Bilbao is a city and a municipality in Spain, Basque Community, capital of the Biscay province. Located near the northern edge of the Iberian Peninsula, about 16 kilometers south of the Bay of Biscay, near the mouth of several rivers. The city is located…

Bayonne (fr. Bayonne) is a city in the Atlantic Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in the south-west of France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The city location is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees massive foothills, at the confluence of the Nive and Adour …

Best sea and ocean resorts: France and Spain (223 objects) Spain Most of Spain is on the Pyrenees Peninsula, where the Atlantic Ocean washes it on one side and the Mediterranean Sea on the other. Therefore, Spain has never experienced a lack of resorts. Moreover…

Biarritz (fr. Biarritz) – a luxury resort town belonging to the Atlantic Pyrenees Department (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. Its current Basque name is Biarritz (or Miarritze), and its current Gascon name is…

Carcassonne (fr. Carcassonne) is a fortified town in the Aude department, Occitania Region, France. ‘The town is one of the most important historical sites in France; it is not only because of the ancient fortress itself but also due to its size. It consists…

Toulouse is a commune in southwest France in Occitania (being a capital of it), divided in half by the Garonne River and located about 200 km from the border with Spain (Pyrenees). The violet culture development in the nineteenth century led the French to…

Perpignan is a commune in the south of France, prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department and fourth most populous city in the Occitania region. Historically and culturally, the commune, former continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, is in Roussillon…

Narbonne (in Occitan, Narbona pronounced [naɾˈbunɔ]) is a city in Languedoc. Administratively, it is a commune of the region of Occitania, the department of Aude (France). With 50,000 inhabitants, called narbonesos, it is the main town of the department of…

Tossa de Mar (cat. Tossa de Mar) is a town and municipality in Spain, the region of La Selva, Catalonia, simply called Tossa until 1985. It is part of the so-called Selva Marítima and borders with the counties of the Baix Empordà and Gironès, by the municipalities…

Figueres (cat. Figueres) is a city and municipality in Spain, the capital city of the Alt Empordà county and head of the judicial district of Figueres, Girona province. It is the main urban, economic and commercial center of the Empordà. Figueres is located…

Park Pobedy (Victory Park) is a cross-platform station of Moscow Metro on Arbat-Pokrovskaya and Solntsevskaya lines. Located in the Dorogomilovo region, Moscow (WAD); named after the park of the same name. It was opened on May 6th, 2003 as part of the Kievskaya…

Cosmonaut. An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who…

Pyongyang (kor. 평양?, 平壤?) is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) capital. Pyongyang is the administrative, cultural, and historical country center. The city was removed from the province of Pyongan Namdo In 1946 and received a direct subordination…

Zambezi national park and Victoria Falls Zambezi National Park is a national park located upstream from Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe. It was split off from Victoria Falls National Park in 1979 and is 56,000 hectares (140,000 acres) in size.…

Skiing gives us indescribable excitement and adrenaline, but at the same time, accidents are possible, and they do occur. According to a study conducted by an Andorran insurance company this year, more than a third of the ski lovers surveyed were injured.…

Canigou (Fr. Canigou; Cat. Canigó) is the mountain located in the Pyrenees in the South of France (Pyrénées-Orientales department, in the Occitania region), less than 50 kilometers from the Mediterranean sea. They considered it to be the highest mountain…

At the beginning of the 20th century, people realized that submarines were becoming the most dangerous weapon in the world. Marine technology evolved and improved with each decade. It is terrible to imagine what modern submarines are capable of doing. This…