January 8, 2012
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Venice – the most important tourist destination at Adriatic Sea | Italy Updated: January 8, 2020 | By Claire | More The world-famous city on the lagoon, the romantic city full of canals and the historic city of museums and monuments – that’s Venice (Venezia)! Venice is absolutely the most important tourist destination from all […]
Tags: adriatic-sea, barbaric-tribes, bishopric, celebrations-and-festivals, city, city-of-venice, conquest-of-constantinople, constantinople-in-1453, cultural-heritage, empty-regions, end-of-the-roman-empire, history-city, islets, italy, mestre-venezia, romantic-city, romantic-location, sights, slow-decline, venetians, venezia-mestre, venice, venice-mestre, venice-venezia
Categories: Italy, Sights
December 28, 2011
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Athens – one of the noisiest and most important cities in the world | Greece Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More On the Attic peninsula, near the Saronic Gulf, you can find the Greek capital Athens. It has about 5 million people, which is almost a quarter of the whole Greek population. […]
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Categories: Greece, Sights
October 23, 2011
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Guimarães – oldest and one of the most important historical cities of Portugal Updated: October 23, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More The city of Guimarães lies at the north-western part of Portugal in the province of Minho. It is considered the cradle of the Portuguese nation. Right here was born the first Portuguese […]
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Categories: Portugal, Sights
August 15, 2011
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Canal Grande – the most beautiful street in the world | Italy Updated: August 15, 2020 | By Claire | More A major symbol and the main thoroughfare of the Italian Venice is certainly Canal Grande. The waterway, which is actually the former riverbed of the River Brenta, is almost 4 km long and passes […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 9, 2011
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Top Sights to See in Lisbon | Portugal Updated: August 10, 2020 | By Claire | More Lisbon is a part of Portuguese culture and heritage. It is the capital city of Portugal. Lisbon always nestles enriched culture. If you check the geographical location of Lisbon, you will come to know that it is situated […]
Tags: air-trip, attractive-tourist, belem-tower, capital, capital-city-of-portugal, car-drive, city, coastal-belt, departmental-stores, eiffel-tower, golden-chance, heritage-buildings, international-airports, lisbon, main-objective, manueline, modern-architects, portugal, portuguese-culture, road-surface, shopping-malls, sights, spa-centers, tagus-river, town, vasco-da-gama-bridge, world-heritage
Categories: Portugal, 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
May 27, 2011
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Piazza di Spagna – one of the most popular meeting points in Rome | Italy Updated: July 31, 2020 | By Claire | More 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 […]
Tags: alessandro-specchi, azaleas, congregation-for-the-evangelization-of-peoples, dogma-of-the-immaculate-conception, evangelization, francesco-de-sanctis, french-church, french-diplomat, french-kings, gathering-place, italy, obelisk, piazza-di-spagna, pietro-bernini, pincio, pope-pius-ix, rome, rome-italy, sights, spanish-embassy, spanish-steps, square, symmetric-structure, trinita
Categories: Italy, Sights, Virtual Travel
April 26, 2011
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Top sights to see in London – United Kingdom Updated: December 16, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More London is not only England’s capital but also the biggest city in Western Europe. A huge sprawling, buzzing metropolis that offers the budding traveller a wide range of activates to keep them occupied. But like […]
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Categories: Sights, United Kingdom, Virtual Travel
October 9, 2010
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What to see in Paris – around Eiffel Tower | France Updated: February 4, 2020 | By Claire | More If you are planning your trip to Paris, here are some good tips what you could see and visit in the center of Paris – close to Eiffell Tower. Chaillot Palace complex with its gardens […]
Tags: architectural-works, boileau-jacques, carlu, chaillot-palace, champs-de-mars, city, eiffel-tower, eiffell-tower, france, french-monuments, henri-langlois, monumental-art, musee-de-la-marine, museum, museum-of-man, neolithic-monuments, palace-complex, palais-de-chaillot, paris, park, planning-your-trip, sights, size-reproductions, top-sights, trocadero-palace, two-wings, venus-of-lespugue, world-exhibition
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