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Cordouan Lighthouse
The Cordoba Lighthouse is located on a rocky plateau in the shallow Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Gironde River, in an extremely harsh environment. Built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the lighthouse was designed by engineer Louis de Foix and rebuilt at the end of the 18th century by engineer Joseph Teulère using white limestone blocks. A masterpiece of maritime signalling, the Cordoba Lighthouse features a magnificent tower decorated with pilasters, buttresses and gargoyles. It embodies a great phase in the history of lighthouse architecture and technology, built with the ambition to continue the tradition of the famous lighthouses of antiquity, demonstrating the art of lighthouse construction during the Renaissance, when lighthouses played an important role as territorial markers and safety tools. Finally, the increase in the height of the lighthouse and the changes to the lighthouse room at the end of the 18th century bear witness to the scientific and technological progress of the time. Its architectural form draws inspiration from ancient models, the Renaissance style and the specific architectural language of the School of Roads, Bridges and Roads, the French engineering school.
China Printing Museum
Printing is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. Its invention, development and dissemination have played a huge role in promoting social progress and human civilization. Therefore, people call printing the "mother of civilization". The purpose of the construction of the China Printing Museum is to carry forward the long and glorious printing culture of the Chinese nation, publicize the wisdom of the ancient people to all walks of life, and educate young people on patriotism. It takes printing technology as the theme, displays representative printed products, printing technology equipment and related raw materials from past dynasties, to show the important role of printing in developing culture, promoting social progress, spreading scientific knowledge, developing production, improving people's lives and international cultural exchanges. The China Printing Museum has a total construction area of 8,000 square meters and an exhibition area of 4,600 square meters. It is the largest museum in the world's printing industry. The museum is divided into four exhibition areas, namely: the Ancient Museum of the Source of Printing, the Modern and Contemporary Printing Museum, the Digital Technology Museum and the Underground Printing Machinery Museum. In addition, there are several special exhibition rooms such as banknote securities printing, stamp printing, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan printing and printing boutique exhibition areas. The Ancient Origin Museum is the focus of the museum's exhibition. It uses pictures, text descriptions and real objects to show the origin, invention and development of printing from the late Neolithic Age to the Qing Dynasty. The Digital Technology Museum takes the development, application and globalization of Chinese character information processing technology as its exhibition line, focusing on the historical leap of my country's printing technology from lead typesetting to phototypesetting offset printing, "saying goodbye to lead and fire, welcoming light and electricity".