Helsinki in the late 19th century featuring dirt road and horse carts.

Barefooot boys at Hietalahti harbour, 1908. This place looks the exact same today, only the children don't go barefoot anymore.

Hamburg, Germany 1901

Helsinki in the late 19th century. People wore funny clothes back then.

Those days when Nigeria was more beautiful than Europe

DynasTee:
Those days when Nigeria was more beautiful than Europe

oga na wen b dat again

Premiumwriter:
oga na wen b dat again

Bros no vex na Na wetin my hand type be that

DynasTee:

Bros no vex na Na wetin my hand type be that

People boating in early 1900's Constantinople (Istanbul)

Venice, Italy in the 19th century

Helsinki 1908

Edinburgh, Scotland during the Edwardian Era (early 1900's)

Brussels in 1907

1890's Norwegian cities.

Better than Nigeria @2018

Dublin, Ireland late 19th century

1860's rundown Edinburgh

revontuli:
Helsinki 1908

These buildings are probably still there today, Europeans just keep adding value(Renovations)to them without demolishing because those structures were all planned by their Predecessors so no need for major demolitions but Here in Nigeria we don't even have good housing structures, we moved swiftly from mud houses to modern Houses without Planing. People just build houses anywhere anyhow as long as it's your land and now it's so hard to navigate through cities, no standard whatsoever.

Stallion93:
These buildings are probably still there today, Europeans just keep adding value(Renovations)to them without demolishing because those structures were all planned by their Predecessors so no need for major demolitions but Here in Nigeria we don't even have good housing structures, we moved swiftly from mud houses to modern Houses without Planing. People just build houses anywhere anyhow as long as it's your land and now it's so hard to navigate through cities, no standard whatsoever.

Most of them are still around, except the cities destroyed in WW2. Almost nothing historical remains in Hamburg today, everything was completely burned to the ground.

Ancient Byzantines built the most resilient structures, most everything built by Justinian's architects in the 6th century still stands today. Hagia Sophia withstoood the earthquakes that wiped out half of the city over the centuries. Iranian and Ottoman Islamic architecture has wonders, grand palaces and mosques. Moors built some magnificent buildings in Spain, like the Alhambra palace.

Warsaw, Poland in the 1890's

revontuli:
Edinburgh, Scotland during the Edwardian Era (early 1900's)

beg dey put before and after pics make i see biko

The architecture is simply amazing. Beautiful domes, arcs and trusses.