360° panorama by Gary Davies.
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Conisbrough Castle has a unique cylindrical keep flanked by six buttresses. The four-storey limestone structure was built in 1180, as part of a network of Norman fortresses designed to suppress the north of England, following the Norman Conquest. It remained in the hands of the de Warenne family until the reign of Edward III. By the Tudor period it had lapsed into a ruinous state. This is perhaps why it survived further destruction after the English Civil War, when so many castles were slighted to diminish their defensive value. The castle features as itself in the famous Sir Walter Scott novel, Ivanhoe.

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360° panorama by Gary Davies.
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Conisbrough Castle has a unique cylindrical keep flanked by six buttresses. The four-storey limestone structure was built in 1180, as part of a network of Norman fortresses designed to suppress the north of England, following the Norman Conquest. It remained in the hands of the de Warenne family until the reign of Edward III. By the Tudor period it had lapsed into a ruinous state. This is perhaps why it survived further destruction after the English Civil War, when so many castles were slighted to diminish their defensive value. The castle features as itself in the famous Sir Walter Scott novel, Ivanhoe.

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360° panorama by Gary Davies.
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Pickering Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle built by the Normans as part of the suppression of Northern England in the late 11th century. Fearing a Scottish invasion, the last monarch to spend money on upgrading its defences was Edward II, who ordered the addition of a stone curtain wall around the outer bailey, featuring four towers. In the late medieval period no expense was spent and it had such little defensive capability that it played no part in the English Civil War. It was owned by the Crown until 1926 and is now managed by English Heritage.

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360° panorama by Alex Mayer.
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360° panorama by Gary Davies.
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Crichton Castle was built for the influential Crichton family in the late 1300’s and served as their primary seat of power for nearly two hundred years. After they fell from grace ownership passed to the Earls of Bothwell. It was the 4th Earl who married Mary Queen of Scots in 1567. The isolated castle features a unique Italian Renaissance style facade of diamond-patterned stonework and arch arcades, which was influenced by a visit to Italy by the 5th Earl of Bothwell between 1581 and 1591. He also added the stables complex. The castle fell into ruin after Bothwell was accused of witchcraft and forfeited his estates.

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360° panorama by Gary Davies.
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These unassuming monastic ruins at Jarrow are on the site of one of Europe’s most influential centres of learning and culture in the 7th and 8th centuries. The monastery’s reputation spread throughout Europe, chiefly because of the scholarly writings of the Venerable Bede, who wrote more than 60 works. The present ruins are from the medieval monastery, re-established in the 11th century, that also include part of the Anglo-Saxon monastery in the form of the chancel of St Paul’s Church.

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360° panorama by Foundation Stiftung Suedtiroler Sparkasse - Alpenverein Suedtirol AVS - spherea3D GmbH.
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360° panorama by Foundation Stiftung Suedtiroler Sparkasse - Alpenverein Suedtirol AVS - spherea3D GmbH.
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360° panorama by Foundation Stiftung Suedtiroler Sparkasse - Alpenverein Suedtirol AVS - spherea3D GmbH.
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360° panorama by Foundation Stiftung Suedtiroler Sparkasse - Alpenverein Suedtirol AVS - spherea3D GmbH.
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360° panorama by Kolesnikov Sergey.
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For many commuters around the world, a subway journey means speeding from one drab station to the next, surrounded by too many uncomfortable, impatient bodies. Completely different story was in USSR and now in Russia. In Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev, Minsk and other big cities metro stations were designed as architectural wonders. Taking the subway is akin to walking through a national heritage sit. Depending on where you get off, you'll receive a crash course in such diverse architectural movements as Baroque, Art Deco, Futurism, Modern or Hi-tech, and face from stained glass windows, marble columns, crystal chandeliers, gilded mosaics and painted scenes from Russian history to modern iron and glass. Russia's first metro system was part of Joseph Stalin's first Five-Year Plan to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The main idea was to show its citizens and the world the power and possibilities of socially oriented state. All this magnificent underground palaces were build as a transport system for the ordinary people. Now Moscow Metro is the busiest metro system outside of Asia, the world’s busiest by daily ridership and the 6th longest in the world (200 stations, route length is more than 350 km).

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360° panorama by Maxim Ritus.
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360° panorama by Vicente Soler.
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The Gerber Valley, of glacial origin, is located on the northeast limit of the Aig"uestortes national park. The lake is 2150m above sea level. We are in an ideal place to do a pleasant walk in which water is the main protagonist.

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