Detail InformationEdit Aoba Castle (Aoba-jō), also known as Sendai Castle (Sendai-jō), was the castle of the Date family. Built by Date Masamune atop Mount Aoba, it commanded a highly defensible strategic position overlooking the city of Sendai. Although the “castle” was the headquarters of the Date family and administrative center of Mutsu Province, the peace […]
Detail InformationEdit The Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site in Liverpool, England. It comprises six locations in the city centre of Liverpool including the Pier Head, Albert Dock and William Brown Street, and includes many of the city’s most famous landmarks. UNESCO received the city council’s nomination for the six […]
Detail InformationEdit The Church of St Mary in Palmis (Italian: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Piante, Latin: Sanctae Maria in Palmis), better known as Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis, is a small church southeast of Rome, central Italy. It is located about some 800 m from Porta San Sebastiano, where the Via Ardeatina branches off […]
Detail InformationEdit Santa Maria della Spina is a small Gothic church in the Italian city of Pisa. The church, erected in 1230, was originally known as Santa Maria di Pontenovo: the new name of Spina (“thorn”) derives from the presence of a thorn allegedly part of the crown dressed by Christ on the Cross, brought […]
Racconigi is a town and comune in Piedmont, Italy. It is located in the province of Cuneo, 40 km (25 mi) south of Turin, and 50 km (31 mi) north of Cuneo by rail. The town was founded in medieval times. It was a possession of the marquisses of Saluzzo, of the princes of Acaia […]
Detail InformationEdit Via Krupp is a historic switchback paved footpath on the island of Capri, connecting the Charterhouse of San Giacomo and the Gardens of Augustus area with Marina Piccola. Commissioned by German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the path covers an elevation difference of about 100 m. Built between 1900 and 1902, ostensibly Via Krupp […]
Detail InformationEdit Casa Malaparte (also Villa Malaparte) is a house on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the Isle of Capri, Italy. It is one of the best examples of Italian modern and contemporary architecture. The house was conceived around 1937 by Italian Rationalist architect Adalberto Libera for Curzio Malaparte. Malaparte actually rejected Libera’s […]
India / Maharashtra /Ahmednagar /Karjat Rehekuri Blackbuck Sanctuary, Karjat. Edit Detail InformationEdit The Maharashtra Government has declared 217.30 hectares of reserve forest at Rehekuri in District Ahmednagar (Karjat taluka) as a sanctuary for the endangered Blackbuck, locally known as ‘Kalvit’. The wildlife authorities had initiated a project with a small Blackbuck population (15) in the […]
Detail InformationEdit The Hadrian’s Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli, Italy. The villa was constructed at Tibur (modern-day Tivoli) as a retreat from Rome for Roman Emperor Hadrian during the second and third decades of the 2nd century AD. Hadrian was said to dislike the palace on the […]
Detail InformationEdit The Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge , also known as the Pearl Bridge, has the longest central span of any suspension bridge, at 1,991 metres (6,532 ft). It is located in Japan and was completed in 1998. The bridge links the city of Kobe on the mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island by crossing […]