The largest falls in Europe - 150 metres wide and 23 metres high - are located on the High Rhine, northern Switzerland, between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich, at about 400 metres altitude and not far from the border with Germany.

The Rhine falls at Neuhausen am Rheinfall - canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

[Portuguese post on April 15th, 2008]

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Comment by Neuhausen - 2008-12-16 - 20:42:31
I love the flow of water. It is such a nice place to go visit it.

Comment by AM.MA - 2008-12-17 - 19:13:04
Indeed it is.
I didn't know about «your» Neuhausen auf den Fildern - it also looks like a nice place!

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Surprising and charming - the Water Volcanoes were one of the major attractions along the Alameda dos Oceanos, ten years ago, by the time of Lisbon Expo '98.

Alameda dos Oceanos during Lisbon Expo '98 (the site is now known as Park of the Nations, Parque das Nações).

NOTE: See also some very good pictures by Dias dos Reis.

[Portuguese post on April 9th, 2008]

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- is usually celebrated on March 22nd, since Rio Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) in 1992.
This year it was exceptionally celebrated on March 20th.

Water is a precious natural resource, that civilised and developed countries cheerfully waste. Just look at the irrigating systems (baddly)working in Portuguese private and public gardens...

Safe and free drinking water - two examples in Europe: left, on the side of a mountain walk (Wengen, Swiss Alps); right, at the Olhão waterfront (Algarve, Portugal).

And yet water is a scarce and almost inaccessible resource for large millions of people on Earth, for drinking as for hygiene and sanitation: Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of the abysmal sanitation conditions endured by some 2.6 billion people globally (excerpt from the message of the United Nations Secretary-General for World Water Day 2008 - read more in World Water Day '08 web site).

[Portuguese post on Mar 20th, 2008]

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Comment by Pilia Emmanuele - 2008-06-11 - 16:47:13
Niclely... So rustic! :)

Comment by AM.MA - 2008-06-11 - 18:24:24
The water on the left image looks so fresh and cool that we feel like drinking it!
And somehow it reminds us of japanese gardens (that's also why my japanese friend took the picture).

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... you must remember to teach your children that the rivers are our brothers, and yours, and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness that you would give my brother.
Indian Chief Seattle's reply, in 1854, to The Great White Chief in Washington Franklin Pierce, who had made an offer to buy a large area of Indian land - this document was published by the United Nations for the celebration of World Environment Day in 1976.

Ethnographic Park [select Museos » Parque Etnográfico] and the Arnoia River, at Allariz - Ourense, Galicia - Spain.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
(idem, ibidem)

[NOTE: Because of some html limitations, it is not possible to insert a direct link to the Ethnographic Park web page. Here is the full document, in spanish].

[Portuguese post on Mar 3rd, 2008]

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[The original portuguese post starts with an excerpt from a Miguel Torga's poem].

A stream by Santa Maria das Júnias' Monastery, Montalegre (Montalegre means Cheerful Mount).

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Light - shade. Heat - coolness. Green - white. Outside - inside. Movement - quietness. Sound - silence ...

The gardens of Generalife (Granada, Spain), one of the oldest surviving Moorish gardens, are part of a major cultural site in the UNESCO's World Heritage List - Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín.

Ponds and bowls, channels and fountains, spouts and sprinkles:
the water (movement - quietness, sound - silence) is the essence.

[Portuguese post on Feb 6th, 2008]

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Running water on limestone channels at Quinta das Lágrimas - Coimbra, Portugal.

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Running water onto granite pond at Santa Maria das Júnias Monastery, Peneda-Gerês National Park - Montalegre, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on Jan 25th, 2008]

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[...] and seemed to have not listened to that vegetable heart's all gratefulness:
- Thank you, Lady Rain...
(adapted translation from Brasilian - José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Rosinha Minha Canoa).

[Portuguese post on Jan 7th, 2008]

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