The new Pope, the son of an Italian railway worker, said how he was inspired by the 13th Century Italian saint who was a man of both poverty and peace.
By the late 13th century, Italy had a flourishing goldsmith and jewelry industry, from which sprang the architects and artists who created the Renaissance.
The property, an outstanding example of an architectural style developed by the Buganda Kingdom since the 13th century, will be reconstructed.
By the end of the 13th century, Italian engineers were building large mechanical clocks inside towers, driven by slowly descending weights.
The principles behind the new design follow the Fibonacci mathematical sequence discovered by Leonardo da Pisa in the 13th Century and echo the spirals at the centre of a sunflower or pine cone.
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The Triforium was built in the 13th century by Henry III and offers spectacular views of the rest of the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
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High above the Arno River, Poppi Alta is the upper section of the town of Poppi, and is crowned by the narrow, 13th-century Castello dei Conti Guidi.
Celestine V, a hermit elected at age of 80, stepped down at the end of the 13th century because he felt exhausted by the office.
It was also the site of a Norman castle built in the 13th Century, before being destroyed by Owain Glyndwr's forces.
The 13th Century castle has been owned by the Myddelton family since 1595, but the current members decided to move to a private home to raise their children.
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In Pisek, south Bohemia, the railing, cobbles and a statue from the Czech Republic's oldest surviving stone bridge -- constructed in the 13th century -- were swept away by floodwaters.
Later it was expounded on by various Islamic scholars, such as Ibn Taymiiya in the 13th century, but it did not become institutionalized until the mid-18th century when the theories promulgated by the radical cleric Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were accepted and imposed as the state religion of his realm by the founder of the House of Saud.
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In the 13th century, Pope Celestine V resigned under pressure and was imprisoned by his successor, who feared the previous pope could become a rival, said Father Cito.
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The main square of Raekoja Plats, a cobbled plaza dominated by a Gothic town hall, lies at the epicentre of a web of alleys and lanes leading up to the 13th-century Toompea Castle and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
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