Little Picture Gallery
Last updated: July 17, 2011.
Blausee (Blue Lake), Natural Park in Berner Alpen, Switzerland, Mai 2009.
Blausee (Blue Lake), Natural Park in Berner Alpen, Switzerland, May 2009.
Cloud Gate, 110-ton stainless steel sculpture, Millenium Park, Chicago, USA, May 2010.
Sue, the largest, most complete, and best preserved
Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered, Field Museum,
Chicago, USA, May 2010.
Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls) between the lakes Erie and Ontario, Canada, July 2008.
Lake Ontario, Canada, July 2008.
High Park, the largest park in Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
High Park, the largest park in Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
CN Tower in Toronto, the world's tallest freestanding structure on land (554.3
m),
Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
The Aljaferia Palace in Zaragoza is a fortified palace build
in 11th century AD. This is the unique
testimony of Spanish Islamic architecture of the era of Taifas (independent
kingdoms).
Zaragoza, Spain, January 2009.
The Eiffel Tower as it looks at night seen from the
near-by bridge over the Seine River, constructed in 1889,
325m high, Paris, France, August 2008.
The Cathedral Notre-Dame known as the first Gothic
cathedral (its construction started in 1163 and officially
ended in 1270), Paris, France, August 2008.
The Arc de Triomphe at night, commissioned by Emperor
Napoleon in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz,
one of the most famous monuments in Paris; Paris, France, 2008.
The Atlantic coast of Portugal at Vilamoura (a small but beautiful village 300 km south of Lisbon), September 2008.
The Atlantic coast of Portugal at Vilamoura (a small but beautiful village 300 km south of Lisbon), September 2008.
The main square of Athens called Syntagma (constitution in Greek)
built by King Otto of Bavaria
between
1836 and 1840, Greece, May 2008.
The Temple of Hephaestus (the god of fire and metal work
from the Greek Mythology) in the Ancient Agora,
officially finished in 416-415BC, Athens, Greece, May 2008.
The Arch of Hadrian (a Roman triumphal arch), 131-132 AD,
built by Roman Emperor Hadrian, and the Temple
of Olympian Zeus (built from 6th century BC until 2nd century AD and never
finished), Athens, Greece,
May 2008.
On the Hadrian's Arch one can read the following two carved inscriptions:
1. "this is Athens, the ancient city of Theseus" (on the northwest
side - towards the Acropolis)
2. "this is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus" (on the
southeast side - facing the Olympeion)
The Parthenon Temple, built in the 5th century BC for the
Greek goddess Athena, Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, May 2008.
Another view to the Arch of Hadrian and Acropolis, Athens, Greece, May 2008.
The statue of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) the
pioneer of the heliocentric cosmology,
The Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, October 2007.
My family, Rigi, the region of Luzern, Switzerland, September 2007.
The view from Rigi (1798m above the see level) of the Lake of Zug, Switzerland, September 2007.
The view from Rigi (1798m above the see level) of the Lake of Zug, Switzerland, September 2007.
Wolves of Wildpark Langenberg, Switzerland, 2007.
Ducks on Elbow River, Alberta, Canada, 2007.
Canyon, Creux du Van, Neuenburg, Jura, Switzerland, 2007.
Lac de Neuchatel, Yverdon, Switzerland, 2007.
Shanghai at night, China, 2005.
Modern architecture of Shanghai downtown, China, 2005.
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 2005.
The Forbidden City, Beijing, China, 2005.
The Great Wall of China, 2005.
The ship of Swedish king Gustav Vasa, Stockholm, 2006.
The ship of Swedish king Gustav Vasa, Stockholm, 2006.
Engelberg, Switzerland, April 2004.
Engelberg, Switzerland, April 2004.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (55.86 m high), March 2004. The
tower was a work of art that
started on August 9, 1173 and ended 1372.
Last updated: July 17, 2011.