Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Nord Pas de Calais Nord for short, is one of the 27 regions of France. It consists of the departments of Nord and Pas de Calais, in the north and has a border with Belgium. Most of the region was once part of the Southern Netherlands, within the Low Countries, and gradually became part of […]

Les Invalides

Detail InformationEdit Les Invalides , officially known as L’Hôtel National des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the […]

Sète

Sète (Seta in Occitan) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Sétois.Known as the Venice of Languedoc and the singular island, it is a port and a sea-side resort on the Mediterranean Sea with its own very strong cultural identity, traditions, cuisine and dialect. […]

Chaumont

Chaumont is a commune of France, and the capital (or préfecture) of the Haute-Marne department. As of 2008[update], it has a of 24,039.The city stands on the Marne River and is situated on the railway linking Paris and Basel, which runs over a 52 m tall and 600 m long viaduct built in 1856. Historically […]

Eckerö Mail and Customs House

Detail InformationEdit Eckerö Mail and Customs House is a historic building in Eckerö municipality at the Åland Islands, Finland. It was built in 1828 as the most western posthouse on the Finnish side of the old mail route connecting Swedish capital Stockholm and Finnish town Turku. The building was drawn by architects Carl Ludvig Engel […]

Addis Ababa

Widely considered as the ‘Political Capital of Africa’, Addis Ababa houses the headquarters of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) along with two other delegations of the European Union and the United States of America. As an important international diplomatic hub, Addis Ababa features more than 120 international […]

Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral

Detail InformationEdit St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is located in the Abbassia District in Cairo, Egypt. It is the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope. It was built during the time when Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria was Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church and inaugurated by Pope Cyril in 1968. Historically the land where […]

Alexandria National Museum

Detail InformationEdit The Alexandria National Museum in Egypt was inaugurated the 31st of December, 2003 by Hosni Mubarak and it’s located in a restored Italian style palace in Tariq Al-Horreya Street , near the center of the city.It contains about 1.800 artifacts that narrate the story of Alexandria and Egypt. Most of these pieces came […]

Mosque of Ibn Tulun

Detail InformationEdit The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is arguably the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area. The mosque was commissioned by Ahmad ibn ln, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868884 whose rule […]

Murud Janjira

India /Maharashtra /Raigad /Murud Janjira A picturesque holiday spot with coconut and betel nut trees, Murud is situated in Raigad district in Maharashtra. Glittering coastline of sandy beach and the surrounding greenery makes this magnificent place a hot spot of the tourists. A small fishing village, Murud is famous for its marvelous beaches, ancient forts, […]