Category: Europe

Finding Synchronicities… As we examine the clues of human history, it becomes glaringly obvious that religious belief systems and places of worship have been a prevailing factor in most cultures…

Trebeta was the son of the legendary Assyrian king, Ninus (Nimrod), and a Chaldean queen. His stepmother later became Queen Semiramis. They set after her stepson, so that he fled…

As we continue on our quest for these amazing star-shaped islands, we next head to the flat lands southeast of Groningen, Netherlands, to the town of Bourtange, resting along the…

The seventh son or seventh daughter is the belief in Irish folklore that special powers are given to the seventh born from an unbroken family line of the same gender.…

Plan of Paris, known as Turgot’s Map – 1739 Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690-1751), at the head of the Parisian municipality as provost of merchants, decided to commission a new plan of…

The Phare du Monde tower, proposed for the 1937 Paris Exhibition. The structure was designed for the World’s Fair in Paris, but it was never constructed. The above illustration is…

Innocent tourist attraction or covert code messenger? What is hiding in plain sight at the London Eye? This gargantuan Ferris wheel is the last thing I was expecting to be…

7-minute read, 29 photos, 2 videos We send out our TB reporter. After spending many hours endlessly scrolling through the Tartaria Britannica archive, we realized it was time to actually…

The abandoned ‘Castello Nuovo di Rovasenda‘, the Castle of Rovasenda, seems to have been built in medieval times, however, it is not that old. In fact, it was built in…

Le Petit Palais in Paris, France Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle (“World’s Fair”), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de la…