Conical roofs
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Armenian Monastic Ensembles | ||
Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay | The dovecote has a conical roof | |
Echmiatsin and Zvartnots | Echmiatsin | |
Falun Great Copper Mountain | Husbergs Piva | |
Fortifications of Vauban | Wells in Longwy | |
Fortified City of Carcassonne | conical roof on the city wall turret | |
Gonbad-e Qâbus | ||
Graz | towers at the corners of Eggenberg Castle | |
Haghpat and Sanahin | ||
Hildesheim Cathedral and Church | Michaelskirche | |
Kazan Kremlin | ||
Koutammakou | are crowned with steeply pitched conical thatched roofs (AB ev) | |
Kunya-Urgench | ||
Loire Valley | Chambord Castle | |
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt | Swan Temple: "An architrave of cast stone carries a flat dome covered by a conical copper roof." (Nomination file, p. 86) | |
Monastery of Geghard | ||
Mont-Saint-Michel | Some of the little turrets around the Abbey have conical roofs | |
Mountain Resort, Chengde | Pule Temple, one of eight temples | |
Temple of Heaven | ||
The Royal Court of Tiébélé | "grain stores, silos and poultry coops, which are conical in shape" (AB ev) | |
The trulli of Alberobello |
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