Trieste Cliff

Near Trieste, Italy photographed by Anthony Stewart for National Geographic in 1956

Matching

An artist painting a picture of a statue of a Flemish artists in Bruges, Belgium, May 1955

National Geographic

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square, London

National Geographic Magazine

September 1953

Timgad

Timgad, Algeria

George Steinmetz

National Geographic

'Rome imposed its sense of order all across the empire. The town of Thamugadi was laid out on a grid-style plan and included a market (at center), ceremonial gates, more than a dozen bath complexes, a library, and a theater that could seat 3,500.'

Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias

Martin Gray

National Geographic

'When archaeologist Kenan Erim first saw the site in Turkey where the classical city of Aphrodisias once stood, it was a tumbled ruin, weed-choked and overgrown. But over the next two decades (1966-1988), his painstaking excavations revealed an astonishingly complete city—a "miracle in marble" with plazas, public baths, and a Temple of Aphrodite (above)—that flourished for seven centuries before wars and earthquakes forced its abandonment.'

Timgad

Timgad, Algeria

George Steinmetz

National Geographic

'This triumphal arch awed visitors to the city of Thamugadi, founded by the emperor Trajan around A.D. 100 as a civilian settlement near the fort of Lambaesis. The grooves left by wagon and chariot wheels can still be seen in the stone road.'

Pinguini

Ralph Lee Hopkins

National Geographic

'A group of chinstrap penguins lines the edge of an iceberg adrift in Antarctic waters. Chinstraps are among the most abundant penguins, and some colonies live on floating icebergs.'

Garibaldi Glacier

Garibaldi Glacier

Richard Nowitz

National Geographic

'The massive bulk of Garibaldi Glacier slowly spills into Garibaldi Fjord in Tierra del Fuego—the archipelago at the southern tip of South America. The aquatic endpoint of such a glacier is known as a terminus.'

Amman

Amman, Jordan

Robert Clark

National Geographic

'Imposing architecture and art followed Roman armies to the farthest flung corners of the empire. The curled fingers were part of a statue that may have stood over 40 feet tall at the Temple of Hercules, in Amman, Jordan, around A.D. 160. Romans knew the city as Philadelphia.'

Mount Rocciamelone

Mount Rocciamelone, Italia

Roberto Bertero

National Geographic

Landmannalaugar

Landmannalaugar, Iceland

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Orangerie

Orangerie, Versailles

Tracy Weddle

National Geographic

Ireland

 

Ireland

Jim Richardson

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Killiney Beach

Killiney Beach, Dublin County, Ireland
James O'Gorman

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Lavender Fields

 

Lavender Fields, Provence, France

Shaun Egan

National Geographic

Il Calcio

Footballers playing by an ancient aqueduct in Rome, 1957

Anthony Stewart

National Geographic

Tre Cime di Lavaredo

Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italia

Andrea Visca

National Geographic

Assisi

Assisi, Perugia, Italia

Justin Guariglia

National Geographic

Godafoss, Iceland

Godafoss, Iceland

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Il senso della vita

Norbert Rosing

National Geographic Italia

This adorable photograph of a polar bear with a husky in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, is part of an exhibition, Il senso della vita, The Meaning of Life, curated by Guglielmo Pepe on exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizione di Roma.