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 * ... that the Visigoth church of Santa Maria de Lara contains the earliest representation of Christ in Spain?
 * ... that Bernard J.S. Cahill (pictured) designed the Columbarium of San Francisco and the "Butterfly Map" of the world?
 * ... that Giambattista Nolli completed an ichnographic plan of Rome in 1748, now universally known as the "Nolli Map"?
 * ... that Hakon Ahlberg was a spokesman for Swedish architecture and recipient of the Alvar Aalto Medal?
 * ... that Ivan Zholtovsky was condemned in 1949 for the Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya building, then awarded the Stalin Prize for the same building in 1950?
 * ... that the Château Grimaldi in Antibes is home to the Picasso Museum with a collection of 245 works?
 * ... that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
 * ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
 * ... that Østre Porsgrunn Church (pictured), a church in the Rococo style built in 1760, was destroyed entirely in a 2011 fire?
 * ... that Gimnazija Mostar was built in Moorish Revival style due to Austro-Hungarian wish to create an "Islamic architecture of European fantasy"?