May 8, 2011
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The city of Tours – former capital of France Updated: February 4, 2020 | By Claire | More In the valley of Loire river, not far from the famous castles, you can find a big thriving city of Tours. It offers lots of museums, shops, restaurants and beautifully remodelled old buildings. During the reign of […]
Tags: antique-shops, archaeological-collections, basilica, capital-of-france, charming-town, city, craft-guilds, france, loire-river, louis-xi, old-buildings, roman-period, st-gatien, st-julien, stone-bridge, thriving-city, timbered-buildings, time-thanks, tours, town, trendy-restaurants, true-copy, wine-museum, world-war-ii
Categories: France, Sights
May 2, 2011
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Peklo (The Hell) – National Natural Monument in the Czech Republic Updated: March 14, 2020 | By Claire | More Czech National Natural Monument called Peklo (means The Hell in English) stretches in 4 km wide area between the village of Zahrádky and the city of Česká Lípa, in the northern part of the Czech […]
Tags: botanists, breathtaking-spectacle, chasms, czech-republic, eagle-owl, forest-trail, geologists, hiking-trail, local-club, long-steel, military-units, national-natural-monument, natural-monument, nature, peklo, plant-species, river-otter, rock-formations, rock-tunnel, snowflakes, spring-snowflake, steel-bridge, world-war-ii
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
May 1, 2011
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Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp is one of the most important works of 20th-century architecture — a radical pilgrimage chapel designed by Le Corbusier in 1955 whose sweeping white concrete roof (said to be inspired by a crab shell), irregularly shaped windows of coloured glass, and organically curved walls broke every rule of traditional […]
Tags: 4th-century, architectural-history, artistic-endeavors, charles-edouard-jeanneret, church-buildings, european-architecture, exclusivity, extreme-outcome, france, french-architect, french-architecture, history-of-architecture, history-of-the-church, le-corbusier, le-corbusiera, monumental-structure, notre-dame, notre-dame-du-haut, post-modern-architecture, remnant, roman-catholic-chapel, ronchamp, world-war-ii
Categories: France, Sights
February 15, 2011
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Matera – one of the oldest settled place in Italy Updated: January 16, 2020 | By Claire | More Matera is a town in southern Italy, 65km south-east from Bari. The town was founded by the Romans in the 3rd century BC. Matera reminds a poor peasant culture, which, since prehistoric times began to excavate […]
Tags: 1980s, bari, beautiful-view, cliff-dwellings, cultural-heritage, duomo, european-union, hiking-trails, italy, maps, marked-trails, matera, oldest-settled-place-in-italy, peasant-culture, poor-peasant, prehistoric-times, romans, sassi, southern-italy, town, unesco, unesco-world, world-war-ii
Categories: Italy, Sights
January 11, 2011
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Predjamski Grad (Predjama Castle) is one of the most dramatic castles in the world — a Renaissance fortress built directly into the mouth of a vast limestone cave, 123 metres up a vertical cliff face in the Karst region of Slovenia, where it hangs impossibly from the rock like something from a fantasy novel, complete […]
Tags: 13th-century, 16th-century, alan-tam, armour-of-god, castle, cave, cave-mouth, communist-authorities, god-film, golden-harvest, gothic-style, jackie-chan, lola-forner, medieval-tournament, overhang, predjamski-grad, renaissance-castle, rosamund-kwan, second-world-war, slovenia, wedding-ceremony, world-war-ii, yugoslav
Categories: Sights, Slovenia
November 25, 2010
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Paestum – major Graeco-Roman city in Italy Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Paestum is a major European seaside resort and unforgettable tourist destination. It is also the main objective of the excavations for history lovers. Paestum is located in Campania region, about 40 km south of Salerno and 85 km southeast […]
Tags: 9th-september, ancient-greek-temples, archaeological-discoveries, archaeological-work, archeological-discoveries, architectural-monument, athens-acropolis, capri, cilento-national-park, city, delicious-cuisine, fish-specialties, greek-colonists, history-lovers, italy, main-objective, major-graeco-roman-city, napoli, national-park, paestum, pompeii, pompeii-and-herculaneum, prosperous-cities, rare-pieces, roman-empire, tourist-boom, world-war-ii
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 16, 2010
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Kraków – the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland Updated: May 31, 2020 | By Claire | More Krakow is the second largest city in Poland, as well as being one of the oldest in this country’s history. This city can be found on the list of World Heritage Sites, mostly […]
Tags: capital-of-poland, cathedral-basilica, city, collegium-maius, economic-centres, extermination-camps, first-non-italian-pope, grand-duchy, invasion-of-poland, krakow, leaning-tower-city, non-italian-pope, poland, pope-john-paul, pope-john-paul-ii, second-largest-city, st-norbert, start-of-world-war-ii, town-hall-tower, wawel-cathedral, wawel-royal-castle, wieliczka-salt-mine, world-heritage-sites, world-war-ii
Categories: Poland, Sights
August 5, 2010
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Turin – Automobile and Chocolate Capital of Italy Updated: December 24, 2020 | By Claire | More Known as both the automobile and chocolate capital of Italy, the city of Turin is a flourishing state-of-the-art metropolis which is home to the nation’s automotive industry. While the metro area of Turin is home to more than […]
Tags: 2006-winter-olympics, alfa-romeo, automobile-manufacturers, car, chocolate, city, fiat-lancia, house-of-savoy, international-space-station, italy, palazzo-madama, piazzas, po-river, polytechnic-university, public-squares, shroud-of-turin, state-of-the-art-technology, torino, turin, university-of-turin, world-war-ii
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 5, 2010
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Saint-Tropez is the most famous fishing village in the world — a sun-drenched Provençal port on the French Riviera where billionaires’ superyachts bob alongside traditional wooden pointus, the glitterati gather at the legendary Club 55 on Pampelonne Beach, and the soft Mediterranean light that inspired Matisse and Signac still bathes the pastel-coloured houses of the […]
Tags: azur-region, brigitte-bardot, city, fashion-models, film-series, france, france-during-world-war-ii, french-riviera, gendarme-de-saint-tropez, inhabitants, louis-de-funes, marseille, models-and-millionaires, provence, provence-alpes, regattas, saint-tropez, southeastern-france, southern-france, summertime, tourist-spot, town, world-war-ii
Categories: France, Nature, Sights, Virtual Travel
June 9, 2010
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Meteora mountain – one of the most memorable places in Greece Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More One of the most memorable places in Greece is a beautiful monastery complex of Metéora. It is located in northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly. From here to a height of 400 meters […]
Tags: athanasios, church-officials, cretan, greece, magical-place, memorable-places, meteora, meteoro, monasteries, monks-and-nuns, mount-athos, mountain, nature, northwestern-edge, religious-center, rocky-peaks, sandstone-cliffs, strange-formations, thessaly, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, world-war-ii
Categories: Greece, Nature, Sights
