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Compostela Cathedral reflected in a puddle on the
Place in front of it, the destination of the pilgrims on the Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago)
The Liberty Bridge is the shortest bridge in Budapest's center. Initially built as part of the Millennium World Exhibition at the end of the 19th century, the bridge features art nouveau design, mythological sculptures and the country's coat of arms adorned on its side.
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In the Appenzell Alpstein, more precisely on the Schwägalp, a path with many small lanterns leads through the forest during the cold and dark season. This is of course beautiful when there is also snow.
We have completed the path shortly after the sun has set. The golden and the blue hour, but also afterwards in the darkness showed great moods. Fortunately, the trail is not too long, because it was freezing cold. This was good for the quality of the pictures, but was at the expense of cold fingers :-)
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when i was young i saw this building everyday because it's near my school , me and my friends hope in the future we must be visit that building and we think batman or superman at the up floor maybe we meet him !! HAHA
London, England - January 2, 2025: The London Eye at night reflected in the River Thames with Big Ben and Parliament in the background.
shot at an abandoned hotel during winter in magaluf, a very touristic site in mallorca focussed on british tourists
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Никитская церковь — православный храм, памятник архитектуры XVIII века. Расположена в центре города Владимира, недалеко от Золотых ворот. Трехэтажное бело-зеленое храмовое здание построено в соответствии с традициями дворцового зодчества и является ярким памятником провинциального барокко.
Aldea del Rey, Ciudad Real.
Remains of one of the walls of the castle of Calatrava La Nueva, completed in 1217 on another old bastion. It is the largest castle built on rock in Spain and possibly in Europe . It belonged to the Military Order of Calatrava. It belonged to the Military Order of Calatrava, which is the oldest military order of what is today Spain (1158).
"El puente es un atleta:
de un vigoroso salto
cruza el arroyo manso
con el camino a cuestas. "
- Alfredo Mario Ferreiro - 1919
Gracing the South Bank of the Thames in London, what is there to be said about this monumental building that has not been said before? An absolutely iconic building which is one of the world's largest brick built structures, and has been used as a backdrop or as a set to many films and TV shows and was even used for the cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals" album.
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames in Nine Elms, Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers. The architects were J. Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott.
The building comprises two power stations, built in two stages, in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built between 1929 and 1935 and Battersea B Power Station, to its east, between 1937 and 1941, when construction was paused owing to the worsening effects of the Second World War. The building was completed in 1955.
Battersea A was decommissioned in 1975. In 1980 the whole structure was given Grade II listed status; "Battersea B" shut down three years later. In 2007 its listed status was upgraded to Grade II*. The building remained empty until 2014, during which time it fell into near ruin. Various plans were made to make use of the building, but none were successful.
Eventually, the building and its 42 acre site were acquired by a Malaysian consortium. The development includes residential areas, shops, bars and restaurants as well as exhibition and entertainment spaces. As part of the development, a new tube station and extension to the existing Northern Line were also constructed. The main Power Station building was opened to the public in October 2022.
The Madison County Courthouse sits on top of a hill at the end of South Main in Fredericktown Missouri. A historic courthouse listed on the national register of Historic Places.
South Main
Fredericktown, Missouri
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Photo taken on January 4, 2024
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The Chappel Viaduct at Wakes Colne in Essex is a Grade 1 European monument railway viaduct that crosses the River Colne in the Colne Valley in Essex, England.
Construction on this impressive structure started in 1846 and took two years to complete and is a legacy and symbol of the Victorian age.
The viaduct's statistics are awe inspiring - it is 1,066 feet long and boasts 32 arches of 30 feet span and crosses the Colne Valley at a maximum height of 75 feet.
With seven million bricks, it is the second largest brick built structure in England after the Battersea Power Station.
A young couple share a pink umbrella during a light rain on the Piazza di Santa Maria in the Trastevere district of old Rome, Italy.
French yes, Paris no....the French houses are immediately recognizable because of their facades at first glance through the window of this sidewalk café in the middle of the old town of Lyon. Slightly smaller than the French capital, but with quite a bit of self-confident charm, Lyon doesn't need to hide behind Paris.
I usually take pictures with the "big" camera. But here I was "unfortunately" a little too comfortable to dig this out and have therefore only held with the iPhone XR on it and took the picture. And I'm always amazed what pictures are possible with the little thing.
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Spectacular it is, the cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. A grandiose building that you would not necessarily expect on this island, almost next to the coast. But there it stands and shies away from the comparison with other houses of worship in any way.
In addition to the enormous nave with the imposing columns, there are also beautiful side altars, which have impressed me so much.
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San Marino at sunset.
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Meteora, Greece
The Meteora (/ˌmɛtiˈɔːrə/;[1] Greek: Μετέωρα, pronounced [meˈteora]) is a rock formation in central Greece hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos.[2] The six (of an original twenty-four) monasteries are built on immense natural pillars and hill-like rounded boulders that dominate the local area. Between the 13th and 14th century, the twenty-four monasteries were established atop the rocks.[3] Meteora is located near the town of Kalabaka at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains.[4]
Meteora is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria I, II, IV, V, and VII.[5]
The name means "lofty", "elevated", and is etymologically related to meteor.[6]
Ancient history
Caves in the vicinity of Meteora were inhabited continuously between 50,000 and 5,000 years ago. The oldest known example of a built structure, a stone wall that blocked two-thirds of the entrance to the Theopetra cave, was constructed 23,000 years ago, probably as a barrier against cold winds – the Earth was experiencing an ice age at the time – and many Paleolithic and Neolithic artifacts of human occupation have been found within the caves.[3][15]
Meteora is not mentioned in classical Greek myths nor in Ancient Greek literature. The first people documented to inhabit Meteora after the Neolithic Era were an ascetic group of hermit monks who, in the ninth century AD, moved up to the ancient pinnacles. They lived in hollows and fissures in the rock towers, some as high as 1800 ft (550m) above the plain. This great height, combined with the sheerness of the cliff walls, kept away all but the most determined visitors. Initially, the hermits led a life of solitude, meeting only on Sundays and special days to worship and pray in a chapel built at the foot of a rock known as Dupiani.[2]
As early as the eleventh century, monks occupied the caverns of Meteora. However, monasteries were not built until the fourteenth century, when the monks sought somewhere to hide in the face of an increasing number of Turkish attacks on Greece.[16][17] At this time, access to the top was via removable ladders or windlass. Currently, getting up there is a lot simpler due to steps being carved into the rock during the 1920s. Of the 24 monasteries, only six (four of men, two of women) are still functioning, with each housing fewer than ten individuals.[18]
History and construction of the monasteries
The exact date of the establishment of the monasteries is widely believed to be unknown, however there are clues to when each of the monasteries were constructed. By the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, a rudimentary monastic state had formed called the Skete of Stagoi and was centred around the still-standing church of Theotokos (Mother of God).[2] By the end of the twelfth century, an ascetic community had flocked to Meteora.
In 1344, Athanasios Koinovitis from Mount Athos brought a group of followers to Meteora. From 1356 to 1372, he founded The Great Meteoron Monastery on the Broad Rock, which was perfect for the monks; they were safe from political upheaval and had complete control of the entry to the monastery. The only means of reaching it was by climbing a long ladder, which was drawn up whenever the monks felt threatened.[19]
At the end of the fourteenth century, the Byzantine Empire's reign over northern Greece was being increasingly threatened by Turkish raiders who wanted control over the fertile plain of Thessaly. The hermit monks, seeking a retreat from the expanding Turkish occupation, found the inaccessible rock pillars of Meteora to be an ideal refuge. More than 20 monasteries were built, beginning in the fourteenth century;[17] only six remain today.
In 1517, Theophanes built the monastery of Varlaam, which was reputed to house the finger of St. John and the shoulder blade of St. Andrew.[20]
Access to the monasteries was originally (and deliberately) difficult, requiring either long ladders latched together or large nets used to haul up both goods and people. This required quite a leap of faith – the ropes were replaced, so the story goes, only "when the Lord let them break".[21] In the words of UNESCO, "The net in which intrepid pilgrims were hoisted up vertically alongside the 373 metres (1,224 ft) cliff where the Varlaam monastery dominates the valley symbolizes the fragility of a traditional way of life that is threatened with extinction."[22]
Until the seventeenth century, the primary means of conveying goods and people from these eyries was by means of baskets and ropes.[23]
In 1921, Queen Marie of Romania visited Meteora, becoming the first woman ever allowed to enter the Great Meteoron monastery.[24]
In the 1920s there was an improvement in the arrangements. Steps were cut into the rock, making the complex accessible via a bridge from the nearby plateau. Thx to Wikipedia!
Deloitte Summit is a 24-storey office tower in downtown Vancouver made up of several clusters of four-storey steel-framed cubes stacked on top of each other to create a sculptural effect.
Meine erste Fototour, führte mich nach Wilhelmshaven.
Eigentlich war Fehmarn geplant, aber in Wilhelmshaven war das Wetter "besser".
Was ich da so erlebt habe und wie ich meinen neuen Fotorucksack finde, das seht ihr in dem Making Of Video: youtu.be/YbXC0ElGkcE
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The musician: is a picture taken at dusk in the "Louvre" in Paris.
The tallest building in Thailand is going to officially open soon. The top has a 360 degree viewpoint as well.
Couillard street in Quebec City. Cold November day, one of the only month of the year with almost nobody in the streets before noon. Just wondering, does anybody wanna ear about the post treatment of my shots?
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In the heart of downtown Fredericktown. The Ozarks Regional Library founded in 1908 by the Friday Club. A beautiful mural of a shelf of books adorns the south wall of the building
115 South Main
Fredericktown, Missouri
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Boats docked on the shore in Vernazza, one of five medieval coastal villages on Italy's Riviera - the Cinque Terre.
BEGET/GIRONA/ESPAÑA
En 2016 visite este pueblo singular, fotografiándolo a placer, solo encontramos una señora. He elegido como portada de este álbum la fotografía que tome entonces en beguet. Su población actual es de 20 habitantes. Sin palabras.
La Cataluña misteriosa esconde un pequeño y encantador pueblo a los pies de los Pirineos. Beguet, conserva una excelente colección de construcciones de origen medieval en un entorno natural privilegiado. Se dedican a la ganadería y a la agricultura desde el siglo XII, en plena edad media.
In 2016 visit this unique town, photographing it at will, we only found one lady. I have chosen as the cover of this album the photograph that I took then in beguet. Its current population is 20 inhabitants. Speechless.
Mysterious Catalonia hides a charming little town at the foot of the Pyrenees. Beguet preserves an excellent collection of buildings of medieval origin in a privileged natural setting. They have been dedicated to livestock and agriculture since the 12th century, in the middle ages.