Images of Warsaw and Treblinka. June 2014. “Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly 260 kilometres from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population is estimated at 1.71 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.66 million residents, making […]
Images of Moscow. April 2014. “Moscow is the capital city and the most populous federal subject of Russia. It is the northernmost megacity on Earth, the second most populous city in Europe after Istanbul and the sixth largest city proper in the world. “The city is named after the river (literally ‘the city by the […]
Images of Milan, Padova and Verona. April 2014. “Milan is the second-most populous city in Italy, the first considering the metro area, and the capital of the Lombardy Region. The city proper has a population of 1.3 million, whilst the Milan metropolitan area has a population of over 4 million. “Padova (English: Padua) is a […]
Images of Bologna, Parma and Modena. April 2014. “Bologna is the largest city (and the capital) of Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, located in the heart of a metropolitan area of about one million. The first settlements date back to at least 1000 BC. The city has […]
Images of Venice. April 2014. “Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Venice is renowned for the […]
Images of Rovereto and Trento. April 2014. “Rovereto is a city and commune in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. It was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier between the bishopric of Trento – an independent state until 1797 – and the republic of Venice, and […]
Images of Vaduz. January 2014. “Vaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein and the seat of the national parliament. The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,300 inhabitants most of whom are Roman Catholic. Its cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vaduz. It has a lively tourist industry, […]
Images of Zürich. January 2014. “Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland. The municipality has approximately 400,000 inhabitants, and the metropolitan area 1.83 million. “Permanently settled for around 2000 years, the history of Zürich goes back to its founding by the […]
Images of Fridingen, Beuron, Sigmaringen and Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg. January 2014. “Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany and is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest of Germany’s states in terms of both area and population, with an area of […]
Images of the Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum and the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London. November 2013. “The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World. It is also home to London’s only planetarium, the Harrison timekeepers and the UK’s largest refracting telescope. The observatory was […]