Viewpoints – Placecloud

Viewpoints – Placecloud

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  • It looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys
    The Hague, The Netherlands. The Gevangenenpoort, Prisoner’s Gate, here in The Hague, from 1420 until 1828, was used for housing people who had committed serious crimes while they awaited sentencing. It has since then been home to a literary club, a museum, and an art gallery.
    It’s also the location where, the only time in world history, a prime minister was eaten by his people.
    7 min
  • Amazones, en Amazones
    Terme, Türkiye. We bevinden ons hier een paar kilometer buiten het stadje Terme, aan de zuidelijke oevers van de Zwarte Zee, in Turkije. Recht voor ons zien we een standbeeld van een Amazone krijger, met gespannen pijl en boog.
    13 min
  • Will the real Amazon please stand up?
    Terme, Türkiye. We find ourselves a few kilometers outside of the small town of Terme, on the southern shores of the Black Sea, in Turkey. Just ahead, we can see a statue of an Amazonian warrior, raising a bow and arrow.
    12 min
  • As origens contestadas de Fortaleza
    Fortaleza, Brazil. O estado brasileiro do Ceará é uma das regiões mais pobres do Brasil. O PIB per capita é apenas um terço do das pessoas no estado de São Paulo, e nem mesmo um quinto do que se vê na região do Distrito Federal, ao redor da capital Brasília.
    6 min
  • De betwiste oorsprong van Fortaleza
    Fortaleza, Brazil. De Braziliaanse deelstaat Ceará is een van de armere regio’s van het land. Het BBP per hoofd van de bevolking bedraagt slechts een derde van dat van de inwoners van de deelstaat São Paulo, en nog niet eens een vijfde van dat van de regio rond de hoofdstad Brasília.
    7 min
  • The contested origins of Fortaleza
    Fortaleza, Brazil. The Brazilian state of Ceará is one of the poorer regions of Brazil. The GDP per capita is just a third of that of the people in the state of Sao Paulo, and not even a fifth of those in the district around the capital of Brasilia.
    7 min

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Cultural researchers talk about the hidden stories of the places around you.