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The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
2008-05-14 07:53:00 The Temple of Olympian Zeus , also known as the Olympieion, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that was formerly dedicated to Zeus, king of the Olympian gods. Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in ... More About: The Temple
Piazza del Popolo, Rome
2008-05-13 10:31:00 The Piazza del Popolo is a square in Rome . The name in modern Italian literally means “piazza of the people”, but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name. The Piazza lies ...
Maritime/Scheepvaart museum, Amsterdam
2008-05-13 07:31:00 The Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (Netherlands Maritime Museum ) is a museum in Amsterdam , The Netherlands. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse, ’s Lands Zeemagazijn or Admiraliteits Magazijn, constructed in 1656. The museum moved to this building in 1973. The museum is dedicated to maritime history and contains many artifacts associated with shipping and sailing. ...
Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul
2008-05-12 17:36:00 The Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul , Turkey, located at the European side of the Bosphorus, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1922, apart from a twenty-year interval (1889-1909) in which the Yildiz Palace was used. Dolmabahce Palace was the first European-style palace in Istanbul and was built by Sultan ...
Barri Gotico, Barcelona
2008-05-12 09:42:00 The Barri Gotic (’Gothic Quarter’ in Catalan) is the centre of the old city of Barcelona . It stretches from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere. Despite several changes undergone in the 19th and early 20th century, many of the buildings date from Medieval times, some from ...
Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas
2008-05-12 07:31:00 Bellagio is a AAA Five-Diamond rated luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA. It is owned by MGM Mirage and was built on the site of demolished Dunes hotel and casino. Inspired by the Lake Como resort of Bellagio in Italy, Bellagio is famed for its elegance. One ...
Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain, Chicago
2008-05-11 15:20:00 Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark located at Columbus Drive and Congress Park way in Grant Park. The fountain, which was designed by Edward H. Bennett with sculptures by Jacques Lambert and modeled after Latona Fountain at Versailles, was donated to the city by Kate Buckingham in memory of her brother, Clarence Buckingham. She also established ... More About: Buckingham
Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, California
2008-05-11 08:37:00 Fisherman’s Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco , California , U.S. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Street east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. It is best known for being the location of Pier 39, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, the Cannery Shopping Center, Ghirardelli Square, a Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum, the Musée Mécanique, the Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf, Forbes Island and restaurants and stands that serve fresh seafood, most notably dungeness crab and clam chowder served in a sourdough bread bowl. Some of the restaurants, like Pompeii’s and Alioto’s #8, go back for three generations of the same family ownership. Nearby Pier 45, there is a chapel in memory of the “Lost Fishermen” of San Francisco and Northern California though it might not always be open everyday. Once a year, the chapel has a service for t... More About: Fisherman
Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2008-05-10 22:49:00 Paris Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA , that is owned and operated by Harrah’s Entertainment. As its name suggests, its theme is the city of Paris in France; it includes a half-scale, 540-foot-tall (164.6 m) replica of the Eiffel Tower, a neon sign in the shape of the Montgolfier balloon, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe and a replica of La Fontaine des Mers. The front facade of the building suggests the Paris Opera House and the Louvre. The Paris is linked via a promenade to its sister property, Bally’s Las Vegas. It also is linked to the Las Vegas Monorail. Nice place for travel guides. GPS tourist destinations: 36° 6′ 45″ N, 115° 10′ 20″ W More About: Paris
Montjuic, Barcelona
2008-05-09 09:39:00 Montjuic is a hill located in Barcelona , Spain. Montjuic is translated as Hill of the Jews in the medieval Catalan language, or as a corruption of Latin Mons Jovicus (that is, hill of Jupiter). The name is found in several locations in the Catalan Countries: the Catalan cities of Girona and Barcelona have a Montjuic, as does the island of Minorca. When written in a Spanish rather than Catalan context it is generally spelled Montjuich (in the old Catalan spelling before Pompeu Fabra’s orthography). Great place for Barcelona sightseeing tours. GPS travel destination: 41° 21′ 51″ N, 2° 9′ 29″ E
Clifford’s Tower, York
2008-05-09 07:29:00 York Castle is a fortification in the city of York, England. The principal remains of the 13th-14th century castle are the keep, which is known as Clifford ’s Tower , and some of the curtain wall. From its start in 1068 through the English Civil War, the castle had a particularly noteworthy history. In 1068, during the Norman Conquest of 1066–1069, William I had a basic wood motte-and-bailey castle built at York between the Rivers Ouse and Foss on the site of the present-day York Castle, and placed it under the command of William Malet. The local population soon harassed the castle; to aid in its defense and to strengthen his grip on the north, William had a second castle built in 1069 on what is now Baile Hill on the west bank of the Ouse. Later that year, a Danish fleet sailed up the Humber and attacked the castles and the Norman occupiers with the assistance of Cospatrick and a number of locals. The Normans, as part of their attempt to defend themselves, set fire to the hou... More About: York
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2008-05-08 15:59:00 The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or Rijksmuseum (English: State Museum) is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and a substantial collection of Asian art. The museum was founded in 1800 in The Hague to exhibit the collections of the Dutch stadtholders. It was inspired by French example. By then it was known as the National Art Gallery (Dutch: Nationale Kunst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as The Night Watch by Rembrandt, became part of the collection. Amsterdam has lots of travel attractions for all interests. GPS tourist destination: 52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 7″ E
Casa Batllo, Barcelona
2008-05-08 07:27:00 Casa Batllo is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905?1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona , Catalonia. The local name for ... More About: Casa
La Madeleine, Paris
2008-05-07 22:22:00 L’église de la Madeleine (La Madeleine), is a church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . It was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon’s army. The site of this edifice, centered at the end of rue Royale, a line-of-sight between Gabriel’s twin hôtels in the ...
Place de la Concorde, Paris
2008-05-07 16:03:00 The Place de la Concorde is one of the major squares in Paris , France. It is located in the city’s eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. The Place was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1755 as a moat-skirted octagon between the Champs-Élysées to the west and the Tuileries Gardens to the east. ...
Palatine Hill, Rome
2008-05-07 09:58:00 The Palatine Hill (Collis Palatium or Mons Palatinus) is the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city. It stands 40 metres[1] above the Forum Romanum, looking down upon it on one side, and upon the Circus Maximus on the other. It is the etymological ...
Placa de Catalunya, Barcelona
2008-05-07 07:30:00 Placa Catalunya (or Placa de Catalunya, both being the official Catalan language names; is a large square in central Barcelona that is generally considered to be both its city centre and the place where the old city (see Barri Gòtic and Raval, in Ciutat Vella) and the 19th century-built Eixample meet. Some of the city’s ...
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris
2008-05-06 22:46:00 La Sainte-Chapelle (The Holy Chapel) is a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris , France. It is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the rayonnante period of Gothic architecture. The Sainte-Chapelle, the palatine chapel in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la ...
Montmartre / Sacré Coeur, Paris
2008-05-05 23:33:00 Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, and also the name of the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank, primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré C?ur on its summit and as a nightclub district. The other, older, church on ... More About: Coeur
Musée Rodin, Paris
2008-05-05 13:09:00 The Musée Rodin in Paris , France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. It displays works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his residence from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures (along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh ...
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
2008-05-05 09:18:00 Museum Island (Museumsinsel) in Berlin , Germany is the name of the northern half of the Spreeinsel, an island in the Spree river in the centre of the city (the southern half of the island is called Fischerinsel (Fishers’ Island)). The island received its name for several internationally renowned museums that now occupy all of the ... More About: Museum
Madurodam, Miniature City, The Hague
2008-05-03 14:35:00 Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague, in the Netherlands. It is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale, composed of typical Dutch buildings and landmarks, as are found at various locations in the country. This major Dutch tourist attraction was built in 1952 and has been visited by ... More About: City , Miniature
Promenade des Anglais, Nice
2008-04-30 12:32:00 Before Nice was urbanized, the coast at Nice was just bordered by a deserted band of beach covered by large pebbles. The first houses were located on higher ground well away from the sea. Starting in the second half of the 18th century, the English took to spending the winter in Nice, enjoying the panorama ... More About: Promenade
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
2008-04-30 09:20:00 Manchester Art Gallery is a free-to-view municipally-owned public art gallery in Manchester City Centre in the North West of England. The Gallery was extended by Hopkins Architects in May 2002 to take in the old Atheneaum building next door, and now occupies three buildings. One building is the Grade I listed building that was originally ... More About: Manchester , Art Gallery
Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
2008-04-29 23:47:00 Guinness Storehouse, “the home of Guinness”, is Dublin ’s most popular tourist attraction. A converted brewing factory, it is effectively a shrine to Guinness, incorporating elements from the old brewing factory to explain the history of its production. Some of the old brewing equipment is on show, as well as stout ingredients, brewing techniques, advertising methods ... More About: Guinness
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
2008-04-29 16:26:00 The United Nations Headquarters is a distinctive complex in New York City that has served as the headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1950. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, on spacious grounds overlooking the East River. Though it is in New York ...
Delos Island, Mykonos
2008-04-29 10:11:00 The island of Delos, isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are among the most extensive in the Mediterranean; ongoing work takes place under the direction of the ... More About: Island
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2008-04-28 09:23:00 The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest art museums in the United States. Originally the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, its ...
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
2008-04-27 23:48:00 The Royal Mile is the popular name for the succession of streets which form the main thoroughfare of ’s Old Town. As the name suggests, the Royal Mile is approximately one Scottish mile long, and runs between two foci of history in Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle at the top of the Castle Rock down to Holyrood Abbey. It is said to be referred to by locals as “High Street”, but properly, this is the name of only one stretch. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castle Esplanade, Castlehill, Lawnmarket, High Street, Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is Edinburgh Old Town’s busiest tourist street, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town. GPS travel coordinates: 55° 56′ 59″ N, 3° 11′ 17″ W
Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples
More articles from this author:2008-04-27 14:17:00 Piazza Plebiscito is the largest square in Naples . It is named for the plebiscite taken in 1860 that brought Naples into the unified Kingdom of Italy under the House of Savoy. It is bounded on the east by the Royal Palace and on the west by the church of San Francesco di Paola with the ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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