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The Old and New Cathedrals of Salamanca.

Brilliant transition to autumn colours covering this restaurant.

Sunset over Amboise Chateau.

The view over Amboise and the Loire River from Amboise Chateau.

A typical Amsterdam canal with houseboats and canal houses.

Looking through stained glass windows to the buildings of Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona.

A beautifully decorated roof inside Barcelona's Sant Pau Hospital.

Inside Barcelona's Sant Pau Hospital.

A rainbow of colours from the stained glass windows in the Sagrada Familia.

The bronze doors on the Nativity Facade of the Sagrada Familia. These are probably the most beautiful doors I have seen on a church.

The Christopher Columbus Column in Barcelona, pointing to the next world to discover.

The Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia has been under construction for 135 years.

The old town of Bergen after one of its (frequent) rainstorms.

Early morning calm on the Loire River at Blois.

Sunset over Blois on the Loire River.

Rooftops of the old town of Blois.

Fishing on the Loire River at sunset.

A pilgrim stops outside Burgos Cathedral along the Camino pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

The lantern window inside Burgos Cathedral.

The entrance to the fairy tale castle of Carcasonne in the morning light.

The imposing double wall fortifications of Carcasonne.

Terracotta rooftops inside the old town of Carcasonne.

The fairy tale castle of Carcasonne lit up at night.

The lantern tower of Chambord Chateau.

The fairy tale castle of Chaumont on the Loire River.

Chenonceau Chateau is actually a fortified bridge over a river.

Chenonceau Chateau and its carefully manicured gardens.

The perfect symmetry of Cheverny Chateau.

A small child lost in the endless forest of columns in Córdoba's Mezquita.

Entrance to Dover Castle through the outer fortifications.

The Old Town of Dubrovnik rising above a stormy sea.

The mighty walls of Dubrovnik.

The red-roofed walled city of Dubrovnik in the sparkling blue Adriatic Sea.

One of the many intricate carved walls in the Alhambra Palace in Granada.

Old and new London, the medieval residences of the Tower of London in the foreground with the Shard rising up in the background.

The town of Longyearbyen is full of colourful houses. They are one of the few sources of colour in the high Arctic, a land of white snow and black rocks.

The imposing walls protecting the old town of Kotor.

The church of Our Lady of Health overlooking the Bay of Kotor.

Queen Anne keeping watch over the entrance to St Paul's Cathedral.

Old and new: Southwark Cathedral and The Shard reaching for the skies.

Old and new London, side by side but 900 years apart in time.

Christmas lights, London cabs and double decker buses on Oxford Street.

The Ancient Roman aquaduct in Médria.

Sforza Castle, built to protect the rulers of Milan.

The most famous shopping district in Milan: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

Mont Saint-Michel rising out of the bay at sunrise.

The fortified monastery of Mont Saint-Michel. At low tide it's possible to walk around the outside of the fortifications.

The fortified monastery of Mont Saint-Michel.

The old town and bridge of Mostar, rebuilt and restored after the civil war of the 90's.

Hippocampi (sea-horses) in the carousel of Les Machines de l'Ile.

The Street of Joan of Arc leading up to the great cathedral of Orleans.

A monster watching over Paris from Notre Dame Cathedral.

The Eiffel Tower is a much more imposing structure from underneath.

The interior of Notre Dame Cathedral.

The glowing Main Pyramid of the Louvre reflected in the perfectly still fountain waters.

A statue overlooking the Seine and the Louvre.

Love locks completely covering the Pont Neuf in Paris.

Sometimes it's all about your perspective in life. (In the Tuileries Gardens in Paris).

Notre Dame Cathedral, and Parisian apartments on the banks of the Seine River.

Booksellers lining the banks of the Seine in Paris.

Evening colours over Montmartre in Paris.

Evening time in Paris.

The eye-catching colourful facade of the Pompidou Centre, home of Paris' modern & contemporary arts.

One of many richly decorated ceilings in the Louvre Museum.

Paris's Hotel de Ville at sunset.

Dusk colours over Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, beheaded during the French Revolution.

Inside the Catacombs of Paris, the bones of the long dead are arranged into various formations.

The Puente Nuevo of Ronda, crossing the 120m deep gorge.

The picturesque old town of Rovinj in Croatia.

The Old and New Cathedrals of Salamanca.

The roof of Salamanca's Old Cathedral.

The perfect mirror of the Font of Salisbury Cathedral.

Another fancy colonial-era church, or is it...?

A picture of one of the modern sculptures scattered around San Francisco.

A picture of the view of San Francisco from a moving cable car.

A picture of the view of the Golden Gate Bridge taken from a distance.

The fairytale Alcázar of Segovia at night.

The High Altar of Seville Cathedral.

One of the courtyards of Seville's Alcázar.

The incredible golden domed ceiling in the Alcázar of Seville.

A close up of the intricately carved walls and ceilings in Seville's Alcázar.

Intricate floor and wall tiling in Seville's Alcázar.

The standing stones of Stonehenge, set up so that they are aligned with the position of the sun during the solstices.

At the same time, all the sculptures are set alight and Valencia is filled with smoke and fire.

A sculpture created for Valencia's Las Fallas festival. After 3 days of being on display in the street it will be burned in a city-wide bonfire.

As this sculpture begins to burn, a pink flare is launched from its head.

A sculpture created for Valencia's Las Fallas festival. After 3 days of being on display in the street it will be burned in a city-wide bonfire.

A sculpture created for Valencia's Las Fallas festival. After 3 days of being on display in the street it will be burned in a city-wide bonfire.

The Hemisferic, in Valencia's ultra-modern Art and Science City.

Some of the canals in Venice can get very narrow.

Sunset over the Grand Canal of Venice.

St Mark's Belltower, one of Venice's big icons.

Storm clouds gather over a sunny Venetian canal.

A typical scene in Venice; a gondola with tourists sailing down the Grand Canal.

Gondolas parked outside of an extravagant church in Venice.

Bridge over the river to Castelvecchio in Verona.

A young boy rides his bike through the ruins of the Ancient Roman forum in Zadar.

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