Beyondia

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 59: The Cotswolds The Cotswolds is a rural region in central-southern England, covering approximately 2,038 square kilometres across parts of six English counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Somerset). The region is characterised by a specific geological formation — the […]

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 58: London London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the seat of the British monarchy, the location of the Palace of Westminster (the meeting place of the British Parliament since the 11th century), and one of the largest,

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 57: Porto In the second century AD, the Romans called it Portus Cale — the twin port complex at the mouth of the Douro river, with Portus on the northern bank and Cale on the southern bank. Over the following seven

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 56: Coimbra Every evening at closing time, the librarians of the Biblioteca Joanina spread leather sheets across the reading tables to protect them, and open the small ventilation apertures under the roof. Small bats fly in from the surrounding gardens and

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 55: Lisbon On the morning of All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1755, at approximately 9:40 in the morning, an earthquake of estimated magnitude 8.5 to 9.0 struck 200 kilometres off the coast of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean. The initial shaking

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 54: Évora Inside the Igreja de São Francisco in Évora, three Franciscan friars in the early 1600s built a small chapel eighteen metres long by eleven metres wide. They decorated its walls, columns, and ceiling with the exhumed skeletons of approximately

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 53: Lagos Between 1418 and 1460, a small Portuguese port on the southern Algarve coast served as the operational base for a systematic project of Atlantic exploration that produced, across four decades, the first coherent European maps of the African coast,