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2836 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - China Miéville
China Tom Miéville is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic. He often describes his work as weird fiction and specifically to the loosely associated movement...
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2837 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - The Limousins and the Blondes d'Aquitaine
Situated largely in the Massif Central, Limousin, the least populated region of mainland France, is an essentially rural region. Famed for some of the best beef farming in the world, herds of Limousin...
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2838 GERMANY (Hesse) - Braunfels Castle
Lying at a height of some 100m above the valley of the River Lahn, an eastern tributary of the Rhine River, Braunfels is considered in nowadays a climatic spa. The history of the town is closely linked...
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2839 ROMANIA (Maramureş) - Moroşeni in tradiţional clothes
2839 Moroşeni from Şugatag villagein traditional clothesMaramureş is a geographical, historical and ethno-cultural region situated along the upper Tisza River, and partitioned between Romania and...
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2840 NETHERLAND (Netherland / South Holland) - Van Nelle Factory (UNESCO WHS)
Designed and built between 1925 and 1931 on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial zone north-west of Rotterdam, Van Nelle Factory is considered a prime example of the International...
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2841 ITALY (Veneto) - The Torrione in Legnago
Located on the Adige river, about 43km from Verona, Legnago had an important military role since the early Middle Ages. In the 19th century it was one of the Quadrilatero fortresses, the main...
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2842 JAPAN (Kantō) - Tokyo Station
Tokyo Station is a railway station in the Marunouchi business district of Chiyoda, being the main intercity rail terminal in Tokyo. It is also the busiest station in Japan in terms of number of trains...
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2843 MOLDOVA (Chişinău) - Wine Festival in Chişinău
In the entire Moldavia, from the Carpathians to the Dniester, and from Ceremuş to the Black Sea, the growing of vines is a very old tradition, its viticulture dating back more than 6,000 years. In...
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2844 CHINA (Anhui) - Mount Huangshan (UNESCO WHS)
Located in the humid subtropical monsoon climate zone of Anhuiprovince, Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) is renowned for its magnificent natural scenery which includes massive granitic boulders and ancient...
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2845 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - The exhibition "Space of Light"
The painter Patrice Giorda was born in 1952 in Lyon, where he lives and works until now. Spotted very early on, notably among the international selection at the XIIIth Paris Biennale in 1985, he has...
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2846 TANZANIA (Kilimanjaro) - Kilimanjaro National Park (UNESCO WHS)
Kilimanjaro National Park protects the largest free standing volcanic mass in the world and the highest mountain in Africa, rising 4877m above surrounding plains to 5895m at its peak. With its...
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0884, 2847 CZECH REPUBLIC (South Moravia) - Tugendhat Villa in Brno (UNESCO WHS)
0884 Tugendhat Villa in Brno (1)Posted on 02.12.2013, 31.10.2016Built between 1928 and 1930 in the wealthy neighbourhood of Černá Pole in Brno for the Jewish factory-owner Fritz Tugendhat by the...
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2848 PORTUGAL (Viseu) - Soar Door in Viseu
Located approximately 50km East of the Atlantic ocean and surrounded by a number of mountains, Viseu was populated throughout history by a series of cultures, that include the Romans, Suebs, Visigoths...
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2849 IRELAND (Ulster / Ulaidh) - A traditional thatched cottage in Ballyness Bay
Located in the province of Ulster, County Donegalshares a small border with only one other county in the Republic of Ireland, the rest being shared with three counties of Northern Ireland. This...
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2850 RUSSIA (Moscow Oblast) - Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in...
2850 Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kolomnaat the beginning of the 20th centuryFounded in 1140-1160 at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka Rivers, tying upstream and lowstream waters of...
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2851 GERMANY - "Outdoor nudes jumping" by Gerhard Riebicke
2851 "Outdoor nudes jumping" by Gerhard Riebicke (1925)Born in 1878 in Lausitz (now Forst), Gerhard Riebicke spent his childhood in Switzerland. Then he studied in Tubingen, worked as a house teacher...
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2852 SOUTH KOREA (Seoul) - Changing of the Royal Guards at Deoksugung
Deoksugung (Deoksu Palace), one of the Five Grand Palaces built by the kings of the Joseon Dynasty, is a walled compound of palaces in Seoul that was inhabited by members of Korea's royal family until...
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0014, 2853 UNITED STATES (Utah) - Salt Lake Temple
0014 Salt Lake Temple in Christmas nightPosted on 22.10.2011, 05.11.2016Brigham Young and the first band of Mormon pioneers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) reached the Salt...
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2854 FINLAND (Pirkanmaa) - Tampere Cathedral
Designed in the National Romantic style by Lars Sonck, Tampere Cathedral was built between 1902 and 1907. In the beginning of the 20th century Russification was a governmental policy of the Russian...
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2855, 2856 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / North Holland) - Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
2855 Rijksmuseum in AmsterdamThe Rijksmuseum (National Museum) is located at the Museum Square in the boroughAmsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the...
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