Panathinaiko Stadium

Detail InformationEdit The Panathinaiko or Panathenaic Stadium, also known as the Kallimarmaro, is an athletic stadium in Athens that hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Reconstructed from the remains of the ancient Greek stadium, the Panathinaiko is the only major stadium in the World built entirely of white marble and one of the […]

Neptune Fountain

Detail InformationEdit The Neptune Fountain is on Paseo Del Prado. Under the orders of King Carlos III, sculptor Juan Pascual de Mena began to build this marble statue in 1780. In 1786 his disciple José Rodríguez finished off the project, which represents Neptune, God of the Sea, with a trident in one hand and a […]

Donana National Park

Detail InformationEdit Doñana National Park is located in Andalusia, in the provinces of Huelva and Seville, and covers 543 km²(337.41 mi²), of which 135 km²(83.89 mi²) are a protected area. The park is an area of marsh, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the Guadalquivir River Delta region where it flows into the […]

Seville Cathedral

Detail InformationEdit The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville (Andalusia, Spain). It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the World. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World […]

Cap San Diego

Detail InformationEdit MS Cap San Diego is a general cargo ship, situated as a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany. Notable for its elegant silhouette, it was the last of a series of six ships known as the white swans of the south atlantic, and marked the apex of German-built bulk carriers before the advent of […]

Effelsberg 100 m Radio Telescope

Detail InformationEdit The Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahrgebirge (part of the Eifel) in Bad Münstereifel, district of Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The telescope is located about 1.3 km northeast of the village of Effelsberg, a southeastern part of the town of Bad Münstereifel. It is placed less than 300 […]

Marktbrunnen

Detail InformationEdit The Marktbrunnen in Mainz is a renaissance fountain located at the ″Markt″ (market place) of Mainz. It was donated by elector Albert of Mainz and crafted in the workshop of the Mainz sculpturer Hans Backoffen. The Marktbrunnen represents one of the first architectural formed decorated fountains of the renaissance. Thestructure of this fountain […]

Staatliche Antikensammlungen

Detail InformationEdit The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State Collections of Antiques) in the Kunstareal of Munich is a museum for the Bavarian state’s antique collections for Greek, Etruscan and Roman art. The Bavarian state collection of Ancient Egyptian art is traditionally placed in its own museum. This museum is also complemented by the sculptures collection, which is […]

Sanssouci

Detail InformationEdit Sanssouci is the name of the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for […]

Hypo Haus

Detail InformationEdit The Hypo-Haus is a skyscraper in Munich constructed between 1975 and 1981 and serves as the headquarters of the HypoVereinsbank. It is located at Arabellapark, part of the Bogenhausen district in the East of Munich next to the Arabella High-Rise Building.The building is 114 metres (374 ft) high and was planned by the […]