Millennium Square is Leeds’ award winning city centre outdoor public space and live entertainment venue. Built as Leeds’ flagship project to mark the year 2000 the £12m scheme funded by us and the Millennium Commission successfully transformed the old Mandela Gardens at the front of the Civic Hall into one of Europe’s most innovative multi-purpose […]
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Pay a visit the Albert Dock and delight in the most popular of Liverpool’s attractions, restaurants, bar, boats and tours. Enjoy the best the city has to offer, showcased in a World Heritage, waterfront setting. The Albert Dock is the most popular free tourist attraction in the Northwest -and not without good reason. The variety […]
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By: boutmuet Just outside Berlin, over 50,000 innocent victims of the Nazis perished in Sachsenhausen in conditions of appalling brutality. The camp became a training ground for the execution of the Holocaust and ultimately the center of the whole concentration camp system. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets turned the camp into a gulag […]
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Doobie Ann Commisioned by Marcus Agrippaas a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome and then rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD, the Pantheon with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns. After two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon’s dome is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. It is […]
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by kalDC The square was once occupied by a number of buildings which were detonated during the communist period. The remaining buildings now include the old Orthodox Cathedral which is not the International Hotel and the former Municipal building which is now actually the National History Museum. The square is also home to the Skanderbeg’s […]
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The Zaanse Schans is a delightful village on the banks of the river Zaan with characteristic green wooden houses, charming stylized gardens, small hump-backed bridges, tradesmen’s workshops, historic windmills and engaging little shops. This enchanting village has been lovingly established by relocating local houses, windmills, storehouses and barns to form a remarkable replica of a […]
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As part of a ‘Percentage for Art’ policy, 1% of the cost of The ICC was devoted to works of art. Among these is ‘Spirit of Enterprise’ by Tom Lomax, a water sculpture outside the extension to the Repertory Theatre in Centenary Square. This bronze fountain features three bowls. The head in the first, facing […]
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by: Edwin11 The Changing of the Guards in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, where the Buckingham Palace detachment has formed up to await their arrival. These two detachments are the Old Guard. Meanwhile the New Guard is forming up and are awaiting inspection by the Adjutant on the parade square at Wellington Barracks. The Band, having […]
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