Conical roofs

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Armenian Monastic Ensembles
Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay The dovecote has a conical roof
Echmiatsin and Zvartnots Echmiatsin
Falun Great Copper Mountain Husbergs Piva
Fortifications of Vauban Wells in Longwy
Fortified City of Carcassonne conical roof on the city wall turret
Gonbad-e Qâbus
Graz towers at the corners of Eggenberg Castle
Haghpat and Sanahin
Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Michaelskirche
Kazan Kremlin
Koutammakou are crowned with steeply pitched conical thatched roofs (AB ev)
Kunya-Urgench
Loire Valley Chambord Castle
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Swan Temple: "An architrave of cast stone carries a flat dome covered by a conical copper roof." (Nomination file, p. 86)
Monastery of Geghard
Mont-Saint-Michel Some of the little turrets around the Abbey have conical roofs
Mountain Resort, Chengde Pule Temple, one of eight temples
Temple of Heaven
The Royal Court of Tiébélé "grain stores, silos and poultry coops, which are conical in shape" (AB ev)
The trulli of Alberobello

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