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This week's Clicks arrive from five very different corners of the world — a patterned snake resting in the palm of a hand in one of Poland's most storied industrial cities, the clean white ribs of Santiago Calatrava's L'Umbracle glowing in the morning light above Valencia's reinvented riverbed, a glass-and-steel trade tower rising above olive-studded hills in Ramallah, a fearless urban squirrel pausing on a Lima park lawn with all the confidence of a longtime local, and a barbecue firing up in the heart of Herzegovina's wine country on the one day of the year when the whole region seems to collectively reach for the charcoal. Each of these moments happened, was felt, and is now certifiably real — signed and stored inside the Digital Trust Network exactly as it looked in the split second the shutter dropped.
Settle in and let these five Clicks take you from the terrarium scene of post-industrial Bytom, where a city once famous for coal and zinc ore now fosters niche hobbyist communities with quiet enthusiasm, to the sculpted garden walkway of the City of Arts and Sciences, where a former flood channel has become one of Europe's most recognisable urban landscapes. From there, the week continues to al-Ersal Street in Ramallah, where glass towers and revolving restaurants tell the story of a city that has reinvented itself against considerable odds, then on to the parks of Lima's Santiago de Surco, where an introduced squirrel species has become as much a part of the scenery as the ornamental flower beds, and finally to a ÄŚitluk courtyard on May Day, where wine heritage and the Balkan tradition of the long, smoke-filled outdoor table come together in one very satisfying frame.
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Where: Bytom, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Feed: Animals
This week begins with a quality shot from TORROCUS that will give some of you shivers — and have others leaning closer for a better look. A patterned snake rests calmly in an open hand, its scales catching the light with the kind of quiet dignity that only a well-kept reptile carries. The setting is Bytom, one of the oldest cities in Upper Silesia, whose origins reach back to the 11th century under Bolesław I the Brave. By the 12th and 13th centuries the town’s fortunes were already bound up with nearby mines extracting lead, silver and zinc, and in the 19th century Bytom became one of the richest industrial centres in the region as coal drew workers and entrepreneurs from across Central Europe.
The city changed hands repeatedly — passing through Polish, Bohemian, Austrian, Prussian and German administrations — before returning to Poland after 1945, each regime leaving its layer of architecture and stories. At its industrial peak, Bytom counted six coal mines and two metalworks; economic reform in the 1990s closed most of them, leaving just one operating mine today and a city actively reinventing itself around culture and community. The Upper Silesian Museum and the Silesian Opera anchor the classical calendar, while niche hobbyist scenes have found a home in the city’s old industrial spaces and community centres.
Poland’s reptile and terraristics community is a lively one, traditionally gathering at major European expos in Hamm, Houten and Prague, but smaller local swap meets and keeper events orbit through Silesian cities year-round, drawn by the region’s central position in the agglomeration. Bytom sits right in that network. Seen through that lens, the Marie Curie quote chosen for this Click lands with quiet precision: a city once defined by fear of closing mines now hosts a morning where a patterned snake rests in a hand without fuss, scales catching the light exactly as the shutter dropped.
Where: València, Valencia, Spain
Feed: Architecture
Our Clickstar takes us to the City of Arts and Sciences on a morning when the clouds are still sorting themselves out over the white ribs of L’Umbracle — the 320-metre-long, bone-white arcade that forms the sculptural gateway to the complex along Valencia’s former Turia riverbed. Designed by local architect Santiago Calatrava and completed in 2001, L’Umbracle is built from 55 fixed arches and 54 “floating” arches, each about 18 metres high, that frame a landscaped promenade planted with Mediterranean species: rosemary, bougainvillea, rockrose, mastic shrubs and the palms you can see rising inside the structure in this Click.
The space doubles as an outdoor sculpture gallery — the Paseo de las Esculturas — where works by artists including Miquel Navarro and Yoko Ono have been shown among the trees. At night, particularly in summer, the terrace transforms into one of València’s busiest open-air venues, with DJs playing over the illuminated pools of the Hemisfèric next door. All of this stands where a river used to run. Until the 1960s the Turia flowed through the city, flooding it repeatedly; the catastrophic 1957 flood killed at least 81 people and finally prompted Spain’s Plan Sur to divert the river south. The empty channel became first an expressway proposal, then a public park, and eventually the Jardà del Túria, one of Europe’s longest urban green corridors, with the hyper-modern City of Arts and Sciences anchoring its eastern end.
The William Gibson quote earns its place here. A city that turned a disaster into a park, and a park into one of the world’s most photographed architectural complexes, is exactly the kind of uneven future distribution Gibson had in mind. This Click catches the complex in a rare quiet register — morning light, palms standing still before the school groups and skaters arrive — a moment that makes it easy to forget how recently this space was a flood-scarred riverbed.
Where: Ramallah, Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Palestinian Territories
Feed: Travel
KHALED101 shares this Click from Ramallah’s al-Ersal Street — a view of the Palestine Trade Tower, the 29‑storey high‑rise that has become one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks since its completion. The tower houses the five‑star Palestine Plaza Hotel on floors 15 to 20, along with cinemas, a spa and fitness centre, conference facilities, and the 340‑seat Palestine Revolving Restaurant at the top, where diners can take in sweeping views of Ramallah, the surrounding hills and, on clear days, the Mediterranean coast. Glass and steel rising over olive‑studded hillsides: it is a pairing that tells the entire story of Ramallah’s recent decades in a single frame.
Since the early 2000s, international aid inflows and private investment have driven a construction boom that has reshaped the skyline, particularly in the Al‑Masyoun district and along al‑Ersal Street. Ramallah has become the main financial and administrative centre for the Palestinian Authority, home to its government offices, major banks, telecoms companies and a dense cluster of NGOs and diplomatic missions. Lower taxes and a relatively accessible business environment have drawn commercial activity away from East Jerusalem, reinforcing the city’s role as the de facto capital of Palestinian economic and political life.
That growth has had a cultural dimension too. Ramallah brands itself a “City of Music,” with a calendar that includes the Jasmine Festival, the Palestine Sacred Music Festival, the Palestine International Festival for Music and Dance, and the Palestine Music Expo. Summer evenings often see crowds move between concerts in public squares and the terraces and lounges of towers like this one, where city lights and politics share the same uninterrupted horizon. The Einstein quote chosen for this entry doesn’t feel incidental — it feels like a small act of solidarity with a city that has made a habit of building upward, literally and otherwise, in the middle of difficulty.
Where: Lima, Lima Province, Peru
Feed: Nature
KHELANA caught this little fellow in the parks of Lima’s southern district of Santiago de Surco — and the result is one of those small, unhurried encounters that somehow manages to say more about urban life than a thousand skyline shots. Surco is officially promoted as an “ecological tourist district,” known for its well‑kept parks and gardens. The largest of these is Parque de la Amistad, where a neo‑Moorish arch gifted by Spain for Peru’s independence centennial stands over pedal boats, a miniature train and food stalls, making it a classic Sunday destination for families from across the city.
The squirrel in this Click is almost certainly a Guayaquil squirrel (Sciurus stramineus), a species native to forests from southwestern Ecuador to the very north of Peru that has — somewhat mysteriously — established itself in Lima’s parks over the last few decades. Field studies confirm the species was likely introduced through the pet trade or accidental releases, and it now lives freely in green spaces across Surco, San Isidro, San Miguel, Chaclacayo and the grounds of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Researchers describe them as relatively large tree squirrels with long grey tails, narrow black ears and variable coat patterns — the grey‑mottled look of the one in this Click is typical — that have adapted quickly to urban foraging, working equally through tree canopies and park lawns.
Just as Miraflores’ Kennedy Park has become internationally known for its semi‑official cat colony, Surco’s greener corners have developed a quieter reputation among park‑goers for their remarkably bold squirrels, which approach benches, bags and camera lenses with minimal hesitation. Biologists have begun treating Lima as an accidental case study in how introduced squirrels integrate into coastal ecosystems far outside their native range, raising questions about competition with local fauna and the long‑term consequences of charismatic “stowaways.” For anyone sitting on a Surco park bench on a weekday afternoon, though, the lore is simpler and more immediate: this tiny local will get a crumb, a scratch, or at the very least a very good story.
Where: ÄŚitluk, Herzegovina-Neretva, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Feed: Food
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SHOOTZY closes the week with smoke, fire and the particular satisfaction of charcoal already turned white before noon. This Click was taken in Čitluk, a municipality set on the Brotnjo plateau in western Herzegovina — a place that loves good meat but is even better known as the “city of grapes and wine.” Čitluk holds the largest vineyard area in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and local lore insists that almost every family here tends their own vines, keeping a bond between people and grapevines that historical records trace back to a 1353 charter by Bosnian Ban Tvrtko, which already praised the quality of Brotnjo vintages. That tradition lives on today through Čitluk Winery, founded in 1957, and through the family cellars along the Herzegovina Wine Route where native white Žilavka and red Blatina dominate every tasting table.
Wine writers note that Žilavka thrives so reliably in Herzegovina’s dry, Mediterranean‑influenced climate that during droughts it sometimes forms the only green strip visible on otherwise parched hillsides — a vine so well‑adapted it almost seems to have chosen the place for itself. Blatina from Čitluk, when given proper attention, can show dark‑fruit, cedar and mineral notes that punch well above the expectations of a regional table wine. The same sun and dry rock that concentrate tannins in the grapes also make the outdoor grill a year‑round institution.
The date on this Click adds a final layer. The 1st of May — International Workers’ Day — is practically synonymous with outdoor grilling across the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe. In Serbia it is called Prvomajski uranak, an “early‑rising tradition” in which families and friends head into forests or fields at dawn, light bonfires and spend the whole day around overloaded grills. The same custom runs from Poland and Ukraine to North Macedonia and the Adriatic coast, the grill serving as a shared symbol of spring, freedom from work and the simple pleasure of eating together in open air. Herzegovina sits squarely inside that culture, and Brotnjo’s tourism materials lean into it: long tables, home wine and traditional food are part of the regional welcome. If the calendar says May Day and the sun is out, the sausages should be blistering and someone is reaching for a bottle of Blatina just out of frame — and this Click proves the rule.
This week’s edition takes in five places that each carry more history than their modest everyday appearances might suggest. A post‑industrial Silesian city discovers unexpected community in its terrarium scene. A city that was a riverbed less than seventy years ago wears some of the world’s most daring architecture as naturally as if it had always been there. A Palestinian city builds glass towers and revolving restaurants into a hillside as a quiet, material statement of persistence. A Lima park squirrel, introduced by accident and now entirely at home, pauses long enough on a patch of lawn to become a small study in urban adaptation. And a Herzegovinian courtyard fills with smoke on May Day, carrying centuries of wine culture and Balkan hospitality into a single afternoon. Each Click stays faithful to that mix of immediacy and depth: the scene is real, the feeling is local, and the story gets richer the longer you look.
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