Esther Singleton gathers descriptions of great buildings by the writers who saw them best. Ruskin on Murano, Dickens on the Palace of the Popes and the Coliseum, Gibbon on the Coliseum too, Pierre Loti on the Holy Sepulchre, Gautier on the Giralda, Symonds on Monreale and Steevens on the Golden Temple of the Sikhs are among them.
An armchair tour of world architecture in fine prose, for travellers and anyone who loves old buildings. Download the free EPUB.