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Santa Laura - plaza and bandstand

nobody@ipernity.com (Gudrun) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:55:54 +0000

Gudrun has posted:

Humberstone and Santa Laura saltpeter works are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
At Humberstone the company town remained intact, at Santa Laura it's the industrial complex. What's left of the former town is more or less only this bandstand at the plaza.

whc.unesco.org/en/list/1178

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Prague: Old Town Square

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:05:25 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Taken from the top of the Old Town Hall tower, this is a statue of religious reformer Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in Konstanz for his beliefs. The statue known as the Jan Hus Memorial was erected on 6 July 1915 to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Square

Porto-9

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:44:05 +0000

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Porto-3

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:42:16 +0000

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Prague

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:26:34 +0000

John Cook has posted:

More views of Prague from the top of the Old Town Hall Tower

Fiordland - Milford Sound

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:54:50 +0000

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Fiordland - Milford Sound

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:55:00 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Fiordland - Milford Sound

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:54:38 +0000

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Elephant Island

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:09:28 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Antarctica, December 2022

The Anvil Point Lighthouse at Durlston Country Park

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:59:39 +0000

John Cook has posted:

The Anvil Point Lighthouse at Durlston Country Park near Swanage in Dorset, England is operated as two holiday cottages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_Point_Lighthouse

Porto-37-2

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:39:43 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Bridge across the Douro in Porto.

Durlston Country Park-2

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:19:12 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Durlston Castle stands within Durlston Country Park, a country park and nature reserve in Dorset, England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durlston_Castle

Cliffs at Durlston Country Park-5

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:19:05 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Durlston Country Park is a country park and nature reserve in Dorset, England. It is a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durlston_Country_Park

The Anvil Point Lighthouse and Cliffs at Durlston Country Park

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:18:53 +0000

John Cook has posted:

Durlston Country Park is a country park and nature reserve in Dorset, England. It is a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durlston_Country_Park

Porto-2

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:41:29 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Diana Australis) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:20:38 +0000

Diana Australis has posted:

Fenced in on the streets of Dunhuang, population 60,000, in Xinjiang, China. Remote Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert has the UNESCO site of the Mogao Caves, 1000 Buddhist temples carved into a long hillside from the 5th to 10th Centuries. It hosts 50,000 visitors per day in the tourist season. We were there outside that season…mercifully quiet, though freezing. This is the market area adorned with thousands of continuous illuminated Buddhist scenes. Here we were fenced in by apsaras, or Buddhist angel figures for a couple of hundred meters.
China never ceases to amaze!
Happy Friday and a peaceful, fine and happy weekend. I am off to sing in a large Jazz Festival over the weekend.

Prague

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:38:04 +0000

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The Astronomical Clock in Prague

The Citadel That Refused a Single Reality

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:20:17 +0000

m̌ ḫ has posted:

Hanoi’s citadel has been rebuilt, looted, moved, and partly erased, yet it still refuses to die. It began as a Chinese fortress, then in 1010 the ruler moved his capital there after seeing a dragon omen on the Red River, and it remained Vietnam’s political heart for almost 1,000 years. Later another dynasty shifted power to Huế and reused materials from the old citadel, and the French more or less finished the job in the late 1800s by demolishing most of it for barracks and offices.

What’s left feels like a dignified ruin that knows it used to matter. You can still see the Flag Tower, the cannon‑scarred North Gate, the main gate, the former palace platform with stone dragons, a so‑called “Princess’ Palace,” sections of old walls and gates, and an underground war bunker. Archaeologists nearby keep uncovering palace foundations and fragments, which helped turn the site into a UNESCO World Heritage area, even though at first glance it looks like “some gates, a flag tower, and a lot of empty space.”

This makes my photograph oddly fitting: a real image on historic Orwo film that has survived its own small saga. First the film was mishandled and accidentally double‑exposed, then I mis‑set the film speed on the camera, and in the final act a local lab misunderstood it and developed it as black and white, after which the negative had to be painstakingly rescued, as if it insisted on telling the story anyway. While I was photographing this, I somehow managed to lose my wallet, only for it to turn up later in my hotel’s garage, where I had taken my bicycle before cycling to the citadel, so taking this photo became a miniature version of its history: things get lost, nearly erased, and yet somehow find their way back into the narrative.

Traditional Thai Khon dress

nobody@ipernity.com (Wolfgang) — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:37:41 +0000

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The young Thai lady in the traditional Thai Khon costume on the dance at the festival in Loei.
Khon, a dance form which first appeared between 1400 and 1700, is based on the Hindu Ramayana epic, the struggle between good and evil, known in Thai culture as Ramakien.

Mont Saint Michel

nobody@ipernity.com (Erika+Manfred) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:02:14 +0000

Erika+Manfred has posted:

Mont-Saint-Michel ist eine ehemalige Abtei der Benediktiner in Frankreich. Sie liegt auf der gleichnamigen Klosterinsel in der Region Normandie im Département Manche auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Le Mont-Saint-Michel, südwestlich von Avranches.
Die Bauten der Abtei Mont-Saint-Michel wurden weitgehend gleichzeitig mit den gotischen Kathedralen errichtet und immer wieder verändert. Es war eines der umfangreichsten, schwierigsten und kostspieligsten Bauprojekte des gesamten Mittelalters.
Jährlich besuchen ca. 3,5 Millionen Menschen den Berg. Die Bauten auf dem Mont-Saint-Michel gehören zum kulturellen Erbe Europas. Seit 1979 sind sowohl der Klosterberg als auch die umgebende Bucht Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes.
Auf dem Berg leben Ordensfrauen der Monastischen Gemeinschaften von Jerusalem. Die Wallfahrtsseelsorge wird durch die Gemeinschaft Sankt Martin ausgeübt.
@: Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel_(Abtei)#Geschichte