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Rolling hills landscape, San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy

San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, which, with its hilltop setting and encircling walls form an unforgettable skyline. Within the walls, the well-preserved buildings include notable examples of both Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with outstanding examples of secular buildings as well as churches. The Palazzo Comunale, the Collegiate Church and Church of Sant Agostino contain frescos, including cycles dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. The Historic Centre of San Gimignano, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

© Tom Norring/Danita Delimont

Sunlight streaming through early morning mist in redwood forest, Redwood National Park, California, USA

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are old growth temperate rainforests located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968) and Californias Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks (dating from the 1920s), the combined RNSP contain 139, 000 acres (560 km2). Located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, the four parks, together, protect 45 percent of all remaining coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) old growth forests, totalling at least 38, 982 acres (157.75 km2)

© Judith Zimmerman / DanitaDelimont.com

Kogel Bay or False Bay Landscape Photo in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve at Sunset, Western Cape Province, South Africa

Landscape photo of the rock faces of Kogel Bay or also known as CoolBay in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve which is a Biodiversity hot-spot near Cape Town, South Africa. The Kogelberg is a range of mountains along the False Bay coast in the Western Cape of South Africa. They form part of the Cape Fold Belt, starting south of the Elgin valley and forming a steep coastal range as far as Kleinmond. The Kogelberg area has the steepest and highest drop directly into the ocean of any southern African coastal stretch. The mountains are made predominantly of Table Mountain Sandstone and form some very rugged terrain, which is extremely rich in fynbos, the native Cape flora

© Mitchell Krog