The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester is a city and County town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Birmingham and 29 miles (47 km) north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the […]

Cleethorpes is a town and unparished area in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated on the estuary of the Humber. It has a population of 31,853 and is a seaside resort. The name “Cleethorpes” is thought to come from joining the words “clee”, an old word for clay, and “thorpes”, an Old English/Old Norse word for […]

Detail InformationEdit Ponte della Liberta is a road bridge connecting the city of Venice to Mestre, on the mainland of Italy. Designed in 1932 by engineer Eugenio Miozzi, and opened by Benito Mussolini in 1933 as Ponte Littorio, the bridge is the only access for road vehicles to the Capital city of Veneto. At the […]

Detail InformationEdit The Basilica of San Francesco is a late Medieval church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. It is especially renowned for housing in the chancel the Fresco cycle Legends of the True Cross by Piero Della Francesca. San Francesco is the second church built by the Franciscans in Arezzo, […]

Detail InformationEdit The Castelvecchio Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Castelvecchio) or Scaliger Bridge (Italian: Ponte Scaligero) is a fortified bridge in Verona, northern Italy, over the Adige River. The segmental arch bridge featured the World’s largest span at the time of its construction (48.70 m). It was built (most likely in 1354-1356) by Cangrande II della […]

Detail InformationEdit The Basilica of San Francesco is a late Medieval church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. It is especially renowned for housing in the chancel the Fresco cycle Legends of the True Cross by Piero Della Francesca. San Francesco is the second church built by the Franciscans in Arezzo, […]

Detail InformationEdit Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Bressan) is a patrician villa at Vigardolo, Monticello Conte Otto, in the Province of Vicenza, in northern Italy. The building is attributed to Andrea Palladio on the basis of an extant drawing of the villa that is undoubtedly by the great architect. The villa was constructed during […]

Best known for its tradition of distilling Barackpálinka (apricot brandy) and as the home of Zoltán Kodály, Kecskemét is also a university town and centre for the arts, and one of the Puszta’s most attractive cities. Largely spared during the Turkish occupation, Kecskemét developed into a religious and cultural melting pot, which is reflected in […]

Gyula is a city in Bekes county in south-eastern Hungary. It lies close to the border with Romania, on the river Feher-Koros. The first recorded reference to Gyula was in a document dated 1313 which mentions a monastery called Gyulamonostor (Julamonustra in Latin). By 1332 the settlement around the monastery was being called Gyula / […]