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Germany. State of Hesse. Wetzlar. The new Leica Camera AG headquarters complex at the Leitz Park. An ultra-modern manufacturing and administrative complex, featuring also an hotel and a museum offering a visit into the history of Leica Camera AG, a look behind the scenes of the legendary Leica factory concept and a visit to constantly changing exhibitions. A giant scuplture of the terrestrial globe stands at Leitz Park's entrance. A globe is a spherical model of Earth, Globe serve similar purposes to maps, but unlike maps, do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. Leica Camera AG is a German company that manufactures cameras, lenses binoculars, rifle scopes and ophthalmic lenses. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1914. The name Leica is derived from the first three letters of his surname (Leitz) and the first two of the word camera: lei-ca. 15.06.2018 © 2018 Didier Ruef
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