History

It started leaning before it was finished

Seventeen rows of it sit below the street

A bomb hit the chapel, and a gallery replaced it

Nobody agrees on what it was built for

The rocks here gave the valley its name

Napoleon did not break its nose

Every one of these gates was a gift

Its steps add up to the days in a year

The whole city is built on a lagoon

An Aztec ceremonial centre lies under it

Broken porcelain covers the whole tower

The soles of its feet carry 108 symbols

The first bridge ever hung from steel wire

It was the front door of a world fair

The Emerald Buddha lives inside these walls

This street was once a riverbed

Small stone tiles were fitted on by hand

There is a broken chain at her feet

Animals were lifted up from tunnels below

The roof carries 135 marble spires

Its name means all-knowing, and it is the tallest

A glass dome was added on top in the 1990s

It was a mosque, and it is now a church

Every face in this clay army is different

It was never one single wall

Built for Vishnu, then used by Buddhists

A moat ran here until it was paved over

A tsunami swept these statues inland

Cart ruts are still in the roads

An Egyptian obelisk stands in the middle

A ruin built to watch for ships

20,000 workers built it for one woman

Gaudí is buried in the crypt below it

It was built to stand for 20 years

One porch is held up by carved women

The stones are joined like carpentry

A narrow gorge opens onto the Treasury