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| Unique Visitors: 28 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 160713 |
| Visitors Out: 533 |
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| Akrotiri Excavations, Santorini Island |
| 2008-05-15 00:20:14 |
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 16:18:35 |
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 02:57:51 |
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 Kašpar Maria Šternberg. Historian František Palacký was also strongly involved. At present the National Museum houses almost 14 million items from the area of natural history, history, [...]...
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| The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens |
| 2008-05-14 00:53:38 |
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 03:31:11 |
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 [...]...
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| Maritime/Scheepvaart museum, Amsterdam |
| 2008-05-13 00:31:24 |
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. [...]...
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| Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul |
| 2008-05-12 10:36:14 |
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 [...]...
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| Barri Gotico, Barcelona |
| 2008-05-12 02:42:54 |
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 [...]...
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| Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas |
| 2008-05-12 00:31:19 |
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 [...]...
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| Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain, Chicago |
| 2008-05-11 08:20:34 |
Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark located at Columbus Drive and Congress Parkway 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 01:37:12 |
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, [...]...
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| Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas |
| 2008-05-10 15:49:17 |
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 [...]...
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| Montjuic, Barcelona |
| 2008-05-09 02:39:45 |
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, [...]...
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| Clifford’s Tower, York |
| 2008-05-09 00:29:38 |
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 [...]...
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| Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 2008-05-08 08:59:31 |
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 [...]...
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| Casa Batllo, Barcelona |
| 2008-05-08 00:27:19 |
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 [...]...
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| La Madeleine, Paris |
| 2008-05-07 15:22:43 |
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 [...]...
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| Place de la Concorde, Paris |
| 2008-05-07 09:03:31 |
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. [...]...
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| Palatine Hill, Rome |
| 2008-05-07 02:58:38 |
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 [...]...
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| Placa de Catalunya, Barcelona |
| 2008-05-07 00:30:48 |
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 [...]...
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| Sainte-Chapelle, Paris |
| 2008-05-06 15:46:44 |
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 [...]...
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| Montmartre / Sacré Coeur, Paris |
| 2008-05-05 16:33:01 |
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 Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district. The other, older, church on [...]...
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| Musée Rodin, Paris |
| 2008-05-05 06:09:12 |
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 [...]...
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| Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin |
| 2008-05-05 02:18:19 |
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 [...]...
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| Madurodam, Miniature City, The Hague |
| 2008-05-03 07:35:35 |
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 [...]...
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| Zubizuri (White bridge), Bilbao |
| 2008-05-02 00:23:55 |
The Zubizuri ( Basque for “white bridge”), also called the Campo Volantin Bridge or Puente del Campo Volantin, is a tied arch footbridge across the Nervion River in Bilbao, linking the Campo Volantin right bank and Uribitarte left bank of the river. The bridge was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, who also designed the city’s [...]...
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| Old Trafford, Manchester |
| 2008-05-01 04:23:52 |
Old Trafford, given the nickname the Theatre of Dreams by Bobby Charlton, is an all-seater stadium in the Trafford borough of Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United F.C. The ground has been the club’s permanent residence since 1910, with the exception of an eight-year absence from 1941 to 1949 following the bombing [...]...
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| Promenade des Anglais, Nice |
| 2008-04-30 05:32:22 |
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 [...]...
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| Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 2008-04-30 02:20:46 |
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 [...]...
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| Guinness Storehouse, Dublin |
| 2008-04-29 16:47:29 |
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 [...]...
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| Delos Island, Mykonos |
| 2008-04-29 03:11:27 |
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 [...]...
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
| 2008-04-28 02:23:00 |
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 [...]...
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| The Royal Mile, Edinburgh |
| 2008-04-27 16:48:30 |
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 [...]...
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| Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples |
| 2008-04-27 07:17:43 |
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 [...]...
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| Grossmunster, Zurich |
| 2008-04-26 15:22:40 |
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 [...]...
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| Festos (Phaistos), Crete Island |
| 2008-04-25 08:54:16 |
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 [...]...
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| Se de Braga, Braga |
| 2008-04-25 05:57:42 |
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 [...]...
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| Rialto Tower, Melbourne |
| 2008-04-25 02:43:41 |
Rialto Towers (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, [...]...
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| Ciutadella, Minorca Island |
| 2008-04-24 04:22:39 |
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 [...]...
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