Landslides and floods have chased out the residents of Gairo from their increasingly dilapidated homes.
Landslides and floods have chased out the residents of Gairo from their increasingly dilapidated homes.
For centuries, stonemasons knocked and drilled slates in the quarries of Wales, such as in Dinorwic. This was once the second-largest slate quarry in the world.
In Ressaix, you will still find some relics of railway line 241, which branched off from Leval station to the coal mines in Péronnes-lez-Binche.
A stone's throw from Ostbahnhof station in the German capital, Berlin, you will come across this brick water tower from 1880.
The most original form of public transport can be found in the German city of Wuppertal. The Schwebebahn has been floating above the Wupper River for over a hundred years.
A 941-meter-long aqueduct stretches across the Alcântara Valley in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.
One of the dunes of Blériot-Plage, west of Calais, was crowned with a command post in the autumn of 1943. The coastal batteries of Waldam, Oldenburg, Bastion II, Fort Lapin, Sangatte and Lindemann were controlled from here.
During the Second World War, the Germans built an observation bunker between Zuydcoote and Leffrinckoucke on top of the dunes.
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