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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
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 ...
Grossmunster, Zurich
2008-04-26 22:22:00 The Grossmunster (”great minster”) is a Romanesque-style church that played an important role in the history of the Protestant Reformation. It is one of the three major churches of Zürich (the others being the Fraumunster and St. Peterskirche). The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was constructed on the ...
Festos (Phaistos), Crete Island
2008-04-25 15:54:00 Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Phaestus is an ancient city on the island of Crete. Phaistos was located in the south-central portion of the island, about 5.6 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea. It was inhabited from about 4000 BC. A palace, dating from the Middle Bronze Age, was destroyed by an earthquake during ... More About: Island
Se de Braga, Braga
2008-04-25 12:57:00 The Cathedral of Braga (Portuguese: Sé de Braga) is one of the most important monuments in the city of Braga, in Northern Portugal. Due to its long history and artistic significance it is also one of the most important buildings in the country. Portugal is favorite tourist destination, nice weather, food, wine and people. Lots ...
Rialto Tower, Melbourne
2008-04-25 09:43:00 Rialto Tower s (often The Rialto) is the second-tallest reinforced concrete building and the tallest office building in the Southern Hemisphere, when measured to its roof. (Several other skyscrapers in Australia are taller if their spires are included, as are some other structures such as communications masts and observation towers). It is at 525 Collins Street, ... More About: Melbourne , Rialto
Ciutadella, Minorca Island
2008-04-24 11:22:00 Originally founded by the Carthaginians and was already the seat of a bishop in the 4th century. After being governed by the Moors under the names of Madina al Jazira and Madina al Manurqa for several centuries, Ciutadella was recaptured during the reconquista by men serving Alfonso II and became part of the Crown of ... More About: Island
The Scaligeri tombs, Verona
2008-04-24 09:34:00 The Scaliger Tombs is a group of five Gothic funerary monuments in Verona , Italy, celebrating the Scaliger family, who ruled in Verona from the 13th to the late 14th century. The tombs are located in a court of the church of Santa Maria Antica, separated from the street by a wall with iron grilles. Built ...
Catedral de la Seo, Zaragoza
2008-04-23 15:00:00 The Cathedral of the Savior (or Catedral del Salvador in Spanish) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Zaragoza , Spain. It is part of the World Heritage Site Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon. The cathedral is located on the Plaza de la Seo and is commonly known as La Seo (Spanish for “see”) to distinguish it from ...
St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans
2008-04-23 10:21:00 Saint Louis Cathedral , also known as the Basilica of St. Louis, King of France, is the cathedral in the French Quarter of New Orleans , Louisiana, USA. It is located on the Place John Paul II (French: Place Jean-Paul II), a promenaded section of Chartres Street (rue de Chartres) that stretches one block between St. Peter ... More About: St Louis
Isla Mujeres, Cancun
2008-04-23 07:31:00 Cancun is a coastal city in Mexico’s easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan Peninsula best known as the Mexican Caribbean or at the northern section of the Mayan Riviera; however Cancun does not share a similar climate or topography to the Mediterranean. The older section of the city, known as “El Centro” follows the ... More About: Cancun
Liberty Bell, Philadelphia
More articles from this author:2008-04-22 18:34:00 The Liberty Bell , in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, is a bell of great historic significance. The Liberty Bell is one of the most prominent symbols associated with the American Revolutionary War. It is one of the most familiar symbols of independence within the United States, and has been described as an international icon of liberty and justice ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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