RM2H2CWFN–Visitors in front of the painting 'Girl reading a letter at an open window' by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1657-1659) displayed for the first time after a long restoration at the special exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery) in Dresden, Germany. Cupid depicted on the wall behind the reading girl was uncovered during the restoration works. The exhibition bringing together ten paintings by Vermeer runs till 2 January 2021.
RM2GYNXA6–Young man wearing a face mask uses a smartphone in front of the Arc de Triomphe wrapped in silver-blue fabric fastened with red ropes in the Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris, France. The Arc de Triomphe was wrapped for two weeks being converted to an artwork as it was designed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in September 2021.
RM2C5KJKW–Pedestrian passes through the Žižkov Tunnel (Žižkovský tunel) near the north portal of the tunnel in Thámova Street in Karlín district in Prague, Czech Republic. The pedestrian tunnel under Vítkov Hill joining Žižkov and Karlín districts was built between 1951 and 1953.
RM2A4B5CT–Young visitor in front of the entrance to the Ideal Palace (Le Palais idéal) designed by French postman Ferdinand Cheval and build from 1876 to 1912 in Hauterives, France. ATTENTION: This image is a part of a photo essay of 36 photos featuring the Ideal Palace (Le Palais idéal).
RMR9W5BN–Gondola at sunset in the Venetian Lagoon (Laguna di Venezia) in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute) in Venice, Italy. The garbage collecting boat is seen in the background.
RMPEC36J–Visitors in front of the painting 'Large Nude' ('Planes by Colours') by Czech modernist painter František Kupka (1909-1910) displayed at his retrospective exhibition in the Grand Palais in Paris, France. The exhibition runs till 30 July 2018.
RMP58FEE–Abandoned grave of Russian doctor Ivan Kramarenko at Olšany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Ivan Kramarenko was a doctor of Prague nobility and died on 2 February 1844. The Empire funeral monument on his grave by Bohemian sculptor František Linn depicts an angel holding an orthodox cross.
RMMM9CEA–Monument to Soviet military commander Ivan Konev vandalized with pink paint in Prague, Czech Republic, on 8 May 2018. Bronze statue by Czech sculptor Zdeněk Krybus was unveiled in 1980 in Dejvice district to commemorate the liberation of Prague by the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army under command of Ivan Konev in May 1945 in the last days of World War II.
RM2DAKPTC–Legendary knight Horymír escaping on his talking horse Šemík depicted in the rock relief by Czech amateur sculptor Vojtěch Kopic carved in the natural rocks from 1940 to 1978 in the area known now as Kopic's Rock Gallery (Kopicova skalní galerie) near the village of Kacanovy in the Bohemian Paradise (Český ráj) in North Bohemia, Czech Republic. This rock relief is probably dated from the 1970s.
RMM2D93X–Tourists take photographs using their smartphones in the Holy Trinity Church in the Kuks Hospital in East Bohemia, Czech Republic. Photo by Vova Pomortzeff
RM2G8AMPM–Camino de Santiago (Way of Saint James). Wooden cross decorated with an old straw hat and used adhesive bandages erected by unknown pilgrims on Monte do Gozo near Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Monte do Gozo is the last stop on the French route and the Northern route of the Camino de Santiago from where pilgrims see the destination city for the first time.
RM2G8AMPD–Camino de Santiago (Way of Saint James). Old pilgrim boot used as a flower pot for succulents in the pilgrim shelter (albergue) in the village of Montan in Galicia, Spain. The French route of the Camino de Santiago goes through this village on the way from Triacastela to Sarria.
RM2G8AMPB–Camino de Santiago (Way of Saint James). Highlands near the border between León and Galicia in Spain. The French route of the Camino de Santiago goes through this scenic landscape shortly before it reaches the Galician village of El Cebrero.
RMHHBH0J–Visitors in front of the painting Le garcon au chat (Young Boy with a Cat, 1869) by French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir displayed in Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France. The painting forms a part of the exhibition entitled The Youth of Impressionism devoted to French Impressionist painter Frederic Bazille. The exhibition runs till 5 March 2017.
RMHHB40D–Visitors in front of the painting Le Blanc-Seing (The Blank Signature, 1965) by Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte displayed at his retrospective exhibition in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The exhibition entitled 'Rene Magritte. The Treachery of Images' runs till 23 January 2017. After that the reformulated version of the exhibition will be presented at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 10 February to 5 June 2017.
RMFXTY32–Young visitor observes as common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swim in the Genoa Aquarium in Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
RMF4M1J9–Prague, Czech Republic. 18th October 2015. Visitors pass the light installation entitled In Parallel by Slovenian visual artists Nina Sulin and Natalija R. Crncec displayed in the (A)VOID Gallery during the Signal Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 18, 2015. Signal Festival brings the city's historical buildings to life through the audiovisual installations and videomapping projections by international and local artists.
RMF3D3FR–Reenactors uniformed as soldiers of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) attend the reenactment of the 1945 Prague uprising in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 9, 2015. The Russian Liberation Army also known as the Vlasov Army came to the help of the Czech insurgents to support the Prague uprising against the German occupation which started on May 5, 1945.
RMF3D3GG–Reenactors uniformed as soldiers of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) attend the reenactment of the 1945 Prague uprising in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 9, 2015. The Russian Liberation Army also known as the Vlasov Army came to the help of the Czech insurgents to support the Prague uprising against the German occupation which started on May 5, 1945.
RMF3D346–Reenactors dressed as the Czech insurgents defend a barricade against the German Nazi troops during the reenactment of the 1945 Prague uprising in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 9, 2015.
RMF3D3H0–Reenactors dressed as the Czech insurgents attend the reenactment of the 1945 Prague uprising in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 9, 2015.
RMEHMPNX–Lion from the Processional Street of Babylon. Glazed tiles about 575 BC. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.
RMEA4R32–Prague, Czech Republic. 6th November 2014. A visitor examines a Romanesque reliquary procession cross during a press preview to the exhibition The Benedictines in the Heart of Europe in the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. The exhibition entitled Open the Gate of Paradise presents an excellent selection of early medieval artefacts from year 800 to 1300. This reliquary procession cross from Roudnice was made in Prague or Swabia in the middle of the 12th century and now belongs to the Lobkowicz Collection.
RMDXR8D7–A poster for the new show 'Magic Life' of famous Russian clown Oleg Popov seen in Dresden, Germany.
RMDTEGEJ–Magdeburg, Germany. 15th February 2014. Female participants attend the Naked Sledding World Championship 2014 at Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, on February 15, 2014. The annual innertube sledding competition sponsored by a local radio station was moved this year from its traditional place on mountain slopes to an artificial sledding ramp at the airport ground because of spring weather and absence of snow in Germany.
RMDRW6C5–Children pray on bended knees during the ceremony of the enthronement of new Archbishop of Prague.
RM2DCJGGD–Wooden crosses on the Hill of Crosses near Šiauliai in Lithuania. The most important Lithuanian pilgrimage site is located some 12 km from the town of Šiauliai. Nobody has ever tried to count how many large and small crosses are actually installed on the hill, but it is believed there are at least two hundred thousand crosses here. And every day dozens or even hundreds of new crosses are added by pilgrims from all over the world.
RMEJ4M0N–Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.
RMEA2C7G–Women and a girl pray during an acathistus service in the Russian Orthodox Saint Simeon's Church in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
RMDRN024–Stones lie on the rainbow flag in remembrance of homosexuals in Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.
RME13TYN–The Ride of the Kings. Traditional folklore festival in Vlcnov, Czech Republic. Young man perform the Recruit.
RME13Y9X–The Ride of the Kings. Traditional folklore festival in Vlcnov, Czech Republic. Young girl donates a coin into the jackboot.
RME13WWJ–The Ride of the Kings. Traditional folklore festival in Vlcnov, Czech Republic. The boy king rides his horse.
RMDRN2P9–Orthodox believers take the lambs, square portions of bread cut from the prosphora.
RME13XBR–The Ride of the Kings. Traditional folklore festival in Vlcnov, Czech Republic. Young women dressed in traditional folk costumes
RMD90FT9–Famous Russian clown Oleg Popov performs in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, on May 8, 2013.
RME3TAB1–Painting entitled 'Defense of Szigetvar against the Turks by Nikola Zrinski' from the cycle 'The Slav Epic' by Alfons Mucha.
RMT0CM00–Visitor in front of the painting 'Black Lake' by Czech symbolist painter Jan Preisler (1904) displayed in the National Gallery (Národní galerie) in Prague, Czech Republic. Exhibition of Czech art of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Veletržní palác (Trade Fair Palace).
RMPR2FN8–Couple embrace next to the entrance to Anděl Station of the Prague Metro in Smíchov district in Prague, Czech Republic.
RMCNRX2H–People mourning late Czech president Vaclav Havel in Wenceslas square in December 22, 2011, in Prague, Czech Republic.
RMCNWJCB–Belvedere Torso in the Museo Pio Clementino, the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.
RMCNGXYP–French troops. Re-enactment of the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) at Santon Hill near the village of Tvarozna, Czech Republic.
RM2F4G7DC–Puppet master (dalang) Manteb Sudharsono performs the wayang kulit performance 'Sudamala' in the Sasono Hinggil Theatre in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Traditional puppet shadow theatre known as wayang kulit is widespread on the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia. Each wayang kulit performance continues about eight hours through the night without intermissions and only one puppet master (dalang) conducts all puppets projected on a linen screen and vocalizes them with different voices. Although Indonesia is the most populated Muslim country in the world, stories and characters of way
RM2DH2BFK–Factory worker spreads molten and filtered sulphur on the ceramic floor to cool into sheets at the sulphur factory in the village of Tamansari in East Java, Indonesia. When sulphur hardened, it is broken into pieces and loaded into sacks. The factory located in the jungle next to the village processes from 9 to 12 tons of sulphur per day delivered here from the nearby sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Sulphur is melted at the factory, then filtered and loaded into sacks. Workers work here in poisonous toxic fumes. It is believed the work at the factory is even
RM2DH2BFW–Factory worker loads the filtration system with molten sulphur in poisonous toxic fumes at the sulphur factory in the village of Tamansari in East Java, Indonesia. The factory located in the jungle next to the village processes from 9 to 12 tons of sulphur per day delivered here from the nearby sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Sulphur is melted at the factory, then filtered and loaded into sacks. Workers work here in poisonous toxic fumes. It is believed the work at the factory is even more dangerous, than the work at the sulphur mines.
RM2DH2BG2–Factory worker loads sulphur at the sulphur factory in the village of Tamansari in East Java, Indonesia. Sacks with packed manufactured sulphur are seen in the background. The factory located in the jungle next to the village processes from 9 to 12 tons of sulphur per day delivered here from the nearby sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Sulphur is melted at the factory, then filtered and loaded into sacks. Workers work here in poisonous toxic fumes. It is believed the work at the factory is even more dangerous, than the work at the sulphur mines.
RM2DH2BBB–Factory worker spreads molten and filtered sulphur on the ceramic floor to cool into sheets at the sulphur factory in the village of Tamansari in East Java, Indonesia. When sulphur hardened, it is broken into pieces and loaded into sacks. The factory located in the jungle next to the village processes from 9 to 12 tons of sulphur per day delivered here from the nearby sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Sulphur is melted at the factory, then filtered and loaded into sacks. Workers work here in poisonous toxic fumes. It is believed the work at the factory is even
RM2DH2BFM–Factory worker controls as molten sulphur being filtered at the sulphur factory in the village of Tamansari in East Java, Indonesia. The factory located in the jungle next to the village processes from 9 to 12 tons of sulphur per day delivered here from the nearby sulphur mines in the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Sulphur is melted at the factory, then filtered and loaded into sacks. Workers work here in poisonous toxic fumes. It is believed the work at the factory is even more dangerous, than the work at the sulphur mines.
RM2E34Y15–Miners carry the baskets with sulphur along the edge of the crater of the active volcano of Kawah Ijen in East Java, Indonesia. Every morning two hundreds miners climb down to the bottom of the crater for the next load of sulphur. They fill their baskets with sulphur manually and then carry that heavy load up on feet. Extremely hard work in the clouds of poisonous sulphur dioxide causes hard cough and running eyes almost immediately. However, the miners work without any protection. Just few of them have gas masks. Each miner earns approximately 10 US dollars per a day.
RMDRN1WG–Competition in winter swimming in the Verkh-Neyvinsky Pond near the town of Novouralsk in the Urals Mountains, Russia.
RMDRN1TW–Competition in winter swimming in the Verkh-Neyvinsky Pond near the town of Novouralsk in the Urals Mountains, Russia.
RMC9468J–Church of Saint Barlaam of Khutyn at the Zvanitsa in the Zapskovye district in Pskov, Russia.
RMCNHBRE–Traditional mass carp fishing at the Zehunsky Pond in Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic.
RMC8PPPY–Famous annual steeplechase cross-country run Velka Pardubicka in Pardubice, Czech Republic on 10 October 2010.
RMCNHANX–Church of Zion (1215) in Saghmosavank Monastery in Aragatsotn Province, Armenia.
RM2DJB5G2–Galician aloitadores (horse tamers) struggle with an unbroken horse during the Rapa das Bestas in the village of Sabucedo in Galicia, Spain. Galician horses live free at the highland pastures throughout the year. One day in July six hundred horses are driven together down to the village, where traditional horse taming festival known as the Rapa das Bestas (Shearing of the Beasts) takes place in the round arena known as the curro. Brave local fighters known as the aloitadores have to saddle each horse, maddened after the sudden displacement from the highlands to the arena, and then cut their ta
RM2DJB5MN–Galician unbroken horses fill the curro (round arena) during the Rapa das Bestas in the village of Sabucedo in Galicia, Spain. Galician horses live free at the highland pastures throughout the year. One day in July six hundred horses are driven together down to the village, where traditional horse taming festival known as the Rapa das Bestas (Shearing of the Beasts) takes place in the round arena known as the curro. Brave local fighters known as the aloitadores have to saddle each horse, maddened after the sudden displacement from the highlands to the arena, and then cut their tails and manes.
RMCNGYMP–Czech national championship in natural bodybuilding. Bodybuilders warming up for the competition.
RMCNMR2G–Art Nouveau statues at Svatopluk Cech Bridge over the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic.
RMCNP6TD–Nightclub Teatro in Belgrade, Serbia.
RMEBP8GR–Nepalese children examine an Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) at the Central Zoo in Kathmandu, Nepal.
RMCNY96M–Sunset over Mount Everest (8,848 m) in Khumbu region in the Himalayas, Nepal.
RM2C6APCH–Barefooted woman wearing sari stands on the floor covered with fresh blood of just sacrificed animals in the main sanctuary in the Dakshinkali Temple near Kathmandu, Nepal. One of the major Hindu temples in Nepal dedicated to the goddess Kali is known for its animal sacrifices.
RMCNMR64–Young boy swims in Issyk Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan.
RMCNMR4T–Young boy at the beach on Issyk Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan.
RMDDKFK9–Re-enactment of the 1410 Battle of Grunwald in Northern Poland.
RMCNYAJP–Turkish woman rotates her thumb in the hole in the Weeping Column in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.
RMC8DDM6–Calcio Storico. Football players warm up before the final match before the final match in historical football in Florence, Italy
RMC8D458–Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on the San Giorgio Island in Venice, Italy.
RMC8D44H–Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on the San Giorgio Island in Venice, Italy.
RMC865RP–Lake Bled with the pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary on Bled Island in the Julian Alps, Slovenia.
RMCNHP1N–Traditional annual ball of the Czech Technical University in the Zofin Palace in Prague, Czech Republic.
RMBKA7CD–Graffiti on a marble column of the Propylaea in the Acropolis of Athens in Greece.
RMBK8WJE–Evzones guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Syndagma square in Athens, Greece.
RMB7RG11–Orthodox religious service to Saint Ludmila of Bohemia in St George Basilica at the Prague Castle, Czech Republic.
RMB7RCM5–Orthodox religious service to Saint Ludmila of Bohemia in St George Basilica at the Prague Castle, Czech Republic.
RMC90XH5–Happy visitors with traditional one litre beer masses at the Oktoberfest Beer Festival in Munich, Germany.
RMC9114Y–Company enjoys beer in the Hofbrau Festzelt at the Oktoberfest Beer Festival in Munich, Germany.
RMBM6K1X–Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and a Soviet red star on the staircase the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
RMB3CF4M–Horse trekking in the Altai Mountains, Russia. Horses climbing up to the mountain pass Karaturek.
RMB3CE5D–Young Turkish girls crossing the symbolical line at the place where the Berlin Wall was in Berlin, Germany
RMB3CFPD–One of the participants of the Christopher Street Day Pride in Berlin, Germany
RMB3CERP–Couple kissing in front of Brezhnev and Honecker's kiss pictured on the Berlin Wall in East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany
RMB3CG0R–Two men sitting at the old lantern in front of the Victory Column during the Christopher Street Day Pride in Berlin, Germany
RMB3CFY0–Muscular boy in front of the Victory Column during the Christopher Street Day Pride in Berlin, Germany
RMBKA83M–Children playing in the kindergarten in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
RMBXM3GE–Sunday cattle market in the village of Mirbazar near Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
RMBXM3DR–Sunday cattle market in the village of Mirbazar near Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
RMB3D58P–Carpet shop in Urgench, Uzbekistan
RMB3D5CH–Poultry market in Urgench, Uzbekistan
RMB3D598–Carpet market in Urgench, Uzbekistan
RMB3G80J–Presidential guard of honour during a parade on the Independence Day in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
RMB3NMN4–Carnival participant dressed up as a beer bottle performing during Santo Domingo Carnival, Dominican Republic
RMDRN0GB–Carnival participant dressed up as Diablo Cojuelo (Limping Devil) before the Dominican Carnival in Santo Domingo.
RMB3G7WD–Presidential guard of honour during a parade on the Independence Day in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
RMDRMY4J–Spectaculars wait for a military parade dedicated to the Independence Day at the Malecon in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
RMDRN0DY–Carnival participants covered by splashes of paint perform during the Dominican Carnival in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
RMB0T00R–Carnival participants dressed up as mummies perform during Carnaval Vegano, an annual carnival in La Vega, Dominican Republic
RMC93GWA–Eccentric elderly Cuban woman Graciela Gonzalez also known as Granny Puretta smokes cigar at age 84 in the historical centre in Havana, Cuba.
RMC938R0–Vintage car Chevrolet parked in the historical centre of Havana, Cuba.
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