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The Huangshan mountains are named after the legendary Chinese Emperor Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who is the ancestor of all Han Chinese. According to legend, the beloved Emperor was a disciple of Taoist masters who sought to make immortality pills and believed that the best place to make them was in the mountains where the spirit world was near. After travelling throughout China, they chose a place then known as Yishan to make the pills. There, the Yellow Emperor took the immortality pill and road off to heaven on the back of a dragon.
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Interior view of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Italy's oldest active shopping gallery, named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy, in Milan, the capital city of Lombardy region, in northern Italy.
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Winter atmosphere surrounds Saint Barbara Church. Saint Barbara Church in Kutná Hora (Bohemia) is one of the most famous Gothic churches in central Europe and it is a UNESCO world heritage site. St Barbara is the patron saint of miners, which was highly appropriate for a town whose wealth was based entirely upon its silver mines.
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This is opposite the mouth of Bradshaw Sound.
Other Fjordland images can be found in my album at www.flickr.com/photos/36791099@N08/sets/72157633278423373/
My travels around the UK with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Our last day in London.. On a visit to Greenwich.
There were two main reasons for the choice. The first was the fact that the USA had already chosen Greenwich as the basis for its own national time zone system. The second was that in the late 19th century, 72% of the world's commerce depended on sea-charts which used Greenwich as the Prime Meridian.
The decision was based on the argument that by naming Greenwich as Longitude 0º, it would be advantageous to the largest number of people. Therefore the Prime Meridian at Greenwich became the centre of world time.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and because the prime meridian passes through it, it gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time.
The red time ball of Greenwich was established in 1833, and is noted as a public time signal. The time ball in modern times is normally in a lowered position, then starting at 12:55 PM, the ball begins to rise, then at 12:58 it reaches the top; at 1 PM the ball drops.
To help mariners at the port and others in line of sight of the observatory to synchronise their clocks to GMT, Astronomer Royal John Pond installed a very visible time ball that drops precisely at 1 p.m. (13:00) every day atop the observatory in 1833. Initially it was dropped by an operator; from 1852 it was released automatically via an electric impulse from the Shepherd Master Clock. The ball is still dropped daily at 13:00 (GMT in winter, BST in summer)..
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich
Night view of Šibenik, one of the oldest Croatian towns on the eastern shores of the Adriatic, in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia.
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Visit to the Tower of London the 2nd of July 2021. I had to book a ticket on line so booked the first slot at 9am. It was very slow there due to Covid-19 but great to visit without the crowds that would be there from all over the world in normal times. The Tower of London dates back to 1066 with the White Tower being built in 1078. The castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Aerial view of the terraced lakes in Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia.
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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.
www.visitstockholm.com/en/To-Do/Attractions/drottningholm...
A gilded detail from the Moorish/Muslim areas of the building.
Such a varied history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque%E2%80%93Cathedral_of_C%C3%B3...
Visit to the Tower of London the 2nd of July 2021. I had to book a ticket on line so booked the first slot at 9am. It was very slow there due to Covid-19 but great to visit without the crowds that would be there from all over the world in normal times. The Tower of London dates back to 1066 with the White Tower being built in 1078. The castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another picture of at Hampi along with archeological remains of Vijayanagra Empire.
It is my daughter Rashi in this picture
Kotor is one of those towns that summarize European history in its own. It has been part of the First Bulgarian Empire, Serbia, the Republic of Ragusa (contemporary Dubrovnik), the Venetian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, the French Empire, the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Austrian Empire, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and more. Especially Yugoslavia's history of predecessor and successor states is quite complicated.
Kotor, first mentioned in 168 BC, was settled during Ancient Roman times, when it was known as Acruvium, Ascrivium, or Ascruvium and was part of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Kotor (then called "Cattaro") has been fortified since the early Middle Ages, when Emperor Justinian built a fortress above Acruvium in 535, after expelling the Ostrogoths; a second town probably grew up on the heights round it, for Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in the 10th century, alludes to Lower Kotor. The city was plundered by the Saracens in 840. Cattaro was one of the more influential Dalmatian City-states of romanized Illirians throughout the Middle Ages period. Until the 11th century the Dalmatian language was spoken in Cattaro.
In 1002, the city suffered damage under occupation of the First Bulgarian Empire, and in the following year it was ceded to Serbia by the Bulgarian Tsar Samuel. However, the local population resisted the pact and, taking advantage of its alliance with the Republic of Ragusa, only submitted in 1184, while maintaining its republican institutions and its right to conclude treaties and engage in war. It was already an episcopal see, and, in the 13th century, Dominican and Franciscan monasteries were established to check the spread of Bogomilism.
In the 14th century, commerce in Cattaro (as the city was called until 1918) competed with that of the nearby Republic of Ragusa and of the Republic of Venice. The city was part of the Venetian Albania province of the Venetian Republic from 1420 to 1797, except for periods of Ottoman rule in 1538–1571 and 1657-1699. Four centuries of Venetian domination have given the city the typical Venetian architecture, that contributed to make Kotor a UNESCO world heritage site. In those centuries Renaissance-related literature enjoyed a huge develpment in Venetian Cattaro: the most famous writers were Bernardo Pima, Nicola Chierlo, Luca Bisanti, Alberto de Gliricis, Domenico and Vincenzo Burchia, Vincenzo Ceci, Antonio Zambella and Francesco Morandi.
While under Venetian rule, Cattaro was besieged by the Ottoman Empire in 1538 and 1657, endured the plague in 1572, and was nearly destroyed by earthquakes in 1563 and 1667. After the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797, it passed to the Habsburg Monarchy. However, in 1805, it was assigned to the French Empire's client state, the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy by the Treaty of Pressburg, although in fact held by a Russian squadron under Dmitry Senyavin. After the Russians retreated, Cattaro was united in 1806 with this Kingdom of Italy and then in 1810 with the French Empire's Illyrian Provinces. Kotor was captured by the British attack on the Bay led by Commodore John Harper in the brig sloop HMS Saracen (18 guns). To seal off Kotor in windless conditions, residents along the shore literally pulled the ship in windless conditions with ropes. Saracen's crew later hauled naval 18-pounder guns above Fort St. John, the fortress near Kotor, and were reinforced by Captain William Hoste with his ship HMS Bacchante (38 guns). The French garrison had no alternative but to surrender, which it did on 5 January 1814.
It was then restored to the Austrian Empire by the Congress of Vienna.
In World War I, Kotor was one of three main bases of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and homeport to the Austrian Fifth Fleet, consisting of pre-dreadnought battleships and light cruisers. The area was the site of some of the fiercest battles between local Montenegrin Slavs, and Austria-Hungary. After 1918, the city (called Càttaro until then) became a part of Yugoslavia and officially became known as Kotor.
Between 1941 and 1943 Italy annexed the area of Kotor (with the original venetian name "Bocche di Cattaro") to the Italian "Governorship of Dalmatia" and created a new Italian Province: the Provincia di Cattaro, with 1075 km² and 128,000 population. But after 1945 it became a part of the then Socialist Republic of Montenegro within Yugoslavia's second incarnation.
Tourists taking boats in Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia.
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Night view of the medieval old town of Verona, with Ponte Pietra Over Adige River, and Verona Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Matricolare) in the center, in Veneto region, Central Italy.
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The imposing rock face of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Three Peaks of Lavaredo), part of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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Summer scenery in the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as seen on the Adolf Munkel Trail (Via delle Odle) at the foot of the Geisler/Odle Group, in Val di Funes, South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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The Main Terrace at Yellowstone National Park's Mammoth Hot Springs area. The area contains approximately 50 hot springs. It is subject to continual change as hot water flows to the earth's surface.
Calcium carbonate is also crucial to the terraces' growth. Thick layers of sedimentary limestone lie beneath the Mammoth area. As ground water seeps slowly downward and laterally, it comes in contact with hot gases charged with carbon dioxide rising from the magma chamber. Some carbon dioxide is readily dissolved in the hot water to form a weak carbonic acid solution. This hot, acidic solution dissolves great quantities of limestone as it works up through the rock layers to the surface hot springs. Once exposed to the open air, some of the carbon dioxide escapes from solution. As this happens, limestone can no longer remain in solution. A solid mineral reforms and is deposited as the travertine that forms the terraces--September 4, 2009
The Belfry of Bruges is an 83 m high medieval bell tower in the center of Bruges, Belgium.
The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about the checked history of the belfry:
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown;
Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town.
Uzbekistan doesn't normally feature high on the tourist bucket lists due to its relative isolation, language and cultural barriers, and perhaps lack of marketing. But it certainly has its fair share of wonders, including the Registan (the first image), which shows a trio of madrasas dominating a plaza in the town of Samarkhand. But less well known is the town of Bukhara and the museum-village of Khiva. In both these places, Islamic art, culture and science flourished, and the carefully renovated mosques and museums pay homage to their golden years.
This country is certainly worth a visit, especially with its current stable political and economic climate. And the language barrier just adds to the experience and memories of traveling here.
Uzbekistan.
Chichen Itza was a large Mayan city on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The city was established in the early 400's AD and was inhabited until 900 AD. At its height, it is believed that as many as 50,000 people lived in the city.
After the Spanish conquest of the Yucatan in 1547, many of the abandoned city's structures received Spanish names. The city was later forgotten and covered by jungle. The city was rediscovered in the 1840's.
This is a close-up of an eagle and a jaguar eating a human heart on the Platform of Eagles and Jaguars.
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls is a town in western Zimbabwe and a gateway to the massive waterfall of the same name. Here, the Zambezi River plummets over a cliff and into the Boiling Pot before flowing through a series of gorges. The Devil’s Pool, a natural infinity pool, is on the edge of a sheer drop. Spanning the river is 1905 Victoria Falls Bridge.
Sunset at Val Di Funes, a storybook valley situated beneath the majestic peaks of Odle Group, part of the Dolomites mountains, in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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December 28, 2018 - The Al-Khazneh (The Treasury) unveils itself at the end of The Siq. The Treasury Building is carved into the red sandstone mountainside. Petra has been on the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
An Italian woman bow to Saint Michael the Archangel, in front of the Verona Cathedral, in the medieval old town of Verona, in Veneto region, northern Italy.
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Dawn light over the imposing rock face of the Seekofel (2,810m), part of the Prague Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, by Lake Braies (Italian: Lago di Braies), in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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The towering peaks of 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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A very nice lookout onto Southern Lamington. I'd been meaning to get back to this spot for a while with a respectable camera so it was nice to finally achieve that. Fantastic day for it as well. Best viewed large.
Explored.
High angle view of the medieval town of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, in southern Croatia.
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Hikers on the trail surrounding the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Three Peaks of Lavaredo), part of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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High angle view of Manarola, Cinque Terre’s oldest village of the five, part of the Cinque Terre National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in La Spezia province, Liguria Region, northwest Italy.
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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.
www.visitstockholm.com/en/To-Do/Attractions/drottningholm...
View of Dreizinnenhütte / Rifugio Locatelli Hut, a mountain hut at the foot of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Three Peaks of Lavaredo), part of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in South Tyrol, northern Italy.
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