Landmarks of the world

The Camargue is a regional natural park in France, located in the delta of France's largest river, the Rhone, near the Mediterranean Sea. It occupies 857 km2. It was founded in 1928, on the initiative of the Head of the French National Society for the Conservation of Nature, Professor Louis Mangin. ...

Wuishan is a national park of China, which is a mountain range stretching over more than 1,000 km2. The territory of the park itself is approximately 70 km2. The average height of the mountains is 650 meters, and the maximum is 2,158 meters at Mount Wuishan. Due to its biological and cultural value,...

Wutaishan is a national park of China in Shanxi Province. The name translates as "Mountain of five heights", which got its name due to 5 roundish peaks: Western, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central. The maximum height of the mountain is 3,058 meters, and the area of the park itself is 367 km2. ...

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yulongxueshan) is a national park in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. The highest altitude in the mountain range is 5,596 meters. The mountains are covered with a dense blanket of snow, which can fall off at any moment. In the Jade Dragon Pond in Lijiang City, you ca...

Mount Emei is a national park in China's Sichuan Province. Emei, as well as Putoshan, Wutaishan and Jiuhuashan are sacred mountains of the Buddhist religion. Because of this, there were over 100 temples and monasteries in this region before the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Right now, there are about...

Huangshan National Park is a national park in the Anhui Province of China, three hundred kilometers from Shanghai. Granite rocks in the mountains inspired Chinese poets and landscape painters, one of the poets Li Bo in 747 named this place the "Yellow Mountains" (Huangshan). Over 70 mountains have a...

Sanqingshan is a national park of China in Jiangxi Province, spread over an area of 229.5 km2. In 2008, this area was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Sanqing literally translates as the Three Righteous, and there are statues of him in the Taoist temple: Lao Tzu, the Yellow Emperor, and t...

Ecrins is a national park in France occupying the Western Alps, containing the Pelva mountain range, which houses a nature reserve with the same name. The park was founded in 1963 on an area of 918 km2. The borders of the park run along the rivers Romansh, Durance, Guizan and Drak. The height of the...

Nizhny Kama is a national park of Russia located in the Republic of Tatarstan. The park was founded in 1991 on a territory of 265 km2. The park's border runs next to Yelabuga and Naberezhnye Chelny and Nizhnekamsk. The landscape of the area is undulating, divided by rivers and streams, as well as di...

Orlovskoye Polesie is a national park of Russia, founded in 1994. The park's territory covers 777 km2. The attractiveness and uniqueness of the territory of the national park is given by the beauty of the natural landscape and the presence of unique objects, as well as its connection with the cultur...