later proved to be Estonia’s most outstanding architects. The building with its traditionalist exterior and expressionist interior is unique among parliament buildings. The most outstanding room of the building is the parliamentary chamber, with ultramarine
paid and kept his body, until the blossoming of a stick that had been immersed in his blood. For this miracle his body was released to his followers. In the 12th century a church was dedicated to him. The present church was completed in 1718. Palace of Placentia was built in 1447 by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. It was named by Margaret of Anjou. Edward IV further enlarged and completed it. It was Henry VII's residence. The palace fell into disrepair during the English Civil War. It became the Royal Naval College in 1873. Greenwich Park is located on a hilltop. It is part of the World Heritage Site. It is also a site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. The modern pentathlon will take place in Greenwich Park in 2012 London Olympic Games. National Maritime Museum is the leading Maritime Museum in London. It includes Royal Observatory and Queen's House. Queens House architect was Inigo Jones. It is a former royal
The following year Rome itself fell to the raiders. Despite their long occupation of Britain, the Romans left very little behind. Unlike Gaul or Spain, they left here neither their system of law and administration nor their language. Latin completely disappeared both in its spoken and written forms when the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain in the fifth century AD. Moreover, most of the Roman villas, baths and temples, the cities they had founded were soon destroyed or fell into disrepair. Almost the only lasting reminders of their presence are place names like Chester, Lancaster and Gloucester which include variants of the Roman word castra (a military camp). 23 Notes 1. In the 1st с. BC – the 4th c. AD Rome founded the greatest ancient empire whose provinces extended from the Caucasus in the east and Egypt in the south to Spain and Gaul in the west and Britain in the north-west. In 395 the empire was
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