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Torre Calatrava, Barcelona
2008-05-26 15:40:00
The Montjuic Communications Tower (Torre Telefonica) is a telecommunication tower in the Montjuic neighborhood of Barcelona , Spain. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, construction on the tower began in 1989 and was completed in 1992. The white tower was built for Telefonica to transmit television coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics Games in Barcelona. The 136 m (446 ft) tower is located in the Olympic park, and represents an athlete holding the Olympic Flame. The basement is covered with ‘trencadis’, Gaudi’s mosaic technique created from broken tile shards. Because of the tower’s orientation, it works also as a giant sundial, which uses the Europa square to indicate the hour. Barcelona is great for vacations with memorable sightseeing tours. GPS travel destinations: 41° 21′ 51″ N, 2° 9′ 2″ E

Dome, Cathedral, Salzburg
2008-05-26 07:57:00
The Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Dom) is a 17th century baroque cathedral in the city of Salzburg, dedicated to Saint Rupert of Salzburg. It is the site of Mozart’s baptism. The site occupied by the Salzburg Cathedral was probably a sacred place for sacrifices in Celtic as well as Roman times. The first cathedral was built under Saint Vergilius of Salzburg, who might have used foundations by St. Rupert. The first Dom was recorded in 774. The so-called Virgil Dom was built from 767 to 774 and was 66 metres long and 33 metres wide. Archbishop Arno (785 – 821) was the first to arrange renovations of the Dom, which was in place for less than 70 years. In 842, the building burned down after being struck by lightning. Three years later, the re-erection of the building started. Under Archbishop Hartwig, a choir with a crypt was built towards West between 1000 and 1020. Under Archbishop Konrad I., the West-towers were built from 1106 to 1147. Salzburg is good for vacations or fami...
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Campo dei Miracoli, Pisa
2008-05-25 20:35:00
The Piazza del Duomo (”Cathedral Square”) is a wide, walled area at the heart of the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as one of the main centers for medieval art in the world. Partly paved and partly grassed, it is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Duomo, the Leaning Tower (the cathedral’s campanile), ...
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Torre Agbar, Barcelona
2008-05-25 10:51:00
The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, is a 21st-century skyscraper at Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, Barcelona , Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and built by Dragados. It opened in June 2005 and was inaugurated officially by the King of Spain on 16 September 2005. The Torre Agbar is located in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona and is named after its owners, the Agbar Group, a holding company whose interests include the Barcelona water company Aguas de Barcelona. Nice for Barcelona sightseeing tours. GPS travel coordinates: 41° 24′ 12″ N, 2° 11′ 22″ E

Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles
2008-05-24 23:11:00
Griffith Observatory is located in Los Angeles , California, United States. Sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.’s Griffith Park , it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. The observatory is a popular tourist ...
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Stanley Park, Vancouver
2008-05-23 16:05:00
Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare (1,000 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city-owned park in Canada and the third largest in North America. The park attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes. ...
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Palace of Fine Arts/Exploratorium, San Francisco
2008-05-23 11:38:00
The Exploratorium is a public science museum, located in the Marina District at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco , California. It is one of San Francisco’s most popular museums, drawing over 500,000 people each year. Founded in 1969 by the physicist Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium is dedicated to teaching science through hands-on ...
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Grand Central Terminal, New York City
2008-05-23 07:35:00
Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often popularly called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central) is a Terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station ...
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Lujiazui / Pudong, Shanghai
2008-05-22 21:43:00
Lujiazui is an important financial district in Pudong, Shanghai . In 2005 the State Council reaffirmed the positioning of the 31.78 km² Lujiazui area, as the only finance and trade zone among the 185 state-level development zones on the mainland China. Lujiazui, which literally means “Lu’s Mouth”, is located in the Pudong New District on the ...

La Catedral - The Cathedral of Lima, Lima
2008-05-22 10:20:00
The Basilica Cathedral of Lima is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the Main Plaza of downtown Lima, Peru. It started its construction in 1535. It has been transformed many times, but it still conserves its colonial composition and facade. From outside, there are 3 doors on the front facade, like any other cathedral. The ...

Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo
2008-05-21 23:35:00
Ibirapuera Park (in Portuguese Parque do Ibirapuera) is a major urban park in the city of São Paulo , Brazil. It has a large area for leisure, jogging and walking, as well as a convention center. Its importance to São Paulo is comparable to the Central Park in New York City. Inaugurated in 1954 for the ...
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Jameson Distillery, Dublin
2008-05-21 19:03:00
The Old Bushmills Distillery was founded in 1608 and is now owned by the major drinks company Diageo. Bushmills whiskey is produced, matured, and bottled on-site at the Bushmills Distillery in Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The distillery is a tourist attraction, with around 110,000 visitors per year. Despite a lack of historical evidence, it ...
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Runde Tarn, Copenhagen
2008-05-21 11:20:00
Rundetarn (Rundetaarn) is a 17th century tower located in Copenhagen , Denmark. The tower is part of the Trinitatis complex, which was built to provide the scholars of the time with an astronomical observatory, a student church and a university library. One of his most well-known buildings, Rundetarn was built upon request from King Christian IV ...

Belfry of Ghent, Ghent
2008-05-21 07:32:00
The 91-meter-high belfry of Ghent is one of three medieval towers that overlook the old city center of Ghent, Belgium, the other two belonging to Saint Bavo Cathedral and Saint Nicholas’ Church. Through the centuries, it has served not only as a bell tower to announce the time and various warnings, but also as a ...

Sintra National Palace, Sintra
2008-05-20 19:01:00
The Sintra National Palace , also called Village Palace (Palácio da Vila) is located in the village of Sintra, in Portugal near Lisbon. It is the best preserved mediaeval Royal Palace in Portugal, having been inhabited more or less continuously at least from the early 15th up to the late 19th century. It is an important ...

Glasgow University, Glasgow
2008-05-20 07:33:00
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, in Glasgow, Scotland. It is a renowned centre for teaching and research, with an international reputation, being one of the ancient universities of Scotland, the fourth oldest in the English-speaking world and amongst the largest, and most prestigious seats of learning in Europe. The University has recently ...

Mala Strana, Prague
2008-05-19 15:58:00
Mala Strana, both meaning in English literally “Little Side”, though more frequently referred to as “Lesser Town”, “Lesser Quarter”, or “Lesser Side”) was originally a popular and nowadays also the official name for “The Lesser Town of Prague ”, one of Prague’s historical and oldest boroughs. Its name comes from its position on the left (west) ...
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Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
2008-05-19 07:42:00
The Jade Buddha Temple (Jade Buddha Chan Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai , China. As with most modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 metres tall, 3 tonnes), and a smaller reclining Buddha representing Buddha’s death. The temple now also contains a much larger reclining Jade Buddha, donated from Singapore, and visitors may mistake this larger sculpture for the original, smaller piece. Chine is best place to travel. GPS vacation destination: 31° 14′ 36″ N, 121° 26′ 25″ E

Anfield & Goodison, Liverpool
2008-05-18 22:21:00
Anfield is an association football stadium in the district of Anfield, in Liverpool , England. The stadium was built in 1884 and was originally the home of Everton F.C. until 1892, when they left after a rent dispute. Since then the stadium has been home to Liverpool F.C., who were formed as a result of Everton ...
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Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny
2008-05-18 09:18:00
Kilkenny Castle is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland. It was the seat of the Butler family. Formerly the family name was FitzWalter. The castle was sold to the local Castle Restoration Committee in the middle of the 20th century for £50. Shortly afterwards it was handed over to the State, and has since been refurbished ...
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Scott Monument, Edinburgh
2008-05-17 22:23:00
The Scott Monument is a victorian gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (not to be confused with the National Monument). It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh , opposite the Jenners department store on Princes Street and near to Waverley Station. The tower is 200.5 feet or 61.1 metres tall, and has a series of viewing decks reached by a series of narrow spiral staircases giving panoramic views of central Edinburgh and its surroundings. The highest viewing deck is reached by a total of 287 steps. It is built from Binnie shale quarried in nearby Livingston; the oil which continues to leech from its matrix has helped to glue the notoriously filthy atmosphere of Victorian Edinburgh (then nicknamed “Auld Reekie” — old smokey) to the tower, leaving it an unintended sooty-black colour. It is often noted for looking like a “gothic rocket ship”. Edinburgh is one of top travel destinations. GPS vacation destination: 55° 57′ 8.7″ N, 3° 11...

The Burren, Galway
2008-05-17 07:37:00
The Burren (Great rock) is a unique karst-landscape region in northwest County Clare, in Ireland. The region measures approximately 250 square kilometres and is enclosed roughly within the circle comprised by the villages Ballyvaughan, Kinvara, Tubber, Corofin, Kilfenora and Lisdoonvarna, It is bounded by the Atlantic and Galway Bay on the west and north respectively. ...

Diocletian?s Palace, Split
2008-05-17 00:14:00
Diocletian’s Palace is a building in Split in Croatia that was built by the emperor Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century AD. The Latin name of the city, Spalatum, was drawn from that of the nearby Greek colony Aspalathos, which in turn was named after a white thorn common in the area. Contrary ...

Round Church, Cambridge
2008-05-16 16:00:00
The Holy Sepulchre, commonly known as the “Round Church ”, is a church in Cambridge , England. 11th century Crusaders to the Holy Land would have seen the Holy Sepulchre, located near the centre of Jerusalem. It was a round church supported on eighteen columns or piers with an ambulatory around the perimeter on the west of ...

Cable Cars/Museum, San Francisco
2008-05-16 11:28:00
The Cable Car Museum is a museum in San Francisco , California. It contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum. The museum is entered from an entrance at Washington and Mason. The museum contains several examples of old cable cars, together with ...
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Atocha, Madrid
2008-05-16 07:22:00
Atocha Station is the largest railway station in Madrid . It is the primary station serving commuter trains (Cercanías), intercity and regional trains from the south, and the AVE high speed trains from Seville (Andalusia) and Barcelona (Catalonia). These train services are run by the Spanish national rail company, Renfe. The station was Madrid’s first railway ...
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Lago di Garda
2008-05-16 00:12:00
Lake Garda (Lago di Garda or Benaco) is the largest lake in Italy. It is located in Northern Italy, about half-way between Venice and Milan. It is in an alpine region and was formed by glaciers at the end of the last ice age. The lake and its shoreline are divided between the provinces of ...

Akrotiri Excavations, Santorini Island
2008-05-15 07:20:00
Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site of an Bronze Age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini , associated with the Minoan civilization due to close similarities in artifact and fresco styles. The excavation is named for a modern Greek village situated on a hill nearby. The name of the site in antiquity is ...
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Oia Village, Santorini Island
2008-05-14 23:18:00
Oia is a community on the islands of Thira (Santorini ) and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece. The population was 1,230 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and the land area is 19.449 km². The population and land area are distributed as follows: 962 persons on 10.150 km² in Santorini, and 268 persons on 9.299 km² in ...
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National Museum, Prague
2008-05-14 09:57:00
The National museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded 1818 in Prague by Ka?par Maria ?ternberg. Historian Franti?ek Palacký was also strongly involved. At present the National Museum houses almost 14 million items from the area of natural history, history, ...