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Rottnest Island, Perth
2008-06-10 18:44:00
Rottnest Island is located 19 km off the coast of Western Australia, near Fremantle. It is called Wadjemup by the Noongar people, meaning “place across the water”. The island is 11 kilometres long, and 4.5 kilometres at its widest point with a total land area of 19 km². It is classified as an A Class Reserve and is managed by the Rottnest Island Authority. No private ownership of land is allowed. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive is “Rotto”, or “Rottnest”. It has been an important holiday destination for over 50 years. Perth tourist attractions. GPS travel destinations: 31° 59′ 45.6″ S, 115° 32′ 27.6″ E

English Bay, Vancouver
2008-06-10 16:05:00
English Bay is located in Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada, west of the downtown peninsula, which separates the bay from Burrard Inlet connecting to the northeast, and False Creek to the southeast. English Bay Beach, near the city’s West End residential neighborhood, is the most popular sunbathing, swimming, and sunset-watching beach in the downtown Vancouver area. Other downtown beaches facing English Bay include Sunset Beach, Second Beach, and Third Beach. South of the bay lie Kitsilano Beach, Jericho Beach, the Spanish Banks beaches, and Locarno Beach. English Bay is a major tourist attraction to visitors all year long, with the peak season being late summer. Vancouver has a lot of sightseeing tours. GPS travel coordinates: 49° 17′ 0″ N, 123° 9′ 15″ W
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San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco
2008-06-10 09:40:00
The City Hall of San Francisco , California, opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city’s Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief “City Beautiful” movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. The present building is actually a replacement for an earlier City Hall that was completely destroyed during the 1906 Earthquake. The architect was Arthur Brown Jr, whose attention to the finishing details extended to the doorknobs and the typeface to be used in signage. Brown also designed San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building, Temple Emanuel, Coit Tower and the Federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza. Interesting historical tourist spot. GPS tourist coordinates: 37° 46′ 45.08″ N, 122° 25′ 8.9″ W

Olympic Museum Lausanne
2008-06-10 07:51:00
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 pieces, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games in the world and one of Lausanne’s prime tourist draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.[3] It is surrounded by a park containing numerous works of art on a sporting theme. The museum was founded on 23 June 1993, on the initiative of Juan Antonio Samaranch. It was named the European Museum of the Year in 1995. Great for summer vacations or honemoon vacations. GPS travel destinations: 46° 30′ 31″ N, 6° 38′ 2″ E

Pike Place Market, Seattle
2008-06-09 09:49:00
Pike Place Market is a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle , Washington, United States. The Market, which opened August 17, 1907, is one of the oldest continually-operated public farmer’s markets in the United States. It is a place of business for many small farmers, craftspeople and merchants. It is also Seattle’s most popular tourist destination. Located in Downtown, it occupies over 9 acres (36,000 m²). The Market is bounded by First Avenue to the east, Western Avenue to the west, Virginia Street to the north, and, to the south, a line drawn from First to Western Avenues halfway between Pike Street and Union Street. It is named after its central street, Pike Place, which runs northwest from Pike Street to Virginia Street. Interesting tourist attractions. GPS travel destinations: 47° 36′ 34.2″ N, 122° 20′ 31.2″ W
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La Jolla, San Diego, California
2008-06-09 07:42:00
La Jolla is a wealthy seaside resort community of up to 42,808 residents within the city of San Diego , California . Population figures are imprecise because La Jolla’s borders are indistinct. Generally the community’s border starts at Pacific Beach to the south and extends along the Pacific Ocean shore north to include Torrey Pines State Reserve ending at Del Mar, California. Along the way La Jolla encompasses neighborhoods like Bird Rock, Windansea, the La Jolla commercial “village”, La Jolla Shores, La Jolla Farms, Torrey Pines, Mount Soledad and La Jolla Village (including La Jolla Village Square). Interstate 5 forms La Jolla’s man-made border to the east, with the exception of some University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and commercial property east of I-5 and north of La Jolla Village Drive, which are also considered in the wider definition to be part of La Jolla. Interesting for travel guides. GPS tourist coordinates: 32° 50′ 24″ N, 117° 1...

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
2008-06-07 23:53:00
John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor aquarium in Chicago , Illinois in the United States. The aquarium opened on May 30, 1930, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with 5,000,000 US gallons (19,000,000 l) of water and over 25,000 fish. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with ...

Galata tower, Istanbul
2008-06-07 10:26:00
The Galata Tower , also called Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) by the Genoese and Megalos Pyrgos (The Great Tower) by the Byzantines, is located in Istanbul , Turkey, to the north of the Golden Horn. One of the city’s most striking landmarks, it is a huge, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline on the Galata side ...

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2008-06-06 23:27:00
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston , Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. The museum was founded in 1870 and its current location dates to 1909. In ...
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Goldenes Dachl, Innsbruck
2008-06-06 19:01:00
The Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl) is a landmark in Innsbruck, Austria built in 1500. It was decorated with 2657 fire-gilded copper tiles for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. The reliefs on the balcony show coats of arms, symbols and other figures in his life. (The original reliefs are located in the Tiroler Landesmuseum). The emperor ...
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Meteora, Agios Georgios Mandelas?s cave
2008-06-06 10:02:00
The Meteora is one of the largest and most important complex of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Kalambaka, Greece and is second only to Mount Athos. The monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Peneios river and Pindus Mountains, in central Greece. The Metéora ...
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Anzac Bridge, Sydney
2008-06-06 07:38:00
The ANZAC Bridge or Anzac Bridge, formerly known as the Glebe Island Bridge, is a large cable-stayed bridge spanning Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Rozelle in proximity to the central business district of Sydney , Australia. The bridge forms part of the Western Distributor freeway leading from the Sydney CBD and Cross City Tunnel to the ...

Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia
2008-06-05 23:42:00
The Betsy Ross House is generally recognized as the place where Betsy Ross lived when she may have made the first American Flag. Several of her surviving family members, including daughters, grandchildren and a niece said that this was the location of the legendary event. The house is located at 239 Arch Street, just blocks ...
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Egyptian Museum, Cairo
2008-06-05 15:33:00
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo , Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms and carparks. The museum’s Royal Mummy Room, containing 27 royal mummies from pharaonic ...

Puente Nuevo, Ronda
2008-06-05 09:58:00
The Puente Nuevo, whose name means “new bridge” in Spanish, is the newer and larger of two bridges that span the 120m-deep chasm that divides the city of Ronda in southern Spain. The bridge was built in 1751 and took a total of 42 years to build. The bridge is supposedly one of the most ...

Iolani Palace, Honolulu
2008-06-05 07:19:00
Iolani Palace is situated in the capitol district of downtown Honolulu in the U.S. state of Hawai?i. It is the only royal palace used as an official residence by a reigning monarch in the United States and is a National Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Two monarchs governed from Iolani ...

Rethymno, Crete
2008-06-04 23:05:00
Rethymno, a city of approximately 40,000 people, is the capital of Rethymno Prefecture in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity (ancient Rhithymna and Arsinoe), even though it has never been a competitive Minoan center. It was, however, strong enough to mint its own coins and maintain a mild urban growth. One of ...

Ha?penny Bridge, Dublin
2008-06-04 19:12:00
The Ha’penny Bridge , known later for a time as the Penny Ha’penny Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge built in 1816 over the River Liffey in Dublin , Ireland. Originally called the Wellington Bridge (after the Duke of Wellington), the name of the bridge changed to Liffey Bridge, its official name to this day. It is still ...

Pitti Palace & Boboli Gardens, Florence
2008-06-04 12:05:00
The Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace , is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence , Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti, ...
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Teotihuacan
2008-06-03 18:22:00
Teotihuacan was, at its height in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas. The city during its existence was larger than any European city of the same era, possibly including Rome. The civilization and cultural complex associated with the site is also referred to as Teotihuacan. Its ...

Belvedere, Vienna
2008-06-03 14:58:00
The Belvedere is a baroque palace complex built by Prince Eugene of Savoy in the 3rd district of Vienna , south-east of the city centre. After buying the plot of land in 1697, Prince Eugene had a large park created. The Schloss Belvedere began as a suburban entertainment villa: in 1714 work began to erect what ...

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2008-06-03 07:41:00
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (lit. City Museum Amsterdam) is a museum for modern art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at Museum Square, close to the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum. Its collection includes a room painted by Karel Appel and a large collection of paintings by Kazimir Malevich. The Stedelijk had ...

Sant Agostino, Rome
2008-06-02 23:23:00
Sant Agostino is a church in Rome , not far from Piazza Navona. It is one of the first Roman churches built during the Renaissance. The construction was funded by Guillaume d’Estouteville, Archbishop of Rouen and Papal Chancellor. The facade was built up in 1483 by Giacomo di Pietrasanta, using marble taken from Colosseum. It is ...
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Christiania, Copenhagen
2008-06-01 14:35:00
Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania is a partially self-governing neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectares (85 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen . Christiania has established semi-legal status as an independent community, but has been a source of controversy since its creation in a squatted military area in ...

Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg
2008-06-01 00:04:00
Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, France. Although considerable parts of it are still in Romanesque architecture, it is widely considered to be among the finest examples of high, or late, Gothic architecture. Erwin von Steinbach is credited for major contributions from 1277 to ...
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Alamo Square, San Francisco, California
2008-05-31 00:25:00
Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco , California . Both are located in the Western Addition, a part of the city’s fifth Supervisorial district, and are served by several Muni bus lines including the 5, 21, 22, and 24. Alamo Square Park consists of six city blocks at the top of a ...

Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul
2008-05-28 20:34:00
Gyeongbok Palace is a palace located in northern Seoul , South Korea. It was the main and largest palace of the Joseon Dynasty and one of the Five Grand Palaces built by the Joseon Dynasty. The palace was originally constructed in 1394 by King Taejo. Gyeongbokgung was continuously expanded during the reign of King Taejong and King Sejong the Great, but part of the palace was burnt down during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598). Far east is interesting for sightseeing tours. Not good destination for honeymoon vacations. GPS travel destinations: 37° 34′ 43″ N, 126° 58′ 38″ E

Temple Bar, Dublin
2008-05-28 07:29:00
Temple Bar (Barra an Teampaill) is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin , Ireland. Unlike the areas surrounding it, Temple Bar has preserved its medieval street pattern, with many narrow cobbled streets. It is promoted as “Dublin’s cultural quarter” and has a lively nightlife that is popular with tourists. Temple Bar is in the postcode Dublin 2 (D2), and has an estimated population of 3,000. Dublin is on of best travel destinations. GPS vacation destinations:53° 20′ 44″ N, 6° 15′ 46″ W
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Bodrum Castle, Bodrum
2008-05-27 20:36:00
Bodrum Castle , located in southwest Turkey in the city of Bodrum, was built by the Knights Hospitaller starting in 1402 as the Castle of St. Peter or Petronium. Confronted with the invasion of Seljuk Turks, the Knights Hospitaller, with their headquarters on the island of Rhodes, needed another stronghold on the mainland. Grand Master Philibert de Naillac (1396-1421) found a suitable site across the island of Kos, where there was already a castle of the Order. This location had been already the site of a fortification in Doric times (1110 BC) and of a small Seljuk castle in the 11th century. The same promontory was also the probable site of the palace of Mausolos, the famous king of Caria. Turkey is interesting country for vacations and trips. GPS travel destinations: 37° 1′ 54″ N, 27° 25′ 46″ E
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Jeanneken Pis, Brussels
2008-05-27 07:32:00
Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels , which forms a counterpoint in gender terms to the city’s trademark Manneken Pis, as it does aurally and geographically, being about the same distance away on the other side of the Grand Place / Grote Markt. It was made by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 and endowed with its own instant legend, the better to amuse strollers. This half-metre-high statue of blue-grey limestone depicts a little girl with her hair in bunches, squatting and urinating, apparently very contentedly. It is located on the east side of the Faith Alley, a narrow dead-end street some 30 metres long leading northwards off the restaurant-packed Rue des Bouchers / Beenhouwersstraat. It is unsurprisingly much less well known than its male counterpart, being a new addition instead of a centuries-old symbol of the city. Not famous like other statue, but Brussels has many toruist attractions. GPS travel coordinates: 50° 50′ 55″ N, 4Â...