February 16th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »
Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö. The headquarters of Region Skåne is the town of Kristianstad. The present county was created [...]
February 15th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
Vatican City or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres), and a population of just over 800. This makes Vatican City the smallest [...]
February 13th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
Rome’s history spans two and a half thousand years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and [...]
February 8th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »
Sweden is officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with [...]
February 8th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering. Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction [...]
February 5th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Hungary, Photo | Leave A Comment »
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Budapest, and was opened in 1849. It is anchored on the Pest side of the river to [...]
February 5th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, England, Europe, Photo | Leave A Comment »
Tower Bridge (built 1886-1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London. The bridge consists of two towers tied together at the upper level by means of [...]
January 31st, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
The Ponte Vecchio is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The Ponte Vecchio’s two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa [...]
January 31st, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Germany, Photo | Leave A Comment »
Hanover or Hannover on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the [...]
January 29th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »
Malmö is located in the southernmost province of Scania, is Sweden’s third largest city by population, after Stockholm and Gothenburg. Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County. The administrative entity for most of the city is Malmö Municipality which has 300,515 inhabitants in eight different localities, with 30% being [...]