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PMR-D11346 England, Worcester: "Eagle Vaults", a Victorian pub with handsome tiled frontage on Friar Street. Keywords: architecture, beer, cobblestones, licenced, pedestrian zone, public house
PMR-D8728 Chile. Chiloe, Castro: a house overlooking the port, with typical shingled frontage. Keywords: South America, architecture, Latin America
PMR600-07 Spain, La Coruna/Corunna: glassed-in frontages ("galerias") on the Avenida de la Marina. Keywords: architecture, galerias
PMR342-12 Germany, Upper Bavaria, Oberammergau: a typical frescoed cottage facade with a colourful display of geraniums. Keywords: alpine, picturesque, colourful, traditional, show, frontage
PMR330-12 Sweden, Stockholm: view from the south entrance to the Royal Palace, showing the National Museum and, in the distance, impressive frontages on the Strandvägen across the water. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, culture, historic, heritage, capital city, boats, street scene, ferryboat, moorings
PMR318-07 Poland, Cracow: the Cloth Hall, a mediaeval trading centre dating back to the early 14th century now contains tourist boutiques. View of the 100-metre-long frontage. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, mediaeval, medieval, heritage
PMR300-06 Switzerland, Schaffhausen, Stein-am-Rhein: promenade and river frontages, with with Höhenklingen Castle atop the hill in the background. Keywords: architecture, culture, historic, heritage, picturesque, colourful, mediaeval, waterfront, wooded
PMR255-05 France, Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg: pleasure cruiser about to enter the locks on the River Ill, with half timbered water frontages as a backdrop. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, national heritage, colourful, mediaeval, medieval, timber-frame, half-timbered, lathe and plaster
PMR253-12 France, Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg: river frontage of the Restaurant du Pont St. Martin with a fine display of geraniums. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, national heritage, colourful, mediaeval, medieval, timber-frame, half-timbered, lathe and plaster
PMR253-09 France, Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg: Quai de la Petite France and river frontages. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, national heritage, colourful, mediaeval, medieval, lreflections
PMR253-04 France, Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg: view over the city to the south east from the base of the tower of the cathedral (above the belfry), with Rohan Palace in the foreground, then river frontages of Quai des Bateliers, church of St. Madelaine, Esplanade, and the new University buildings in the distance. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, national heritage, colourful, mediaeval, medieval, panorama
PMR171-03 U.S.A., California, San Francisco: typical modern housing near West Harbor. Houses are built on to each other, due to the scarcity of land, but each is a different size and style. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, heritage, picturesque, historical, culture, coastal city, dwellings, homes, frontages
PMR171-02 U.S.A., California, San Francisco: typical modern housing near West Harbor. Houses are built on to each other, due to the scarcity of land, but each is a different size and style. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, heritage, picturesque, historical, culture, coastal city, dwellings, homes, frontages
PMR147K-22 Germany, Bavaria, Upper Franconia, Bamberg: burgher house frontages reflected in the River Regnitz, with the first coltsfoot flowers of spring. Keywords: picturesque, half timbered, timber-framed, architecture, historical, mediaeval, national heritage, Franconia
PMR498-09 Turkey, Istanbul: frontage and two minarets of the Suleymaniye Mosque, built in 1557 by Mimar Sinan. Regarded by many as his finest achievement. Keywords: architecture, Constantinople, Muslim, Byzantine, Islam, natural heritage, picturesque
PMR434-08 Poland, Gdansk: gabled frontages on the River Motlawa with the Green Gate and Long Quay behind. Keywords: mediaeval, Danzig, reflections, architecture, national heritage, picturesque
PMR518-10 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: moorings and frontages of the buildings on the Foro Vittorio Emenuele II, part of the old town on the island of Ortygia. Keywords: Sicilia, quayside, jetty, vessels, ships
PMR115K-10 Jordan: Petra is a historical city dating back to about 500-600 BC, founded by the Nabataeans, whose capital it was. Lying in the Wadi Musa, many of its temples and tombs were carved out of the sandstone rock in gorges and in cliff faces, and some have been well preserved from erosion. The architecture shows evidence of Egyptian, and later, Graeco-Roman influence, but the Nabataeans had their own, distinctive style. The city in the desert thrived due to a well thought-out system of water control. Petra was designated a World Heritage Site on 6th December 1985. This picture: The frontages of some of the rock tombs have almost been weathered away, leaving slender sandstone columns. Keywords: rose red city, geology, archeological site, Egyptian architecture, Greek architecture, Roman architecture, rock tombs, natural caves, Nabataean capital
PMR052K-11 Spain, Galicia, La Coruna: view of the typical glassed-in frontages ("galerias") from across the harbour.
PMR068K-20 Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt: St Boniface created the first bishopric in Erfurt in 742 AD, since when the city has been a centre of trade and commerce, being incorporated into the Hanseatic League in the 15th century. Known as the centre of German humanism, Martin Luther studied and preached here 1505-11. Here: one of the few bridges in Europe on which buildings still stand, the Krämerbrücke (Grocers' Bridge) (1325) over the River Gera, with the south frontages of the timber-frame houses. Keywords: mediaeval city, Thuringia, mediaeval architecture, protestantism, Lutherism, historic buildings, German heritage
PMR068K-17 Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt: St Boniface created the first bishopric in Erfurt in 742 AD, since when the city has been a centre of trade and commerce, being incorporated into the Hanseatic League in the 15th century. Known as the centre of German humanism, Martin Luther studied and preached here 1505-11. Here: one of the few bridges in Europe on which buildings still stand, the Krämerbrücke (Grocers' Bridge) (1325) over the River Gera, with the north frontages of the timber-frame houses. Keywords: mediaeval city, German heritage, historic buildings, Lutherism, protestantism, mediaeval architecture, Thuringia
PMR630-03 Tunisia, Kairouan: beautiful filligree work on the frontage of a modern shop, with typical blue and white closed-in balcony. Keywords: Muslim, Mohamed, historic, heritage, Islam, architecture, Maghreb
PMR622-02 Germany, Thuringia, Arnstadt: Fountain, decorated with geraniums and picturesque street frontages in Arnstadt, where Johann Sebastian Bach played the organ in the local church 1703-7. Keywords: German architecture, gables, street scene
PMR614-08 Bulgaria: Plovdiv received international acclaim for its painstaking restoration of the old Turkish-style houses in the old quarter. Here: belltower of the Church of Saints Helena and Constantine and some striking frontages with bay windows. Keywords: Turkish-style architecture, cobbled streets
PMR613-11 Bulgaria: Plovdiv received international acclaim for its painstaking restoration of the old Turkish-style houses in the old quarter. Typical frontages with bay windows; the Balabanov House is visible at the bottom of the street. Keywords: Turkish-style architecture, cobbled streets
PMR612-07 Bulgaria: Veliko Tarnovo, situated on a rocky hill within a loop of the River Yantra, was the first capital of Bulgaria from 1187, after the foundation of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1393) by the Assen Brothers, Peter and Ivan. The site was previously occupied by the Thracians and then the Romans before the Bulgarians came in the 12 th century. Here: Georgi C. Rakovski Street, with its Turkish-style, tiled frontages, is now a pedestrian zone with many souvenir shops. Keywords: historical site, archeological site, Bulgarian heritage, fortifications, battlements, defence towers, ruined fortifications, archeological excavations
PMR600-06 Spain, La Coruna/Corunna: view of the typical glassed-in frontages on the Avenida de la Marina from across the harbour.
PMR579-11 Russia, St. Petersburg: Moyka River facade of Stroganov Palace (frontage is on Nevsky Prospekt), built by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli in 1752-54
PMR577-11 Germany, Baden Wurttemberg,Tubingen: Rows of gabled frontages rising up the hill in Tübingen, one above the other, with punt on the River Neckar in the foreground. Keywords: University town
PMR577-10 Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg,Tubingen: Reflections of gabled frontages in the River Neckar, Tübingen, with a passing punt. Keywords: university town
PMR577-09 Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg,Tubingen: Reflections only, of the mediaeval frontages and gables of Tübingen, in the River Neckar.

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