Fragments from the Karlovy Vary Region - Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Svatobor, Goblin rocks and Šemnická Rock
Trébeurden is a municipality in the northwestern part of the Côtes d'Armor department in Brittany in France
Enclos paroissial - Parish close - is an architectural complex typical of the central and western part of Brittany. Most Parish Close are in the Finistère department in the Elorn valley between Landivisiau and Landerneau (west of Morlaix).
Plouescat (Ploueskad) is a municipality in the department of Finistère in Brittany in northwestern France. It is a famous seaside resort that attracts many tourists.
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Beauport - Abbey of Beauport - ruins of a former Premonstratensian monastery in the village of Paimpol, part of Kerita, in the department of Côtes-d’Armor in Brittany
The remains of Pravda Castle are on a hill above the village of Pnetluky in the Usti nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. The name Pravda literally means "the truth"
Huelgoat is popular with tourists and holidaymakers due to its impressive natural setting among the vestiges of the ancient forest that once covered inland Brittany.
Carnac (in Breton Karnag) is a small city on the Gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany in the Morbihan Department in northwestern France
Tumulus Er-Grah, Table des Marchands dolmen and Le Grand Menhir Brisé - three megalithic sites in Site Megalithique Locmariaquer and others...
The Mine Měděnec The locality of Měděnec was known as the ore deposit in the first half of the 15th century. The mining village of Měděnec was founded in 1520. The name of the village derives from the original German name Kupferberg (Copper Mountain), which the settlement received according to […]
Tumulus-dolmen de Kercado is supposed to be a prehistoric tomb, which is reportedly the oldest in the area. It is located on a private property and the entrance fee is 1 Euro. It is a dolmen in its original state, still covered with stones and clay. The embankment of stones […]
Dolmens Mané-Kerioned or House of the Dwarfs GPS: 47°36’54.757″N, 3°5’10.574″W PHOTOGALLERY: Dolmens Mané-Kerioned The three dolmens of Mané-Kerioned – also known as House of the Dwarfs – are located near Carnac, near road 768 between Auray and Plouharnel. It is a system of three corridors and probably burial chambers surrounded by […]
Dolmen La Roche-aux-Fées – The Fairies’ Rock GPS: 47.9365225N, 1.4048108W www.mapy.cz PHOTOGALLERY: Dolmen La Roche-aux-Fées La Roche-aux-Fées (English: The Fairies’ Rock) is a Neolithic passage grave – dolmen – located in the commune of Essé, in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. Its name comes from a legend that […]
Menhirs and dolmens of Brittany – Carnac and surroundings PHOTOGALLERY: https://www.siloto.cz/photogallery/index.php?/category/brittany Menhir (from Breton “men” = stone and “hir” = long) is a stone block vertically set in the ground. They occur all over the world. Usually without traces of working, rarely is a human figure, possibly clothing and weapons. […]
Fragments from Poland more: https://www.siloto.cz/photogallery/index.php?/category/poland Międzynarodowe Laboratorium Kultury – International Laboratory of Culture – former sanatorium Grunwald, Sokołowsko, district Wałbrzych, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland Basilica of the Visitation (Polish:Sanktuarium Wambierzyckiej Królowej Rodzin) – a Baroque basilica minor located in Wambierzyce. The basilica was built between 1715 and 1723. The […]
Lusatian Mountains The Lusatian Mountains (Czech: Lužické hory; German: Lausitzer Gebirge; Polish: Góry Łużyckie) are a mountain range of the Western Sudetes on the southeastern border of Germany with the Czech Republic. They are a continuation of the Ore Mountains range west of the Elbe valley. The mountains of […]
Ore Mountains – Erzgebirge SILOTO PHOTO GALLERY – Ore Mountains The Ore Mountains or Ore Mountain Range (German: Erzgebirge ,Czech: Krušné hory; both literally “ore mountains” in Central Europe have formed a natural border between Saxony and Bohemia for around 800 years, from the 12th to the 20th centuries. Today, […]
The former mine and military prison camp Rolava (Sauersack) GPS: 50°23’53.947″N, 12°37’50.389″E Rolava (originally by German Sauersack) is a defunct village in the Ore Mountains, which was located approximately 1.5 km north of Přebuz village in the district of Sokolov in the Karlovy Vary Region. The settlement was probably founded in […]
Chotýšany Castle Chotýšany village, district Benešov, Central Bohemian Region GPS: 49°44’39.529″N, 14°48’57.607″E Castle in Chotysany village comes from the first half of the 18th century. Since 1958 is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic, but now it is in disrepair. SILOTO PHOTO GALLERY – Zámek Chotýšany – Chotýšany […]