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Gigantic 16th century sculpture known as Colosso dell’Appennino, or the Appennine Colossus located in the park of Villa Demidoff (just north of Florence, Italy). It was erected in 1580 by Italian sculptor Giambologna (1529-1608, Italy).
Art Nouveau in Brussels
1904
6 rue de Lac, Brussels, Belgium
Architect: Ernest de Lune (Belgian,1859-1947)
A summer park becomes a lake each spring complete with underwater trees —the Gruener See, or Green Lake as it is called in English is located in the southern Austrian province of Styria. Trees have adapted to being underwater for upwards of a month every year at a time, with the water typically around 40 feet deep through most of the spring.
Photo credit: Gerald Kapfer/Europics
Remember the Netherlands’ solar bike path? Well, it’s been a huge success
SolaRoad’s 70-meter test track near the town of Krommenie outside Amsterdam has generated over 3,000 kilowatt-hours over its first six months of operation, or “enough to provide a single-person household with electricity for a year.” This is the first step towards a very bright future.
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Erechtheion on the Acropolis overlooking Athens
On June 15, 1969 in Battaglia, Italy a man named Bruno bought a few jugs of wine, some sausages and a few other items and set up a tiny food stand underneath a tree to see if anyone would show up.
By the end of the day he had sold almost everything and the family restaurant, Ai Pioppi, was born. The next month he had a chance encounter with a blacksmith who didn’t have time to make a few hooks for some chains. Bruno decided he would learn to weld himself and enjoyed it so much he began to dream up small rides he could build to entice new customers to Ai Pioppi. It turned out to be brilliantly successful.
Now forty years later, the forest around the restaurant is packed with swings, multi-story slides, seesaws, gyroscopes, tilt-a-whirls, and bizarre kinetic roller-coasters for adults and children. (Source)
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