Beautiful, Interesting, Fun & Historical Things I like

The Gherkin in view.

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The Lock keeper's cottage, grand Union Canal in Kings Cross. It was Designed as a pumping house in 1898 by Sir John Wolfe Barry and then Converted to a dwelling 1926.

Xanthi, Greece

The old part of town ('Palia Poli') is known throughout Greece for its distinctive architecture, combining many Byzantine Greek churches with neoclassical mansions of Greek merchants from the 18th and 19th centuries and Ottoman-Era mosques

Upper Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England by rob_stevens_photography

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Boccadasse is a former fishing village on the east side of Genoa, Italy. Today it's a fashionable neighbourhood with picturesque pastel-colored houses overlooking the Ligurian Sea.

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The Aquarium on Genoa's Porto Antico is the largest in Italy. Opened in 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, it was designed by Renzo Piano to resemble a ship heading out to sea.

The Lanterna di Genova (1543) is a 76-meter lighthouse overlooking the Port of Genoa, Italy. It's the world's fourth oldest lighthouse and still the fifth tallest. Long a symbol of Genoa, the city's red and white coat of arms is on a side of the tower.