After depositing my eight zloty, I sat down and watched the scenery outside transform from Krakow's signature mishmash of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance architecture to woodland.

BBC: Forgotten landscapes outside Krakow

Western cities like Lviv were able to preserve some gothic and renaissance architecture, while most cities in the East ended up giving in to the Soviet-era simplistic and functional style.

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What was regarded as cheap and tacky, like the stained glass front door, had a renaissance after modernist architecture and its tower blocks were deemed a failure.

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With its stunning Renaissance art and architecture on view in well-proportioned squares and in world-class museums, there is a sense of elegance and permanence that helps root all who live here.

BBC: Living in: Florence

This is not the Tuscany of Renaissance masterpieces and grand classical architecture--it's not even an extension of the cosmopolitan, Anglo- infiltrated countryside the English like to call Chiantishire--but perhaps a few days' diversion from all that, a place kept true to its roots partly by being overlooked.

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This divorce of narration from structure in Western architecture was confirmed in the early Renaissance (15th century), when humanists sought to elevate the status of architects, establishing the designer's control of every element of a structure, conferring an auteur dominance.

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Once a woebegone district characterised by criminal activity and crumbling architecture, Getsemani is undergoing a 21st-century renaissance.

BBC: A renaissance beyond Cartagena��s historic walls

To the winners go the spoils: Histories of early 20th-century American art and architecture were written by modernist proponents who criticized the achievements of the American Renaissance and City Beautiful designers or ignored them altogether.

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