These colour pictures from the turn of the 20th century reveal what European capitals looked like a hundred years ago.
Some of Europe’s historic landmarks have barely changed since the pictures were taken, including the Colosseum in Rome which has stood since ancient times.
Piccadilly Circus now features cars, buses and an Underground station rather than horse-drawn vehicles but the junction in London‘s capital is instantly recognisable in the old picture.
Others have been transformed, such as the Reichstag in Berlin with its modern glass dome and the Louvre in Paris with its now-famous pyramid.
When the pictures were taken some of the now-iconic landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris which faced some opposition at the time, had only recently been installed.
Many of them wear the scars of the century that has passed since, damaged during World War II or the Cold War and sometimes put to very different uses over the years.
Reichstag building, Berlin. The German parliament building was relatively new at the time, having opened in 1894 following the unification of the country in 1871. Located near the Brandenburg Gate, it was severely damaged by the 1933 fire that helped cement Hitler’s power and by Allied bombing during World War II. Largely disused during the Cold War, it re-opened in 1999 with the glass dome designed by Norman Foster replacing the original dome pictured in the 19th-century image
Piccadilly Circus, London. The junction in central London looks familiar even in the older picture, with the Eros statue – put up in 1893 – in its original…
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