Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
The Volvo factory in Wroclaw has been churning out buses for over 10 years and has the famous Volvo logo emblazoned across the roof.
Regular Sightseers will tell you that where there’s large type on a factory there’s almost always an airport nearby, but in this case there’s no airport to be found. I wonder why they went to all the effort then?
Thanks: ArCgon & Marcin jakub Korzonek
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Interestingly shaped apartment blocks not too far away from the Volvo factory:
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There is an international airport in Wroclaw. On the opposite side of the city, but it is there.
there is an airport - straight to the west - when plane is take off it is just over volvo factory roof