Archive for May, 2011



Pantheon in Rome – best preserved Roman building | Italy

Pantheon in Rome – best preserved Roman building | Italy

Pantheon (also known as Santa Maria della Rotonda) is a Christian church, located in the centre of Rome, in Italy. Pantheon was built by Markus Agrippa in 27 BC, and was dedicated to three Roman gods. Unfortunately in the year of 80 AD a big fire destroyed almost the whole building. Just after 45 years, […]

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Piazza di Spagna – one of the most popular meeting points in Rome | Italy

Piazza di Spagna – one of the most popular meeting points in Rome | Italy

Piazza di Spagna is a square situated at the foot of the hill Pincio in Rome, Italy. Originally, only the southern part of the square had such name. The northern part was called the Piazza di Francia. This name was given according to Palazzo di Spagna, which since the 17th century was the seat of […]

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Notre Dame du Haut – unique Roman Catholic chapel in France

Notre Dame du Haut – unique Roman Catholic chapel in France

Notre Dame du Haut is a unique Roman Catholic chapel of the French architect Le Corbusier. It is situated at Ronchamp in Haute-Saone department in the region of Franche-Comté in France. It was built between 1950-1955 and is one of the most daring solution of the church buildings in the history of architecture at all. […]

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Roussillon – one of the most beautiful villages in France

Roussillon – one of the most beautiful villages in France

In the south of France, about 30 km from Avignon, there is a small village of Roussillon, who impresses everyone especially because of its red saturated buildings, which contrast sharply with the surrounding dark green hills. It lies on top of the hill and is known as one of the largest ocher deposits in the […]

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Gouffre de Padirac – great limestone cave in France

Gouffre de Padirac – great limestone cave in France

Gouffre de Padirac (Padirac Cave) is a great limestone cave and a natural monument located in south-western part of France, about 20 km east of the medieval pilgrimage town of Rocamadour. Gouffre de Padirac cave has a depth about 100 meters and is more than 100 m wide. Visitors can see impressive underground lakes here, […]

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Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat – a volcanic mountain range in Slovakia

Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat – a volcanic mountain range in Slovakia

Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat is a volcanic area in the Slovak Republic. It is located in the regions of Prešov and Košice in the Eastern Carpathians. The area is bounded by the towns Remetské Hámre and Zemplínske Hámre. Vihorlat Mountain is a protected area since 1973 and with the area of 17480 ha it is […]

Updated: June 29, 2020 | By | More

Popradské pleso – one of the most popular places in Slovakia

Popradské pleso – one of the most popular places in Slovakia

Popradské pleso (1494,3m above sea level) is a mountain lake and lies in the western part of the High Tatras mountains in the middle of Mengusovská valley. Popradské pleso became the starting point for many tourists to the Rysy – a group of three peaks (the middle at 2,503m; the north-western at 2,499 m; and […]

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