The famous photo of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill colorized. It was taken in Canada with notes of his famous "Some Chicken, Some Neck" speech in his left pocket, in which he sneered that unlike France, Britain would not concede to Germany. #history #churchill #photography #worldwar2

The Asclepieion of Kos is often called 'the first hospital in history'. It started as sanctuary where people prayed to get better until the nearby living Hippocrates started using science to improve the treatment instead of just focusing on praying. #history #kos #greece #asclepieion #visitkos

Saint Martin's Cathedral in Utrecht, the Netherlands has a strange shape because after a 1672 storm, its nave collapsed and was never rebuilt, leaving the highest churchtower in the Netherland standing alone for over 350 years. For more info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIKE... #history #utrecht #church

Sometimes called "Malta's Chinese Wall", the Victoria Lines are a defensive line splitting the island in two, built in the 19th century to protect the British trade route with the Suez Canal, but quickly becoming irrelevant after the invention of airplanes. #malta #tourism #history #visitmalta

In the shut-off-from-the-outside-world village of Olympos (Karpathos, Greece) one of the world's few still existing matriarchies can be found youtu.be/IE0Jfjar6cY #history #greece #karpathos #tourism #culture #matriarchy

This is not a King Kong movie set, but are 1878 photos of the head of the Statue of Liberty in Paris, France before it was shipped to the United States. #history #ushistory #statueofliberty #statue #culture #france #tourism #amazing #photography

Gravensteen Castle dates from around 1178 A.D. and is buit by Philips of Alzace, who built it in an original Knights Hospitaller style after a crusade visit to modern-day Syria (Ghent, Belgium). www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZ_... #tourism #visitbelgium #belgium #ghent @archeougent.bsky.social #history

The Burcht in Leiden is a medieval moat fortress which was the basis around which the city from the 11th century onwards. An earlier fortress was built around 900 to protect local farmers from viking raids coming from the Rhine river #leiden #history #thenetherlands #culture #castle #medieval

The Acropolis of Ancient Lindos by drone. The pillars of the sanctuary of Athena Linda in the center date back to the 9th century B.C. and the temple is almost 3,000 years old (Rhodes, Greece) #history #greece #ancientgreece #lindos #tourism