2008-07-19 » Green are the fields... (There's a poem by Luis de Camões starting like this).
GREEN are the plants (most of them anyway).
Ajuda Botanic Garden, Lisbon - Portugal.
GREEN are the receipts (the receipts' paper is coloured green) of the about 900 000 people working in this country (Portugal) as if they were [...]
2008-07-06 » Covering an area of about 630 acres (255 hectares) in the centre of Berlin, the Large Tiergarten - Großer Tiergarten - owes its name to the fact that it was originally a hunting ground. It was designed as an English landscape-style Park, by Peter Joseph Lenné, at the beginning of [...]
2008-02-23 » - was built by the end of the XIX century, bombed in 1945 and restored in 1947. Since then, it has turned around non-stop ... at 0.75 metres per second (one metre is about 3.3 feet).
Das Wiener Riesenrad is located in the Prater Park, has 15 wagons and [...]
2008-02-23 » A few images from urban parks in Europe:
Copenhagen - Denmark
Santiago de Compostela (Saint James of Compostela) - Spain
Nearby London - England
London - England
The urban parks are privileged areas for leisure and for different formal and informal sports activities, which is quite healthier than the exercises in gyms but not yet [...]
2008-02-20 » - at the Botanical Garden of the Natural History National Museum (Lisbon University), widely known as the College of Sciences' Botanical Garden.
"A botanical garden is obviously more than just a garden. The being botanical indicates that the plants growing in it, more than just being beautiful and providing a pleasant [...]