8 sentences with “centre”

At the centre of each city was a huge temple called a ziggurat, or step pyramid, some of which still survives today.

The ancient civilisations clustered around the Mediterranean treated it as the centre of the world itself, their main trade route to each other and an important source of their food as well.

The most important building project under Solomon was the great Temple in Jerusalem, the centre of the Yahwist religion. There, a class of priests performed the rituals and worship of Yahweh.

Over the course of some five centuries, the Romans expanded from the city of Rome in the centre of the Italian peninsula to rule an empire that stretched from Britain to Spain and from North Africa to Persia (modern-day Iran).

It was an important centre of long-distance trade, with its trade networks extending throughout the Middle East and as far as the Indus River valley of India, with traders relying on donkey caravans and the use of wheeled chariots.

In addition to the Alcoholics Anonymous entity in Argentina, there are proposals such as the recovery centre, called Regresa, where professionals spend a large part of the day with the resident patients, who move around with total and absolute freedom.

In Argentina, Jorge Raff set up a centre for flower cultivation and research in the town of Escobar, Buenos Aires, which has produced 80 different energy essences from those prepared elsewhere in the world. According to Raff, these flowers can also be applied to plants and crops to improve production.

In its early days it was at the centre of countless controversies about aesthetics and good taste: a group of French intellectuals argued that the design was ridiculous and defined the tower as a gigantic black chimney crushing with its barbaric mass Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, Les Invalides and the Arc de Triomphe.