Built in murus dacicus style the six Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains in Romania were created in the 1st centuries BC and AD as protection against Roman conquest.[citation needed]Their […]
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Horezu Monastery
The Horezu Monastery or Hurezi Monastery was founded in 1690 by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu in the town of Horezu Wallachia Romania. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Brâncovenesc […]
Danube Delta
The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării pronounced [ˈdelta ˈdunərij]; Ukrainian: Дельта Дунаю Del’ta Dunaju) is the second largest river delta in Europe after Volga Delta and is the best preserved […]
Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania
With its more than 150 well preserved fortified churches of a great variety of architectural styles (out of an original 300 fortified churches) south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has […]
Box Tunnel
Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Western England between Bath and Chippenham dug through Box Hill and is one of the most significant structures on the Great Western Main […]
Victoria line
The Victoria line is a deep-level London Underground route running from the south (Zone 2) to the north-east (Zone 3) of London. It is coloured light blue on the Tube […]
Piccadilly line
The Piccadilly line /ˌpɪkəˈdɪli/ is a line of the London Underground coloured dark blue on the Tube map. It is the fourth busiest line on the Underground network on the […]
Northern line
The Northern line is a London Underground line coloured black on the Tube map.For most of its length it is a deep-level tube line. There were about 252310000 passenger journeys […]
Hammersmith & City line
The Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground runs between Hammersmith and Barking. Coloured salmon pink on the tube map it serves 29 stations in 15.8 miles (25.5 km). […]
Jubilee line
The Jubilee line is a London Underground line. Having opened in 1979 (though some sections of track date back to 1932) it is the newest line on the network. It […]