Kesennuma’s historic significance began in the twelfth century, and much of its prosperity was tied to being a gold-mining town toward the eastern end of Japan’s Golden Trail.
The Haji Piyada Mosque was built in the second half of the ninth century, only two centuries after the establishment of Islam and immediately following its arrival in Central Asia.
One of Antoni Gaudí’s early works, the Güell Pavilions are not widely known because they have been mostly inaccessible to the public throughout their history.
Shikarpoor was founded in 1617 as a walled city and, due to its strategic location, became a main stop on the trade route between Central Asia and India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.