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 […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
May 18, 2011
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Koufonisia – the most popular islands in the Aegean Sea | Greece Updated: May 18, 2020 | By Claire | 3 Replies More Koufonisia are three well known islands – Kato (Lower) Koufonisi, Pano (Upper) Koufonisi, and Keros – in the Aegean Sea belonging to Greece. They are an important historic part of the complex […]
Tags: archaeological-findings, bronze-age-civilization, cyclades-islands, excavations, greece, islands-2, islands-in-the-aegean, kato, koufonisi, koufonisia, minoan-civilization, nature, prehistoric-times, remarkable-architecture, sailors, sea-site, sheep-farming, southwest-coast, square-kilometres, the-most-popular-tourist-islands-in-the-aegean-sea, typical-examples, venetians, virgin-mary
Categories: Greece, Nature
April 19, 2011
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Famagusta – one of the richest and most famous cities in the world | Cyprus Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Famagusta, located at north-eastern part of the island of Cyprus, was formerly one of the richest and most famous cities in the world. This can be prove for example by […]
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Categories: Cyprus, Nature, Sights
October 21, 2010
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Nicosia (Lefkoşa) is the world’s last divided capital — a city split by the United Nations Buffer Zone (the Green Line) since 1974, where centuries of Venetian, Ottoman, British, Greek, and Turkish heritage collide in a fascinating urban landscape of medieval walls, Byzantine churches, Ottoman mosques, and a contemporary café culture that somehow thrives across […]
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August 22, 2010
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Genova – beautiful port with lots of secrets, Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More Located along the Ligurian coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea, you will find the ancient city of Genoa (Genova). Initially founded in prehistoric times by the Ligure tribe, control over Genoa would change hands many times before finally […]
Tags: 16th-century, architecture, art-music, busts, celts, christopher-columbus, city, city-of-genoa, coastlines, etruscans, flag-of-england, garibaldi, gastronomy, genova, greeks, italy, largest-sea, liguria-italy, lorence, northern-italy, phoenicians, piazza-de-ferrari, population, port, prehistoric-times, rich-art, roman-empire, sea-aquarium, unesco, venetians, world-heritage-list
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