Kalmar is a pleasant town in Southern Sweden that has many beautiful buildings and one truly historic monument: Kalmar castle, where the Kalmar Union (combining Denmark, Sweden and Norway) was founded in 1397, as a counterweight to the rapidly growing Hanse.
This is one of the most important and most beautiful castles in Sweden.
The elaborate tiles are omnipresent in Southern Spain and Portugal: you find them as decorative elements on houes, but also as street sign, on park benches, in churches and many other likely and unlikely places. The plaza des España in Seville is full of them and even the "Torre del Oro" (Golden Tower) gets its colour from gilded azulejos! Usually, azulejos are mostly blue, as the name seems to indicate (azul=blue), but just about all other colours may be present as well. As to the origin of the name azulejo: although the connection to the Spanish word for "blue" seems obvious, experts ...
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April 29th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Amazing. Did you take all these photographs?
May 30th, 2010 at 5:22 am
What an incredible photo! I love landscape and travel photography and this is one of the most beautiful castle photos I’ve seen. Keep up the good work!