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
August 18, 2011
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Colosseum – amazing 2000 years old symbol of Rome | Italy Updated: May 18, 2020 | By Claire | More There are many buildings that people consider important and significant, but only some of them have become symbols. One of them is undoubtedly the Roman Colosseum. It is interesting that the building was originally named […]
Tags: 100-years, collapse-of-roman-empire, colosseum, earthquakes, emperor-nero, emperor-vespasian, estimation, followers, gladiatorial-contests, god, helios, hundreds-of-years, italy, middle-ages, old-document, public-performances, roman-colosseum, sight, symbol-of-rome, titus-flavius-domitian
Categories: Italy, Sights, Virtual Travel
August 10, 2011
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Blarney Castle – the perfect example of Irish culture and heritage Updated: August 12, 2020 | By Claire | More Blarney, known as “the biggest small village in Ireland“, is one of the most picturesque villages in Ireland. It is nestled in beautiful forested countryside, just 8 km from the city of Cork and is […]
Tags: battlements, beautiful-sights, blarney-castle, blarney-stone, bluestone, castle, cork, cozy-cottages, eloquence, forested-countryside, hundred-thousand, interesting-places, ireland, irish-culture, legend-says-that, magical-charm, old-power-plant, picturesque-villages, places-of-interest, sight, thousand-acres, tudor-times, turkish-baths
Categories: Ireland, Sights
August 3, 2011
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Edinburgh Castle – one of the most visited places in Scotland | United Kingdom Updated: August 5, 2020 | By Claire | More Edinburgh Castle, which is built on an extinct volcano, dominates the Scottish capital. The history of the castle is closely linked to the city of Edinburgh. Today it is a major tourist […]
Tags: botanical-gardens-2, cannon-ball, cannonball, castle, castle-edinburgh, city-of-edinburgh, edinburgh, edinburgh-castle, extinct-volcano, fortress, further-information-visit, king-edwin, local-guides, major-tourist-attraction, mary-stuart-queen-of-scotland, northumbria, places-in-scotland, royal-botanical-gardens, scotland, scotland-united, scottish-capital, sight, state-prison, united-kingdom, wedding-celebration
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom
August 2, 2011
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Salisbury Cathedral with the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom Updated: August 2, 2020 | By Claire | More In the county of Wiltshire, south-west of England, you can find nice and well maintained small city of Salisbury. The pleasant impression was enhanced by the fact that it is not surrounded by skyscrapers and […]
Tags: anglo-saxons, architectural-concept, bishopric, blessed-virgin-mary, cathedral, cathedral-church, cathedral-tower, city-of-salisbury, county-of-wiltshire, double-ditches, england, english-gothic-architecture, housing-estates, lancet-windows, majestic-tower, new-sarum, northern-outskirts, old-sarum, outskirts-of-town, religious-sight, salisbury-cathedral, sherborne, sight, theological-colleges, united-kingdom
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom
July 4, 2011
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Pierrefonds Castle – fairytale castle in France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | More Pierrefonds Castle (Château de Pierrefonds) is a nice picturesque castle located in France, about 80km north-east of Paris. The old castle was built on the place of today’s castle in Pierrefonds already in the 12th century. This great military […]
Tags: 12th-century, 14th-century, canons, castle, chateau-de-pierrefonds, chief-minister, duc, east-of-paris, emperor-napoleon-iii, fairytale-castle, france, french-emperor, french-painter, medieval-knights, middle-ages, military-fortifications, military-strength, old-castle, painter-corot, picturesque-castle, pierrefonds-castle, refurbishment, sight, work-of-destruction
Categories: France, Sights, Virtual Travel
June 6, 2011
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Piazza Navona – most beautiful and busiest square in Rome | Italy Updated: December 26, 2020 | By Claire | More Piazza Navona in Rome is considered by many as the most beautiful square, not only in the capital of Italy, but throughout the world. This bustling area, having the shape of an ellipse, shows […]
Tags: agone, danube-river, fonta, fontana-dei-quattro-fiumi, fontana-del-moro, fountain, fountain-of-the-four-rivers, four-continents, francesco-borromini, giacomo-della-porta, italy, nettuno, palazzo-pamphilj, piazza-navona, pope-innocent-x, private-art-collection, rio-de-la-plata, roma, roman-emperor-diocletian, roman-emperor-domitian, rome, saint-agnes, sant-agnese, sculptor-bernini, sight, square
Categories: Italy, Sights
May 13, 2011
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Westminster Abbey – a large, mainly Gothic church, in London | United Kingdom Updated: June 10, 2020 | By Claire | More One of the sights of London that is sure to receive many more visitors than usual over the next year is Westminster Abbey. Millions around the world watched on TV on April 29 […]
Tags: benedictine-monks, cathedral-status, collegiate-church, duke-of-cambridge, duke-of-edinburgh, gothic-revival, kate-middleton, king-james-bible, lady-diana-spencer, london, new-english-bible, prince-charles, prince-william, princess-elizabeth, queen-elizabeth-ii, rich-tradition, royal-occasions, sight, sights-of-london, united-kingdom, western-towers, westminster-abbey, william-and-kate
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom, Virtual Travel
