40 Photos That Could Only Be Taken in Europe (41 photos)

746 million people, over fifty countries, 24 official languages… It’s no wonder that so many unusual and interesting things happen in Europe. There’s a whole community on Reddit dedicated to different situations that could only happen in Europe, and judging by the number of subscribers (almost 3 million!), the whole world is watching the Europeans with interest. Take a look too!





1. Bridge for wild animals in the Veluwe, Netherlands



2. How Poland is gradually getting rid of dominance advertisements





3. Medieval house built in 1509 in Argentan, France



4. How Belarusians react to Lukashenko's ban on the flag that has become a symbol protest



5. Sanna Marin, 35-year-old Finnish Prime Minister



6. London: "All Americans must be accompanied by an adult"



7. Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland



8. In Wroclaw, Poland, there are models next to every cathedral and even by the rivers so that blind people can touch them and "see" them too



9. The "Devil's Bridge" (Rakotzbrücke) in Kromlau, Germany



10. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, creator of the VLC media player, gave up tens of millions of euros to make VLC ad-free. Thank you, Jean!



11. Tesco store in Slovakia opens with empty shelves to show what the world would look like if bees and butterflies died out



12. Heroes of Greece: Tired firefighters sleep after a tense night battling the largest forest fire in Attica in decades



13. Angela Merkel scolds Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov for wearing a mask incorrectly



14. Utrecht, Netherlands



15. The Netherlands as if came out of an old master painting



16. A "portal" in Vilnius that lets you look into the Polish city of Lublin in real time



17. A statue of Jakub Wejher, the founder of the Polish city of Wejherowo, looks like Darth during a snowfall Vader



18. Bloody moon over Finland



19. Traditional outfits and braids of the inhabitants of the Pomak village of Startsevo, Bulgaria



20. "Bear and Raven", Finnish Nature Photographer of the Year



21. In 2018, Annamaria Horvatova, a Roma woman from Slovakia, won the ballet shoe race. She then became the Slovakian champion in the 1500m in her age group



22. Find of the year: a mosaic floor of an ancient Roman villa in near-perfect condition was discovered near Verona



23. A neo-Gothic apartment building in Budapest, Hungary. Built around 1894



24. Christmas market in Dresden, Germany. 2019



25. Meanwhile in Germany...



26. The oldest doors in Rome still in use, Pantheon. Dated to 115 AD. The doors are cast in bronze, each 2.3 m wide and 7.5 m high, but can easily be opened by one person



27. Experiment in Estonia: Speeding drivers must stop and wait for a "timeout" before continuing



28. Swedish fans in anticipation of the match



29. The European Parliament voted for a universal charger for mobile devices. 582 - 40



30. In Germany, you can play ping pong with a person standing at a traffic light on the other side of the road



31. An elderly Albanian woman dines with her dead husband and children, who were killed in 1999 war



32. Netherlands, 1966



33. French woman walking with baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945 year



34. Heat in Rovaniemi, Finland



35. A training area for children to prepare them for driving on real roads, Copenhagen



36. A 9-year-old boy from Amsterdam during the Dutch famine of 1944-45, better known as the "Winter Famine". Children often carried spoons with them "just in case"



37. Italian bars have started using pasta instead of straws to reduce plastic use



38. Climate protest in Cologne. They stand on blocks of ice



39. Swiss fans throw Xherdan Shaqiri a wheel of cheese as a reward for his winning goal



40. Snacking on pickled herring in The Hague, Netherlands