The Transparent Factory is a car factory and exhibition space in Dresden, Germany owned by German carmaker Volkswagen and designed by architect Gunter Henn. It originally opened in 2002, producing the Volkswagen Phaeton until 2016. As of 2017 it produces the electric version of the Golf.
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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains.It is the driest nonpolar desert in the world, as well as the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts and the […]
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Tacitus called it Mare Suebicum after the Germanic people of the Suebi, and Ptolemy Sarmatian Ocean after the Sarmatians, but the first to name it the Baltic Sea (Medieval Latin: Mare Balticum) was the eleventh-century German chronicler Adam of Bremen. The origin of the latter name is speculative and it was adopted into Slavic and […]
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The Ore Mountains lie along the Czech–German border, separating the historical regions of Bohemia in Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany. The highest peaks are the Klínovec in the Czech Republic (German: Keilberg), which rises to 1,244 metres (4,081 ft) above sea level and the Fichtelberg in Germany (1,215 metres (3,986 ft)).The higher altitudes from […]
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The Dolomites, also known as the Dolomite Mountains, are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. They form part of the Southern Limestone Alps and extend from the River Adige in the west to the Piave Valley (Pieve di Cadore) in the east. The northern and southern borders are defined by the Puster Valley and […]
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Zappanale is a festival suitable for families. Even if the freaks look a bit funny, here everything goes very relaxed. I have been photographically accompanying the festival for several years.
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