A neo-Gothic ambo in the Saint Demetrius church in Litochoro, which decoration reminds of churches in Cyprus rather then in mainland Greece.

Secession in Serbia, moreover, in its south - the former administration building in Niš, which nowadays serves as a courthouse.

A Renaissance carved arch in the Protection of the Theotokos church of Alexandrow Kremlin. Alongside with Russian masters, Italians worked on the churches of the royal residence, and it is thanks to them that in this very church the traditional tented roof for the first time ever was built not in wood, but in stone.

Roman ruins in the historical center of Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia.

Today the Orthodox Church remembers the Apostle James, the brother of the Lord. Unlike the other apostles, he remained in Palestine as the first head of the Jerusalem Church, preaching among the Jews.

However, those Jews have long since dissolved among the Romans and other Christians, and the deeds of James, alas, in modern Christianity have been overshadowed by the deeds of the other apostles.

Symbolically, however, that the orthodox church dedicated to him in Jerusalem, the city where he once preached to the Jews, serves as a temple for the Arabs, sometimes even being called a cathedral in this regard..

An abandoned late-Byzantine Zarnata castle in Greece.

Launched this year, the recreated medieval clock on the clock tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.

Lost in the XIX century, the clock was restored on the model of the surviving mechanisms of the times of its installation and by analogy with the lost old clock of the Saviour Tower in Moscow. Now it is the only clock in Russia of the Old Russian model - with a dial moving relative to the hand, Slavonic writing of numbers and other features. The melody of the recreated clock is based on a fragment of the opera ‘Life for the Tsar’