Detail InformationEdit Kawate Castle (Kawate-jō) was a castle that existed between the Nanboku-chō period and the Sengoku period. Its ruins are located in the present-day city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It replaced Nagamori Castle as the base of operations for the area and served as home for regional shugo until Saitō Dōsan switched to […]

Detail InformationEdit Iwakiyama Shrine (Iwakiyama jinja) is a Shintō shrine in the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Tsugaru Domain. All of Mount Iwaki is considered to be a portion of the shrine. The main festival of the shrine, the Oyama-sankei, features a parade from the shrine to […]

The Tōhoku region (東北地方, Tōhoku-chihō) consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region consists of six prefectures (ken): Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata. Tōhoku retains a reputation as a remote region, offering breathtaking scenery but a harsh climate. In the 20th century, tourism became a major industry […]

Detail InformationEdit Santi Luca e Martina is a church in Rome, Italy, situated between the Roman Forum and the Forum of Caesar and close to the Arch of Septimus Severus.The church was initially dedicated to Saint Martina, martyred in 228 AD during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. In 625 Pope Honorius I commissioned construction […]

Detail InformationEdit Villa Lysis — initially called La Gloriette, today also known as Villa Fersen — is a villa on Capri built by industrialist and poet Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen in 1905. “Dedicated to the youth of love” (dédiée à la jeunesse d’amour), it was Fersen’s self-chosen exile from France after a sex scandal involving Parisian schoolboys […]

Detail InformationEdit The Újpest Synagogue is a Neolog Judaism synagogue in Újpest (New Pest), a district of Budapest, Hungary. The Romantic-style edifice was built in 1866 and holds 1,000 seats. Rabbi Sander Rosenberg from Arad officiated at the opening ceremony. Its establishment was a “great holiday” for the Jews and Christians of Újpest. It lies […]

Sand is a village in Zala county, Hungary. It is a very small agricultural town, located on gently rolling hills. There is an Evangelical church and a Catholic church near the center of town, and there are memorials to those who served in both World wars nearby. Sand is close to the towns of Csurgo, […]

Detail InformationEdit The Szabadság Szobor or Statue of Liberty (sometimes Freedom Statue) in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet conquest of Hungary during World War II. Its location upon Gellért Hill makes it a prominent feature of Budapest’s cityscape. The 14 meter tall bronze statue stands atop a 26 […]

Detail InformationEdit The Papal Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, commonly known as St Paul’s Outside the Walls, is one of four churches that are the great ancient major basilicas or papal basilicas of Rome: the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Peter’s and Saint Paul Outside the Walls. The […]

Sessa Aurunca is a town and comune of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta. It located on the south west slope of the extinct volcano of Roccamonfina, 40 km by rail west north west of Caserta and 30 km east of Formia. It is situated on the site of the ancient Suessa Aurunca, near […]