Lights Off the beaten track

19/10/2022

30/09/2022

The Maldives, the official name of the Republic of Maldives, is a country in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, about 700 km from Sri Lanka, located on an archipelago of 1196 coral islands grouped into 12 atolls. All islands are flat, with an area of ​​no more than 13 km², an average height of 1.8 m above sea level

29/09/2022

Coventry is a city in the central part of Great Britain, east of Birmingham. The population is 306,700 people. Automotive, aircraft, engine and machine building, electrotechnical and radioelectronic industry; production of aluminum and bronze, artificial silk. Coventry University, College of Technology.

28/09/2022

Lviv is a city in Ukraine, the administrative center of a region, agglomeration, district, urban community, a national-cultural and educational-scientific center of the country, a large industrial center and a transport hub, it is considered the capital of Galicia and the center of Western Ukraine. It is the seventh city in the country in terms of population

27/09/2022

The Antilles (also Carib or Caribbean islands) are islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, located between North America and South America. Taken together, they form an area of ​​228,662 km² with a population of approximately 42 million people. (at the beginning of the XXI century).

For the first time, the name "Antilles" is found in 1493 in Peter Martyr d'Angier, a contemporary of Christopher Columbus, a courtier of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. Presumably, they were named after the semi-mythical island or archipelago of Antilia, depicted on medieval maps.

26/09/2022

The Potemkin Stairs are a famous staircase in Odessa that connects the city center with the harbor and the Maritime Station. Today, the staircase consists of 192 steps and ten flights

24/09/2022

Nova-Sul - City status since 1743. In 1871, a railway station was built on the Glogiv — Zelyona-Hura line. At the turn of the century, a large river shipyard and a transshipment port on the Odra were launched. During the Polish People's Republic, textile, metallurgical, food industry, production of synthetic threads and packaging developed in the city.

23/09/2022

The Eiffel Tower (fr. tour Eiffel, MFA: [tu.ʁ‿ɛ.fɛl]) is a metal tower in the center of Paris, its most recognizable architectural landmark. Named after chief designer Gustave Eiffel; Eiffel himself called it simply "the 300-meter tower" (tour de 300 mètres).

The tower, which later became a symbol of Paris, was built in 1889 and was originally conceived as a temporary structure that served as the entrance arch of the 1889 Paris World's Fair.

The Eiffel Tower is called the most visited paid[3] and the most photographed attraction in the world[

21/09/2022

England is a founding country in Western Europe that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The largest by area and population of the four countries of the United Kingdom and three parts of Great Britain.

21/09/2022

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