Magic Squares

Connected Sites: 8

Magic Squares can consist of numbers or letters (word squares). A word square consists of a set of words, all having the same number of letters as the total number of words; when the words are written out in a square grid horizontally, the same set o

Connected Sites

  • Khajuraho Group of Monuments
    Khajuraho Group of Monuments
    India
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.90
    80
    4
    Parshvanath Jain temple (numbers)
  • Siena
    Siena
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    4.05
    378
    10
    At the wall of the Duomo of Siena (letters, a SATOR square)
  • Santiago de Compostela
    Santiago de Compostela
    Spain
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.56
    228
    7
    SATOR
    See es.wikipedia.org
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    662
    13
    SATOR at Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Engraved on a wall in the basement, originally a Roman house from 4th century
  • Abbey of St Gall
    Abbey of St Gall
    Switzerland
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.16
    234
    6
    St Gallen Library, "in the far southeast corner you'll spot The Venerable Bede, a seventh-century English monk from Northumbria who wrote one of the first histories of England: he is shown as a scholar, with, beside him, a magic number square..."
  • Works of Antoni Gaudí
    Works of Antoni Gaudí
    Spain
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.11
    553
    18
    At the Sagrada Familia
    See www.barcelonabook.com
  • Verona
    Verona
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.61
    369
    12
    SATOR (16th Century) - inner courtyard of Benciolini Palace
  • Pompei
    Pompei
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1997
    4.38
    452
    8
    Herculaneum (letters, a SATOR square)