2008-07-13 » The countryside in northern Switzerland: an excellent example!
(For all the reasons of life sustainability on Earth and also because "ugliness is also a form of pollution" [of the landscape] - sorry, but I no longer know who said this).
The village of Thalheim - Commune of Brugg, Canton Aargau.
[Originally posted on [...]
2008-05-12 » Under the Portuguese law, the National Agricultural Reserve (RAN - Reserva Agrícola Nacional) is intended to preserve and protect the most productive soils, which are defined as RAN soils, and to ensure that they are used to develop portuguese agriculture and to guarantee a correct landscape management. (Decreto-Lei 196/89, June [...]
2008-03-27 »
Pictures taken during the floods of January 1996, nearby Coruche (Tagus Valley).
Our Minister of Environment thinks it's quite fine to built major complexes on the Tagus flood plane - read more, about Castanheira do Ribatejo...
Our Minister of Environment even thinks that the problem about yesterday's floods is the lack of [...]
2008-02-25 » (Montalegre means "Cheerful Mount")
The so called Barroso Land (Terra Barrosã or País Barrosão) is named after the Barroso Mountain, quite close to the Peneda-Gerês National Park, in the portuguese province of Trás-os-Montes ("Behind-the-Mounts").
[originally posted on Feb 1st, 2008]
Category: MOUNTS AND VALLEYS