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Black patterned background

Black patterned wall paper background. Black patterned wall paper background

Cornish Fishing Village

Small fishing boats moored up on the slipway in a Cornish fishing village in the UK.

Ancient Tibetan castle

Scenery of an ancient castle in Tibet,with blue skies as backgrounds. Scenery of an ancient castle in Tibet,with blue skies as backgrounds.

Luxembourg City. landscape

View of the modern city of Luxembourg. View of the modern city of Luxembourg

Valletta Beautiful Marina, Malta Landmarks, Travel Europe

Valletta Beautiful Marina, Malta Landmarks, Travel Europe

Bulldozer removes the debris from demolition of derelict buildings

Bulldozer removes the debris from demolition of derelict buildings

Village of Les Baux-de-Provence

A medieval village with a ruined castle set on a hilltop in the Alpilles mountains. A medieval village with a ruined castle set on a hilltop in the Alpilles mountains

Sigiriya Rock, Sri Lanka

Sigiriya Rock, Sri Lanka

Old way to Omis (panorama)

Old way to Omis (panorama)

Sintra - Castelo dos Mouros

The Castelo dos Mouros (Castle of the Moors) is located in Sintra, Portugal. Situated on a high hill overlooking the village, it is part of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, recognised as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Castelo dos Mouros (Castle of the Moors) is located in Sintra, Portugal. Situated on a high hill overlooking the village, it is part of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, recognised as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Old red brick wall urban background texture

Old red brick wall urban background texture

Matera architecture

Matera architecture of the ancient roof

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port light and the port entrance

The Local Train Station

The Local Train Station

Bamburgh castle in Northumberland

Bamburgh castle and coast of Northumberland. Bamburgh castle and coast of Northumberland

Ancient village in winter

Ancient village on the hill in winter. Ancient village on the hill in winter

Ancient Tibetan castle

Scenery of an ancient castle in Tibet. Scenery of an ancient castle in Tibet

Old settlement in Anatolia

Old settlement in Anatolia

Ancient Tibetan castle

Scenery of an ancient castle in Tibet. Scenery of an ancient castle in Tibet

Acropolis panorama

Acropolis panorama on a hot summer day.

Les Baux-de-Provence

Les Baux-de-Provence is a small medieval village near St. Remy. it sits on a hill in the south of France overlooking the Alpilles.

Architecture photos from Cuenca, Spain

Hanging Houses of Cuenca in Spain. Hanging Houses of Cuenca in Spain

Cliff in Ulcinj, Montenegro

Cliff in Ulcinj in Montenegro

Reading concept. Fantasy. Stack of book as buildings

Reading concept. Fantasy. Stack of book as buildings

Rock of Cashel, Ireland

Rock of Cashel, Ireland

Cliff in Ulcinj, Montenegro

Cliff in Ulcinj in Montenegro

Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock

Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock

Les Baux-de-Provence

Les Baux-de-Provence is a small medieval village near St. Remy. it sits on a hill in the south of France overlooking the Alpilles. These french roof tops are in the village.

Bamburgh castle in Northumberland

Bamburgh castle and coast of Northumberland. Bamburgh castle and coast of Northumberland

Jerusalem Old city

Jerusalem Old city

Machu Picchu with terraces and road

Machu Picchu showing terraces and the hairpin turn road that leads to it. Machu Picchu showing terraces and the hairpin turn road that leads to it

Locomotive Coming out of it s repair building

Locomotive Coming out of it s repair building

Pitigliano by night, Tuscany

A night view of Pitigliano, an ancient town in the South Tuscany, built on stone. A night view of Pitigliano, an ancient town in the South Tuscany, built on stone

Bahla in Oman

Beautiful Norway rural mountain landscape

Beautiful Norway rural landscape with mountain peaks and farm. Beautiful Norway rural landscape with mountain peaks and farm

Puente Nuevo in El Tajo gorge, Ronda.

Puente Nuevo in El Tajo gorge, Ronda. Ronda is a city in the Spanish province of Malaga.

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port light and the port entrance

Piazza Chiesa San Giusseppe-Taormina-Sicilia-Italy - Creative Commons by gnuckx

www.meimanrensheng.com/ www.livingalifeincolour.com/ www.travelagenda.nl/ www.travelagenda.nl/nieuws/koffietijdkiekjes/koffietijd-k... To see more ... www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Ταυρομένιον - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south. Contemporary age In the late 19th century Taormina gained further prominence as the place where Wilhelm von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly male nudes. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to depict the more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy," but perhaps it was Geleng’s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter. Geleng began to paint everything that Taormina offered: ruins, sea, mountains, none of which were familiar to the rest of Europe. When his paintings were later exhibited in Berlin and Paris, many critics accused Geleng of having an ‘unbridled imagination’. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. During the early 20th century the town became a colony of expatriate artists, writers, and intellectuals. D. H. Lawrence stayed here at the Fontana Vecchia from 1920 to 1922, and wrote a number of his poems, novels, short stories, and essays, and a travel book, Sea and Sardinia. Charles Webster Leadbeater, the theosophical author, found out that Taormina had the right magnetics fields for Jiddu Krishnamurti to develop his talents, so the young Krishnamurti dwelt here from time to time. Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, worked here on the first modern Icelandic novel, Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír. By this time Taormina had become "a polite synonym for Sodom" as Harold Acton described it. Later, however, after the Second World War Acton was visiting Taormina with Evelyn Waugh and, coming upon a board advertising “Ye Olde English Teas” he sighed and commented that Taormina 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'. Archaeology The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 300 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine. The Teatro Greco ("Greek theatre"). But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or "Greek theatre"), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation. It is built for the most part of brick, and is therefore probably of Roman date, though the plan and arrangement are in accordance with those of Greek, rather than Roman, theatres; whence it is supposed that the present structure was rebuilt upon the foundations of an older theatre of the Greek period. With a diameter of 109 metres (after an expansion in the 2nd century), this theatre is the second largest of its kind in Sicily (after that of Syracuse); it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts. The greater part of the original seats have disappeared, but the wall which surrounded the whole cavea is preserved, and the proscenium with the back wall of the scena and its appendages, of which only traces remain in most ancient theatres, are here preserved in singular integrity, and contribute much to the picturesque effect, as well as to the interest, of the ruin. From the fragments of architectural decorations still extant we learn that it was of the Corinthian order, and richly ornamented. Some portions of a temple are also visible, converted into the church of San Pancrazio, but the edifice is of small size. taormina rainbow messina bougainvillea basil basilico hotel san domenico giardini naxos etna volcano vulcano island isola sicilia sicily italia italy sea sun landscape free europe wallpaper michael micky castielli resolution vacation holiday travel flight creativecommons creative commons zero CC0 cc0 CC cc panoramio flickr googleearth maps geotagged gnu gimp wikimedia. www.meimanrensheng.com/ www.livingalifeincolour.com/ www.travelagenda.nl/ www.travelagenda.nl/nieuws/koffietijdkiekjes/koffietijd-k... To see more ... www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Ταυρομένιον - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south. Contemporary age In the late 19th century Taormina gained further prominence as the place where Wilhelm von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly male nudes. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to depict the more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy," but perhaps it was Geleng’s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter. Geleng began to paint everything that Taormina offered: ruins, sea, mountains, none of which were familiar to the rest of Europe. When his paintings were later exhibited in Berlin and Paris, many critics accused Geleng of having an ‘unbridled imagination’. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. During the early 20th century the town became a colony of expatriate artists, writers, and intellectuals. D. H. Lawrence stayed here at the Fontana Vecchia from 1920 to 1922, and wrote a number of his poems, novels, short stories, and essays, and a travel book, Sea and Sardinia. Charles Webster Leadbeater, the theosophical author, found out that Taormina had the right magnetics fields for Jiddu Krishnamurti to develop his talents, so the young Krishnamurti dwelt here from time to time. Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, worked here on the first modern Icelandic novel, Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír. By this time Taormina had become "a polite synonym for Sodom" as Harold Acton described it. Later, however, after the Second World War Acton was visiting Taormina with Evelyn Waugh and, coming upon a board advertising “Ye Olde English Teas” he sighed and commented that Taormina 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'. Archaeology The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 300 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine. The Teatro Greco ("Greek theatre"). But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or "Greek theatre"), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation. It is built for the most part of brick, and is therefore probably of Roman date, though the plan and arrangement are in accordance with those of Greek, rather than Roman, theatres; whence it is supposed that the present structure was rebuilt upon the foundations of an older theatre of the Greek period. With a diameter of 109 metres (after an expansion in the 2nd century), this theatre is the second largest of its kind in Sicily (after that of Syracuse); it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts. The greater part of the original seats have disappeared, but the wall which surrounded the whole cavea is preserved, and the proscenium with the back wall of the scena and its appendages, of which only traces remain in most ancient theatres, are here preserved in singular integrity, and contribute much to the picturesque effect, as well as to the interest, of the ruin. From the fragments of architectural decorations still extant we learn that it was of the Corinthian order, and richly ornamented. Some portions of a temple are also visible, converted into the church of San Pancrazio, but the edifice is of small size. taormina rainbow messina bougainvillea basil basilico hotel san domenico giardini naxos etna volcano vulcano island isola sicilia sicily italia italy sea sun landscape free europe wallpaper michael micky castielli resolution vacation holiday travel flight creativecommons creative commons zero CC0 cc0 CC cc panoramio flickr googleearth maps geotagged gnu gimp wikimedia

Fossil Creek 2006

Fossil Creek just below the Irving power plant site, 2006. The power plant had been decommissioned and the structures were in the process of being removed before the creek was granted the "Wild and Scenic" designation in 2009. Fossil Creek is one of only two National Wild & Scenic rivers in Arizona and is fed by springs coming from the cliffs of the Mogollon Rim. Over 30 million gallons of water are discharged each day at a constant 70°F. The high mineral content leaves travertine dams and deposits, giving rise to fossil-like features. In 2005, Arizona Public Service (APS) decommissioned the Fossil Creek Dam and Flume, restoring full flows to Fossil Creek. The diversion dam at Fossil Springs was partially removed, allowing the creek to flow freely. The flume that once carried water to the power plant was disassembled. The Irving power plant and other buildings around the site were removed. Traces of history remain visible at the Irving site and along the Flume Trail in the form of old building foundations, rock work along the flume's maintenance road, and concrete pilings that once supported the flume. Photo by Deborah Lee Soltesz, November 26, 2006. Credit: Coconino National Forest, U.S. Forest Service. Learn more about Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River on the Coconino National Forest. This is a stitched panorama. Some portions of the edges (mainly the sky) were edited to fill in areas that were not photographed. Fossil Creek just below the Irving power plant site, 2006. The power plant had been decommissioned and the structures were in the process of being removed before the creek was granted the "Wild and Scenic" designation in 2009. Fossil Creek is one of only two National Wild & Scenic rivers in Arizona and is fed by springs coming from the cliffs of the Mogollon Rim. Over 30 million gallons of water are discharged each day at a constant 70°F. The high mineral content leaves travertine dams and deposits, giving rise to fossil-like features. In 2005, Arizona Public Service (APS) decommissioned the Fossil Creek Dam and Flume, restoring full flows to Fossil Creek. The diversion dam at Fossil Springs was partially removed, allowing the creek to flow freely. The flume that once carried water to the power plant was disassembled. The Irving power plant and other buildings around the site were removed. Traces of history remain visible at the Irving site and along the Flume Trail in the form of old building foundations, rock work along the flume's maintenance road, and concrete pilings that once supported the flume. Photo by Deborah Lee Soltesz, November 26, 2006. Credit: Coconino National Forest, U.S. Forest Service. Learn more about Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River on the Coconino National Forest. This is a stitched panorama. Some portions of the edges (mainly the sky) were edited to fill in areas that were not photographed.

Little Cozy Town

Little Cozy Town

Hochosterwitz Castle at rock in Austrian Carinthia

Hochosterwitz Castle at rock in Austrian Carinthia

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port light and the town from the sea

Polignano a mare, Italy

A view of the village of Polignano in apulia, Italy. A view of the village of Polignano in apulia, Italy

Royal Crescent view from the park

View on Royal Crescent houses from park field level. View on Royal Crescent houses from park field level

Les Baux-de-Provence

Les Baux-de-Provence is a small medieval village near St. Remy. it sits on a hill in the south of France overlooking the Alpilles.

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port light and the town from the sea

Vajdahunyad Castle

Vajdahunyad Castle gates in Budapest, Hungary.

Canongate Tolbooth in Edinburgh

The clock and the tower on the Canongate Tolbooth on the lower section of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The clock and the tower on the Canongate Tolbooth on the lower section of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Oriental Towers with waterfall

Brown oriental towers from red sea, in daylight, with a swimming pool and a little waterfall. Brown oriental towers from red sea, in daylight, with a swimming pool and a little waterfall

Castle Sirmione in Italy

Castle Sirmione in Garda Lake, Italy. Castle Sirmione in Garda Lake, Italy

Village of Les Baux-de-Provence

A medieval village with a ruined castle set on a hilltop in the Alpilles mountains. A medieval village with a ruined castle set on a hilltop in the Alpilles mountains

Village alongside the river

Village alongside the river, france

France, Corsica, Bastia

France, Corsica, Bastia, view of the port light and the town

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