The “Park of the hydraulic animals” is the main tourist and cultural facility of La Roche-sur-Yon, France. At the heart of Place Napoléon, 13 animals of wood and steel are present today.
The story goes that when Napoleon founded the town in 1804, scholars who had returned from his expedition to Egypt chose La Roche-sur-Yon to …
MoreThe fauna of Catalonia is largely composed of a combination of a minority of endemic animals of the region and a majority of animals that are also present in other places. Most of Catalonia enjoys a Mediterranean climate (except mountain regions), which means that many of the animals that live there are adapted to the …
MorePhotography by Stefano Paletti: Pyrenees landscapes. A horse in the mountains
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MoreDrawings of animals by Joan Mañé
MoreStatue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree. Madrid 2018
MoreA monument “The horse in a coat.” Mosfilm studio
MorePhotography by Stefano Paletti: Pyrenean chamois
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Morephoto: Stefano Paletti
Flora and fauna of the world: Andorra
Flora and fauna of the world: Andorra
The plant cover (flora of Andorra) is rather diverse, mostly dominated by 1) deciduous trees: oak, chestnut, beech, box; and 2) conifers: fir-trees, pine, silver fir and different types of junipers. There are vast alpine and subalpine meadows …
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