[caption id="attachment_4429" align="aligncenter" width="590" caption="© UNESCO / Graz"][/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Creative Cities Network is a project under the patronage of UNESCO. With the aim of celebrating and maintaining cultural diversity, the alliance formed by member cities share their experiences in promoting the local heritage, as well as discuss plans on how to cope with the influx of globalization. The Creative Cities Network aims to find and enrich a member city’s cultural identity in the midst of a growing ...
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[caption id="attachment_152534" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Hopetoun House © George Gastin[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast of the Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea.
Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Parliament. The city was one of the major centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University ...
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[caption id="attachment_153758" align="aligncenter" width="590"] The Exchange © Clem Rutter[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, 32 miles (51 km) south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town linking Maidstone to Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river was a source and route for much of the town's trade. Maidstone was the centre of the agricultural county of Kent, known as the Garden of England. There is evidence of a settlement in the area datin...
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[caption id="attachment_25435" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © vivaconagua.org[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli is a charity founded in 2005 in the Hamburg quarter of St. Pauli. The aim of the organization is to improve drinking water supply in developing countries in conjunction with the Welthungerhilfe.
The organization is built up as an "open network" which means that it mainly consists of individual initiatives with the support of the organization’s head office. Several activities have bee...
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[caption id="attachment_150838" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Mystras and Sparta plain © Bgabel/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Mystras is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sparti, of which it is a municipal unit. Situated on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering. T...
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[caption id="attachment_160493" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Kurhaus Wiesbaden © Holger Reinhardt[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the American military). Wiesbaden, together with the cities of Frankfurt am Main and Mainz, is part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, a metropolitan area with a combined population of about 5.8 million people...
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[caption id="attachment_191738" align="aligncenter" width="590"] in Ushuaia © Balou46/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Le Soleal is a cruise ship owned and operated by Compagnie du Ponant. The ship was built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy, and was launched on the 6 December 2012, being christened by Kiki Tauck Mahar of U.S. travel company Tauck. The vessel started its maiden voyage on 1 July 2013. Le Soleal's homeport is Mata Utu, capital of the French overseas territory Wallis and Futuna.
Le Soléal...
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[caption id="attachment_160760" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Place du Pilori © Tangopaso[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France. Abbeville was the capital of the former province of Ponthieu. Today, it is one of the three sub-prefectures of the Somme department.
Abbeville is located on the Somme River, 20 km (12 mi) from its modern mouth in the English Channel, and 45 km (28 mi) northwest of Amiens. In the medieval period, it was the lowest crossing poi...
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[caption id="attachment_160783" align="aligncenter" width="590"] City Hall © Danovic[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Dordrecht, colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth largest city of the province, having a population of 118,601 in 2009. The municipality covers the entire Dordrecht Island, also often called Het Eiland van Dordt (the Island of Dordt), bordered by the rivers Oude Maas, Beneden Merwede, Nieuw...
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[caption id="attachment_28007" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Ahlbeck Pier © Niteshift/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Resort architecture or Bäder architecture (German: Bäderarchitektur) is an architectural style that is especially characteristic of spas and seaside resorts on the German Baltic coast. The style evolved since the foundation of Heiligendamm in 1793, and flourished especially around the year 1900, when resorts were connected to big cities via railway lines. Until today, many buildings on the German coa...
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