Costa Cruises is a Carnival Corporation cruise line based in Genoa. The 92,700 GT Costa Deliziosa pictured above entered service in 2010. This image was created as the Deliziosa departed Trieste, Italy.
The Transparent Factory is car factory and exhibition space in Dresden, Germany owned by German carmaker Volkswagen and designed by architect Gunter Henn. It originally opened in 2002, producing the Volkswagen Phaeton until 2016. As of 2017 it produces the electric version of the Golf.
The Transparent Factory is situated in the city center of Dresden, an 800-year-old baroque city known for its arts and craftsmanship. It stands in a corner of the Großer Garten, where a convention center was located before the second world war. The factory's walls are made almost completely of glass. Its floors are covered entirely in Canadian maple. Its visitor-friendly layout was designed to accommodate up to 250 tourists per day. There are no smokestacks, no loud noises, and no toxic byproducts. Volkswagen planted 350 trees in the grounds.
Dating back to pre-Roman times, the town of Pavia, then known as Ticinum, was a municipality and an important military site (a castrum) under the Roman Empire. The Roman city most likely began as a small military camp, built by the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio in 218 BC to guard a wooden bridge he had built over the river Ticinum, on his way to search for Hannibal, who was rumoured to have managed to lead an army including 29 elephants over the Alps and into Italy.
Tooradin Airfield is a privately owned field located 4 km east of Tooradin town centre, on the South Gippsland Highway. It is home to Adventure Wings, Commando Skydivers, Tooradin Flying School and Fins Restaurant.
The airfield is situated on 27 hectares (67 acres) of land and has one bitumen runway (04/22) of 950m (3,117 ft) with lighting, one grass strip of 360m (1,181 ft) and a 310m (1,017 ft) gravel strip. There's a derelict freighter ship behind the runway. It can be seen on the Gippsland highway. The ship is named the Edwina May.