Architecture and heritage

You have destroyed that which was unique in the world, and you have built that which you could have built anywhere.

- Emperor Charles V to the city fathers of Cordoba.

This is mostly a rant, I warn you, and purely for my own self-indulgence. It’s not even a rant about York Minster, thought it may seem so at first. But it’s a rant about architecture, history and heritage.

York Minster: three centuries in the making.

Credit: york-united-kingdom.co.uk

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