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2660 GERMANY (Hesse) - Frankfurt Airport
Located at 12km southwest of central Frankfurt, Frankfurt Airport is operated by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa. It has a capacity of approximately 65 million passengers per year,...
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2661 UNITED STATES (New York) - The map of Westchester County
Situated in the Hudson Valley, Westchester County wasestablished in 1683, being named after the city of Chester, England. The county seat is the city of White Plains, located at 40km north of Midtown...
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1940, 2662 ROMANIA (Iaşi) - The Palace of Culture in Iaşi
1940 The Palace of Culture in Iaşi (1)Posted on 05.10.2015, 22.07.2016Recognized as an effigy of the city of Iaşi (the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1859), the Palace of Culture...
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2663 UNITED KINGDOM (Anguilla) - Tucked-away Little Bay
Little Bay is one of Anguilla's most special and serene places, but you have to make an effort to reach its beach, surrounded by high cliffs. There are two ways to get to this most remote beach: climb...
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2040, 2041, 2084, 2214, 2664 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Grenoble
2040 The map of Isère department and The Bastille in GrenoblePosted on 16.11.2015, 29.11.2015, 14.01.2016, 23.07.2016Located at the foot of the French Alps, where the river Drac joins the Isère,...
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2665 MONGOLIA - A lama boy
Buddhism in Mongolia derives much of its recent characteristics from Tibetan Buddhism (of the Gelug and Kagyu lineages), which combines elements of the Mahayana and the Tantric schools with traditional...
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0652, 0653, 1120, 2666 ITALY (Tuscany) - Historic centre of Florence (UNESCO...
0652 Images of FlorencePosted on 21.05.2013, 27.06.2014, 25.07.2016Founded by Romans as a settlement for veteran soldiers and named Fluentia, because it was built between two rivers, then successively...
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2667 SPAIN (Community of Madrid) - The monument to Cervantes in Madrid
As is well known, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He owes his fame to Don...
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2668 FRANCE - A farmer and his span of oxen
It seems that the cattle were first harnessed and put to work around 4000 BC, and the castration of bulls to turn them into oxen have happened at about the same time. A little later, the yoke was...
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2669 VIETNAM (Southeast) - Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon
Following the French conquest of Cochinchina, the Roman Catholic Church established a community and religious services for French colonialists. Thus, in 1863, Admiral Bonard decided to build a wooden...
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1935-1939, 2670 SAINT MARTIN - The map of the island and the flags of Saint...
1935 The map of Saint Martin Island (1)Posted on 04.10.2015, 30.07.2016Located in the northeast Caribbean, between Anguilla and Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin is the smallest inhabited sea island...
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2671 ISRAEL - The flag of the country
The flag of Israel, which depicts a blue hexagram on a white background, between two horizontal blue stripes, was adopted on October 28, 1948, five months after the establishment of the State of...
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2672 SWEDEN (Stockholm) - Zoie Ghika, Moldavian Princess
The beginning of the 18th century was a period of material reconstruction in Sweden as the country tried to recover from the huge costs of King Charles XII's wars therefore relatively few commissions...
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2673 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - Traditional food
2673 Faroese specialities. From ther left: hares, whale meat strips, guillemots, intestines, cod's heads, dried fish, and dried sheep meat. In the front: beets, sheep stomach and tallow, and potatoes....
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2674 ROMANIA (Prahova) - Welcome into my Brain
2674 Salvador Dali - The Three-Cornered Hat, etching #3Under this heading were exhibited between July 22 and October 4, 2015, at Cantacuzino Castle in Buşteni, more than 200 works by Salvador Dalí...
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2675 UNITED STATES (Illinois) - University of Chicago
Founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and wealthiest man in history John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago, a privateresearch university, was...
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2676 FRANCE (Guadeloupe) - A saleswoman in Pointe-à-Pitre in 1905/1912
Pointe-à-Pitre was founded in the mid-17th century soon after the settlement of Guadeloupe by the French, but it was eclipsed in importance until the late 18th century by the town of Basse-Terre. In...
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2677 GERMANY - Tourist sights
2677 1. Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2. Cologne Cathedral 3. Royal castleNewschwanstein 4. Stahleck Castle 5. Heidelberg 6. Brandenburg Gatein Berlin 7. The New Town Hall in Munich 8. The Black Forest...
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2678 UNITED STATES (Puerto Rico) - Puerto Rico map and flag
Puerto Rico, an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands, is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea....
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2679 VIETNAM (Southeast) - Birdsong enthusiasts in Saigon
Keeping songbirds is very popular among the Vietnamese, probably a way of bringing nature to the city. Enthusiasts gather in some of the city’s parks early in the morning before work, showing off their...
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