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(95) GREEN ARE

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 [...]

(89) TIERGARTEN, THE LARGE PARK OF BERLIN

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 [...]

(62) BENCHES IN THE GARDEN

2008-04-21 » Copenhagen - Denmark. London - England. Tavira (Algarve) - Portugal. [Originally posted on Mar 2nd, 2008] Category: PARKS AND GARDENS

(33) THE GIANT WHEEL OF VIENNA

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 [...]

(28) IN THE OPEN AIR

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 [...]

(24) THE TREES' SHADE

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 [...]