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Halloween 2013

Photography by Peter Gehrke. (source)

Åsgatan in Falun 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 130 Åsgatan 12 is located in Falun, a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with close to 100,000 inhabitants. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine, and is today an important service and industrial city even though […]

Calata Marconi in Portofino – I

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 124 Calata Marconi is located in the Italian fishing village Portofino, now an upmarket resort famous for its picturesque harbour and historical association with celebrity visitors. It is located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The town is crowded round its small harbour, is closely associated with […]

Most beautiful Formula One cars

At Jalopnik.com, a great discussion was started about which were the most beautiful Formula One cars, the best F1 liveries. This made me think about my favourites: On october 8, Speedmonkey.com had an article about my Formula One pages with the title ‘Every f1 car livery ever in one place’. Their comment: It shows the […]

Nine o’clock Gun on Stanley Park Dr in Vancouver – CAN 🇨🇦

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 123 From Stanley Park Dr on Stanley Park, you get a wonderfull view on downtown Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. The two buildings seen on the photo from 1959 are the Marine Building (more information) and Hotel Vancouver (more information), now know as Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. The little […]

Via Prenestina in Rome – I 🇮🇹

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 121 The Via Prenestina is a street in Rome, the capital of Italy. It was an ancient Roman road of central Italy. It was initially called Via Gabina, from Gabii, the ancient city of Latium where it ended. It received the new name having been prolonged to Praeneste (modern Palestrina); […]

Fiumicino Airport in Rome – I 🇮🇹

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 120 Fiumicino – Leonardo da Vinci International Airport or Rome Fiumicino Airport, also simply known as Fiumicino Airport, is Italy’s largest airport with 37.7 million passengers served in 2011, located in Fiumicino, 35.0 km west southwest of Rome’s historic city centre. The airport serves as a hub for Alitalia, the […]

Rue Gagnon in Quebec – CAN

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 119 Quebec is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec.It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about 233 km to the southwest. The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River proximate to the city’s promontory, Cape Diamond, and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided […]

Treasure Island Road and Avenue of the Palms on Treasure Island in San Francisco – USA 🇺🇸

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 118 Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, and an emerging neighborhood of San Francisco. The island is entirely within the City and County of San Francisco, whose territory extends far into San Francisco Bay and includes a tip of Alameda […]

Heerengracht St Cape Town – SA

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 122 Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad) is the second-most populated city in South Africa after Johannesburg. The city is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, as well as for such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Located on the shore […]