View of NW highland area The northwest of the country the Nicoya Peninsula was the southernmost point of Nahuatl named after Nitin cultural influence when the Spanish conquerors conquistadores came in the sixteenth century COSTA RICA Guanacaste province

Creation Stained Glass Window in the Parish Church of St Anietus in village of St Saint Neot Bodmin Moor Cornwall England UK United Kingdom GB Great Britain British Isles Europe EU Window is early 16th sixteenth century and shows God creating the universe

The outstanding Renaissance castle and the village of Vélez Blanco. The castle was built in the early sixteenth century by the Marquises of Vélez Blanco. Province of Almería, Andalucía, Spain.

Netherlands, Holland, Amsterdam, Nemo, Technology Center, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, Ship, a replica of the sixteenth century was the commercial route of the West Indies and the Far East.

Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Gardens), Florence, Italy. Sixteenth century Medici Garden at Palazzo Pitti, the 'isolotto', a large oval pool and 'lemon island', rows of Lemon trees in pots

Hotel des Ursins Paris France built in 14th century restored in 16th and now destroyed 19th century reproduction of earlier work

A Venetian Gaming-House In The Sixteenth Century Prinsep, Valentine Cameron(1838-1904 British) Oil On Canvas Christie's Images, London, England

Cultivation of grain by peasants and manufacture of barley and oat bread 19th century reproduction of a woodcut from an edition of Virgil published at Lyons in 1517

The Issue de Table 19th century reproduction of woodcut in the treatise of Christoforo di Messisburgo called Banchetti Compositioni di Vivende published Ferrara 1549

Pocahontas Matoaka 1595 1617 Algonqiuan Indian princess Engraved by B Eyles after G Staal From the book World Noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke published 1858

Officers of the Table and of the Chamber of the Imperial Court of Maximilian I From left cup bearer cook barber and tailor 19th century reproduction of engraving from 1512 in Triomphe de Maximilian I based on drawings by Albert Durer

Plateresque staircase at Museo de Santa Cruz founded by Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza and built 16th century by Alonso de Covarrubias. Toledo. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

History of exploration - 16th century - Arab merchant caravan on voyage from Aleppo to Basra. Engraving from Theodore de Bry's Grand and Small Voyages (1527-1598)

Torre de Belem. Rennaissance style archways. Built in the 16th century in order to defend the Tagus river mouth. Lisbon, Portugal.

Court of the Ladies of Queen Anne of Brittany 1477 to 1514 19th century reproduction of 16th century miniature from Epistres Envoyees au Roi Queen weeping because husband absent during Italian war

Carved head of an African man. Four hundred knights are buried under the nave marble floor. Saint John Cathedral, built in 1577 by Gerolamo Cassar. Valletta. Malta.

Fountain of the Lions in front of the Antigua Carnicería built in the 16th century in Plaza del Populo, Baeza. Jaen province, Andalucia, Spain

Plateresque courtyard at Museo de Santa Cruz founded by Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza and built 16th century by Alonso de Covarrubias. Toledo. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Romanesque church of San Bartolomé (13th century). Campisabalos. Sierra de Ayllon. Guadalajara province. Castilla-La Mancha. Spain

Ninomaru Palace (1524-1626). Nijo-jo or Nijo castle. Example of the 'buke shoin-zukuri' of residential architecture and added to the Unesco's World Heritage List in 1994. Kyoto, Kinki (Kansai) Region. Japan.