Archive for December 15th, 2005

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 editors: James & Alex

Herrenhausen Gardens

Thursday, 15th December 2005 by James

The Royal Herrenhausen Gardens comprises of the Grosser Garten, Georgengarten, Welfengarten and Berggarten. I’m not much of a garden expert but apparently the most important movements in the garden arts can be found here: French Baroque, the English landscape garden and the botanical garden. To me it looks like lots of cool shapes. :D

(More info and “Bird’s Eye” photography on the official site.)

Thanks: Sandor Höpfner

Peru (heart) Large Type

Thursday, 15th December 2005 by James

Nowhere in the world do they like putting large type on the hills as much as they do in Peru. A lot of these messages refer to political parties such as the UPP (Union for Peru) and Somos Peru so were presumably written around the Peru elections of April 2001.

There’s absolutly loads of things, a lot of which I either can’t make out in Google Local or can’t understand as I don’t speak Spanish, such as here, here, here, here and here! You might find it easier to view them all on our embedded map or in Google Earth.

Thanks: Tim, Ali, Niklas Bergius, Uwe Rose