Detail InformationEdit The Triton Fountain is the central feature in City Gate Square, Valletta, capital of the Mediterranean island of Malta. This square also serves as the island’s central bus terminus.The Triton Fountain was sculpted by local sculptor Vincent Apap in 1959.To the southside of the fountain is the Malta Memorial, a commemorative monument for […]
Detail InformationEdit The Old Sessions and Magistrate Court is a good example of Moorish architecture. Other good examples of this architecture type include the Bandaraya Theatre, InfoKraft (Textile Museum), Kuala Lumpur Memorial Library, National History Museum. The new Sessions and Magistrate Court has been moved to Jalan Duta. HistoryEdit N.A. Must SeeEdit N.A. Visiting TimeEdit […]
Malaysia /Sabah/Sandakan Sandakan formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the second-largest town in Sabah after the Kota Kinabalu City, on the north-eastern coast of Borneo in Malaysia. It is located on the east coast of the island in the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former capital of British North Borneo. […]
Detail InformationEdit Almost every family in Latvia has either lost a member or has a member who is a victim. As a nation we have lost more than 600 000 people in the last century. While in countries similar to Latvia the number of inhabitants has doubled, ours has significantly diminished. But “Liktendarzs” is so […]
Detail InformationEdit Monument to the sailors and fishermen lost at sea is a notable modern monument and sightseeing place in Liepāja, Latvia. On 8 April 2000 a memorial plate dedicated to the American pilots whose aircraft was brought down on 8 April 1950 by the USSR Air Forces near Liepāja was added to the pedestal […]
Detail InformationEdit The church was built in 1495 by an order of Wolter von Plettenberg, the Livonian Order Master. The church has been rebuilt for several times. The current steeple was designed in 1907. In 1995, on the 500th anniversary of the church new roofing was installed and outer walls – painted. The church is […]
Detail InformationEdit The Bīriņi castle is spacious, filled with the atmosphere of the past, surrounded by a park and two lakes; it was built in 1860 for the von Pistohlkors family, and today it serves as a prestigious venue for receptions and seminars. Next to the castle, the Gardener’s House is now a hotel that […]
Detail InformationEdit The Brothers’ Cemetery memorial in Riga, unveiled in 1936, is the most prominent and biggest monument from the times of the first Latvian state. Its main author is Karlis Zale. The memorial is devoted to the soldiers killed during the World War I and Latvian War of Independence (1915-1920). The cemetery contains about […]
Detail InformationEdit The crucifix – Catholic Latgale’s symbol, an inseparable part of the Latgale countryside landscape, a unique work of art. First crucifixes were put up in Latgale in the 18th century. The tradition of constructing them underwent the most rapid evolution during the 1920’s and 1930’s. A feature of Vaboles parish is that there […]
Detail InformationEdit “Lejnieki”, the native house of the poet Vilis Pludonis in Ceraukste village Bauska district, was included into memorial houses list in 1959. To save this house from destruction it was renovated. By 1966 the house was inhabited by residents and rooms were vacated step by step. On 5 June 1966 the first exposition […]