[caption id="attachment_152838" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Egeskow Castle © Grega.nered[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Egeskov Castle is located in the south of the island of Funen. The castle is Europe's best preserved Renaissance water castle. Egeskov's history dates to the 14th century. The castle structure was erected by Frands Brockenhuus in 1554.
Due to the troubles caused by the civil war known as the Count's Feud (Danish: Grevens fejde), general civil unrest, and a civil war introducing the Protestant Reformati...
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[caption id="attachment_6335" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Gasometer Vienna © Andreas Poeschek - www.wiener-gasometer.at / CC-BY-SA-2.0-at[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Gasometers in Vienna are four former gas tanks, each of 90,000 m³ storage capacity, built as part of the Vienna municipal gas works Gaswerk Simmering in 1896–1899. They are located in the 11th district, Simmering. They were used from 1899 to 1984 as gas storage tanks. After the changeover from town gas to natural gas between 1969 and 1978, they were no lo...
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[caption id="attachment_172174" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Cumaná © panoramio.com - Guillermo Esteves/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic on the northern coast of South America, bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, the Dutch Lesser Antilles to the north and Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela covers 916,445 km² (353,841 sq mi) and has over 31 million people. The country has extremely high ...
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[caption id="attachment_196230" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Berbak National Park © cifor.org - James Maiden/cc-by-sa-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Sumatra is a large island in western Indonesia that is part of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island that is located entirely in Indonesia (after Borneo, which is shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km² (not including adjacent islands such as the Riau Islands and Bangka Belitung Islands). The Tropical Rainfore...
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[caption id="attachment_24056" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Patrouille de France over Avenue des Champs-Élysées © David Monniaux/cc-by-sa-2.0-fr[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly Le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the...
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[caption id="attachment_153225" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Alhambra de Granada © ángel mateo/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognized as a nationality of Spain. The territory is divided into eight provinces. Its capital is the city of Seville.
Andalusia is in the south of the Iberian peninsula, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura a...
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[caption id="attachment_196703" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Château Margaux © Benjamin Zingg/cc-by-sa-2.5[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Château Margaux, archaically La Mothe de Margaux, is a wine estate of Bordeaux wine, and was one of four wines to achieve Premier cru (first growth) status in the Bordeaux Classification of 1855. The estate's best wines are very expensive, with a standard-sized bottle of the Château Margaux grand vin retailing at an average price of $639. The estate is located in the commune of Margaux on t...
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[caption id="attachment_163059" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Zoeunibail/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Les Halles de Paris, usually simply Les Halles (The Halls), was Paris's central fresh food market. Located in the heart of the city, it was demolished in 1971 and replaced with the Forum des Halles, a modern shopping mall built largely underground and directly connected to the massive RER and métro transit hub of Châtelet-Les-Halles. The shopping mall welcomes 150,000 visitors daily. Since 2010, a major reconst...
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[caption id="attachment_160259" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Big Hole sign © Conrad88/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is located approximately 110 km east of the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. The city has considerable historical significance due to its diamond mining past and the siege during the Second Boer War. Notable personalities such as Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato made their fortunes here, and the roots of the De Beers co...
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[caption id="attachment_151077" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Gardens of the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos © Jebulon[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Córdoba is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. An Iberian and Roman city in ancient times, in the Middle Ages it became the capital of the Islamic caliphate al-Andalus. The old town contains numerous architectural reminders of when Corduba was the capital of Hispania Ulterior during the Roman Republic and capital of Hispania Baetica du...
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