https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/channel/54/arcadia-tv-global-treasures/ Arcadia TV - Global Treasures en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:40:22 +0200 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:40:22 +0200 HedexTV - Online Television and VOD Platform - RSS Generator https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5665/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5665/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 23:08:47 +0200
                                          NÜRNBERG Nuremberg is the secret capital of German Franconia and was the treasure trove of the German Reich. The twin-towered St. Lorenz Church is the largest and artistically most important religious building ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5664/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5664/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 23:04:08 +0200
                                       EDINBURGH   In the centre of the old town, Edinburgh Castle sits atop the basalt cone of a long-extinct volcano. It is the most visited castle in Scotland and still guarded by soldiers but it is now mainly tourist...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5663/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5663/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 22:58:59 +0200
                                         TANUM   On the west coast of Sweden, north of Gothenburg and set amid rolling hills, is a small reconstructed Bronze Age village, the museum village of Tanum. Beginning in the third millennium B.C., the North Eu...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5662/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5662/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 22:56:21 +0200
                                          DRESDEN   Dresden is the capital of the German Free State of Saxony and a major centre of culture with a remarkable history. The Wettner Dynasty developed the old town during eight hundred years of power and Fr...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5661/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5661/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 22:49:04 +0200
                                       TANA HAYIK   On many of its thirty seven islands, Lake Tana in Northern Ethiopia is well known for its ancient churches and monasteries where tropical vegetation covers the volcanic cone that protrudes like an isl...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5660/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5660/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 22:44:03 +0200
                                        KOURION   An ancient ruined city of immense dimensions, Kourion is one of the most interesting archaeological sites on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Tourists from all over the world vi...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5659/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5659/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 22:34:58 +0200
                                   CIDADE VELHA   The Cape Verde Islands are set within the Atlantic Ocean with an impressive landscape and diverse culture. It was not until 1445 that the fifteen islands of the region were discovered and subsequently b...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5658/global-treasures-visby/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5658/global-treasures-visby/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:53:56 +0200
                                            VISBY   Visby is a city of both roses and ruins and capital of the Baltic island of Gotland in south east Sweden. It is one of the most important Hanse towns with a well conserved mediaeval cityscape. Since 1...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5657/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5657/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:52:03 +0200
                                         AKSUM   Historic Aksum, in northern Ethiopia, was once the capital of a mighty kingdom. On the site of two previous religious buildings, its ancient cathedral was last rebuilt in 1665. Thrones constructed of sto...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5656/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5656/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:47:55 +0200
                                          HARAR   In the east of Ethiopia is the historic city of Harar which, after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, is regarded by Muslims to be the fourth holiest city in the world. The whole of the old town is surrounded...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5655/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5655/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:44:04 +0200
                                         BOYANA   In a suburb of Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, and located on the slopes of the Vitoscha Mountains, is the country’s most worshipped-in historic building, Boyana Church. It actually comprises three churches...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5654/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5654/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:40:41 +0200
                                             OHRID Ohrid and the lake of the same name are situated in the south west of Macedonia and the ‘pearl’ of all Macedonian towns has a long and colourful history. It became the centre of Orthodox Christianity i...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5653/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5653/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:36:30 +0200
                                         GONDAR   Gondar is a city of palaces and castles: Ethiopia in the seventeenth century. For the first time in the country’s history, Kaiser Fasilidas began with the construction of a walled palace. Until then, th...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5652/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5652/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:30:02 +0200
                            PALEA & KATO PAPHOS   In ancient times, Paphos was for six hundred years the capital of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and an archaeological location that became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The area inludes Palea and K...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5651/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5651/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:26:51 +0200
                                     ISLA DE CHILOÉ   The Isla Grande De Chiloé is located off the west coast of southern Chile in the Pacific Ocean. It features amazing timber-built churches, an undulating landscape and villages supported by posts. In...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5650/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5650/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:22:10 +0200
                                       LALIBELA   In the mountainous highlands of Ethiopia lies an extraordinary treasure of the history of mankind, the eleven rock churches of Lalibela. In the thirteenth century the famous Amhara sovereign, King Lalib...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5649/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5649/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:17:50 +0200
                                     INGAPIRCA   The southern sierra of Ecuador is a green and fertile landscape. The Andes becomes flatter in this region and the peaks of the volcanoes are free from snow. Ingapirca is the most important monument of In...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5648/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5648/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:11:59 +0200
                                         KYKKOS   In the heart of the mediaeval island of Cyprus are the isolated and unspoiled Troodos Mountains that contain the finest and largest monasteries on the island. Kykkos is located some distance from the ne...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5647/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5647/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:08:18 +0200
                        HUMBERSTONE & SANTA LAURA   Abandoned mine settlements in the hot and dry pampas in the north of Chile are silent witnesses of an important era of the country’s industrial history. In the basins between the coastal cordilleras a...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5646/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5646/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 17:04:12 +0200
                         SVETI ALEKSANDÂR NEVSKI In Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, is the Balkan Peninsula’s most splendid religious building of the twentieth century, the Aleksandăr Nevski Cathedral, a huge structure that dominates the highest point of t...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5645/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5645/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 16:59:10 +0200
                                           UGLIČ On the upper reaches of the Volga, around two hundred and eighty kilometres north of Moscow, is the Russian town of Uglič. The Dimitrijvskaija Church is crowned with blue, onion-shaped domes that are ado...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5644/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5644/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 16:55:34 +0200
                                      REGENSBURG Regensburg is Germany’s mediaeval wonder and capital of the Bavarian Oberpfalz which is often described as Italy’s most northerly city. Much prized in Europe and designated by UNESCO as a unique cultural...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5643/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5643/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 16:51:48 +0200
                                     VALPARAISO The city of Valparaiso or, Paradise Valley, is around a hundred and twenty kilometres from the capital of Santiago De Chile on the Pacific coast. The most important harbour city in South America has a lon...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5642/global-treasures-troodos-ekklisies/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5642/global-treasures-troodos-ekklisies/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:59:26 +0200
                               TROODOS KKLISIES Cypress, the third largest island in the Mediterranean that, due to its proximity to the Holy Land, was one of the first countries to which Christianity was introduced. With their wellpreserved churches, ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5641/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5641/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:56:57 +0200
                      NAPOLI CENTRO STORICO ANTICO   Porta Capuano is Europe’s largest ancient town and is located in Naples, a southern Italian city situated within a bay near to Mount Vesuvius. The Via Dei Tribunali is one of three main streets that ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5640/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5640/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:55:25 +0200
                                        GÖREME   In the heart of Turkey, in Cappadocia, is the Göreme Valley, a miracle of nature. The main village nestles amid a strange landscape whose many striking stone cones are called Fairy Chimneys and volcanic ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5639/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5639/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:52:46 +0200
                         KIEVO PECHERSKA LAVRA   Kievo Pecherska Lavra is one of the oldest, most important and largest monastery complexes of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Holy Gate of the Trinity-Gate-Church is the main entrance into Kiev’s cave m...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5638/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5638/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:51:01 +0200
                                  SERGIJEV POSAD   Around seventy kilometres north of Moscow is Sergijev Posad, a monastery city named after its founder, Sergij Radoneschkij. During the fourteenth century one of the main centres of the Russian Orthodox...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5637/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5637/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:48:31 +0200
                                        XANTHOS   The ancient city of Xanthos lies on the southern Aegean coast that is today known as western Turkey. The ruins are the result of a transient history with evidence to suggest Lycian, Hellenic, Roman and ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5636/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5636/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:46:45 +0200
                                         OLINDA Olinda is one of the most well preserved colonial towns in Brazil. It was once the capital of the federal state of Pernambuco on the Atlantic coast and in 1982 was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5635/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5635/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:43:25 +0200
                               RILSKI MANASTIR   Rilski Manastir is the most splendid symbol of Orthodox Christianity in Bulgaria. It is located amid a wooded mountain wilderness in the west of Bulgaria and is the country’s oldest and largest monastery...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5634/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5634/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:39:41 +0200
                                         CUENCA   In the south of Ecuador, within a high valley surrounded by the mighty peaks of the Andes, is the country’s third largest city, Cuenca, an historic World Heritage Site in which the Tomebamba River divid...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5633/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5633/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:36:16 +0200
                             HIERAPOLIS PAMUKKALE   In the highlands of western Turkey is the ancient city of Hierapolis above the famous terraces of Pamukkale, a unique wonder of nature that was well appreciated by those who lived there in ancient tim...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5632/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5632/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:34:00 +0200
                                     PETROPOLIS   Petropolis was an ancient city of Empire. It is situated around sixty kilometres north of Rio De Janeiro amid the mountains of the Serra Petropolis. A number of fine buildings and a lovely setting are a...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5631/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5631/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:26:35 +0200
                                       KREMLIN   Vasiliya Blazhennovo Khram, Basilius Cathedral, is a landmark of the great Russian metropolis of Moscow. It is the cathedral in which the Holy Wassilij was buried and was built under the command of Musco...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5630/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5630/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:23:20 +0200
                               SOFIYSKY SOBOR   In the centre of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, a unique monument of both architecture and culture dominates the upper city, Sofiysky Sobor Cathedral. The imposing four-levelled bell tower looks as though ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5629/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5629/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:12:14 +0200
                                    MATKHANDOUSH   Situated in southern Libya is a remarkable, dried out river valley, the Wadi Matkhandoush. At first sight although the valley looks rather insignificant it actually contains a unique treasure of Mankin...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5628/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5628/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:09:26 +0200
                                         PARATY   On the Costa Verde between Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paolo is a gem of Brazil’s past colonial times, Paraty. It continues to be protected by the rusty old canons and dense walls of the Forte Defensor Perpe...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5627/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5627/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 15:01:34 +0200
                                          GHAT   Ghat is the only large oasis in the south west of Libya and once an important caravan stop at the junction of several caravan routes. Even today it is an important centre for the Tuareg of this region. T...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5626/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5626/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:57:55 +0200
                               ANGRA DO HEROISMO   Terceira is one of the Azores’ Islands within the Atlantic Ocean situated around fifteen hundred kilometres from the Portuguese mainland with Angra Do Heroismo as its capital.In the fifteenth and sixte...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5625/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5625/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:49:55 +0200
                                           QUITO   In Quito, Ecuador, La Basilica is situated on one of the city’s northern hills and is one of Quito’s earliest religious buildings. Its construction began in 1892 and, a hundred years later, it was cons...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5624/global-treasures-tuvkhunii-hyid/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5624/global-treasures-tuvkhunii-hyid/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:33:10 +0200
                                 TUVKHUNII HYID   Mongolia is one of the last unspoiled regions on Earth with endless pastureland, wild horsemen located amid a fascinating landscape along with huge herds of cattle and horses. In the north of Orkhon Val...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5623/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5623/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:31:08 +0200
                                       MALACCA   Malacca is the oldest city on the southwest coast of the Malaysian Peninsula and boasts six hundred years of history. The great stone gate of the Porta De Santiago is the last remaining remnant of the A ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5622/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5622/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:28:48 +0200
                                        EPHESOS   Ephesos is Turkey’s most scenic historic excavation site and one of the most well preserved of all the cities of antiquity, a place of the superlative whose structures continue to impress right up to th...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5621/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5621/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:26:39 +0200
                                          TROJA   A giant wooden horse guards the entrance to archaeological excavations in Troy. No ancient place in Turkey is as well known and if only it had survived in good enough condition we would be able to marve...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5620/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5620/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:24:46 +0200
                                       GHADAMES   The desert town of Ghadames is situated in the three country triangle of Libya, Tunisia and Algeria and is tantamount to being an historical oasis that lies within the Libyan desert. The Islamic Cemeter...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5619/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5619/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:21:10 +0200
                                     SANSSOUCI   Located in North Germany close to Berlin, Potsdam is a city of gardens and castles.The Prussian kings settled in the region and expressed themselves in their garden culture. In 1745 Friedrich The Great o...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5618/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5618/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:17:37 +0200
                      KHARKHORIN & ERDENE ZUU HYID   In Kharkhorin, former residence of those who once ruled Mongolia, today there is little left to see. However, a few mysterious sites remain which, along with the Erdene Zuu Monastery, are highly evoc...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5617/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5617/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:12:42 +0200
                                      PULGUK-SA At the foot of Mount Tohamsan in the region of Gyeong-Ju is South Korea’s impressive Pulguk-Sa Temple. In the middle of the eighth century while under the rule of Silla monarch, King Gyeongdeok, the sanct...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5616/global-treasures/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/5616/global-treasures/ Fri, 13 May 2022 14:06:37 +0200
                                    SAMYE GONBA   Samye Gonba is the oldest monastery in Tibet and one of the most important historic landmarks in Yarlung’s Valley Of Kings. A circular wall that contains a hundred and eight chortens surrounds the large...]]>