Elvas is a Portuguese municipality, an episcopal city and frontier fortress of Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about 230 km east of Lisbon, and about 15 km west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The city itself has a population of 18,106. Elvas is […]

Detail InformationEdit The Old Saluting Battery stands on the lower part of the St. Peter and St. Paul Bastion. Originally built in the 16th century, it remained in continuous use up to 1960. The battery functioned as a master time keeper, as the gun shots at sunrise and sunset marked the beginning and end of […]

Detail InformationEdit The Cottonera Lines was one of the largest project of military architecture undertaken by the knights of Malta, and encircled the three old cities and the Margarita Lines. The original intention to protect The Three Cities and their old landward fortification was to erect a fort in the countryside beyond. Designed by the […]

Valletta is the capital of Malta, colloquially known as Il-Belt (English: The City) in Maltese. It is located in the central-eastern portion of the island of Malta, and the historical city has a population of 6,966. Valletta contains buildings from the 16th century onwards, built during the rule of the Order of St. John of […]

Detail InformationEdit The castle is located in the Town of Bauska, amidst picturesque scenery on a strip of land between the Rivers Mūsa and Mēmele, not far from the place where they flow together forming the Lielupe. The Bauska Castle ensemble consists of two parts. The oldest, a Livonian Order’s castle, was built in mid-15th […]

India /Rajasthan /Bikaner /Bikaner Junagarh Fort is a fort in the city of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Edit Detail InformationEdit Junagarh Fort was built by Raja Rai Singh, the sixth ruler of Bikaner who reigned from 1571 to 1612. Rai Singh had conquered part of Marwar and had been granted territory in Gujurat and Burhanpur by […]

Detail InformationEdit This museum and ancestral house pay tribute Martin Wickramasinghe one of Sri Lankas prominent intellectuals and writers. They are well worth visiting to learn a little more about this great author. Wickramasinghe was born on May 29, 1890, in the town of Koggala, in Sri Lanka, the only son of Lamahewage Don Bastian […]

Detail InformationEdit Located in the northeast quadrant of the Galle Fort the clock tower lies at high point from which the rest of the fort is visible so its worth walking up to. The historic tower was built in 1707 and cast in 1709 and is an important landmark. The clock tower is built adjacent […]

Mannar, formerly spelled Manar, is the capital of Mannar District, Sri Lanka. It is located on Mannar Island. Mannar is known for its baobab trees and for its fort, built by the Portuguese in 1560 and taken by the Dutch in 1658 and rebuilt; its ramparts and bastions are intact, though the interior is largely […]