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Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is situated within the Stuttgart Region, and the district is part of the administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) of Stuttgart.
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Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg), also known as the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 ha (79 acres)—the largest palatial estate in the country. The palace has four wings: the northern wing, the Alter Hauptbau, is the oldest and was used as a ducal residence; the east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers; the southern wing, the Neuer Hauptbau, was built to house more court functions and was later used as a residence.
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, appointed Philipp Joseph Jenisch to direct the work and construction began in 1704. In 1707, Jenisch was replaced with Johann Friedrich Nette, who completed the majority of the palace and surrounding gardens. Nette died in 1714, and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni finished much of the palace facades. In the final year of construction, Eberhard Louis died and the Neue Hauptbau's interiors were left incomplete. Charles Eugene's court architect, Philippe de La Guêpière, completed and refurbished parts of the New Hauptbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775. Duke Frederick II, later King Frederick I, began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign. Frederick and his wife Charlotte, Princess Royal, resided at Ludwigsburg and employed Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret to renovate the palace in the Neoclassical style. Thouret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors over the reign of Frederick and later life of Charlotte. As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, and Empire style architecture.
The constitutions of the Free People's State and Kingdom of Württemberg were ratified at Ludwigsburg Palace in 1919 and 1819, respectively. It was the residence for four of Württemberg's monarchs and some other members of the House of Württemberg and their families. The palace was opened to the public in 1918 and then survived World War II intact. It later underwent periods of restoration in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s and again for the palace's 300th anniversary in 2004. The palace had more than 350,000 visitors in 2017 and has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival every year since 1947.
Surrounding the palace are the Blooming Baroque (Blühendes Barock) gardens, arranged in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800. Nearby is Schloss Favorite, a hunting lodge built in 1717 by Frisoni. Within the palace are two museums operated by the Landesmuseum Württemberg dedicated to fashion and porcelain respectively.
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The German city of Ludwigsburg hosts the largest pumpkin festival in the world, held annually from early September to November. Bringing in more than 400,000 pumpkins grown in southwest Germany, the city arranges them based on a theme that varies year by year. The festival includes more than 450 species of pumpkins, some of which are edible and others that are solely used for display purposes.
Themed Displays
The annual Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival has a different theme each year, with pumpkins stacked together to create shapes unique to a subject. In 2011, the pumpkin garden was transformed into a "Jurassic Park," with pumpkins arranged in the shape of dinosaurs. The 2010 festival was island-themed, featuring pumpkins arranged as an octopus, a mermaid, a lighthouse and other sea creatures. In 2012, the festival was Switzerland-themed, with pumpkins displayed to resemble the Swiss flag, livestock and the Alps. Thousands of pumpkins are stacked together to build each year's unique creations.
Food and Drink
The German festival offers an array of pumpkin-flavored dishes, including pumpkin soups, "maultaschen" (ravioli), risotto, strudel and spaghetti. Visitors can also order pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Previous festivals have offered various types of the gourd-like squash, including the "Blue Banana," the "Speckled Hound," the "Little Blue Hungarian" and the "Japanese Microwave Pumpkin," all of which can be used for cooking. For those interested in making their own dishes, the festival shop also sells pumpkin seed oil, marmalade, chutney, seeds and cookbooks.
Activities
The Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival features various autumn-themed activities. Using a spoon and a carving instrument, visitors can choose to carve their own pumpkins or watch sculptors transform them into artwork. On Saturdays, you can listen to live music while drinking pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Families with kids can let their children roll around in the "playground," a large pen filled with hay. Past festivals have hosted costume contests and pumpkin-carving competitions during the week of Halloween.
Annual Events
On one day each fall, the festival includes a race featuring canoeists paddling across a lake using boats made from hollowed-out pumpkins. The annual race takes place on the lake across from Ludwigsburg Castle. With the pumpkins frequently weighing more than 200 pounds, they are difficult to keep afloat. Ludwigsburg also features an annual competition to find Europe's heaviest pumpkin. On the last day of the festival, which marks the end of the season, the winning pumpkin is smashed after being on display for weeks.
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It is nearly impossible to describe the beauty you will encounter while travelling across Rocky Mountain in Colorado during early October! Thick aspens (Populus tremuloides) in patches with their golden leaves stand against lush green mountains. Ice peaks over 12,000 feet rising through the forest truly enhance the beauty of its landscapes.
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado is one of the most distinctive of America's alpine area parks. It is home to a vast collection of 72 peaks that scrape the skies at over 12,000 feet and offers diverse geography that encompasses barren alpine tundra and thick, lush forests. While summer crowds help to make the park one of the top 10 most visited in the national park system, autumn provides a quieter time to enjoy the vibrant colors of the changing seasons. September and October typically experience dry, moderate weather, making for ideal visits.
Trees
The park's fall colors are most defined by the legions of white-barked aspen trees that line the valleys and mountains. Starting in late August, aspens in the highest reaches of the park begin their annual quaking, a term to describe the aspens unique leaves changing a golden-yellow hue. As the quaking progresses the park's high country becomes striped with color, appearing on fire from a distance. These trees become yellow in mid-September and provide crisp shades of gold and red into October. The colors contrast with the deep greens of the evergreen trees that make up the majority of tree species in the park. The peak season for fall colors comes in late-September and the changing colors generally last four to five weeks. Hundreds of elk migrate down from the high country to find a mate for the winter.
Intensity of Fall Colors
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) are among the most colorful and wide-spread color-changing trees in Rocky Mountain National Park. Experience suggests to us that aspen produce more or less colorful leaves from year to year, and that these differences seem to relate to weather patterns, soil fertility, and the amount of moisture they received during the growing season.
Ecological mysteries of fall colors-
Recently scientists put forward an intriguing alternative explanation for intense fall colors in some trees (Ecol. Lett. 6, 807, 2003). Mountain birches in Norway may use intense fall colors to signal leaf-chewing insects not to infest them. The intensity of color seems to be an indicator of how much chemical defense compound the tree can produce. In the case of the mountain birches, an inchworm (geometrid) moth lays eggs on the trees in the fall. The following spring the eggs hatch, and the moth caterpillars eat the trees' leaves. Trees that can produce larger amounts of chemical defenses to make their leaves unpalatable receive less damage. The trees with the most intense leaf colors in the fall also have the least damage the following spring, suggesting a direct relationship between chemical defenses and intense colors. Over time, perhaps the moths have learned to avoid laying eggs on trees with the most highly colored leaves!
Its not know whether the same thing happens in Rocky Mountain National Park's aspen or other trees. We do know there are many different representatives of the inchworm or geometrid moth family in the park. However, whether you enjoy fall colors because they are beautiful or because they may reveal scientific secrets, Rocky Mountain National Park offers an excellent opportunity to experience a glorious autumn.
The colors of the Rockies are truly singular
The colors of the Rockies are truly singular, that is, they are all yellow. Gorgeous expanses of yellow aspen (Populus tremuloides) color the mountain sides, contrasting firmly with the dark green spruces and firs. The orange, red, and purples of the east seem absent.
The autumn colors in leaves are produced by an interestingly subtractive process. In summer, green chlorophyll masks the colors of several other pigments that exist in leaves, pigments that, like chlorophyll, assist with photosynthesis. These yellow, red, and purple pigments - carotene, xanthophyll, and anthocyanins - produce the bright fall colors, but only after the chlorophyll wanes as temperatures cool and days shorten. As autumn proceeds, even these hardier pigments ebb, and leaves become brown, gray, or black.
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A lake so red that you wonder if it's real....it sure is!
Still daydreaming of my road trip between Tupiza and Uyuni.
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Almost everyday, the leader of this trip, Joel Santos, woke us up before 4am, sometimes at 3:00am or 2:00am.
One of the days, we did not sleep. We hiked to this Mount Ijen for about 3.5 hours. We left the base of the mountain around midnight. Reached the crater rim at 2:30am and descended to the crater lake for 1 hour more. It was extremely difficult to take the pictures down there. It was dark, we had our faces covered with respirator, and protection glasses against the sulfur gas, no way to keep our tripod standing still due to many people and especially in respecting of the miners. It was the best experience I had in terms of difficulty of photographing.
So, I just left my equipment and enjoyed the scene. Blue color flares came from the burning gas, the yellow color of the sulfur smoke gas, and the impressive hard and extreme conditions of the miners' work made me to stop and not wasting my time in figuring the settings. I just admired the scene. It was really touching. An hour before sunrise, some of us rushed to the rim back again to take the pictures. It was really exhausting, but it was really worth it! :)
Kawah Ijen volcano
Elevation
2,799 m (9,183 ft)
Listing
Spesial Ribu
Location
Location
Banyuwangi Regency,
Java, Indonesia
Coordinates
8.058°S 114.242°E
Geology
Type
Stratovolcano
Last eruption
June 1999
The Helpoort, formerly also known as Jekerpoort, Hoogbrugpoort, Alde Poort on the Ancker, Kruittorenpoort or the two towers, is a former city gate in the Dutch city of Maastricht.
Protestant cemetery - 1789 - 1892 ( Penang Island )
The first known buried at the cemetery took place in 1789.
Captain Francis Light ( d 1794 ) was buried here and so were several early governors of Colonial Penang. Phillips Dundas ( d1807) Colonel John Alexander Bannerman ( d1819) ...............
One of the personality who was buried here was Thomas Louis Leonowens , ( d 1851 age 31 )husband of Anna from the movie " Anna & The King "or " The King & I "
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🗽 Exploring and visiting the top of the rainbow mountain of Vinicunca in Cusco, Peru
Explorando y visitando la cima de la montaña Arcoíris de Vinicunca en Cusco, Perú
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One of the most fantastic tourist attractions is the rainbow mountain in Cusco, Peru. Vinicunca is located south of Cusco on the slopes of the snowy Ausangate. A full day is required to visit the tourist area; there is the option to walk along the marked trail or ride a horse to save energy and ascend the last section for about 18 minutes. And thus reach the top to appreciate the rainbow mountain in all its splendor, along with the mountain range of the Colorado valley, the snowy Ausangate, the Andes Mountain range with the beautiful alpacas grazing in the area.
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Mývatn Nature Baths; warm yourself in the hot nature pool while the ambient temperature is plunging as evening approaches.
Simon came to our Seattle store with the wheeled bag on the left. He left with an Aeronaut (shown right). Everything from that fully packed wheeled bag fit into the Aeronaut with the help of some Packing Cubes.
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1.Great Place to Live: Listed as one of the Top Ten most liveable places on earth to live, South Australia or ‘SA’ to locals, has it all for singles, families, and every other type of relationship a person may be involved in. Once known as the sleepy ‘City of Churches, its capital city Adelaide has thrown aside its conservative mantle and come alive as the ‘Festival City’ hosting a wide array of artistic events, entertainment and cultural activities. The whole state gives out an ambiance envied by many other countries. Pollution is low, unemployment rates are down, the Australian economy is strong, and residents on the whole love living here. We enjoy a mostly Mediterranean climate in the southern populated part of the state that allows for a great social life and outdoor entertaining around the barb barbecue or ‘Barbie’.
2.Great Wine: It has been estimated that half of all wine produced in Australia comes from SA. With our diverse climate we are able to produce the full range of grape varieties required for all types of wines, from the gentle whites through to the full-bodied reds. Wines from famous producers such as Jacob’s Creek, Penfolds and others are shipped around the world and enjoyed by millions. Many visitors flock to SA simply to visit the different wine regions, including the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and the Clare Valley. SA has some of the nicest cellar doors in the country and many a happy drive can be enjoyed sampling the wares of different producers and taking a bottle or two home.
3.Great Things to See: No matter your tastes, you will find a way to enjoy life to the fullest in SA. Our landscapes, parks and gardens are among some of the most picturesque in the country. Take time to explore the beautiful Adelaide Botanic Gardens or superb Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens where you can wonder for hours, lost in your own private wonderland. Discover our raw natural landscapes from spectacular underground caves to glistening mighty cliffs. Witness an outstanding sunrise over the majestic Adelaide Hills or enjoy a fantastic sunset over our many beautiful beaches. Whether you see it from the air, land or sea, SA will amaze and enthrall you.
4.Great Things to Do: Whether you are visiting for a day or staying for a lifetime there will be something for you to do here. Fly along the coast in a warplane, hot-air balloon over the Flinders Ranges, swim with the dolphins, visit our wineries and cellar doors, or catch a wave with your surfboard. Maybe you would rather attend our Living Arts Festival, listen to great acts at the Cabaret Festival, watch a flick at the Film Festival or come along for WOMADelaide. Or perhaps Eco Tourism is in your blood and you would love to explore the natural beauty of Kangaroo Island, see the sea lions along the Eyre Peninsula, or head down the Limestone coast or north to Lake Eyre. You will certainly not be wondering what to do in SA.
5.Great Unique Wildlife: Are you an animal person? Do you love checking out the local wildlife when on holiday? Well, in Australia you have some of the most unique wildlife in the world, and you can see them all here. Tasmanian Devil’s are known the world over for their fierce looks and screaming growl. Our burrowing Wombats are always a crowd pleaser, and the cute Koala is our favourite marsupial to photograph and hold at the Cleland Wildlife Park. Not forgetting of course our Kangaroo, echidna, dingo, and platypus. Whether you like to see them in their natural setting, or during an outback trek or drive you will find plenty to see and photograph.
6.Great Beaches: One cannot visit SA without spending time at one or more of our lovely beaches. Our capital city Adelaide has over 60 kilometres of family-friendly beaches where you can swim in safe, shallow waters, fish off a jetty, ride in a boat, dive with friends, or have a ‘barbie’ and sit on the grass. A favourite beach for many families is Semaphore, just 14 kms from Adelaide, where you can buy some of the best fish and chips in the state. Of course, we also have Maslin’s Beach - Australia’s first nudist beach, as well as great surfing spots such as Greenly Beach on the Eyre Peninsula, and Cactus Beach, south of Penong.
7.Great Sport: Yes, we love our sport. Whether it is AFL (Australian Rules Football), Cricket, Soccer, Basketball, Netball, Motor Sport, or local and school-based games, we love it all. The AFL is probably the most watched sport, involving fierce rivalry between clubs and states, and SA is lucky to have two great teams in the competition, the Adelaide Crows and Port Power. Cricket is a big favourite, and with strong historical links to the great Don Bradman, it is no wonder. Widely acknowledged as the greatest test batsman of all time ‘The Don’ achieved an incredible test batting average of 99. 94%. Whether we are playing it, watching it, or talking about, sport is never far from the mind of locals.
8.Great Fishing: We are very lucky to have easy access to thousands of kms of coastline and freshwater rivers and lakes that make great fishing, whatever you like to catch. Close in to Adelaide you can throw a line off a number of jetties for Australian Herring, Squid, King George Whiting, Flathead or Bream, or using a net, score yourself a lovely feed of Blue Swimmer Crabs. Further out, you can catch some Snapper at Whyalla, Australian Salmon at Locks Well, or try for the mighty Murray Cod in the River Murray. You can fish from the beach, off a jetty or from a boat. Either way, you are guaranteed a great time and a good catch to go with your locally-bought wine.
9.Great Aboriginal Culture: This state is rich in Aboriginal culture and one of the best places to start is at Tandanya in Adelaide. Here you will gain a greater sense of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, craft and culture, watching exciting exhibitions and traditional music and dance. Make sure you also check out the South Australia Museum for its significant collection of Aboriginal culture. Or head to the Flinders Ranges where expert guides will willingly share their many years of local knowledge. But most of all, just get out and explore this great land. See where Australia's original inhabitants lived and walked many thousands of years ago.
10.Great Outback Experiences: This list would not be complete without mentioning the spectacular SA Outback. If you are looking for a real ‘Aussie’ adventure then you must organise a trip to visit some of our magnificent outback towns and locations. Drive the famous Oodnadatta and Strzelecki tracks, go underground and dig for opal at Coober Pedy, see where rockets were fired from at Woomera, or ride a horse on a cattle drive. And of course, please spend time in the spectacular Flinders Ranges where you will see amazing landscapes and get to photograph local wildlife in their natural state.
Whatever you would like to see or do, you won’t go astray by spending time in South Australia. But be warned, you may enjoy it so much, you might decide to stay and become a local.
Trev and Chris Barre
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Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is situated within the Stuttgart Region, and the district is part of the administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) of Stuttgart.
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Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg), also known as the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 ha (79 acres)—the largest palatial estate in the country. The palace has four wings: the northern wing, the Alter Hauptbau, is the oldest and was used as a ducal residence; the east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers; the southern wing, the Neuer Hauptbau, was built to house more court functions and was later used as a residence.
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, appointed Philipp Joseph Jenisch to direct the work and construction began in 1704. In 1707, Jenisch was replaced with Johann Friedrich Nette, who completed the majority of the palace and surrounding gardens. Nette died in 1714, and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni finished much of the palace facades. In the final year of construction, Eberhard Louis died and the Neue Hauptbau's interiors were left incomplete. Charles Eugene's court architect, Philippe de La Guêpière, completed and refurbished parts of the New Hauptbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775. Duke Frederick II, later King Frederick I, began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign. Frederick and his wife Charlotte, Princess Royal, resided at Ludwigsburg and employed Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret to renovate the palace in the Neoclassical style. Thouret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors over the reign of Frederick and later life of Charlotte. As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, and Empire style architecture.
The constitutions of the Free People's State and Kingdom of Württemberg were ratified at Ludwigsburg Palace in 1919 and 1819, respectively. It was the residence for four of Württemberg's monarchs and some other members of the House of Württemberg and their families. The palace was opened to the public in 1918 and then survived World War II intact. It later underwent periods of restoration in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s and again for the palace's 300th anniversary in 2004. The palace had more than 350,000 visitors in 2017 and has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival every year since 1947.
Surrounding the palace are the Blooming Baroque (Blühendes Barock) gardens, arranged in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800. Nearby is Schloss Favorite, a hunting lodge built in 1717 by Frisoni. Within the palace are two museums operated by the Landesmuseum Württemberg dedicated to fashion and porcelain respectively.
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The German city of Ludwigsburg hosts the largest pumpkin festival in the world, held annually from early September to November. Bringing in more than 400,000 pumpkins grown in southwest Germany, the city arranges them based on a theme that varies year by year. The festival includes more than 450 species of pumpkins, some of which are edible and others that are solely used for display purposes.
Themed Displays
The annual Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival has a different theme each year, with pumpkins stacked together to create shapes unique to a subject. In 2011, the pumpkin garden was transformed into a "Jurassic Park," with pumpkins arranged in the shape of dinosaurs. The 2010 festival was island-themed, featuring pumpkins arranged as an octopus, a mermaid, a lighthouse and other sea creatures. In 2012, the festival was Switzerland-themed, with pumpkins displayed to resemble the Swiss flag, livestock and the Alps. Thousands of pumpkins are stacked together to build each year's unique creations.
Food and Drink
The German festival offers an array of pumpkin-flavored dishes, including pumpkin soups, "maultaschen" (ravioli), risotto, strudel and spaghetti. Visitors can also order pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Previous festivals have offered various types of the gourd-like squash, including the "Blue Banana," the "Speckled Hound," the "Little Blue Hungarian" and the "Japanese Microwave Pumpkin," all of which can be used for cooking. For those interested in making their own dishes, the festival shop also sells pumpkin seed oil, marmalade, chutney, seeds and cookbooks.
Activities
The Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival features various autumn-themed activities. Using a spoon and a carving instrument, visitors can choose to carve their own pumpkins or watch sculptors transform them into artwork. On Saturdays, you can listen to live music while drinking pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Families with kids can let their children roll around in the "playground," a large pen filled with hay. Past festivals have hosted costume contests and pumpkin-carving competitions during the week of Halloween.
Annual Events
On one day each fall, the festival includes a race featuring canoeists paddling across a lake using boats made from hollowed-out pumpkins. The annual race takes place on the lake across from Ludwigsburg Castle. With the pumpkins frequently weighing more than 200 pounds, they are difficult to keep afloat. Ludwigsburg also features an annual competition to find Europe's heaviest pumpkin. On the last day of the festival, which marks the end of the season, the winning pumpkin is smashed after being on display for weeks.
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Hoje e' dia do Fenômeno em New York City: Manhattanhenge - Pouco antes do por do sol, o sol vai se alinhar com ruas transversais de Manhattan por 15 minutos, com início logo após 20:00h, o sol vai aparecer na borda da grade das ruas da cidade em forma de semi-circulo, como um cartão postal iluminando os corredores da cidade e vai iluminar as ruas à luz de pêssego, maravilhosa, e, em seguida, o sol ira se centralizar nas ruas, às 20:16h . O termo Manhattanhenge foi dado por Neil deGrasse Tyson, diretor do Planetário Hayden.O fenômeno faz lembrar de Stonehenge, onde o sol se alinha com várias das pedras antigas no solstício de verão. Dr. Tyson disse que Manhattanhenge " pode ser apenas um fenômeno urbano único no mundo, se não o universo. "Então, fique atento e leve sua maquina nas esquinas voltadas ao lado oeste da ilha. As melhores vistas estão no lado leste da cidade, nas principais ruas transversais : 14 , 23 , 34 , 42 e 57. Proximo evento se repetira na sexta-feira e, a próxima Manhattanhenge acontecerá no dia 12 de julho 2014.
Manhattanhenge is a phenomena where the sun meets the grids of the streets of New York City. It only happens a few times a year and NYC is the only place inthe world where this happens. Tonight at 8:00pm will be the begining of it and at 8:16pm the sun will be centered perfectly with the transversal streets. Best locations to see it will be from the East Side at 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd and 57th Street. Next one will be on Friday and in July 12th 2014.
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It is nearly impossible to describe the beauty you will encounter while travelling across Rocky Mountain in Colorado during early October! Thick aspens (Populus tremuloides) in patches with their golden leaves stand against lush green mountains. Ice peaks over 12,000 feet rising through the forest truly enhance the beauty of its landscapes.
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado is one of the most distinctive of America's alpine area parks. It is home to a vast collection of 72 peaks that scrape the skies at over 12,000 feet and offers diverse geography that encompasses barren alpine tundra and thick, lush forests. While summer crowds help to make the park one of the top 10 most visited in the national park system, autumn provides a quieter time to enjoy the vibrant colors of the changing seasons. September and October typically experience dry, moderate weather, making for ideal visits.
Trees
The park's fall colors are most defined by the legions of white-barked aspen trees that line the valleys and mountains. Starting in late August, aspens in the highest reaches of the park begin their annual quaking, a term to describe the aspens unique leaves changing a golden-yellow hue. As the quaking progresses the park's high country becomes striped with color, appearing on fire from a distance. These trees become yellow in mid-September and provide crisp shades of gold and red into October. The colors contrast with the deep greens of the evergreen trees that make up the majority of tree species in the park. The peak season for fall colors comes in late-September and the changing colors generally last four to five weeks. Hundreds of elk migrate down from the high country to find a mate for the winter.
Intensity of Fall Colors
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) are among the most colorful and wide-spread color-changing trees in Rocky Mountain National Park. Experience suggests to us that aspen produce more or less colorful leaves from year to year, and that these differences seem to relate to weather patterns, soil fertility, and the amount of moisture they received during the growing season.
Ecological mysteries of fall colors-
Recently scientists put forward an intriguing alternative explanation for intense fall colors in some trees (Ecol. Lett. 6, 807, 2003). Mountain birches in Norway may use intense fall colors to signal leaf-chewing insects not to infest them. The intensity of color seems to be an indicator of how much chemical defense compound the tree can produce. In the case of the mountain birches, an inchworm (geometrid) moth lays eggs on the trees in the fall. The following spring the eggs hatch, and the moth caterpillars eat the trees' leaves. Trees that can produce larger amounts of chemical defenses to make their leaves unpalatable receive less damage. The trees with the most intense leaf colors in the fall also have the least damage the following spring, suggesting a direct relationship between chemical defenses and intense colors. Over time, perhaps the moths have learned to avoid laying eggs on trees with the most highly colored leaves!
Its not know whether the same thing happens in Rocky Mountain National Park's aspen or other trees. We do know there are many different representatives of the inchworm or geometrid moth family in the park. However, whether you enjoy fall colors because they are beautiful or because they may reveal scientific secrets, Rocky Mountain National Park offers an excellent opportunity to experience a glorious autumn.
The colors of the Rockies are truly singular
The colors of the Rockies are truly singular, that is, they are all yellow. Gorgeous expanses of yellow aspen (Populus tremuloides) color the mountain sides, contrasting firmly with the dark green spruces and firs. The orange, red, and purples of the east seem absent.
The autumn colors in leaves are produced by an interestingly subtractive process. In summer, green chlorophyll masks the colors of several other pigments that exist in leaves, pigments that, like chlorophyll, assist with photosynthesis. These yellow, red, and purple pigments - carotene, xanthophyll, and anthocyanins - produce the bright fall colors, but only after the chlorophyll wanes as temperatures cool and days shorten. As autumn proceeds, even these hardier pigments ebb, and leaves become brown, gray, or black.
Sources:
traveltips.usatoday.com/fall-colors-rocky-mountain-nation...
www.myrockymountainpark.com/park/fall-in-rocky-mountain-park
La villa d'Este di Tivoli è un capolavoro del Rinascimento italiano e figura nella lista dei patrimoni dell'umanità dell’UNESCO.
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Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is situated within the Stuttgart Region, and the district is part of the administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) of Stuttgart.
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Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg), also known as the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 ha (79 acres)—the largest palatial estate in the country. The palace has four wings: the northern wing, the Alter Hauptbau, is the oldest and was used as a ducal residence; the east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers; the southern wing, the Neuer Hauptbau, was built to house more court functions and was later used as a residence.
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, appointed Philipp Joseph Jenisch to direct the work and construction began in 1704. In 1707, Jenisch was replaced with Johann Friedrich Nette, who completed the majority of the palace and surrounding gardens. Nette died in 1714, and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni finished much of the palace facades. In the final year of construction, Eberhard Louis died and the Neue Hauptbau's interiors were left incomplete. Charles Eugene's court architect, Philippe de La Guêpière, completed and refurbished parts of the New Hauptbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775. Duke Frederick II, later King Frederick I, began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign. Frederick and his wife Charlotte, Princess Royal, resided at Ludwigsburg and employed Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret to renovate the palace in the Neoclassical style. Thouret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors over the reign of Frederick and later life of Charlotte. As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, and Empire style architecture.
The constitutions of the Free People's State and Kingdom of Württemberg were ratified at Ludwigsburg Palace in 1919 and 1819, respectively. It was the residence for four of Württemberg's monarchs and some other members of the House of Württemberg and their families. The palace was opened to the public in 1918 and then survived World War II intact. It later underwent periods of restoration in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s and again for the palace's 300th anniversary in 2004. The palace had more than 350,000 visitors in 2017 and has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival every year since 1947.
Surrounding the palace are the Blooming Baroque (Blühendes Barock) gardens, arranged in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800. Nearby is Schloss Favorite, a hunting lodge built in 1717 by Frisoni. Within the palace are two museums operated by the Landesmuseum Württemberg dedicated to fashion and porcelain respectively.
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The German city of Ludwigsburg hosts the largest pumpkin festival in the world, held annually from early September to November. Bringing in more than 400,000 pumpkins grown in southwest Germany, the city arranges them based on a theme that varies year by year. The festival includes more than 450 species of pumpkins, some of which are edible and others that are solely used for display purposes.
Themed Displays
The annual Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival has a different theme each year, with pumpkins stacked together to create shapes unique to a subject. In 2011, the pumpkin garden was transformed into a "Jurassic Park," with pumpkins arranged in the shape of dinosaurs. The 2010 festival was island-themed, featuring pumpkins arranged as an octopus, a mermaid, a lighthouse and other sea creatures. In 2012, the festival was Switzerland-themed, with pumpkins displayed to resemble the Swiss flag, livestock and the Alps. Thousands of pumpkins are stacked together to build each year's unique creations.
Food and Drink
The German festival offers an array of pumpkin-flavored dishes, including pumpkin soups, "maultaschen" (ravioli), risotto, strudel and spaghetti. Visitors can also order pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Previous festivals have offered various types of the gourd-like squash, including the "Blue Banana," the "Speckled Hound," the "Little Blue Hungarian" and the "Japanese Microwave Pumpkin," all of which can be used for cooking. For those interested in making their own dishes, the festival shop also sells pumpkin seed oil, marmalade, chutney, seeds and cookbooks.
Activities
The Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival features various autumn-themed activities. Using a spoon and a carving instrument, visitors can choose to carve their own pumpkins or watch sculptors transform them into artwork. On Saturdays, you can listen to live music while drinking pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Families with kids can let their children roll around in the "playground," a large pen filled with hay. Past festivals have hosted costume contests and pumpkin-carving competitions during the week of Halloween.
Annual Events
On one day each fall, the festival includes a race featuring canoeists paddling across a lake using boats made from hollowed-out pumpkins. The annual race takes place on the lake across from Ludwigsburg Castle. With the pumpkins frequently weighing more than 200 pounds, they are difficult to keep afloat. Ludwigsburg also features an annual competition to find Europe's heaviest pumpkin. On the last day of the festival, which marks the end of the season, the winning pumpkin is smashed after being on display for weeks.