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In this eight-part BBC series, cultural historian, writer and television presenter Dan Cruickshank makes a world trip past beautiful, curious and astonishing buildings and monuments that change our view of the world. He will visit buildings from different eras and cultures, including the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg in Russia, the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, the Hanging Temple in Shanxi in China, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria in Germany, and even an igloo in Greenland. one of the first buildings in which man sought shelter. In each episode, Cruickshank visits various buildings that often are far away from each other and convey the same values and ideas in completely different ways. He shows that these seemingly different structures have a lot in common and each in their own way testify to the intelligent capacity, the vision and views, and the ambition of the people who built them. Total playing time 396 min.
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