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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, ...

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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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
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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