Todos los pueblos de la tierra, en sus diferentes etapas evolutivas , sintieron la necesidad de rescatar del olvido sus gestas heroicas y perpetuar la memoria de sus próceres.

Protective agents are increasingly used for the preservation of stone monuments. Once applied to the rock, they constitute a veritable new substrate. Very little is known on the biological cycles which could develop on treated surfaces. This paper presents a synthesis o...

L'archéologie est là pour nous prouver que la « mémoire de pierre » subsiste souvent seule, les autres supports ayant cessé d'exister. Il n'est donc guère étonnant que le souvenir des morts au combat ait pris une forme lapidaire. Toutefois, même si elle plonge ses racin...

The static control of architectural monuments has some important and impressive applications in topographical methodologies. Two interesting examples of the topographic control methods concern the very famous Byzantine S. Marco Basilica in Venice and the Cathedral of Co...

Small towns with urbanistic historical simple layout and preserved medieval spatial arrangements represent an integral part of town network of the Lodz voivodeship (just under 16 % of all towns and 33% of all small towns of up to 10 thousand inhabitants). In these towns...

Monuments maintained by Calgary Parks or located on lands under Calgary Park's stewardship.

Survey monuments installed throughout the City maintain the horizontal and vertical control monumentation network and are utilized by public and private survey crews to precisely measure and determine the siting of coordinates for new lots and infrastructure throughout ...

Locations of provincial survey control monuments

Data on lichen presence on some monuments from Piedmont and Aosta Valley are reported. Sampling techniques, chosen on the basis of lithological characteristics of the substrata are described, and the ecological significance of the identified species is discussed. Prelim...