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Riga Central Market (Rgas Centrltirgus) is Europe’s largest market and bazaar. It is one of the most notable structures from 20th century in Latvia and has been included in UNESCO World Heritage Site list together with Old Riga.

The market was planned from 1922 and built from 1924 to 1930. The main structures of the market are five pavilions constructed by reusing old German Zeppelin hangars and incorporating Neoclassicism and Art Deco styles. The market is 72,300 square metres (778,000 sq ft) wide with more than 3,000 trade stands.

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At the pickles stand, Riga Central Market, Latvia

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Author: Vil Muhametshin

Riga Central Market (Rgas Centrltirgus) is Europe’s largest market and bazaar. It is one of the most notable structures from 20th century in Latvia and has been included in UNESCO World Heritage Site list together with Old Riga.

The market was planned from 1922 and built from 1924 to 1930. The main structures of the market are five pavilions constructed by reusing old German Zeppelin hangars and incorporating Neoclassicism and Art Deco styles. The market is 72,300 square metres (778,000 sq ft) wide with more than 3,000 trade stands.

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Roots & Vegetables pavilion at the Riga Central Market, Latvia

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Author: Vincent Cibula

Bansk tiavnica, Star zmok / Old Castle
Star zmok je nrodnou kultrnou pamiatkou zo zaiatku 13. storoia, nesie stopy takmer vetkch slohov a od roku 1900 sli k mzelnym elom.

The Old Castle – a national cultural monument – whose origins reach back to the early 13th century, bears traces of practically all the building styles and houses a museum since 1900.

The interior of the Palace, only finished in 1910, was magnificently decorated by several artists. The central courtyard (Nations' Courtyard – Pátio das Naçoes) is covered by a large metallic, octagonal dome with glass panels.
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Palcio da Bolsa – Ptio das Naes (Porto)

Bremen, home to the world famous Town Musicians, puts itself on the map as the pulsating, multifaceted heart of North West Germany. The 1,200 year old Hanseatic city has a unique quality that ensures a metropolitan city experience like no other.

Guest Photographer feature: Discover Bremen through Ina-Maria Meckies & Hans Doehle’s Eyes.

Film-making, social anthropology, journalism and webwork were the ingredients melting together when Ina-Maria and Hans started with panorama shooting many years ago. owning a small web-agency it was natural to provide a panoramic service to their clients and further on; collaborations with the Tourism Board of Bremen and the Tourism Authority of Thailand set the marks. travelling to the kingdom regularly allowed Ina-Maria and Hans to witness the ongoing changes in the country and those things which stay for ever. awesome landscapes, traditional buildings and ultra-modern architecture are found in the lens snapshots of ceremonies, natural scenery and streetlife, working places of the people …

We love doing panorama-shots at the shoemaker, in a dental-laboratory or during a wedding ceremony inside the church – we love to catch the moment of real life. Reporting with a picture is the idea, Ina-Maria and Hans try to include in every panorama they make. Following the rule that quality is a matter of manual work, they have published several projects like panorama-thailand.com and bremen-rundum.de.

Going back and forth between Bremen and Bangkok is a challenge for Ina-Maria and Hans, changing from cold to hot, from hanseatic coolness to thai relaxation, from here to there offers the chance to bring a fresh breeze to the tropical thai beach and add some warmth to a frozen winters marketplace. But crucial is the deep affection to the places, where pictures are taken. Thailand and Northern Germany are only relatively small areas on our globe and we decided to show the beauty of these places we love. For this, Ina-Maria and Hans use 3 panorama-heads hers, his and the one that holds the camera.

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Town Musicians of Bremen

Waterfront Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen (German: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, pronounced [bemn]) is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area (2.4 million people).

Freimarkt from the top

Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany. Bremen is some 60 km (37 mi) south from the Weser mouth on the North Sea. With Bremerhaven right on the mouth the two comprise the state of Bremen (official name: Freie Hansestadt Bremen – Free Hanseatic City of Bremen).

Schnoor

In 150 AD the geographer Ptolemy refers to Fabiranum or Phabiranum, known today as Bremen. At that time the Chauci lived in the area now called north-western Germany or Lower Saxony. By the end of the 3rd century, they had merged with the Saxons. During the Saxon Wars (772-804) the Saxons, led by Widukind, fought against the West Germanic Franks, the founders of the Carolingian Empire and lost the war. Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, made a new law, the Lex Saxonum. This law stated that Saxons were not allowed to worship Odin (the god of the Saxons), but rather that they had to convert to Christianity on pain of death. This period was called the Christianisation. In 787 Willehad of Bremen was the first Bishop of Bremen. In 848 the diocese of Hamburg merged with the diocese of Bremen, and in the following centuries the bishops of Bremen were the driving force behind the Christianisation of north Germany. In 888 Archbishop Rimbert, managed to get Kaiser Arnulf of Carinthia, the Carolingian King of East Francia, to grant Bremen the right to hold its own markets, to mint its own coins and make its own customs laws. The first stone city walls were built in 1032. Around this time trade with Norway, England and the northern Netherlands began to grow, thus increasing the importance of the city.

Europahafen, port

In 1186 the Bremian Prince-Archbishop Hartwig of Uthlede and his bailiff in Bremen confirmed – without generally waiving the prince-archiepiscopal overlordship over the city – the Gelnhausen Privilege, by which Frederick I Barbarossa granted the city considerable privileges. The city was recognised as a political entity with its own laws. Property within the municipal boundaries could not be subjected to feudal overlordship; this also applied to serfs who acquired property, if they managed to live in the city for a year and a day, after which they were to be regarded as free persons. Property was to be freely inherited without feudal claims for reversion to its original owner. This privilege laid the foundation for Bremen’s later status of imperial immediacy (Free Imperial City). In fact, however, Bremen did not have complete independence from the Prince-Archbishops, in that there was no freedom of religion, and burghers were still forced to pay taxes to the Prince-Archbishops. Bremen played a double role; it participated in the Diets of the neighbouring Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen as part of the Bremian Estates and paid its share of taxes, at least when it had previously consented to this levy. Since the city was the major taxpayer, its consent was generally sought. In this way the city wielded fiscal and political power within the Prince-Archbishopric, while not allowing the Prince-Archbishopric to rule in the city against its consent. In 1260 Bremen joined the Hanseatic League.

Weserstadion, soccer field

When the Protestant Reformation swept through Northern Germany, St Peter’s cathedral belonged to the cathedral immunity district (German: Domfreiheit), an extraterritorial enclave of the neighbouring Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. The cathedral chapter which was still Catholic at that time closed St Peter’s in 1532 after a mob consisting of Bremen’s burghers had forcefully interrupted a Catholic mass and prompted a pastor to hold a Lutheran service. Roman Catholic Church was condemned by most local burghers as a symbol of the abuses of a long Catholic past. In 1547 the chapter, which had in the mean time become predominantly Lutheran, appointed the Dutch Albert Rizaeus, called Hardenberg, as the first Cathedral pastor of Protestant affiliation. Rizaeus turned out to be a partisan of the Zwinglian understanding of the Lord’s Supper, which was rejected by the then Lutheran majority of burghers, the city council, and chapter. So in 1561 – after heated disputes – Rizaeus was dismissed and banned from the city and the cathedral again closed its doors. However, as a consequence of that controversy the majority of Bremen’s burghers and city council adopted Calvinism by the 1590s, while the chapter, which was at the same time the body of secular government in the neighbouring Prince-Archbishopric, clung to Lutheranism. This antagonism between a Calvinistic majority and a Lutheran minority, though it had a powerful position in its immunity district (mediatised as part of the city in 1803), remained dominant until in 1873 the Calvinist and Lutheran congregations of Bremen were reconciled and founded a united administrative umbrella Bremian Protestant Church, which still exists today, comprising the bulk of Bremen’s burghers. At the beginning of the 17th c. Bremen continued to play its double role, wielding fiscal and political power within the Prince-Archbishopric, but not allowing the Prince-Archbishopric to rule in the city without its consent.

View from Atlantic Hotel Sail City platform

In 1811, Napoleon invaded Bremen and integrated it as the capital of the Dpartement de Bouches-du-Weser (Department of the Mouths of the Weser) into the French State. In 1813, the French – as they retreated – withdrew from Bremen. Johann Smidt, Bremen’s representative at the Congress of Vienna, was successful in achieving the non-mediatisation of Bremen, Hamburg and the Lbeck by which they were not incorporated into neighbouring monarchies, but became sovereign republics. The first German steamship was manufactured in 1817 in the shipyard of Johann Lange. In 1827, Bremen, under Johann Smidt, its mayor at that time, purchased land from the Kingdom of Hanover, to establish the city of Bremerhaven (Port of Bremen) as an outpost of Bremen because of the increased silting up of the river Weser. Brauerei Beck & Co KG, a brewery, was founded in 1837 and remains in operation today. The shipping company The North German Lloyd (NDL) was founded in 1857. Lloyd was a byword for commercial shipping and is now a part of Hapag-Lloyd. In 1872, the Bremer Cotton Exchange was created.

Town Hall of Bremen, The Golden Chamber

A Soviet (Council) Republic of Bremen existed from November 1918 to February 1919 in the aftermath of World War I before it was overthrown by Gerstenberg Freikorps. Henrich Focke, Georg Wulf and Werner Naumann founded Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG in Bremen in 1923; the aircraft construction company as of 2010 forms part of Airbus[citation needed], a manufacturer of civil and military aircraft. Borgward, an automobile manufacturer, was founded in 1929, and is today part of Daimler AG.

Bremen Roland and City Hall

The town of Vegesack became part of the city of Bremen in 1939: the Bremen-Vegesack concentration camp operated during World War II. Following the bombing of Bremen in World War II, the British 3rd Infantry Division under General Whistler captured Bremen in late April 1945.[3] After World War II, the city became an enclave, part of the American occupation zone. Bremen’s mayor Wilhelm Kaisen (SPD) travelled 1946 to the U.S. to seek Bremen’s independence from Lower Saxony, as Bremen had traditionally been a city-state. In 1947, Martin Mende founded Nordmende, a manufacturer of entertainment electronics. In 1958, OHB-System, a manufacturer of medium-sized spaceflight satellites, was founded.

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Bremen

Formentera is known as the last Mediterranean paradise because it has been able to combine tourism with environmental protection. The struggle of various generations of Formenterans has made possible the conservation of an island whose beaches, transparent waters and climate make it a little jewel in the Mediterranean Sea.

Es cap de la mola dawn

Formentera can only be reached by boat from Ibiza, but this inaccessibility makes it a peaceful place where you can flee from stress and overcrowding. The island is flat and sandy with magnificent, unspoilt beaches. There are a few places where the land rises to present spectacular cliffs to the sea. It is perfect for cycling, walking, snorkeling and sailing. Its cultural attractions include some megalithic sites, a roman road, some watch-towers (18th century), the 18th century chapel of Sant Francesc Xavier and a small Ethnological museum.

Playa Ses Illetes

Cala es mort

Sant Francesc Xavier esglesia

The secret of the existence of a crystalline sea and Formentera’s long beaches, which mark it out from the rest of the Mediterranean, is the posidonea prairie that surrounds the island, a natural treatment plant that cleans the water and makes it possible for sand to be deposited on the coast. It is a real underwater jungle, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.

Cala Sasindria

Other facts differentiating Formentera are the freedom and its light, which, since the ’70s, has made it attractive for artists and artisans, who are nowadays part of the island’s differential heritage. Their designs in clothes, accessories, jewellery and their works of art are powerful attractions for Formentera.

El moli de la mola

Some of the islanders make their living from small-scale traditional fishing. In parts of the island, the soil is good enough to support vines and fruit trees. Several parts of the island are covered in Mediterranean pine trees. Salt marshes (now abandoned) are defining features of parts of the island. However, tourism is the biggest sector of the local economy.

Pou de Verro

With a population of just over 7000 and no airport, Formentera is much quieter than its neighbor Ibiza. However, in the peak season of July-August, it draws huge numbers of tourists. In peak season, advance booking for hotels is absolutely essential. The hotels on the island are mostly small and independently owned. The majority are in the one- and two-star categories. There are also many small apartment developments. There are no high rise buildings on Formentera. Camping is forbidden on the island.

Formentera View from the sea

Outside the peak season when the tourists are high spenders, Formentera has an atmosphere of simplicity and back-to-nature that is the heritage of its past hippie phase. Most people sunbath nude on Formentera.

Las Salinas

More and more, parts of the island are actively managed as a national park with, for example, board-walks through the sand dunes to enable them to regenerate their vegetation. In addition, areas of the surrounding seas are designated as zones of particular scientific interest in which certain plant and fish species are protected.

More panoramas of Formentera can be seen in Arounder Formentera.

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Formentera: The last Mediterranean paradise

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Tweet Tikal Temple I – Temple of the Great Jaguar situated at the heart of a World Heritage Site in Tikal, Guatemala Panoramic photo by luis-sanchez-davilla . Click the image to open the interactive version
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Ancient, Underwater and Old

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Author: Heiner Straesser

Cappadocia is an eroded landscape of volcanic tuffstone. Wind and weather created rocks in the funniest shapes. UNESCO world heritage since 1985.

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Tuff Rocks in the late afternoon, Cappadocia, Turkey

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Author: Heiner Straesser

Late afternoon in a valley called Pasabag. Cappadocia is an area made of soft tuff from the surrounding volcanos. Erosion created a unique landscape, that became a UNESCO world heritage in 1985.

Spter Nachmittag im “Pasabag” genannten Tal in Kappadokien.
Kappadokien ist eine aus vulkanischem Tuffstein geformte Erosionslandschaft in der zentralen Trkei. Da der Tuffstein ziemlich pors ist, lsst er sich leicht bearbeiten. Dadurch hat nicht nur die Natur die wunderlichsten Formen geschaffen, sondern auch der Mensch, der hier seit Jahrtausenden Wohnhhlen, Kirchen, Klster und unterirdische Stdte gegraben hat.

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Pasabag, Cappadocia, Turkey

New Caledonia has the largest coral reef lagoon in the world, decorated with small lagoon islands each surrounded by soft white sand beaches and coral reefs. In 2008 UNESCO listed the 24,000 square kilometre Lagoon as a World Heritage Site.

Aerial panorama Amedee

The lagoon is a constant delight for divers, surfers, pleasure boaters, fishers, sight seers, and those who just love to lay on pure white sand beaches and enjoy the sun. Over 40,000 ha of the reefs and islands are special marine reserves where visitors can swim with a spectacular array of fish amid crystal jungles of coral.

The people of Noumea are avid sports enthusiasts and overseas visitors find easy access to just about every kind of water sport imaginable. Facilities include luxury resorts, dive and snorkel equipment, boats of every size and description from kite surf rigs to charter yachts and big high speed ferries to lagoon Islands.

Ua fringing reef

There are helicopter tours, day trips for diving, snorkelling and whale watching, and beaches galore. Enjoy a virtual expedition of the New Caledonia Lagoon on Arounder.

Clown fish colony

More panoramas by Richard Chesher of New Caledonia can be seen in Arounder New Caledonia.

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New Caledonia Lagoon

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Fujian Tulou (simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Fjin Tlu, “Fujian earthen structures”) is “the most extraordinary type of Chinese rural dwellings” of the Hakka and others in the mountainous areas in southeastern Fujian, China. They were mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries.

Tianluokeng tulou cluster

A tulou is usually a large, enclosed and fortified earth building, rectangular or circular in configuration, with very thick load-bearing rammed earth walls between three and five stories high and housing up to 80 families. Smaller interior buildings are often enclosed by these huge peripheral walls which can contain halls, storehouses, wells and living areas, the whole structure resembling a small fortified city.

Inside Yuchanglou

The fortified outer structures are formed by compacting earth, mixed with stone, bamboo, wood and other readily-available materials, to form walls up to 6 feet (1.8 m) thick. Branches, strips of wood and bamboo chips are often laid in the wall as additional reinforcement. The end result is a well-lit, well-ventilated, windproof and earthquake-proof building that is warm in winter and cool in summer. Tulous usually have only one main gate, guarded by 45-inch-thick (100130 mm) wooden doors reinforced with an outer shell of iron plate. The top level of these earth buildings has gun holes for defensive purposes.

Tianluokeng tulou cluster

A total of 46 Fujian Tulou sites, including Chuxi tulou cluster, Tianluokeng tulou cluster, Hekeng tulou cluster, Gaobei tulou cluster, Dadi tulou cluster, Hongkeng tulou cluster, Yangxian lou, Huiyuan lou, Zhengfu lou and Hegui lou, have been inscribed in 2008 by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, as “exceptional examples of a building tradition and function exemplifying a particular type of communal living and defensive organization in a harmonious relationship with their environment”.

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Fujian Tulou: the most extraordinary type of Chinese rural dwellings

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Author: Heiner Straesser

Uchisar is one of the most famous villages in Cappadocia, which is in the UNESCO World Heritage list. The panorama was taken right after sunrise.

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Uchisar at Sunrise, Cappadocia, Turkey

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Author: Andrew Varlamov

Mystras was a fortified town in Morea (the medieval Peloponnese), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta. In 1989 the ruins, including the fortress, palace, churches, and monasteries, were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Please read more in Wikipedia article.

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Citadel of Mystras’ fortress

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Author: Andrew Varlamov

Mystras was a fortified town in Morea (the medieval Peloponnese), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta. In 1989 the ruins, including the fortress, palace, churches, and monasteries, were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Please read more in Wikipedia article.

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Citadel of Mystras’ fortress

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The Senado Square, or Senate Square (Portuguese: Largo do Senado; traditional Chinese: ), is a paved area in the centre of the former Portuguese colony of Macau, enclosed by the buildings of the Leal Senado, the General Post Office, and St. Dominics Church. The square is paved in the traditional Portuguese pavement. The main road of Macau’s historic centre, Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro passes through the square. The square is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Historic Centre of Macau”.

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Senado Square, Macau

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The Ruins of St. Paul’s (Portuguese: Runas de So Paulo, Chinese: ) refer to the faade of what was originally the Cathedral of St. Paul, a 17th century Portuguese cathedral in Macau dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle. Today, the ruins are one of Macau’s most famous landmarks. In 2005, the Ruins of St. Paul were officially enlisted as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Macau.

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The Ruins of St. Paul’s, Macau

Park Gell (Catalan: Parc Gell, Spanish: Parque Gell) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Grcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaud and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Works of Antoni Gaud”.

Park Gell

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Park Gell Barcelona

Bruges (Dutch: Brugge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. The city’s total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), of which around 20,000 live in the historic centre.

Burg by night

Mariastraat

Wollestraat

Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as “The Venice of the North”.

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Bruges (Brugge) Venice of the North

Palau de la Msica Catalana (Music Palace) is one of the world’s most extraordinary music halls, with facades that are a riot of color and form. The rich decoration of the faade of the Palau, which incorporates elements from many sources, including traditional Spanish and Arabic architecture, is successfully married with the building’s structure. The exposed red brick and iron, the mosaics, the stained glass, and the glazed tiles were chosen and situated to give a feeling of openness and transparency.

Palau de la Msica Catalana – exterior

From its polychrome ceramic ticket windows to its overhead busts of Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, the Palau is a flamboyant Barcelona landmark. Constructed between 1906 and 1909 by the Catalan architect Lluis Domnech i Montaner, this Modernista building was restored between 1983 and 1989 by the architect and designer scar Tusquets, and in 1997 it was designated a World Heritage Site.

The concert hall of the Palau, which seats about 2,200 people, is the only auditorium in Europe that is illuminated during daylight hours entirely by natural light. The walls on two sides consist primarily of stained-glass panes set in magnificent arches, and overhead is an enormous skylight of stained glass designed by Antoni Rigalt whose centerpiece is an inverted dome in shades of gold surrounded by blue that suggests the sun and the sky.

Palau de la Msica Catalana – Concert Hall

The architectural decoration in the concert hall is a masterpiece of creativity and imagination, yet everything has been carefully considered for its utility in the presentation of music.

More panoramas of the Palau de la Msica Catalana and Barcelona can be found in Arounder Barcelona.

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Palau de la Msica Catalana Barcelona

Cologne Cathedral (German: Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne, and is under the administration of the archdiocese of Cologne. It is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of German Catholicism in particular, of Gothic architecture and of the continuing faith and perseverance of the people of the city in which it stands. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The cathedral is one of the world’s largest churches and the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe.

Klner Dom (cologne cathedral) west facade

With a total surface area of almost 7000 m2, the west faade of the Klner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) is the largest ever church faade created. Its form, with its two imposing 157 metre spires crowned with magnificent filigree spires, can be traced back to a medieval architectural drawing known as Facade Section F, a parchment document drawn in the year 1280, almost one hundred years before work actually commenced on the building of this facade In 1360. Work on the spires was not however completed until 1880. Despite a richness verging on excess of detailed shapes and decorative details, the facade is nonetheless based on a very clearly visible and simple structure.

Cologne Cathedral interior of nave and central aisle

More panoramas of the Klner Dom (Cologne Cathedral), one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany, and Cologne’s most famous landmark, described by UNESCO as an “exceptional work of human creative genius” can be found in Arounder Cologne.

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Klner Dom (Cologne Cathedral)

The Asinou Church in Cyprus is a 12th Century structure dedicated the Virgin Mary. The church is situated in the village of Asinou. It features frescoes from the 12th Century and later periods that have been called the grandest examples of Byzantine mural painting on the small island. In all, there are more than 100 paintings in the Asinou Church.

Asinou Church Cyprus – narthex

The main paintings depict the life of Jesus Christ. These works of art include the portrayal of The Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Other paintings, housed on the lower levels in the church, encompass paintings of individual saints. Lastly, the church is home to a wide variety of paintings of the Virgin Mary and stories from her life.

The Church of Our Lady of Asinou

The modest structure boasts a common church design of the 12th Century. It is made up of a rectangular nave covered by a barrel vaulted dome. Primarily, it was built with mud mortar. Needless to say, the church has been victim to frequent collapses and has undergone more then one reconstruction. The church sits near (5 kilometers) Nikitari, bordering the Nicosia-Troodos road. It is approximately 20 kilometers north of Kakopetria. Visitors are encouraged to request the assistance of the Nikitari village priest when traveling to the church. The priest can escort visitors through the church.

More panoramas of the World Heritage Church of Panagia (Our Lady) tis Asinou can be found in Arounder Cyprus.

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Church of Panagia (Our Lady) tis Asinou, Nikitari Cyprus

The Asinou Church in Cyprus is a 12th Century structure dedicated the Virgin Mary. The church is situated in the village of Asinou. It features frescoes from the 12th Century and later periods that have been called the grandest examples of Byzantine mural painting on the small island. In all, there are more than 100 paintings in the Asinou Church.

Asinou Church Cyprus – narthex

The main paintings depict the life of Jesus Christ. These works of art include the portrayal of The Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Other paintings, housed on the lower levels in the church, encompass paintings of individual saints. Lastly, the church is home to a wide variety of paintings of the Virgin Mary and stories from her life.

The Church of Our Lady of Asinou

The modest structure boasts a common church design of the 12th Century. It is made up of a rectangular nave covered by a barrel vaulted dome. Primarily, it was built with mud mortar. Needless to say, the church has been victim to frequent collapses and has undergone more then one reconstruction. The church sits near (5 kilometers) Nikitari, bordering the Nicosia-Troodos road. It is approximately 20 kilometers north of Kakopetria. Visitors are encouraged to request the assistance of the Nikitari village priest when traveling to the church. The priest can escort visitors through the church.

More panoramas of the World Heritage Church of Panagia (Our Lady) tis Asinou can be found in Arounder Cyprus.

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Church of Panagia (Our Lady) tis Asinou, Nikitari Cyprus

The town is dominated by the Phu Si hill. On its slopes several wats can be visited, and it is peaked by a 24-metre high stupa, That Chomsi. The top of Phu Si affords astonishing views, especially during the serene sunsets, which are characteristic of Luang Prabang.

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The town is dominated by the Phu Si hill. On its slopes several wats can be visited, and it is peaked by a 24-metre high stupa, That Chomsi. The top of Phu Si affords astonishing views, especially during the serene sunsets, which are characteristic of Luang Prabang.

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The town is dominated by the Phu Si hill. On its slopes several wats can be visited, and it is peaked by a 24-metre high stupa, That Chomsi. The top of Phu Si affords astonishing views, especially during the serene sunsets, which are characteristic of Luang Prabang.

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The town is dominated by the Phu Si hill. On its slopes several wats can be visited, and it is peaked by a 24-metre high stupa, That Chomsi. The top of Phu Si affords astonishing views, especially during the serene sunsets, which are characteristic of Luang Prabang.

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The town is dominated by the Phu Si hill. On its slopes several wats can be visited, and it is peaked by a 24-metre high stupa, That Chomsi. The top of Phu Si affords astonishing views, especially during the serene sunsets, which are characteristic of Luang Prabang.

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The town is dominated by the Phu Si hill. On its slopes several wats can be visited, and it is peaked by a 24-metre high stupa, That Chomsi. The top of Phu Si affords astonishing views, especially during the serene sunsets, which are characteristic of Luang Prabang.

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