April 15, 2011
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Millau Viaduct – the tallest bridge in the world | France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | More When you drive through the French A75 highway which connects Paris with Barcelona, you cannot miss the technical gem in the form of the highest bridge in the world – Millau Viaduct. The bridge crosses […]
Tags: a75, bridge, bridge-engineer, british-architect, construction-work, france, french-bridge, highest-bridge, highest-bridge-in-europe, highest-bridge-in-the-world, lord-norman-foster, maximum-height, michel-virlogeux, millau-viaduct, pillar, pillars, river-tarn, roadway, ropes, southern-france, tallest-bridge, tallest-bridge-in-the-world, technical-structure, traffic-load, weather-conditions
Categories: France, Sights, Virtual Travel
July 18, 2010
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The Needles – very impressive columns of chalk on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom Updated: January 5, 2020 | By Claire | More Located along the western shores of the Isle of Wight, you will find the very impressive columns of chalk that can be seen rising up out of the sea. Known as […]
Tags: alum-bay, amusement-park, chairlift, chalk, eighteenth-century, gun-batteries, headlands, hundreds-of-years, isle-of-wight, isle-of-wight-uk, jurassic-coast, land-formation, lighthouse, midst, nature, needles, peter-pearson, pillar, pleasure-park, rocket-test, rocks, sandstones, seven-natural-wonders, southern-england, stacks, tectonics, test-facility, tv-programme, underground-facilities, united-kingdom, western-extremity
Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
June 3, 2010
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Ritten Earth Pillars – natural pyramids in Italy Updated: December 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Just outside of the sleepy little village of Ritten which is located in the South Tyrol region of Italy, you will find some of the most amazing, naturally occurring pillars that can be dated back to more than […]
Tags: alps, boulders, centuries, countless-tourists, earth-pyramids, enchantment, glacial-erosion, glacier, italy, laltopiano, laltopiano-del-renon, last-ice-age, le-piramidi-di-terra-del-renon, legends, nature, pillar, pillars, region-of-italy, remnants, ritten, ritten-earth-pillars, rocks, similar-sites, south-tirol, south-tyrol, tyrol-region, weathering-processes
Categories: Italy, Nature
