House of Soviets (Kaliningrad)

The House of Soviets (Russian: Дом Советов, transliterated: Dom Sovetov) is a building located in the Russian city of Kaliningrad. Locals often refer to this structure as the ‘buried robot‘ because of its appearance of a steel giant buried up to its shoulders. The architect who designed the structure was Julian L’vovič Švarcbrejm. It was […]

October 9, 2022
Mines of Santo Adrião

The mines of Santo Adrião, located in the freguesia of Silva and Águas Vivas, in the municipality of Miranda do Douro, are known throughout the province for their marble and caves. In the area of the village of Caçarelhos, in the Monte dos Ferreiros (Blacksmith’s Hill), marble has been extracted since Roman times, and until […]

July 18, 2022
Italian settlements in Rhodes

Italian Settlers in Rhodes Italian settlers landed in the Aegean Sea and the Dodecanese islands in the 1930s during the fascist government of Benito Mussolini.During this period, many important architects, archaeologists, historians and town planners in Rome collaborated to recreate monuments and historical sites of the former Roman Empire following the Duce’s guidelines. The first […]

June 19, 2022
Villa Paradiso

Villa Grompo-Pigafetta, Bettanin known as ‘Paradiso’ (Paradise): a building dating back to the late 17th century located in the Grompa area, near the left bank of the Masina Canal, which appears to be the extension of previous 16th-century construction. It consists of a central body with living functions and two lateral barchesse (barns) that were […]

June 16, 2022
TNA-400, an abandoned Soviet radio telescope

The TNA-400 was the first small-scale, high-precision Soviet radio telescope with a 32-metre diameter main reflector. It was created in 1961 to track the USSR’s Soviet Lunar, Mars and Venusian missions and communicate with the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. The radio telescope is located in the village of Shkolnoye, 21 km from the city […]

June 14, 2022
Crimean abandoned heliostation

Heliocentre of the Institute for Material Science Problems at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located in the village of Katsiveli, Crimea. The heliostation was established in 1967 to study the power of the sun. This particular location was chosen for a number of reasons and factors: the atmosphere, the highest flow of […]

June 12, 2022
Karabanovo

The story of Karabanovo Karabanovo was first mentioned in 1630. At that time there were only a few huts built on the right bank of the then navigable Seraya River. Where the river was present, there was the possibility of delivering goods and generating electricity and water for production. That is why in 1812 a […]

June 11, 2022
The Tractor Depot

A villa lost in the countryside and a darkroom…

November 20, 2021
Moneta Palace

In the Veronese countryside rests an open-air art gallery, a splendid historic building from the 16th century.

October 28, 2021
The Euganean Gotha

And they marched towards the summit, where music and alcohol inspired the elites to new generative processes.

September 23, 2021