Ruins
Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once complete, as time went by, have fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction. Natural disaster, war and depopulation are the most common root causes, with many structures becoming progressively derelict over time due to long-term weathering and scavenging.
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... In the Middle Ages Roman ruins were inconvenient impediments to modern life, quarries for pre-shaped blocks for building projects, or of marble to be burnt for ... With the Renaissance, ruins took on new roles among a cultural elite, as examples for a consciously revived and purified architecture all' antica, and for a new aesthetic appreciation of their innate beauty ... of the modern classicising monuments of their own day as they would one day appear as ruins ...
... Dougga - Bath of the Cyclopses (ruins) Dougga - Antonian Bath (ruins) Dougga - Aïn Doura Bath (ruins) Tunis (Carthage) - Antonine baths (ruins) ...
... The ruins of Sinuessa are still visible on the seacoast just below the hill of Mondragone, which forms the last underfall or extremity of the long ridge of Monte Massico ...
... Burgruine Conerow, Wodarg Schloss Dargun (ruins), Dargun Haus Demmin (ruins), Demmin Schloss Hohendorf Schloss Karlsburg, Karlsburg Burg Klempenow ...
... museum stands the impressive (although in ruins) Togchin temple ruins, originally built in 1749 with architecture that recalls the temples of Tibet ... In all, the ruins of 17 buildings, distributed over a rising terrain, can be identified throughout the vast area of the monastery ...
Famous quotes containing the word ruins:
“But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction of objects, only the senses of smell and taste, weaker but more enduring, more intangible, more persistent, more faithful, continue for a long time, like souls, to remember, to wait, to hope, on the ruins of all the rest, to bring without flinching, on their nearly impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Don’t drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.”
—Sidney Howard (1891–1939)
“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”
—Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)