The Pont du Gard is a marvel of Roman engineering: built in 50 A.D. at a height of over 40 meters, it allowed the Nîmes aqueduct (52

The Pantheon is the largest concrete dome in the world. It was originally a temple dedicated to all the gods (hence the name Pantheon, which means “of

The Middle Ages lasted a thousand years and saw the birth of many objects that we still use today: it is said that it was a monk

According to an ancient legend, glass was invented in Syria by some Phoenician merchants who, in order to make a campfire, used blocks of saltpetre which, melted

In the heart of Paris, on the Île de la Cité, there is a treasure, a jewel of Gothic art built in just 7 years.   La

Chartres Cathedral, located 60 km from the French capital, is one of the most evocative churches in Europe; an example of French Gothic architecture, it was rebuilt

Born in Oxford exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo Galilei, Stephen Hawking was a great British astrophysicist; a professor of mathematics and physics, he

Biomimicry is the imitation of nature and living things: it is said that the first example of biomimicry is attributed to the Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral

“I left Paris, or rather France, because the Eiffel Tower was beginning to get on my nerves.” Guy de Maupassant. The Eiffel Tower, the iron giant built