WWasser, Rhine course and river system, place names in English, CC BY-SA 3.0

Felix Koenig, View from Urbar (left side of the river Rhine) onto the Loreley-rock and the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. Up-left the harbour of St. Goarshausen and the city itself, below on the left side the campground of St. Goar, CC BY-SA 3.0

 

Rhine is one of the major european rivers, which has its sources in Switzerland and empts into the North Sea.

The lenght of the Rhine is conventionally measured in “Rhine-Kilometers”, a scale introduced in 1989 which runs from the Old Rhine Bridge to Hoke van Holand. This fact makes it difficult to measure this river objectively. Despite this difficulty, it was cited as 1.232 kilometers long.

An interesting fact about this river, apart of it being measured in “Rhine-Kilometers”, is its importance in the Holy Roman Empire. This importance is now supported by the many castles and fortifications built along it. In the modern era, it has become a symbol of German Nationalism.

Sources

Wikipedia contributors, “Rhine,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhine&oldid=898265969 (accessed May 23, 2019).

Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:Flusssystemkarte Rhein 04.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Flusssystemkarte_Rhein_04.jpg&oldid=281376799 (accessed May 23, 2019).

File:Loreley mit tal von linker rheinseite.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Loreley_mit_tal_von_linker_rheinseite.jpg&oldid=313853302 (last visited May 23, 2019).

 

The river Danube is the second longest river in Europe after the Volga.  This river rises on the Black Forest mountains of western Germany and ends on the Black Sea; it passes trhough ten countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croacia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Danube measures 2850 kilometres. Its waters served as a vital comercial highway between nations. Also, the river’s majesty has been celebrated in music, for example, the famous waltz An der schönen, blauen Donau by Johann Strauss the Younger.

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Early evening view of Budapest with the building of Hungarian Parliament, Chain-bridge and Gellért-hill.

23 April 2010

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Ivanhoe

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File:Panorama of Danube in Vienna.jpg. (2019, January 13). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 08:34, Maty 23, 2019 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Panorama_of_Danube_in_Vienna.jpg&oldid=334685946.

File:Danubemap.png. (2015, January 15). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 08:35, May 23, 2019 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Danubemap.png&oldid=146588937.

Danube River, Enciclopedia Britanicca, Inc., Patricia Garland Pinka and Peter Georgiev Penčev, May 23, 2019, from https://www.britannica.com/place/Danube-River.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Turia is a Spanish river which has its source in the Montes Universales of the northwestern Sistema Ibérico. From its source to approximately the city of Teruel, it is called Guadalaviar river. This river, runs trough the Spanish provinces of Teruel, Cuenca and Valencia and flows into the Mediterranean sea.

The length of the Turia is 280 km and two interesting facts about the river are that the river Turia near its source in the Montes Universales is known as Guadalaviar river until Teruel city and that in the year 1969 this river was divided in two at the western city limits.

Sources

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, January 5). Turia (river). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:35, May 23, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turia_(river)&oldid=877010176 

Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:RTuria1 Benaguasil.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:RTuria1_Benaguasil.jpg&oldid=257497358 (accessed May 23, 2019).

The Great Ouse River is located  in the North Sea of the United Kingdom, it measures 230km and is one the longest rivers in the United Kingdom, its name “ouse” is from the Celtic or pre-Celtic origin and probably means “water”.

Wikipedia contributors, “River Great Ouse,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=River_Great_Ouse&oldid=897338026 (accessed May 23, 2019).

 

Nilfanion, River Great Ouse map, CC BY-SA 3.0

The river Rhône is a river situated in France and Switzerland. It’s one of the longest rivers of Europe (its length is about 2,200 metres ).

The river rises as an affluent of the Rhône Glacier, in the Swiss Alps, and it divides into branches called the Great Rhône and the Little Rhône. Since the roman period it was an important trade route, but the navigation was difficult because in the spring and early summer the river has fierece courrents, when the ice was melting.

Rama, River Rhône, Lake Geneva, cantons of Vaud and Valais, CC BY-SA 2.0

NordNordWest, Drainage basin of Rhône River, English version, CC BY-SA 3.0

 

Sources

Wikipedia contributors. (2018, November 28). Rhône. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:31, May 23, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rh%C3%B4ne&oldid=871062260

Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:Leman img 0573.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Leman_img_0573.jpg&oldid=303657003 (accessed May 23, 2019).

What can you do?

You can visit the cathedral in Arequipa. You can visit old houses.

What can you see?

You can see llamas, an animal which gives wool.

What can you eat?

You can eat mintas: corn, banana, vegetables and other things wrapped in corn peel.

You can eat ceviche: fish, onion, lemon…

You can eat chicharrón: meat of pig,corn..

You can eat sango: corn flour, milk …

What can you do?

You can play skate, you can play outside.

What can you see?

You can meet people.

You can see Punto de Duarte, the highest place in the Dominican Republic.

What can you eat?

You can eat snakes.

You can have pica pollo. It’s made of flour, chicken, vinegar…

You can eat avocado.

You can eat habichuelas con dulce. Beans, milk, sweet potato, raisins, milk biscuits…

What can you hear

You can listen to Reggaeton

You can listen and dance Bachata

You can listen to merengue

You can listen to salsa fiesta de palo, you dance this on St. John’s Eve by bonfires.

What can you do?

I haven’t visited other countries. So I will talk about Galicia. In Galicia you can do many things. You can visit a lot of monuments.

What can you see?

• You can see the roman wall in Lugo.
• You can see the tower of Hércules in A Coruña.
• You can see the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.
• You can see the Catedral Beach in Ribadeo, in the North part of Lugo.

What can you eat?

You can eat soup. You can eat fabada, beans with bacon and spicy sausage.

 

 

What can you do?

In carnival you can go outside and enjoy the rain.

You can skate.

You can play football on the street.

What can you see?

You can see and walk around 9 October Boulevard.

You can see Las Peñas quarter (you can walk up 444 steps to Las Penas, from where you can see the city).

You can see Malecon 2000.

What can you eat?

You can eat rice with fish and patacones, fried green bananas (served with lemon).

You can eat ceviche with shrimps.

You can eat encebollado, a typical fish soup with onion, coriander, rice, and other things)

You can eat chicken dry (rice with chicken and crushed vegetables).

Prawny, Watercolour, CC0 1.0

There is a house and a garden in the picture. The house is pink and orange. There are green trees and there are white flowers. The flowers have different colours in the middle: green, red, orange, blue, pink, purple, yellow… The sun is shining. The sky is blue. The house has three windows. The windows are white and the door is green.