Friday, July 26, 2024

The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand - Denmark

Located about 30 km northeast of Copenhagen, this cultural landscape encompasses the two hunting forests of Store Dyrehave and Gribskov, as well as the hunting park of Jægersborg Hegn/Jægersborg Dyrehave. 
This is a designed landscape where Danish kings and their court practiced par force hunting, or hunting with hounds, which reached its peak between the 17th and the late 18th centuries, when the absloute monarchs transformed it into a landscape of power. 
With hunting lanes laid out in a star system, combined with an orthogonal grid pattern, numbered stone posts, fences and a hunting lodge, the site demonstrates the application of Baroque landscaping principles to forested areas.








Beijing

Chinese city-counties that have the same status as a Chinese province. 
Beijing city-county is completely surrounded by Hebei province, except in the southeast, where Beijing borders Tianjin city-county.








Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Forth Bridge - UK

This railway bridge, crossing the Forth estuary in Scotland, had the world’s longest spans (541 m) when it opened in 1890. 
It remains one of the greatest cantilever trussed bridges and continues to carry passengers and freight. 
Its distinctive industrial aesthetic is the result of a forthright and unadorned display of its structural components. 
Innovative in style, materials and scale, the Forth Bridge marks an important milestone in bridge design and construction during the period when railways came to dominate long-distance land travel.








Los Rios

Los Ríos is one of the sixteen regions of Chile, with its capital Valdivia. 
The region has 384,837 inhabitants and borders Araucanía (IX), Argentina, Los Lagos (X) and the Pacific Ocean. 
The region was created in October 2007; Previously it was a province of Los Lagos under the name Valdivia.








Tuesday, July 23, 2024

The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy - France

The climates are precisely delimited vineyard parcels on the slopes of the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune south of the city of Dijon. 
They differ from one another due to specific natural conditions (geology and exposure) as well as vine types and have been shaped by human cultivation.
Over time they came to be recognized by the wine they produce. 
This cultural landscape consists of two parts. Firstly, the vineyards and associated production units including villages and the town of Beaune, which together represent the commercial dimension of the production system. 
The second part includes the historic centre of Dijon, which embodies the political regulatory impetus that gave birth to the climats system. 
The site is an outstanding example of grape cultivation and wine production developed since the High Middle Ages.








Thai cat

The Thai cat evolved from an existing breed, the Siamese. 
As Siamese cat breeding moved towards a lean physique, the powerful, original type of the Siamese cat was recognized as a breed in its own right. 
The 'Thai' breed was born.








Monday, July 22, 2024

Susa - Iran

Located in the south-west of Iran, in the lower Zagros Mountains, the property encompasses a group of archaeological mounds rising on the eastern side of the Shavur River, as well as Ardeshir’s palace, on the opposite bank of the river. 
The excavated architectural monuments include administrative, residential and palatial structures. 
Susa contains several layers of superimposed urban settlements in a continuous succession from the late 5th millennium BCE until the 13th century CE. 
The site bears exceptional testimony to the Elamite, Persian and Parthian cultural traditions, which have largely disappeared.








Carrick Castle

Carrick Castle is a 14th-century tower house on the western shore of Loch Goil on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west Scotland. 
It is located between Cuilmuich and Carrick, 4 miles south of Lochgoilhead.








Sunday, July 21, 2024

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus - Germany

Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district are two densely built urban areas in the centre of the port city of Hamburg. 
Speicherstadt, originally developed on a group of narrow islands in the Elbe River between 1885 and 1927, was partly rebuilt from 1949 to 1967. 
It is one of the largest coherent historic ensembles of port warehouses in the world (300,000 m2). 
It includes 15 very large warehouse blocks as well as six ancillary buildings and a connecting network of short canals. 
Adjacent to the modernist Chilehaus office building, the Kontorhaus district is an area of over five hectares featuring six very large office complexes built from the 1920s to the 1940s to house port-related businesses. 
The complex exemplifies the effects of the rapid growth in international trade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.








Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada with its capital Halifax. 
Nova Scotia covers an area of ​​55,283 km² on which 979,115 Nova Scotians live.