Category: Europe
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Candyfloss
Candyfloss A Festival of Colours, Fête des Couleurs – not the Hindu festival of Holi, but a multicultural festival celebrating everyone’s heritage. Photo of the week: Candyfloss, Fête des Couleurs, Aigle, Switzerland 2025
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam The Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, and Amsterdam in the Hortus Botanicus. Photo of the week: Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
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Contrails
Contrails A quasi exhaustive description: contrails in the firmament, caught at three minutes past four between the church of Saint-Antoine and its mirror image in Salavre. Photo of the week: Église Saint-Antoine, Salavre, France 2025
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Chinese wallpaper
Chinese wallpaper On the Oud Amelisweerd estate near Utrecht, there is a room where not only the walls but even the doors are covered with continuous Chinese wallpaper. And not just any wallpaper, but hand-painted, 18th-century wallpaper full of extraordinary Chinese scenes. Truly marvellous. Photos of the week: Hand painted Chinese wallpaper, 18th century, Oud…
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Kornhaus
Kornhaus In one photo, a giant crane appears to have placed a tall tower in position, while in another, a similar crane is dwarfed by the same tall tower. A play on perspective between giant cranes and the 118-metre-high Swissmill Tower in Zurich. Photos of the week: Kornhaus an der Limat, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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Philibert de Savoie
Philibert de Savoie Like Marguerite d’Autriche, her husband Philibert de Savoie, who died at the age of 24 in 1504, is also buried in the cathedral of the Royal Abbey in Brou. His tomb, like his wife’s, has also two effigies, one formal and one informal, one above the other. The effigies are surrounded by…
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Marguerite d’Autriche
Marguerite d’Autriche Marguerite d’Autriche, who was the talented governor of the Low Countries for many years, died in 1530 and is buried in the cathedral of the Royal Abbey of Brou. Her tomb has two effigies, one above the other, made by Conrat Meit. The upper one depicts her in marble in full royal regalia,…
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Car wash
Car wash I can’t help it: I always look at the world with a sense of wonder, even from inside a car in a car wash. Photo of the week: Car wash, Bourg-en-Bresse, France 2025
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Tree stump
Tree stump Dead wood, a source of life and beauty. Photo of the week: Growth on tree stump, Chesières, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 2025
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Planks
Planks Motionless planks, lively as water. Photo of the week: Chalet-wood, Chesières, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 2025
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