About 25 miles south of Berlin lies the small town of Wunsdorf, home to about six thousand inhabitants. But less than thirty years ago it had a population of sixty thousand, of which fifty thousand were soldiers of the Red Army. Continue reading
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Colletta di Castelbianco: A Modern Stone Village
Up on the steep hillside of the Maritime Alps near the Italian Riviera, halfway between Genoa and Nice, lies the ancient medieval village of Colletta di Castelbianco. Continue reading
The Floating Houses of Lake Bokodi
Lake Bokodi, in the village of Bokod, about 80 kilometers west of Budapest, Hungary, is an artificial lake created in 1961 by the Oroszlány Thermal Power Company by flooding a low-lying meadow next to the plant. Continue reading
Vintage Photography
Ute Mahler is a professional photographer, who was born in 1949 in Berka, Thuringia and currently based in Hamburg and Lehnitz, near Berlin. Continue reading
Fingal’s Cave: An Eternal Inspiration of Nature
Somewhere at 270 feet deep in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, lies one of the greatest inspirations of Jules Verne, Queen Victoria and Pink Floyd. Being formed over 60 million years ago, the Fingal’s Cave is an unique, marvelous rock formation. Continue reading