01-01-2008, 02:50 AM
www.spanisharts.com/arquitectura/i_roma.html
Great one, not limited to military architecture, and it´s in English AND Spanish!
Hours of joy! :wink:
One of my fauvorite roman bridges ever:
Alcantará´s
(it´s hard to find a photo with something to see the enormous scale of that bridge hock: )
And the most humble inscription I have ever seen (But he deserved it, I think )
Another example:
Tarraco´s walls
Great one, not limited to military architecture, and it´s in English AND Spanish!
Hours of joy! :wink:
One of my fauvorite roman bridges ever:
Alcantará´s
(it´s hard to find a photo with something to see the enormous scale of that bridge hock: )
And the most humble inscription I have ever seen (But he deserved it, I think )
Quote:At the southern side -left bank of the river- there is a little temple in altis. At its dintel an inscription let us read the architect's name -Caius Iulius Lacer- and the words "who will live so much as the world would live".
Another example:
Tarraco´s walls
-This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how
sheep´s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Iagoba Ferreira Benito, member of Cohors Prima Gallica
and current Medieval Martial Arts teacher of Comilitium Sacrae Ensis, fencing club.
sheep´s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Iagoba Ferreira Benito, member of Cohors Prima Gallica
and current Medieval Martial Arts teacher of Comilitium Sacrae Ensis, fencing club.