January 19, 2012
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Utena – one of the oldest settlements in Lithuania Updated: January 18, 2020 | By Claire | More Utena is located in the eastern part of Lithuania and is considered one of the oldest settlements in the country. The city’s name has been firstly mentioned in the year 1261. There are four rivers flowing through […]
Tags: bells, churches, city, clothing-factories, crucifixes, favorite-travel, four-rivers, horse-races, inhabitants, international-competition, lithuania, orientation, sculptor, shapes-and-sizes, soviets, squares, travel-destination, utena
Categories: Lithuania, Sights
July 26, 2011
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Maribor – the second largest city in Slovenia Updated: July 29, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More Maribor, with its 100,000 inhabitants, is the second largest city in Slovenia, after the capital city of Ljubljana. But it is the largest city of Slovenian part Styria (Slovene: Štajerska). Basic information Maribor is an important […]
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Categories: Sights, Slovenia
October 23, 2010
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Pienza – the model of the Renaissance town in the heart of Tuscany, Italy Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Pienza is a lovely town, whose small chamber center had been almost totally rebuilt by Pope Pius II. in 15th century. In 1405 in Corsignanu, as Pienza was called at that time, […]
Tags: 15th-century, balcony, bernardo-rossellino, cathedral-project, cheese-production, cheeses, city, flavors, florentine-architect, heart-of-tuscany, humanist, inhabitants, italy, palazzo-piccolomini, papal-palace, philosopher, pienza, pope-pius-ii, renaissance-city, renaissance-town, sculptor, stunning-panorama, town, tuscany, tuscany-italy, village-walls
Categories: Italy, Sights
