Europe

After years of wrangling and debate over the privacy issues, Street View images are finally available for 20 of Germany's largest cities. To secure release of the images Google had to allow Germans to opt-out of having their house on…

The three Aran Islands are in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland and are named Inis Mór (Inishmore - Big Island), Inis Meáin (Inishmaan - Middle Island) and Inis Oírr (Inisheer - East Island). Like The Burren, which…

The Burren is a distinctive limestone landscape and national park in County Clare on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The recent release of Street View images from Ireland allow us to get a close-up look at the beauty of this barren scenery1.…

Gammelstad, in northern Sweden, is the best preserved example of a Scandinavian Church Town - a type of community that developed solely to house members of a Church congregation who lived too far away to be able to get there…

Four weeks ago, Google launched their Street View service in the Republic of Ireland. Google had been capturing pictures1 of Irish cities, towns and countryside over the previous year. So where were you the day the circus came to town?…

James Turrell is an enigmatic American artist known for playing with the viewer's concepts of light and space. His creations include an ambitious series of works called Skyspaces, of which Roden Crater is the most notable example where a series…