August 23, 2011
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Carcassonne – the largest preserved fortress town in Europe | France Updated: August 24, 2020 | By Claire | More Carcassonne is a city with great history, admired by some people, cursed by others. It is also a theme of a great board game Carcassonne that is often played by many enthusiastic players. Let’s travel […]
Tags: 11th-century, 19th-century, architect, board-game, carcassonne, castle-museum, cathedral-notre-dame, curious-tourists, enthusiastic-players, fragment, france, game-city, intellectual-elite, iron-age, labyrinth, largest-fortress-in-europe, medieval-city-centre, medieval-streets, old-town, reconstructions, roman-city, sight, typical-signs, viollet-le-duc
Categories: France, Sights
October 10, 2010
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Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world — the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one […]
Tags: 18th-century, car-park, gulf-of-naples, herculaneum, italy, lava, monte-vesuvio, mount-vesuvius, nature, pompeii, pompeii-and-herculaneum, rediscovery, refreshments, roman-cities, roman-city, sidewalk, souvenirs, towns, troubled-history, vesuv, volcano, vulcano, weather
Categories: Italy, Nature
August 20, 2010
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Aquileia – ancient Roman city in Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More In the northern part of Italy you will find the ancient archeological site known today as Aquileia. During the Roman era, the town of Aquileia was considered to be one of the wealthiest in the entire empire. It was […]
Tags: ancient-roman-city, aquileia, archaeological-areas, archeological-sites, artifacts, chiesa-di-sant, christian-basilica, city, cripta, empire, friuli-venezia, glass-shops, glassmakers, house-of-savoy, italy, main-square, museo-archeologico-nazionale, museums, necropolis, northern-italy, paleocristiano, popularity, present-day, roman-basilica, roman-city, roman-river, romans, sant-antonio, scavi, sea-port, seaside-resort, tourist-routes, unesco-world-heritage, unimportant-town, venetian-lagoon, world-heritage-status
Categories: Italy, Sights
