Mossel Bay

Mossel Bay (Afrikaans Mosselbaai) is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape (or Garden Route) of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. Mossel Bay lies 400 kilometres east of the country’s seat of parliament, Cape Town (which is also the capital city […]

Transvaal Museum

Detail InformationEdit The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, South Africa. It was founded as the Staatsmuseum (Afrikaans for “State Museum”) of the ZAR on the 1 December 1892, and J. W. B. Gunning was appointed as first director. The museum was located for […]

Arvfurstens palats

Detail InformationEdit Arvfurstens palats (Swedish for “The Hereditary Prince’s Palace”) is a palace located at Gustav Adolfs Torg in central Stockholm. Designed by Erik Palmstedt, the palace was originally the private residence of Princess Sophia Albertina. It was built 1783-1794 and declared a historical monument (byggnadsminne) in 1935 and subsequently restored by Ivar Tengbom in […]

Vanersborg

Vänersborg is a locality and the seat of Vänersborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 21,699 inhabitants in 2010. Until 1997 it was the capital of Älvsborg County, which was dissolved in 1998. Since 1999 Vänersborg is the seat of the regional parliament of Västra Götaland County. The city is located on the southern shores […]

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital, financial centre and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia.Stockholm is located on Sweden’s south-central east coast, where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea. The central parts of the city consist of fourteen islands that are continuous with the Stockholm archipelago. Stockholm is the […]

Cape Town

A primate city of the Western Cape Province, Cape Town is a stone’s throw away from the South African World famous Cape Winelands around Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek. Also known as the ‘Mother City’, Cape Town is the second most populous city in the country. Famous for its harbor and the natural setting of the […]

Greenmarket Square

Detail InformationEdit Greenmarket Square is a historical square in the centre of old Cape Town, South Africa. The square was built in 1696, when a burgher watch house was erected here. In 1761, the watch house was demolished and the Old Town House built in the site. This building functioned as the city hall for […]

Blackfriars Theatre

Detail InformationEdit Blackfriars Theatre was the name given to two separate theatres located in the former Blackfriars Dominican priory in the City of London during the Renaissance. The first theatre began as a venue for the Children of the Chapel Royal, child actors associated with the Queen’s chapel choirs who from 1576 to 1584 staged […]

Conwy Castle

Detail InformationEdit Conwy Castle is a medieval fortification in Conwy, on the north coast of Wales. It was built by Edward I, during his conquest of Wales, between 1283 and 1289. Constructed as part of a wider project to create the walled town of Conwy, the combined defences cost around £15,000, a huge sum for […]

Bailleston

Baillieston is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about 7 miles east of the city centre. It is also the name of Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council. It also appears in the Glasgow Baillieston Constituency of the Scottish Parliament, and it forms part of the Glasgow East constituency of the UK Parliament. Baillieston […]