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Sierra de Huetor Santillan y Alfacar, al fondo de la fotografía. De izquierda a derecha se ven los pueblos de Alfacar, famoso por su excelente pan, Viznar tristemente famoso, por ser el lugar donde asesinaron a García Lorca y el Farge, conocido por su fábrica de pólvora, inagurada por Alfonso XIII.

Tadj Mahal in winter by Soñador 2

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Bodennebel-Sonnenaufgang # explore 5 vom 04.02.2023 by Helga Januschkowetz

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Nebel zieht auf!

(Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland, Naturpark Bergstrasse-Odenwald)

Fog is rolling in!

Danke an alle, die mein Foto mögen, favorisieren und kommentieren!

Thanks to all who like, favorite and comment on my photo!

November at a Walloon churchyard by Nik Janssen

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Looking towards the horizon by hcorper

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115 in 2015 #84 horizon

Flickr Lounge weekly theme - cultural landscape

¿Bajamos a Graná? by Jose Luís Juarez

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For the Love of the Land by rorofot

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Series

Obststand im Streuobstgarten by Werner B.

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by Lotl Axo

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Landgoed Tongeren Epe by Fred Bervoets

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Vlonderpad landgoed Tongeren in Epe, Gelderland province, The Netherlands

pelican by Daniel Virella

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Pelicans in the Saloum Delta. Senegal. 13°50′ N 16°29′ W

Saloum Delta is classified by UNESCO as a cultural landscape of Outstanding Universal Value.

whc.unesco.org/en/list/1359

Vineyards turning yellow by Peter Kittsteiner

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Autumnal view from the D1B (the Alsace Wine Route) roadside between Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr, with the little village of Zellenberg in the distance, Alsace, France

Some background information:

Zellenberg is a French village in the French department of Haut-Rhin in the Grand Est region. It has a population of roughly 330. The village is situated on a small hill in the Upper Rhine Plain at the edge of the Vosges Mountains, surrounded by vineyards on the Alsace Wine Route between Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr. Zellenberg is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park.

Since 1252, Zellenberg was a fief under the control of the Bishopric of Strasbourg. On the hill of the village, where a hermit had previously lived in a small hermitage, Count Walther of Horburg had a fortified castle built in the 13th century. In front of the castle’s gate, a settlement developed on the plateau, which was later surrounded by a town wall. In 1324, the castle came into the possession of the Bishopric of Strasbourg, and in 1332, it passed to the Counts of Rappoltstein.

In 1525, the residents of Zellenberg lost their town rights because they had sided with the peasants during the Peasants' War. By around 1780, the castle had fallen into ruin. Zellenberg was one of the eight administrative centers under the rule of the Rappoltstein family. The last lord of Rappoltstein, who lost his rule during the French Revolution, was Max Joseph, who would later become the King of Bavaria.

By the third decade of the 19th century, the castle ruins were no longer standing, and the village had only one gate and a single main street. By the 19th century, The wine-producing village of Zellenberg was already known regionally for the white wine produced and marketed there. From 1871 until the end of World War I, Zellenberg belonged to the German Empire as a part of the Alsace-Lorraine region and was assigned to the Rappoltsweiler district in the Upper Alsace region.

In the Alsace region al lot of wine is produced. It is primarily white wine. The Alsace is the only Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée region in France to produce mostly varietal wines, typically from similar grape varieties to those used in German wine. Along with Austria and Germany, it produces some of the most noted dry Rieslings in the world as well as highly aromatic Gewürztraminer wines. Wines are produced under three different AOCs: Alsace AOC for white, rosé and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from certain classified vineyards and Crémant d'Alsace AOC for sparkling wines. The Alsace region is both renowned for its dry and sweet white wines.

Vines are grown in 119 villages on altogether almost 16,000 hectares (39,500 acres) and every year almost 111.3 million litres of wine are produced, corresponding to 148.4 million bottles of 750 ml. 25% of the production is exported. The five largest export markets for still Alsace wine in terms of volume are Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and the United States.

The history of winegrowing in the Alsace region dates back to pre-Roman times, as wine was already produced there by the Celts. Under Roman rule, viticulture flourished for the first time. A second heyday came in the Early Middle Ages under the influence of different monastic orders. An important influence in the history of Alsace wine has been the repeated changes of nationality of the Alsace region, which passed from France to Germany and vice versa several times throughout history. In the 16th century, wine was produced in an area that was twice as large as today’s cultivated area.

The Thirty Years’ War that brought nothing but destruction, hunger and plague, put a temporary end to winegrowing as almost all areas under vines cultivated were destroyed. However after the war, viticulture recovered quickly, interrupted by some setbacks caused by the vine pest and mildew.

The geography of the wine growing area in Alsace is determined by two main factors, the Vosges mountains in the west and the Rhine river in the east. Most vineyards are concentrated in a sunny narrow strip, running in a roughly north-south direction, on the lower eastern slopes of the Vosges. But there are also some vineyards in narrow valleys of the Vosges. Alsace's geology is quite varied, with many different kinds of soils like slate, granite, marl or volcanic soil represented in the vineyards.

The Vosges are a range of low mountains, which form the western boundary of the Upper Rhine Plain, while the German Palatine forest forms its eastern boundary. The Vosges’ highest peak is the Grand Ballon at 1,424 m (4,672 feet), followed by the Storkenkopf and the Hohneck. Two nature parks lie within the Vosges: the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park and the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park. The Northern Vosges Nature Park and the Palatinate Forest Nature Park on the German side of the border form the cross-border UNESCO-designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.

by Lotl Axo

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by Lotl Axo

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Vineyard by Soñador 2

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Wachau

My contribution by Normann Photography

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2016 NSFF competition, 70 years anniversary.

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