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Wallenstein Palace on the Lesser Quarter side, Prague, Czech Republic
Some background information:
Wallenstein Palace derives its name from Albrecht von Wallenstein, the famous Catholic general of the Thirty Years’ War. Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Mecklenburg (1583 to 1634), who made his fortune as the Commander-in-Chief of the imperial forces, built this palace in the years between 1623 and 1630. But he lived in the palace for only a year before his death. His widow sold the building to his nephew and it remained in the Wallenstein family until 1945. By the way this former stately home is also known as Waldstein Palace because Wallenstein’s complete original name was Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Waldstein.
After the Second World War, the palace became Czechoslovak state property and was renovated to house government offices. Today the Senate of the Czech Republic is based in the main palace buildings. Its most valuable parts in historical and artistic terms are the Main Hall, the Knights' Hall, the Antechamber, the Audience Hall and the Mythological and Astronomical Corridors.
It’s striking that the palace has a rather Italian appearance. It arises from the fact that Wallenstein was very impressed by Italian architecture after he had visited Italy. Therefore he engaged mainly Italian architects and artisans to build his palace. Amongst them were Andrea Spezza, Luigi Baccio del Bianco and Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni.
To make space for the building, Wallenstein razed 26 houses, six gardens, and two brickworks at the site. Wallenstein Palace was also built to rival Prague Castle. Four courtyards were created by the palace layout. Its complex includes not only period gardens, but also the Avenue of Sculptures, stables and a large Riding School. The monumental conception of the loggia with three arcades on doubled columns recalls the Baroque style. The Italian style park includes an aviary, a grotto, and a fountain by Adrian de Vries.
In the right upper corner of this shot you can also see St. Vitus Cathedral as well as a small part of Prague Castle.
Hang Sung Sot Höhle
Halong Bay - Vietnam
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Inmitten des Naturparks Schlern – Rosengarten, zwischen dem Nigerpass und St. Zyprian bei Tiers, finden Sie die Plafötsch-Alm. Die Hütte liegt auf 1570 m Meereshöhe, inmitten von Almwiesen und Wäldern direkt unterhalb des beeindruckenden Bergpanoramas des Rosengartens und der Vajolettürme.
Schloss Sanssouci
Park Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany
'On January 13, 1745, Frederick the Great ordered the construction of a "Lust-Haus zu Potsdam". For this purpose, he had drawn quite concrete design sketches, which he handed over to Knobelsdorff for execution. They envisaged a one-storey, ground-level building on the vineyard terraces on the southern slope of the Bornstedter Höhen in the northwest of Potsdam. Knobelsdorff objected to the concept, he wanted to raise the building with a basement, have a basement and move it forward to the edge of the terraces – otherwise, seen from the foot of the vineyard, it would appear to have sunk into the ground. Frederick insisted on his ideas. Nor could he be swayed by the reference to the increased likelihood of gout and colds; later he experienced exactly these inconveniences and endured them without complaint.'
part of a unesco world heritage site,
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For the monks, the forge was the only means to earn some money. Meat was very rare in the monks' diet and thus fish were bred in the pond next to the forge.
In the background stand the cloister on the left and on the right the quarters which were heated in winter when temperaturs dropped below -20°C.
The Abbey of Fontenay is a former Cistercian abbey located near the villiage Marmagne in the Arrondissement Montbard (Département of Côte-d'Or). It was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 and built in the Romanesque style. It is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.
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The Roman Baths and Bath Abbey, Bath, Somerset
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The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century. The Roman Baths are a major tourist attraction and, together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than one million visitors a year.
The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts and dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth describes in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.
The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis. The temple was constructed between 60 and 70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles into the mud to provide a stable foundation and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a barrel-vaulted building, which included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath). After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman Baths were destroyed in the 6th century.
The baths have been modified on several occasions, for example in the 12th century when John of Tours built a curative bath over the King's Spring reservoir and in the 16th century when the city corporation built the new Queen's Bath to the south of the spring. The spring is now housed in 18th century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. In 1810 the Hot Springs seemingly failed and William Smith opened up the Hot Bath Spring to the bottom, where he found that the spring had not failed but flowed into a new channel. Smith restored the water to its original course and the Baths filled in less time than formerly.
The visitor entrance is via an 1897 concert hall by J M Brydon. It is an eastward continuation of the Grand Pump Room with a glass-domed centre and single-storey radiused corner. The Grand Pump Room was begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin. He resigned in 1791 and John Palmer continued the scheme until its completion in 1799. The elevation on to Abbey Church Yard has a centre piece of four engaged Corinthian columns with entablatures and pediment. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. The north colonnade was also designed by Thomas Baldwin. The south colonnade is similar but had an upper floor added in the late 19th century.
With its roughly 84,000 residents Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in South West England. It is situated 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Bristol.
In 1987 the City of Bath was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, largely because of its complete Georgian architecture. It has a variety of theatres, museums, and other cultural and sporting venues, which have helped to make it a major centre for tourism, with over one million staying visitors and 3.8 million day visitors to the city each year. Bath has two universities and several schools and colleges. There is a large service sector, growing communication technologies and creative industries, providing employment for the population of Bath and its surrounding area.
The alley leading to the entrance portal of the Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux, Loire Valley, France
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On our first visit of the Château de Chenonceau (when this picture was taken) we explored the château and its gardens, but we did not get to the southern bank of the River Cher, from where you can take much better pictures. However, we made up for that two years later, when I took those two photos:
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The Château de Chenonceau is a French château spanning the River Cher, near the small village of Chenonceaux in the French department of Indre-et-Loire. Hence, it is a water palace and as such one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire Valley. The Château de Chenonceau is situated about 40 km (25 miles) to the southeast of the city of Tours. It is also called "Château des Dames" (in English "Château of the ladies"), because it were mainly women, who decided its history and fate.
The estate of Chenonceau was first mentioned in a document in the 11th century. The current château was built between 1514 and 1522 on the foundations of an old mill and later extended to span the river. In the 13th century, the fief of Chenonceau belonged to the Marques family. The original château was torched in 1412 to punish the owner, Jean Marques, for an act of sedition. In the 1430s, he rebuilt a château and fortified mill on the site. However, Jean Marques' indebted heir Pierre Marques found it necessary to sell the estate.
Thomas Bohier, Chamberlain to King Charles VIII of France, purchased the castle from Pierre Marques in 1513 and demolished most of it (resulting in 2013 being considered the 500th anniversary of the castle), though its 15th-century keep was left standing. Between 1515 and 1521 Bohier built an entirely new residence. The work was overseen by his wife Katherine Briçonnet, who delighted in hosting French nobility, including King Francis I on two occasions.
In 1535 the château was seized from Bohier's son by King Francis I of France for unpaid debts to the Crown. After Francis' death in 1547, Henry II offered the château as a gift to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the château along the river. In 1555 she commissioned Philibert de l'Orme to build the arched bridge joining the château to its opposite bank. Diane then oversaw the planting of extensive flower and vegetable gardens along with a variety of fruit trees. Set along the banks of the river, but buttressed from flooding by stone terraces, the exquisite gardens were laid out in four triangles.
Diane de Poitiers was the unquestioned mistress of the castle, but ownership remained with the crown until 1555 when years of delicate legal manoeuvres finally yielded possession to her. After King Henry II died in 1559, his strong-willed widow and regent Catherine de' Medici forced Diane to exchange it for the Château Chaumont. Queen Catherine then made Chenonceau her own favourite residence, adding a new series of gardens.
As Regent of France, Catherine spent a fortune on the château and on spectacular nighttime parties. In 1560, the first-ever fireworks display seen in France took place during the celebrations marking the ascension to the throne of Catherine's son Francis II. The grand gallery, which extended along the existing bridge to cross the entire river, was dedicated in 1577. Catherine also added rooms between the chapel and the library on the east side of the corps de logis, as well as a service wing on the west side of the entry courtyard.
On Catherine's death in January 1589, the château went to her daughter-in-law, Louise of Lorraine, wife of King Henry III. Louise was at Chenonceau when she learned of her husband's assassination, in August 1589, and she fell into a state of depression. Louise spent the next eleven years, until her death in January 1601, wandering aimlessly along the château's corridors dressed in mourning clothes, amidst sombre black tapestries stitched with skulls and crossbones.
Henri IV obtained Chenonceau for his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées by paying the debts of Catherine de' Medici, which had been inherited by Louise and were threatening to ruin her. In return, Louise left the château to her niece Françoise de Lorraine, at that time six years old and betrothed to the four-year-old César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, the natural son of Gabrielle d'Estrées and Henri IV. The château belonged to the Duc de Vendôme and his descendants for more than a hundred years. The Bourbons had little interest in the château, except for hunting. In 1650, Louis XIV was the last king of the ancien régime to visit.
In 1720, the Château de Chenonceau was bought by the Duke of Bourbon. Little by little, he sold off all of the castle's contents and many of the fine statues ended up at Versailles. In 1733 the estate was sold for 130,000 livres (corresponding to 2.1 million $ today) to a wealthy squire named Claude Dupin. His wife, Louise Dupin, was the natural daughter of the financier Samuel Bernard and the actress Manon Dancourt. She was regarded as an intelligent, beautiful, and highly cultivated woman.
Louise Dupin's literary salon at Chenonceau attracted such leaders of the Enlightenment as the writers Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Fontenelle, the naturalist Buffon, the playwright Marivaux, the philosopher Condillac, as well as the Marquise de Tencin and the Marquise du Deffand. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Dupin's secretary and tutored her son. Rousseau, who worked on Émile at Chenonceau, wrote in his Confessions: "We played music there and staged comedies. I wrote a play in verse entitled Sylvie's Path, after the name of a path in the park along the Cher."
The widowed Louise Dupin saved the château from destruction during the French Revolution, preserving it from being destroyed by the Revolutionary Guard because "it was essential to travel and commerce, being the only bridge across the river for many miles."
In 1864 Marguerite Pelouze, a rich heiress, acquired the château. Around 1875 she commissioned the architect Félix Roguet to restore it. He almost completely renewed the interior and removed several of Catherine de' Medici's additions, including the rooms between the library and the chapel and her alterations to the north facade, among which were figures of Hercules, Pallas, Apollo, and Cybele that were moved to the park. With the money Marguerite spent on these projects and elaborate parties, her finances were depleted, and the château was seized and sold.
José-Emilio Terry, a Cuban millionaire, acquired Chenonceau from Madame Pelouze in 1891. Terry sold it in 1896 to a family member, Francisco Terry. In 1913, the château was acquired by Henri Menier, a member of the Menier family, famous for their chocolates, who still own it to this day.
During World War I Gaston Menier set up the gallery to be used as a hospital ward. During the Second World War, the château was bombed by the Germans in June 1940. It was also a means of escaping from the Nazi-occupied zone on one side of the river Cher to the "free" zone on the opposite bank. Occupied by the Germans, the château was bombed by the Allies in June 1944, when the chapel was hit and its windows destroyed. In 1951, the Menier family entrusted the château's restoration to Bernard Voisin, who brought the dilapidated structure and the gardens (ravaged in the Cher flood in 1940) back to a reflection of its former glory.
An architectural mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance, Château de Chenonceau and its gardens are open to the public. The château has been designated as a Monument historique since 1840 by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, Chenonceau is a major tourist attraction. It receives more than 800,000 visitors each year and is the most visited château in France, apart from the Royal Palace of Versailles.
The Château de Chenonceau is also regarded as one of the haunted castles of France. Occasionally when the moon is full, Catherine may be seen combing the hair of her rival, Diane. On other occasions, Diane was seen standing unhappily in front of her bedroom mirror. At least, several people have stated that. Well, everyone has to decide for themselves whether she or he believes in ghosts or not.
Since 2000, the Château de Chenonceau belongs to the UNESCO Word Heritage Site "The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" with its many breathtaking châteaux. Altogether there are more than 400 of them in the Loire region.
View of the city of Porto from the cathedral‘s hill, with the square Praça de Almeida Garrett and the blue-tiled church Igreja de Santo António dos Congregados in the center as well as the city centre’s main railway station São Bento on the right, Porto, Portugal
Some background information:
Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, about 280 km (174 miles) north of Lisbon. With an estimated pospulation of 250,000, Porto’s city center is rather small, compared to its metropolitan area, which has around 1.8 million residents. Porto has one of the oldest European centres. Its core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, as the "Historic Centre of Porto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar".
Port wine, one of Portugal's most famous exports, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Porto’s quarter Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport, and export of fortified wine. It is typically a sweet red wine, often served with dessert, although it also comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties. Famous port wine brands are among others Sandeman, Cockburn’s, Graham’s, Fonseca, Offley, Ferreira and Quinta do Noval.
Proto-Celtic and Celtic people were among the first known inhabitants of the area of Porto. Archaeological findings from the 8th century BC also hint at a Phoenician trading settlement. During the Roman era, the city developed as an important commercial port, primarily in the trade between Olissipona (the modern Lisbon) and Bracara Augusta (the modern Braga).
Following the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, Porto fell under Muslim control in 716, but was reconquered by Alfonso I of Asturias in 741. Thus Porto became a border settlement, occasionally invaded and conquered by the Muslim Moors. In 1092, during the so-called Reconquista, the area finally came under Christian rule, initially as part of the Kingdom of León. In 1093, Teresa of León, illegitimate daughter of the king Alfonso VI of Castile, married Henry of Burgundy, bringing the County of Portugal as dowry.
After eventually expanding its current frontiers and conquering additonal territory inhabited by the Moors for centuries, the county became the independent Kingdom of Portugal at the beginning of the 12th century. At that time, Porto also became one of the hubs of the Reconquista led by Afonso I Henriques, the first King of Portugal. In 1370, during the reign of King Ferdinand I, the new, expanded, and reinforced city walls, known as the Muralhas Fernandinas (in English: "Ferdinandine Walls"), were completed.
In 1387, Porto was the site of the marriage of John I of Portugal and Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt. This marital bond symbolized a long-standing military alliance between Portugal and England. In the 14th and 15th centuries, Porto's shipyards contributed to the development of Portuguese shipbuilding. In 1415, Prince Henry the Navigator embarked from the port of Porto on the conquest of the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco. This expedition was followed by navigation and exploration along the western coast of Africa, initiating the Portuguese Age of Discovery.
By the 13th century, the wine produced in the nearby Douro valley had already been transported to Porto in so-called barcos rabelos (flat sailing vessels). In 1703, the Methuen Treaty established trade relations between Portugal and England and strengthened both countries‘ military alliance. The production of port wine then gradually passed into the hands of a few English firms.
To counter this dominance, the Portuguese Prime Minister Marquis of Pombal established a monopolistic Portuguese firm, the Douro Wine Company in 1756 to receive all the wines from the Douro valley. He demarcated the region for the production of port, to ensure the wine's quality, which was the first attempt to control wine quality and production in Europe, almost a century ahead of a similar exercise in Bordeaux. The small winegrowers revolted against his strict policies on Shrove Tuesday, burning down the buildings of the Douro Wine Company. The revolt became known as the Revolta dos Borrachos (in English: "Revolt of the Drunkards").
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the city became an important industrial center and hence, its size and population increased. The invasion of the Napoleonic troops in Portugal brought war to the city of Porto. In 1809, when the population fled from the advancing French troops and tried to cross the river Douro over the Ponte das Barcas, the bridge collapsed under the weight of the people and almost 4,000 residents of Porto died in the floods of the Douro river. In the Second Battle of Porto, which took place still in the same year, the French Army was thrown out of the city by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and his Anglo-Portuguese Army.
In 1820, the Liberal Revolution began in Porto. The revolutionaries demanded the return of King John VI of Portugal, who had transferred the royal court to the Portuguese colony of Brazil since the French invasions, and also a constitutional monarchy to be set up in Portugal. But after the new constitution had been accepted in 1822, the new Portuguese King Miguel I rejected this constitution in 1828 and reigned as an anti-liberal, absolutist monarch.
Porto rebelled again and had to undergo a siege of eighteen months by the absolutist army. After successfully resisting the siege in 1833, King Miguel I had to abdicate and the liberal constitution was re-established. However, not bevore 1910, the monarchy was overthrown and Portugal became a republic. In 1919, forces favorable to the restoration of the monarchy launched a counter-revolution in Porto known as the Monarchy of the North. During this time, Porto was the capital of the restored kingdom, but the monarchy was deposed less than a month later and no other monarchist revolution in Portugal happened again.
Today, Porto is the most important industrial city in the country, thanks to its textile, leather goods, metal, food, and chemical industries, its oil refinery as well as the overseas port Porto de Leixões. The university, the art academy, museums, theaters, and the opera also emphasise Porto's status as a major cultural and scientific center. But it’s mainly the export of port wine and its beautiful UNESCO-protected old town, to which Porto ows its appeal to visitors from everywhere.
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Fontaine des Trois Grâces, Place de la Bourse
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"Most stations have a single platform in the centre of the station hall (tunnel) serving both directions. The sub-surface stations have a straight ceiling sometimes supported by columns. The deep-level stations are larger tunnels with the track tunnels on each side. The walls of many stations are decorated using coloured aluminium panels, each station having its own colour." Wikipdia
I spent about an our driving around with the metro, hopping off at a station, taking pictures, hopping on again, hopping off the next station and so on. Time flies, when you're having fun :o)
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"Die Metrostationen haben eine recht unterschiedliche Ausgestaltung, zahlreiche verfügen über keine nennenswerten künstlerischen Elemente und sind mit Fliesen ausgelegt. In einigen Bahnhöfen wurde jedoch auch Marmor zur Verkleidung der Böden, Wandflächen und Säulen verwendet. Die älteren Stationen der Linie A sind oftmals mit architektonischen Elementen aus den 1970er Jahren gestaltet, darunter in verschiedenen Farbtönen gehaltene, leicht konvex oder konkav gewölbte oder flache Glas- und Aluminiumfliesen. Durch diese unterschiedliche Farb- und Formgestaltung der Elemente kann jeder Bahnhof eine individuelle Ausgestaltung vorweisen. Haltepunkte neueren Datums sind moderner und funktioneller gehalten. Es wird außerdem versucht, natürliches Licht bis auf die Bahnsteige durchfallen zu lassen." Wikipedia
Ich bin ungefähr eine Stunde mit der U-Bahn durch die Gegend gefahren. Einsteigen, aussteigen, Fotos machen, einsteigen, eine Station später wieder raus, Fotos machen und so weiter. Die Zeit vergeht so schnell, wenn man sich amüsiert :o)
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Das Darmstädter Planungsbüro Markwort & Seibert, Bauingenieur Georg Markwort und Architekt Eugen Seibert, erstellte ab 1916 eine Planung im neobarocken Stil. Um eine Art Ehrenhof herum sind die Gebäude fast axialsymmetrisch angeordnet. Hinter dem Portal wird der Hof von zwei villenartigen Gebäuden flankiert. Das Zechenhaus links enthielt die Direktion und die Verwaltung, in der gegenüber liegenden Herberge waren Baubüro, Beamtenkasino und Wohnungen untergebracht. Etwas nach hinten versetzt folgt links der Saalbau. Er ist das aufwendigste Gebäude und beherbergte einen Speiseraum sowie einen Theater- und Vortragsraum. Auf der rechten Seite schließt sich das eigentliche Betriebsgebäude mit Magazin, Lohnhalle, Kaue, und Erzsilo mit Fördergerüst an. Der Hof wird begrenzt durch die querstehende Maschinenhalle, vor der eine als Kühlteich dienende oktogonale Brunnenanlage platziert ist. Dahinter folgt der Werkhof.
Kurze Zeit noch als Besucherbergwerk genutzt, verfällt die Bausubstanz der nicht mehr genutzten Gebäude heute langsam. Im Jahre 2003 vernichtete ein Großfeuer die ehemalige Fahrzeughalle. Da die neue Besitzergemeinschaft zerbrach, wurde bisher aus den versprochenen Sanierungsmaßnahmen nichts. Im Moment sind einzelne Gebäude an unterschiedliche Bewohner und Firmen vermietet. Im April 2012 wurde Eindeckung des Förderturmes sowie die ihn abschießende Feuerschale entfernt,[2] im Februar 2013 dann der Abriss des ganzen Turmes aus Sicherheitsgründen beschlossen, da er durch fortgeschrittenen Rostfraß auseinanderzubrechen droht. Die Abrissverfügung wurde unter der Maßgabe erteilt, dass der Eigentümer bis spätestens 2030 einen vergleichbaren Turm aufbauen muss.[3] Nachdem Mitte Dezember 2013 der Wassertank und die komplette Dachkonstruktion vollständig abgebaut worden waren, drohte der Turm Anfang Januar 2014 auf die umliegenden Gebäude zu stürzen. Aus Sicherheitsgründen entschloss sich die mit dem Abriss beauftragte Firma kurzfristig den Turm umzureißen. Mit einem Stahlseil wurde das Stahlgerüst durch gezielten Druck zum Einsturz gebracht. Erzbunker und Maschinenhalle wurden dabei beschädigt, die umliegenden Wohnhäuser blieben unversehrt
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Khiva war der Ort an der Seidenstraße, wo sich die Karawanenwege teilten: in Richtung Norden nach Russland und in Richtung Süden nach Persien, die Türkei und Westeuropa.
Die Altstadt von Khiva ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
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Chocolats Peter / Cailler's / Kohler / Nestlé's
> Nestlé / Fête des Vignerons 1905 Vevey
(Lausanne / Schweiz; Bilder von 1923-1929)
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William Turner, London 1775 – 1851
Marksburg (1817)
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
Of all the picturesque castles that Turner passed along the Rhine in August 1817, the Marksburg was the best preserved. Like the rest of Turner's 51 Rhine views, it is painted on paper prepared in advance with gray wash, which Turner occasionally carried on his tours. By adding darker tones and scratching down to the white paper for highlights, the watercolor could be swiftly finished. Upon Turner's return to England, he sold the entire set to his patron Walter Fawkes and kept them together as Turner preferred.
Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
NB. The name of the Marksburg at Braubach is often misspelled as Marxburg. For detailed information refer to Wikipedia.
Blick auf das Dorf Scheich Abd el-Qurna, kurz Qurna, und die Gräber der Nekropole Tal der Noblen in Theben-West.
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Chocolats Peter / Cailler's / Kohler / Nestlé's
> Nestlé / Fête des Vignerons 1905 Vevey
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Das Kloster wurde im 16. Jhdt mit einer Bauzeit von 70 Jahren errichtet. Es gilt als Hauptwerk der "Manuelinik", einer portugiesischen Variante der Spätgotik, die auch Elemente der Renaissance enthält.
Belem ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
Der Chitwan-Nationalpark (Nepali: चितवन राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज, Citvana rāṣṭriya nikuñja) ist ein Nationalpark in Nepal, der 1973 als erster Nationalpark des Landes unter dem Namen Royal Chitwan National Park gegründet wurde.
Er nimmt eine Fläche von 932 km² ein und liegt im Terai, den südlichen Vorbergen des Himalaya. Die südliche Grenze des Nationalparks ist zugleich die Landesgrenze zu Indien. Im Osten schließt sich das Parsa Wildlife Reserve an. Im Norden bildet der Fluss Rapti und im Westen der Fluss Narayani eine natürliche Begrenzung zu besiedelten Gebieten. Zusammen mit dem Parsa Wildlife Reserve und dem in Indien gelegenen Valmiki National Park bildet das Gebiet die über 2000 km² große Tiger Conservation Unit (TCU) Chitwan.
Alljährlich erheben passionierte Vogelschützer landesweit vorkommende Vogelarten. Im Jahr 2006 sind im Chitwan Nationalpark 543 Arten gezählt worden, mehr als in anderen geschützten Gebieten Nepals und etwa zwei Drittel der bedrohten Arten, die im ganzen Land vorkommen. Insbesondere Chitwans Grasland ist bevorzugtes Habitat für die seltenen Barttrappen, Grauhauben-Prinien (Prinia cinereocapilla), Schlankschnabeldrosslinge und Sunda-Marabus. Der weltweit bedrohte Indische Schreiadler (Aquila hastata) brütet im Nationalpark.
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Khiva war der Ort an der Seidenstraße, wo sich die Karawanenwege teilten: in Richtung Norden nach Russland und in Richtung Süden nach Persien, die Türkei und Westeuropa.
Die Altstadt von Khiva ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
Two-bayed northern cloister of Kloster Walkenried (Walkenried Abbey), Göttingen district, southern Harz region, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany.
Kloster Walkenried was the third Cistercian abbey on German territory, founded in 1127. Being experts in water technology, the Cistercian monks put great effort into cultivation and land development, and were also very active in mining, smelting and charcoal works.
Since the Cistercian monks of Walkenried are regarded as the "fathers of the Upper Harz Water Regale", Kloster Walkenried is part of the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System.
The Gothic church from 1290 used to be one of the largest churches in Northern Germany but was greatly damaged in the 17th to 19th centuries so today there are only some ruins remaining.
The Gothic claustral buildings, however, including the chapter house, the lay brothers' room, the lavatorium and the partially two-bayed cloister, are well preserved and today house a museum.
Harz short trip April/May 2018.