Fascinating Europe
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Discover the beauty of classic European architecture. Promoting architectural revival, European art, and cultural heritage in Europe.
Except for reposts, mostly public domain content digitally enhanced to compensate for fading due to age.
🇬🇧 📷 The charming cityscape of Dawlish in Devon, England - a photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced.
#Dawlish #Devon #England #UK #Europe #photography #vintage #Britain #photo #cityscape #heritage #WesternEurope #foto #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom #history #travel
Nowadays, Sankt Goar is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site - Upper Middle Rhine Valley in Germany.
🇩🇪 🎨 Sankt Goar and the Ruins of Rheinfels Castle as Seen from the Northeast - a coloured aquatint by Johann Ludwig Bleuler from 1840.
#Rhein #Mittelrhein #Germany #Deutschland #art #vintage #VintageArt #Europe #landscape #castle #Burg #ClassicArt #Kunst #heritage #WorldHeritageSite #Rhine #OldViews
🇨🇭 🎨 The village of Seewen and Lake Lauerz (Lauerzersee) in the Swiss canton of Schwyz - coloured aquatint by Anton Winterlin & Sigismond Himely from the 1820s.
#Switzerland #Europe #vintage #art #Schweiz #landscape #Landschaft #Schwyz #Lauerzersee #Apls #Alpen #mountains #Kunst #history #heritage
🇸🇪 📷 Norra Hamngatan and Stora Hamnkanalen (Great Harbour Canal) in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden - captured by Axel Lindahl in 1873. Digitally enhanced.
#Göteborg #Sweden #Sverige #AxelLindahl #vintage #photography #BW #BlackAndWhite #photo #cityscape #Scandinavia #Europe #Nordic #foto #history
The official name of Stachus is Karlsplatz (Charles Square), but locals rarely use that name, as it refers to the unpopular Elector of Bavaria, Charles Theodore.
The square looks different nowadays...
🇩🇪 Stachus in Munich (also known as Minga or München) - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.
#Europe #München #Munich #Minga #Bavaria #Bayern #Germany #Deutschland #Stachus #photography #vintage #foto #history #architecture #cityscape #Europa
The photo was taken by an unknown photographer, probably in the 19th century. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.
🇬🇷 The terrace of Achilleion on the island of Corfu in Greece. Achilleion (Greek: Αχίλλειον) is a palace built for the Empress Elisabeth of Austria after the tragic death of her only son in 1889.
#Corfu #Greece #Ελλάδα #Κέρκυρα #architecture #photography #photo #blackandwhite #vintage #foto #Greek
If you're curious what the place looks like now, here is Google Street View:
www.google.com/maps/@51.847...
🇳🇱 📷 The Grote Markt (Great Market Square) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands - a vintage photochrom print from around 1900.
#Nijmegen #Netherlands #Europe #Nederland #TheNetherlands #cityscape #vintage #photography #Europa #foto #travel #architecture #history #heritage #photo #Gelderland #Dutch
They used to be a single town, but in 1800 Napoleon decided that the Rhine should become the border. And it has stayed this way.
🇩🇪 / 🇨🇭 The river Rhine separates the German town of Laufenburg from the Swiss town of... Laufenburg - a coloured aquatint by Johann Ludwig Bleuler & Friedrich Salathé from 1836.
#Laufenburg #Rhein #Germany #Switzerland #vintage #art #Europe #Schweiz #Deutschland #landscape #Kunst #Rhine #aquatint
The temple was built in 120 BC and was dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo. Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
🇮🇹 📷 The ruins of the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in southern Italy - captured by the famous German-Italian photographer Giorgio Sommer around 1888.
#Pompeii #GiorgioSommer #Italy #Europe #Italia #SouthernEurope #photography #foto #ruins #ancient #vintage #OldViews #temple
The Gothic tower was built in the 15th-century, and it still stands there, just without the ivy.
🇬🇧 📷 St Leonard's Tower, commonly known as "The Clock Tower", in the town of Newton Abbot, in Devon, South West England - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s.
#NewtonAbbot #England #Devon #Britain #Europe #vintage #photography #architecture #cityscape #photo #OldViews #heritage #UK #history
Constance is a pretty city in southern Germany, close to the border with Switzerland. Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee) is named after it.
🇩🇪 / 🇨🇭 🎨 Constance (Konstanz) and Thurgau as Seen from the West - a gouache painting by Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger from 1836.
#Konstanz #Constance #Thurgau #vintage #art #VintageArt #ClassicArt #Germany #Switzerland #Europe #landscape #painting #gouache #Deutschland #Schweiz #Europa #Kunst
🇳🇴 Raftsund as seen from Digermulen in the magnificent Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s.
#Norway #Europe #Lofoten #Raftsund #Digermulen #Norge #vintage #photography #travel #Scandinavia #Nordic #NorthernEurope #photo #oldviews #landscape
Robert Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. He's best known for his works in the Scots language, but he also wrote in English.
The Robert Burns National Monument in Mauchline (Scottish Gaelic: Maghlinn), designed by William Fraser - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s.
#Scotland #RobertBurns #UK #Scots #Scottish #Alba #Europe #architecture #vintage #photography #UK #Britain #GreatBritain #heritage #architecture
🇮🇪 📷 A student with her bike in front of the prestigious Trinity College in Baile Átha Cliath, also known as Dublin. Captured by Willem van de Poll during his stay in Ireland in 1946.
#BaileÁthaCliath #Dublin #Éire #Ireland #vintage #photography #Europe #foto #BW #BlackAndWhite #bikes #bicycle #photo
Except for the cathedral and the tower of the Old St. Nicholas Church, it doesn't exist in this form anymore.
🇩🇪 The waterfront in Frankfurt am Main, Germany - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s.
#Frankfurt #FFM #Germany #Europe #Deutschland #cityscape #vintage #photography #foto #photo #Hessen #architecture #Europa #Main #waterfront #history #heritage #FascinatingEurope #skyline
🇨🇭 A rural house in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland - a vintage coloured outline etching by an unknown author. In the background, you can see one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps: the Jungfrau.
#Europe #Bern #Switzerland #Schweiz #Alps #vintage #art #Alpen #architecture #mountains #Europa
🇳🇴 📷 One of the Svartisen glaciers in Meløy in Northern Norway - captured by the Norwegian-Swedish landscape photographer Axel Lindahl in the 1880s. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.
#Norway #Norge #Europe #vintage #photography #Scandinavia #landscape #photo #AxelLindahl #foto #travel
Edgar Tower was built in the 14th century to protect the entrance to the great court of Worcester Cathedral. Recently, it has gone through years of painstaking restoration, and was removed from the city's 'heritage at risk’ register.
🇬🇧 Edgar Tower in Worcester, England - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s.
#Worcester #England #UK #Britain #GB #GreatBritain #Europe #architecture #vintage #photography #history #heritage #UnitedKingdom #photo #FascinatingEurope
🇩🇰 A vintage map of Denmark from 1705 by the Dutch cartographer and engraver Gerard Valck.
#Denmark #Europe #Danmark #FascinatingEurope #cartography #vintage #map #Scandinavia #Nordic #NorthernEurope #Baltic #BalticSea #Ostsee #Dutch #Danish
🇫🇷 📷 Rue Royale in Paris with the Neo-Classical Church of Saint-Marie-Madeleine, commonly known as La Madeleine - a photo by the Dutch photographer Willem van de Poll from 1935.
#Europe #Paris #France #vintage #photography #BW #BlackAndWhite #architecture #foto #photo #cityscape #Europa #cars
It was first published in "Topographia Westphaliae", which was Volume 8 of his "Topographia Germaniae".
Don't ask about Paderborn's contemporary skyline.
🇩🇪 The elegant skyline of the German city of Paderborn in eastern Westphalia - an engraving by the incredibly prolific Matthäus Merian the Elder from 1647.
#Paderborn #Germany #Deutschland #Europe #vintage #art #NRW #Europa #history #skyline #cityscape #architecture #CentralEurope #Merian #city
🇨🇭 Basel as Seen from the Southwest - a coloured outline etching by the Swiss engraver and publisher Christian von Mechel (1737-1817).
#Basel #Europe #Switzerland #Schweiz #ChristianvonMechel #cityscape #Swiss #Rhein #Rhine #skyline #vintage #art #Europa #FascinatingEurope #CentralEurope #history
Giorgio Sommer moved to Naples in Italy in 1856 and founded one of Italy's best-known photographic companies at the time.
🇮🇹 📷 The spectacular Amalfi Coast (Costiera amalfitana) in southern Italy, captured by the prolific German-born photographer Giorgio Sommer, probably between 1888 and 1903.
#Europe #Amalfi #Italy #Italia #SouthernEurope #GiorgioSommer #BW #photography #photo #BlackAndWhite #vintage #foto #landscape
🇳🇱 🎨 Johannes Vermeer - View of Delft, 1659–1661
#Europe #Delft #Netherlands #vintage #painting #art #DutchGoldenAge #Vermeer #JohannesVermeer #cityscape #Holland #Nederland #Europa #skyline #panorama #ZuidHolland
🇩🇪 Darmstadt's Market Square (Marktplatz) around 1900 - a digitally enhanced scan of photochrom print. Darmstadt is a city in the German state of Hesse (Hessen).
#Europe #Darmstadt #Hesse #Hessen #Germany #Deutschland #photography #vintage #photo #foto #FascinatingEurope #ArchitecturalRevival
🇳🇱 🎨 The Great Market in Haarlem - a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde from 1696.
#Europe #Netherlands #vintage #art #painting #DutchGoldenAge #Haarlem #Holland #FascinatingEurope #Berckheyde #heritage #history #cityscape #Europa #TheNetherlands
🇩🇪 The skyline of Düsseldorf in an engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder. It was first published in Merian's "Topographia Germaniae" - Vol. 8: Topographia Westphaliae, in 1647.
#Europe #Düsseldorf #CentralEurope #Germany #Deutschland #NRW #Rhein #Rheinland #Rhine #vintage #art #Merian #engraving
🇬🇧 The Skyline of Blackpool as Seen from North Pier - a photochrom print from the 1890s. Blackpool is a popular seaside resort in Lancashire, on the northwest coast of England.
#Europe #Blackpool #UK #England #vintage #photography #skyline #foto #architecture #Britain #sea #seaside #architecture
🇨🇭 🎨 Switzerland: La Neuveville with Lake Biel and the Alps as Seen from the Northwest - a coloured outline etching by Christian von Mechel (1737-1817).
#Europe #LaNeuveville #Switzerland #Schweiz #Swiss
#BielerSee #LacdeBienne #Jura #Europa #heritage #landscape
#art #artwork #vintage #Alps #Alpen
🇨🇭 Switzerland: La Neuveville with Lake Biel and the Alps as Seen from the Northwest - a coloured outline etching by Christian von Mechel (1737-1817).
#Europe #LaNeuveville #Switzerland #Schweiz #Swiss #BielerSee #LacdeBienne #Jura #Europa #heritage #landscape #art #artwork #vintage #Alps #Alpen
The construction of the forum began between 105 and 107, and the forum was inaugurated in 112. It was the last of the Imperial fora to be constructed in ancient Rome.
🇮🇹 📷 Trajan's Forum in Rome captured by Gioacchino Altobelli probably between 1860 and 1880. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.
#Europe #vintage #photography #Italy #Rome #Italia
#FascinatingEurope #architecture #BW #BlackAndWhite #foto #photo #Roma #Europa #cityscape #history
