Giant Cruise Ship in Venice

Amazing contrast - Venice seem a toy on the background of a huge cruise ship MSC Magnifica 5. The length of the liner 194 meters, width 32 meters, 17 floors in height!

Stop vessels over 40 thousand tons in St Mark's Basin and the Giudecca canal in Venice. This was announced by the President of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, in a tweet during the meeting, held in Rome, the Interministerial Committee for the Protection of the capital and its lagoon.

Heracleion — An Ancient Submerged City

For several millennia, has disappeared from the surface of the earth ancient Heracleion. The reason for that - a powerful earthquake. The discovery was a sensation in the scientific world. Heracleion - not Atlantis (Atlantis legend is much older), but their stories are very similar. 

Heracleion — An Ancient Submerged City

Walking along the ancient City walls in Xi'an, China

Strengthening the city of Xian, the ancient capital of Shaanxi Province, Guanzhong Plain in the center, is one of the oldest and best preserved Chinese city walls. The wall was built in the 14th century, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, on the advice of a hermit, who told him to "build high walls, store abundant food supplies, and wait for the time when he would become emperor," to strengthen the city and unify the other states. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang followed his advice and began to expand the walls of the city, originally built by the representatives of the old Tang Dynasty (618 - 907), thus creating a modern city wall of Xi'an. It is the best preserved city wall in China, and also one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.

Walking along the ancient City wall in Xi'an, China

The Apartment is a Meter away from the Railway Track In Hanoi

Most of the time, railroad tracks are expertly marked, warning passersby to keep a look out for oncoming trains, but what if you the tracks were literally steps from your front door?

So is the case for many in Hanoi. Amidst a busy city street, people live and work alongside the railroad tracks found in the city's Old Quarter, and only move temporarily when the train passes through. Shops are shut down, and immediately re-opened just as soon as the train brushes past.

The Apartment is a Meter away from the Railway Track In Hanoi

Bridges of Paris

One of the most beautiful and romantic cities in Europe, Paris, and can be called the city of bridges. For here they number no less, as much as 37. And if they do not, the River Seine, Paris, dividing into 2 parts, would be a serious obstacle not only for tourists but also for the Parisians. Bridges have been built in different eras that accordingly affected and their appearance. It is hard to find in Paris bridge, which would be similar to another. And every bridge certainly has its history, wonderful and unique ... Let us tell you about some of them and see pictures of Paris.

01. The famous Parisian bridge, new bridge. " Oddly, but "Pont Neuf" - one of the oldest bridges in Paris. The new bridge crosses the arrow Ile de la Cité and is composed of two parts, where one axis is not an accurate continuation of the other. The southern part of the bridge has 5 spans North - 7. Its construction began under Henry III in 1578, and will end when Henry IV in 1606 th. In its middle part, the new bridge is based on the two islands and the European patriarchal, where a little later was constructed area with equestrian monument of Henry IV. Unlike other bridges of the time, new bridge was not built up with houses and had sidewalks for pedestrians. For decades, the new bridge was one of the busiest places in Paris: on either side housed temporary stalls and booths, missing only in the XIX century. But until now, Pont Neuf favorite hangout and walks Parisians and visitors to the capital. This is the most romantic bridge in Paris, connecting the right and left banks of the Seine with the western part of the island de la Cite.

The Berlin Wall "recreated" with 8,000 lights

In 1961, a wall separated East from West Germany in 1989 and just reopened the road communication of eastern and western Berlin. The artist Christopher Bauder and director Marc Bauder created an art installation in the name "Lichtgrenze", which runs all the way to the Wall. But instead of cement and barbed 8,000 bright white balloons will be placed in just 2 days. 

New York Central Park

If you look at a map of New York, in the heart, in Manhattan, will clearly stand out perfectly flat rectangle - Central Park . Around the most expensive real estate , 5 Avenue Home Shop Apple, where each time to remove the huge queues, boutiques of famous fashion houses. Overall, the place is good. How is it that a huge piece of land was given to the park ? 

Holland's Largest Indoor Market — Largest Covered Marketin In The Netherlands by MVRDV

Hard to imagine such a huge volume vaulted building turned out to be a farmer's market. Of course, if you go inside the hall, the entire wall with vegetables and fruits on the roof will obviously tell you, "Yes, this is indeed a very large Market!"

This building is located in Rotterdam by the internationally renowned architectural firm from local MVRDV designed residential and farmers market is a combination of new urban complex architecture, but also Holland's first indoor farmers market. 

© Nico Saieh

San Francisco from the Reflection

The photographer Angela May Chen , a part of The Bold Italic a blog that celebrates the city of San Francisco, wanted to portray this city from puddles formed on the streets. To achieve these images Angela was devoted to roam the streets looking for puddles of water after each rain, to portray the world from a single pool of water, the interesting project is like she is a visual interest between the sidewalk and water street, to give a second look at the city, finding beauty that people overlook the city and shows us the reflections from the water. 

San Francisco from the Reflection

Human civilization after the Apocalypse

Hollywood almost every year treats us one way or another vision of a doomsday when the Earth befalls any technological, environmental or extraterrestrial catastrophe, with spectacular special effects and realistic. And, in fact, will look like the world around us, by any chance, God forbid, something terrible will happen, and we will disappear from the face of the earth, leaving the entire infrastructure - cities, factories, hundreds of thousands of kilometers of roads, bridges, dams and more, reservoirs and other large objects? The answer to this question is to try to give experts from a private company engaged in the development of computer games «Naughty Dog». As a result, they showed us the world-famous attractions such as they are likely to look after the end of the world. Some of the images look really creepy. 

Berlin Central Station

Reptile Underground City Derinkuyu in Cappadocia, Turkey

Cities underground? These cities troglodyte caves were dug in the days of the Hittites, and expanded over the centuries by various marauding armies who traversed Central Anatolia in search of captives. There are 36 underground cities in Cappadocia and the wave is the Derinkuyu underground ciiudad while the widest is the Kaymakli underground city . Derinkuyu Underground City is located in the village of Derinkuyu name, which is located 40 km from Goreme (30 minute drive). There are about 600 outside doors to the city, hidden in the courtyards of the houses in the area. The underground city is about 85 meters deep. It contains all the usual rooms in an underground city (stables, cellars, warehouses, kitchens, churches, warehouses, etc.) Apart from these, a great room with barrel vault roof, the second floor was a missionary school. From the third floor and the fourth, the descent is through vertical stairs leading to a cruciform church on the ground floor. shaft 55m deep ventilation was also used as well. Not all plants was provided water wells up to the surface in order to protect the inhabitants of poisoning during raids. Derinkuyu contains at least 15,000 ventilation ducts that provide fresh air deep into the underground city.

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San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Today (25 Photos)

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