Category: Monuments and Sites
Mont Ventoux, the Giant of Provence.
This is the incredibly beautiful Mont Ventoux. It peaks at 1,912 metres and is known as the Giant of Provence. […]
Past and Present: The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas.
Past The site of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio helped give birth to Texas. Originally it was known as […]
The Queen of Cities – Constantinople – like you have never seen her before.
Have you ever wondered what the queen of cities – Constantinople – might have looked like? Today traces of the […]
Past and Present: Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Australia.
Past In the 1920’s Flinders Street Station claimed to be the world’s busiest train station. To be able to boast such a […]
The Aqueduct of Valens.
In modern Istanbul, standing impressively over the traffic on the busy Atatürk Bulvarı is the Aqueduct of Valens. (Today it […]
Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia.
Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia. […]
The sixth century Basilica Cistern.
One of the most amazing sights or structures in Istanbul today lies beneath our feet. In the subterranean depths below […]
Past and Present: The Ortakoy Mosque, Istanbul.
Past Life on the Bosphorus, as we know it today, with its bustling urban centres, was non-existent during the Roman/Byzantine […]
Past and Present: The Grand Place, Mons, Belgium.
Past The Belgian site of Mons has a long and illustrious past going back to Neolithic times. The Romans under […]
The New Bridge: Le Pont Neuf, Paris.
The King of France Henry II was asked by Parisians to build a new bridge across the expanse of the […]
