September 15, 2011
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Funchal – the capital city of Madeira known as Little Lisbon | Portugal Updated: September 15, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Funchal is the capital of subtropical Portuguese island of Madeira, which lies about 600 km from the African coast. The historic core of the city boasts beautiful government buildings, private houses with […]
Tags: arriaga, beach-promenade, ceiling-decorations, city, coastal-side, cruise-ships, dark-interior, funchal, gilded-altar, gothic-arches, iron-balconies, island, madeira, merchant-ships, narrow-streets, picturesque-port, portugal, portuguese-island, private-houses, splendid-villas, steep-slopes, tourist-center, traffic-congestion, transport-hub, volcanic-peaks
Categories: Nature, 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 […]
Tags: 17th-century, black-death, central-europe, city, eastern-europe, four-hundred-years, germans, grape-vine, joseph-straub, ljubljana, main-attraction, main-square, maribor, plague, raft, railway-junction, river-drava, sculptor, second-world-war, sights, slovenia, stara, transport-hub, trg
Categories: Sights, Slovenia
June 19, 2011
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York – the ancient city in England | United Kingdom Updated: June 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More The ancient city of York is a place teaming with history at every turn. Centuries of Emperors, Kings, wars and invasions have given the city a fascinating and layered past that is just begging to […]
Tags: banks-of-the-river, city, city-walls, england, food-places, fortress-town, gothic-cathedral, grand-opera-house, jorvik-viking-centre, joseph-rowntree-theatre, labyrinthine, medieval-streets, national-railway-museum, river-ouse, roman-britain, s-university, shambles, town, transport-hub, united-kingdom, viking-word, york, york-art, york-castle, yorkshire-museum
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom, Virtual Travel
