Monday, July 12, 2010

Belfast Webcam - Orange Order March 2010

Belfast City Hall, looking out at Donegall Square North and Donegall Place

A feature of the summer in Northern Ireland are the various marches that take place in the country.

Orange walks are a series of parades held annually by members of the Orange Order during the summer in Northern Ireland, to a lesser extent in Scotland, and occasionally in England, the Republic of Ireland, and throughout the Commonwealth. These typically build up to the 12 July celebrations which mark Prince William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the term 'march' or 'parade' is widely used in the media, the Order prefers terms such as 'walk' or 'demonstration'.

The main march through Belfast on the 12th July will be covered by this webcam view, from Belfast City Hall, looking out at Donegall Square North and Donegall Place

Madrid Webcam - Torre Caja Madrid Web Cam

Madrid city skyline, Chamartín railway station, and Torre Caja de Madrid

After a tournament lasting a full month, the World Cup 2010 finally crowned their champions last night, with European Champions Spain emerging as worthy winners.

The morning after has dawned bright as the the country wakes up to their new status as Champions of the World.

This is the live view of the Torre Caja Madrid (Spanish: Caja Madrid Tower), a skyscraper located in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. With a height of 250 m (820 ft) and 45 floors, it is the tallest of the four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, surpassing Torre de Cristal by less than a metre.

Designed by Lord Foster, it was first known as Torre Repsol and would have served as headquarters for Repsol YPF oil and gas company. During the construction of the tower, Repsol decided to change the location of its future headquarters and the financial institution Caja Madrid purchased the building for €815 million in August 2007. Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) (Spanish for Four Towers Business Area) is a business park located in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid (Spain), on the former Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid.

The area contain the tallest skyscrapers in Madrid and Spain (Torre Espacio, Torre de Cristal, Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso and Torre Caja Madrid). The construction of the buildings finished in 2008. Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain.[3] The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million (as of December 2009); the entire population of the metropolitan area (urban area and suburbs) is calculated to be 6,386,932. It is the third-most populous municipality in the European Union

Eiffel Tower Webcam - Bastille Day in Paris

Live view of the Eiffel Tower

Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities are held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic.

There is a live webcam view from central Paris for this event.

Dubrovnik Webcam - Summer Festival 2010

View of Dubrovnik city streets

Dubrovnik Summer Festival is an annually-held summer festival instituted in 1949, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in the period July 10th - August 25th.

In a unique ambient of open and closed scenes of Renaissance-Baroque city of Dubrovnik a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance is presented annually. President of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Ivo Josipović will host the Dubrovnik Summer Festival’s representatives: General manager Ivica Prlender with his associates Ivan Repušić and Dora Ruždjak on June 16 at 11 o'clock. The Festival representatives will traditionally invite the President to attend the Opening Ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival on July 10. Festival's sales office on Stradun is opened from July 1st, with working hours from 9am till 11pm every day. Apart from Stradun, all guests can buy the tickets in Festival's Palace (Od Sigurate 1 street) or online.

Paphos Webcam - Live Cyprus Mediterranean View

View of the Paphos coast from Chlorakas Hill

A popular webcam view comes from the west coast of the island of Cyprus, looking towards Paphos (Pafos) and the Mediterranean.

Paphos is a coastal city in the southwest of Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: Old Paphos and New Paphos. The currently inhabited city is New Paphos.

Near Palaepaphos (Old Paphos) at the seaside of Petra-tou-Romiou is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty and the founding myth is interwoven with the goddess at every level, so that Old Paphos became the most famous and important place for worshipping Aphrodite in the ancient world. In Greco-Roman times Paphos was the island's capital, and it is famous for the remains of the Roman governor's palace, where extensive, fine mosaics are a major tourist attraction. The apostle Paul of Tarsus visited the town during the first century. The town of Paphos is included in the official UNESCO list of cultural and natural treasures of the world's heritage.