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The Curonian Spit ( Kuršių nerija ) is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic S...

Shortly after they conquered Cyprus , the Crusaders began construction of a cathedral in Nicosia in a pure Gothic style , but lack of...

When you say Rhodes , you're thinking to Colossus of Rhodes (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ) and to Knights Hospit...

Posted on 12.09.2012 and completed on 02.04.2013 Star and Key of the Indian Ocean, as says its official motto, Mauritius is an islan...

Located in the heart of the Japanese Alps , Takayama developed its own culture in the last 300 years, because the high altitude and se...

0582 The ruins of the Ruzhany Palace The ruins of this palace is situated beside the little town of Ruzhany , on the river Ruzhanka, ...

Situated at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon , near Torcello , Burano it isn't in fact an island, but an archipelago of fo...

As many other cities in Iberian Peninsula , Segovia , located at about 90km north of Madrid , was founded by Celts , to become then a R...

After uniting the Danes and Norwegians , around the year 960, King Harald Bluetooth moved his capital closer to the new kingdom's...

Tibet lies on the plateau located north-east of the Himalayas (the highest on earth, with an average elevation of 4,900m) and emerge...

Located in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano, Banská Štiavnica was a mining settlement s...

As I wrote when I presented the Wooden Churches of Maramureş , in a wide area in Carpathians , which transcends the countries borders, ...

As even their name says, the traditional homeland of Bedouin ("those in the desert" in Arabic) is Arabian Desert , but some ...

Located south-east of Madaba , on the edge of the semi-arid steppe, Um er-Rasas is an archeological site, largely unexcavated, which st...

The Kehlsteinhaus (also known as Eagle's Nest) is a chalet-style structure erected on a subpeak of the Hoher Göll known as the Ke...

About Cairo I wrote here , I will focus exclusively on the images depicted in the postcard, which I like it, because presents the...

On the northwestern shore of the Lake Zurich , where today is Zurich , there were human settlements since 6,400 years ago, and 2,000 ye...

Thought since antiquity, but become a reality only at the end of the 19th century (1881-1893), the Corinth Canal , which connects the G...

The High Atlas , the greatest mountain range of North Africa, is perhaps the most beautiful and intriguing part of Morocco , with its h...

0563 Coffee pot maker in Bahrain It is believed that the coffee comes from Ethiopia , from where he arrived in the Arab world and th...