Detail InformationEdit Kokino (Macedonian: Кокино) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the Republic of Macedonia, approximately 30 km from the town of Kumanovo, and about 6 km from the Serbian border, in the Staro Nagoričane municipality. It is situated between about 1010 and 1030 m above sea level on the Tatićev Kamen (Татићев камен) […]

Detail InformationEdit The largest and the only workshop in Latvia where new pipe organs are made is located in Ugāle – a minor village in the region of West Kurzeme. The workshop occupies the former stable of Mācītājmuiža Manor. In 2004 extensive reconstruction and expansion of the workshop was started. At present there are 14 […]

Detail InformationEdit Riga Castle is a castle on the banks of River Daugava in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The castle was founded in 1330. This structure was thoroughly rebuilt between 1497 and 1515. Upon the castle’s seizure by the Swedes, they constructed spacious annexes in 1641. The fortress was continually augmented and reconstructed between […]

Detail InformationEdit Rundāle Palace, is one of the two major baroque palaces built in the 18th century for the Dukes of Courland in what is now Latvia, the other being Jelgava Palace. It is situated at Pilsrundāle, 12 km west of Bauska. It was constructed in the 1730s to a design by Bartolomeo Rastrelli as […]

Detail InformationEdit The Jewish cemeteries of Vinius are the three Jewish cemeteries of the Lithuanian Jews living in what is today Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which was known to them for centuries as Vilna, a principal city of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in the 19th Century the Pale of Settlement in the […]

Detail InformationEdit Kilkenny Castle is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland built in 1195 by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol of Norman occupation and in its original thirteenth-century condition it would have formed an important element of […]

Detail InformationEdit Iraq ed-Dubb, or the Cave of the Bear, is an early Neolithic archeological site 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of Ajlun in the Jordan Valley, in modern-day Jordan. The settlement existed before 8000 BCE and experimented with the cultivation of founder crops, side by side with the harvesting of wild cereals. Along with […]

Detail InformationEdit Jabal al-Qal’a, also called Amman Citadel is a national historic site at the center of downtown Amman, Jordan. Known in Arabic as Jabal al-Qal’a, the L-shaped hill is one of the seven jabals that originally made up Amman. Evidence of occupation since the pottery Neolithic period has been found, making it among the […]

Detail InformationEdit Beidha is a major Neolithic archaeological site a few kilometres north of Petra near Siq al-Barid in Jordan. It was first excavated by Diana Kirkbride in 1957 and later by Brian Byrd. There were 3 periods of occupation detected; the Natufian period in the 11th millennium BC, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) village […]

Detail InformationEdit Royal Library is located in the Forbidden Citadel. The Royal Library was the only monument undamaged in the Forbidden Citadel after the reoccupation of Hue by French troops in early 1947. It is the pavilion where the Emperors Nguyen came for reading and resting. In 1821, by order of Emperor Minh Mang, a […]