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Street scene in the Otrabanda district of Willemstad, capital of Curacao and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Some closeups of the stones at Stonehenge, here are some fallen bluestones, and you can see the repair on the sarsen stone to keep it upright
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Construction: 1882 - 1889
Opened: 1890
Crossing the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh
Inchgarvie and Fife
Scotland
Royal Swedish Guard at Drottningholm Palace.
The Royal Guards (Högvakten), the Main Guard at the Stockholm Palace is carried out by units of the Swedish Armed Forces. It is the King of Sweden's guard of honour and is responsible for the protection of the Royal Family. The Royal Guard is normally divided in two parts, the main guard stationed at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, and a smaller detachment at Drottningholm Palace. The Royal Guard traces its history back to the early 16th Century, and the unit has continuously guarded the Royal Palace in Stockholm since 1523.
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Taj Mahal is admired by millions of people, loved by thousands and inspired hundreds.. In every angle Taj shares its story that is carved in everybit and everywhere.
Summer scenery on the Seceda mountain (2519m), in the Odle (needles) group, part of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated within the Puez-Odle Nature Park, South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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From Olmstead Point. Pywiack Dome is just beyond Tenaya Lake with the side of Stately Pleasure Dome is on the far left.
Bizar gebouw wat bij mijn eerste bezoek in 1997 al veel indruk had gemaakt,maar toen niet gefotografeerd.
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, Ouarzazate - An episode of Game of Thrones was set in this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
France is bejewelled with medieval gothic cathedrals. One of the most glorious is that at Reims, where the kings of France were once crowned. The late afternoon autumnal light picks out the lavish details of this UNESCO World Heritage site.
October 1997
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Cat in the old town of Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.
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Drottningholm Palace is the best persevered palace from the 17th century and several kings and queens have influenced the interior of the state rooms. In 1981 the Royal family moved in and today the palace is the permanent residence of the Swedish regents.
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Views of the Blenheim Palace (near Oxford UK) grounds in Autumn 2007. West Wing of the Palace seen from the water terraces.
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The archaeological site of Mystras, near Sparta in the Peloponnese. The medieval city began with the 13th century citadel on the top of the hill and rapidly spread across the landscape with many monasteries and churches to create a magical landscape of Byzantine architecture and natural beauty. Mystras is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A mom takes her kids for a walk as the sun sets over a street in Kutná Hora.
Kutná Hora was a silver mining town in medieval times: once the second Czech city to Prague in terms of population. Kutná Hora was enscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995 for the Historical Town Centre, including the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec. At both ends of the town there are some beautiful buildings, and the higher points of the town are home to restored older architecture, with Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings.
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Brême (en allemand Freie Hansestadt Bremen, ou simplement Bremen), en forme longue la ville libre et hanséatique de Brême, est une ville-État située dans le nord de l'Allemagne. Il s'agit du plus petit land allemand et de l'unique land coupé en deux. Le land a des frontières terrestres avec le land de Basse-Saxe et dispose d'une façade maritime sur la mer du Nord.
Brême est un land faisant partie de la République fédérale Allemande et dispose donc de son propre gouvernement comme tous les autres länder allemands.
Shot showing the construction of the platform.
This remote mountaintop Classical temple was an unexpected gem -- it hadn’t even been on our radar, but the guesthouse owner in Dimitsana recommended it. The temple here has survived largely intact since antiquity. It was in use until the 4th or 5th century CE, when all pagan temples were forcibly closed. Its remote location provided some protection against both the marauders of the early Christian era who carried out depaganization and iconoclasm campaigns and the acid rain of the modern era that emanated from cities. Some restoration work was undertaken starting in 1902. The temple is currently undergoing intensive stabilization efforts and archaeological investigations and is completely enclosed by an impressive tent erected in 1987 to protect it from further weathering (both from rain and from daily temperature excursions). During our visit some archaeologists were at work in a roped-off active section, with Bach’s Brandenburgs wafting out of their enclosure. Adapted from the interpretive signs:
Built in a quiet and isolated site, within the high and barren mountains of western Arcadia in Bassae, at an altitude of 1,131 m, the Temple of Apollo Epikourios holds a special place in the history of Greek architecture. The mountain is scored with ravines (bassai or bessai in ancient Greek), which gave the place the name "Bassae". The so-called "Parthenon of the Peloponnese", built by Iktinos [architect of the Parthenon] in 420–400 BCE according to a tradition recorded by Pausanias [2nd c CE], is one of the best surviving examples of Classical architecture, combining conservative and innovative features.
Some architectural members uncovered in the area probably belong to an Archaic temple at the same site, built in phases around 600 and 500 BCE. The ancient Arcadian city Phigaleia, founder of the sanctuary, was approx. 13 km southwest of the temple. In the Archaic period (in 629 BCE), the people of Phigaleia, helped by their neighbors the Oresthasians, retook their land from the Spartans. To honor Apollo, they erected a temple and they worshiped him as Epikouros, which means assistant in evils of war. Later (429 BCE), by the name Epikourios, they worshiped him as a healer god because they considered themselves to have been saved by him from the plague that struck at the time of the Peloponnesian War.
The temple of the Classical period that the visitors enjoy today combines several Archaic characteristics, influenced by the conservative religious tradition of the Arcadians, and the new features of the Classical era. The building is made of local grey limestone, while parts of the roof, the capitals of the cella and the sculptured decoration are made of marble. The Classical temple was erected on the bedrock of a specially built terrace. Like several other temples of Arcadia, it is orientated north–south, instead of the usual east–west, probably because of local tradition.
The monument is unique, as it combines elements of the three architectural orders of antiquity. It is Doric peripteral distyle in antis, with pronaos, cella, adyton and opisthodomos. [The roof was of stone.] The temple has 6 columns on the short and 15 on the long sides, instead of the period’s usual ratio of 6 × 13. That feature gives the temple its characteristic elongated shape, an echo of Archaic temples. A Doric frieze of undecorated metopes and triglyphs ran along the outer facades. Only the inner metopes of the short sides were decorated: those on the pronaos had depictions of Apollo's return to Olympus from the countries "beyond the north", and those on the opisthodomos represented the capture of the daughters of the Messenian king Leukippos by the Dioskouroi. The pediments may have been undecorated. The most eminent decorative feature of the temple was the marble Ionic frieze, supported by the Ionic half-columns in the cella. Paionios, who created the splendid statue of Nike in Olympia, was probably the sculptor of the frieze. The frieze was thirty-one meters long and consisted of 23 marble slabs, 12 of which depicted the battle between Greeks and Amazons and the remaining 11 of which showed the battle between Lapiths and Centaurs.
During the first systematic excavation of the temple, held by foreign antiquaries in 1812, the slabs were discovered under various architectural members. The same survey found the oldest known Corinthian capital, but it has not survived [it was taken by the British and lost at sea]. After its looting by the so-called "excavators", the frieze and other sculptures of the temple were transferred to England. They arrived in the British Museum in 1815, where they are now exhibited.
Imagine a time 1000s of years ago, when Travellers carrying goods to trade stopped over this mysterious, well hidden, prosperous and magnificent city to rest, feed their camels and trade. My photos don't do justice to the history of these people, seeing it in reality will surely mesmerize you and lead you to think how they did it all. There are water channels cut through these limestone hills to gather rainwater and channel it down to collection ponds. There are still excavations going on for more discoveries to be unearthed.
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Petra originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system, Petra is also called the "Rose City" because of the colour of the sandstone from which it is carved; it was famously called "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a poem of 1845 by John Burgon. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jabal Al-Madbah, in a basin surrounded by mountains forming the eastern flank of the Arabah valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Access to the city is through a famously picturesque 1.2-kilometre-long (3⁄4 mi) gorge called the Siq, which leads directly to the Khazneh (treasury).
Cliffs near Petra, View over Wadi Arabah
The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, and the Nabataeans might have settled in what would become the capital city of their kingdom as early as the 4th century BC. Archaeological work has only discovered evidence of Nabataean presence dating back to the second century BC, by which time Petra had become their capital. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
The trading business gained the Nabataeans considerable revenue and Petra became the focus of their wealth. Unlike their enemies, the Nabataeans were accustomed to living in the barren deserts and were able to repel attacks by taking advantage of the area's mountainous terrain. They were particularly skillful in harvesting rainwater, agriculture, and stone carving. Petra flourished in the 1st century AD, when its Al-Khazneh structure, possibly the mausoleum of Nabataean king Aretas IV, was constructed, and its population peaked at an estimated 20,000 inhabitants. They developed a complex system of cisterns, channels, and dams to collect and store rainwater, allowing them to thrive in the arid desert environment. Most of the famous rock-cut buildings, which are mainly tombs, date from this and the following period. Much less remains of the free-standing buildings of the city.
Although the Nabataean kingdom became a client state of the Roman Empire in the first century BC, it was only in 106 AD that it lost its independence. Petra fell to the Romans, who annexed Nabataea and renamed it as Arabia Petraea. Petra's importance declined as sea trade routes emerged, and after an earthquake in 363 destroyed many structures. In the Byzantine era, several Christian churches were built, but the city continued to decline and, by the early Islamic era, it was abandoned except for a handful of nomads. It remained unknown to the western world until 1812, when Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it.
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On 6 August 1945 an atomic bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, destroying the city apart from this building, the Product Exhibition Hall which opened in 1922 and partially survived the blast. The building is now known as Genbaku Dome or Atomic Bomb Dome and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Drottningholm Palace is Sweden's best preserved royal palace constructed in the seventeenth century, the permanent residence of the royal family and one of Stockholm's three World Heritage Sites.
The palace was constructed according to a French prototype by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, by commission of Queen Hedvig Eleonora.
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Regensburg[a] is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the fourth-largest city in the State of Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg. From its foundation as an imperial Roman river fort, the city has been the political, economic and cultural centre of the surrounding region; it is still known in the Romance languages by a cognate of its Latin name of "Ratisbona" (the version "Ratisbon" was long current in English). Later, under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, it housed the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg.
The medieval centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2014, Regensburg was among the top sights and travel attractions in Germany.
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In front of the Church-grounds there are plinths with raised sculptures of the twelve apostles The originals were designed by Kacper Bażanka and completed in 1722 by Dawid Heel. These are replacements because the originals were damaged by acid rain.
A series of waterfalls in the forest, in Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia.
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Granada, Andalusia, Spain
View from San Nicolas square
The Palacio de Generalife (Arabic: جَنَّة الْعَرِيف Jannat al-‘Arīf, literally, "Architect's Garden") was the summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid Emirs (Kings) of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus, now beside the city of Granada in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
The palace and gardens were built during the reign of Muhammad III (1302–1309) and redecorated shortly after by Abu I-Walid Isma'il (1313–1324).
Amazing Jordan Series
-Drive around the city of Amman
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Mount Nebo is steeped in religious significance as it is believed to be the place where Moses stood to view the Promised Land before his death. According to the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses died on Mount Nebo and was buried in Moab. In the 4th century, a small monastery was built by Egyptian monks on the mountain peak in memory of Moses, now called Memorial Church of Moses. After its reconstruction in the 5th century, the Memorial Church was turned into a basilica and still stands on the zenith of Mount Nebo today.
The brilliant Byzantine mosaic remnants that can also be found here have undergone a restorative process to depict the entire route of the King’s Highway – an ancient trade route running through Jordan. Pieced together, the incredible collection showcases a variety of images including wildlife and local customs from the Byzantine era.
Sahyadri Rockfaces stand guard to protect the most revered place in Maharashtra - Shivteerth Raigad Fort!
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Monument to Pope Gregory XIII, inside the St. Peter's Basilica, the largest church in the world, loacted at St Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
Made by the Milanese sculptor Camillo Rusconi between 1715 and 1723, this monument represents the pope giving his blessing, on top of an urn bearing a relief showing the promulgation of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, when October 4th was followed by October 15th.
At the sides there are allegorical statues of Religion, holding the tablets of the Law, and Magnificence; at the base is a dragon, alluding to the heraldic device of the Boncompagni family.
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