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 Andorra la Vella
Country: Andorra
City: Andorra la Vella
Andorra la Vella is the capital of the Principality of Andorra, and is located high in the east Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is also the name of the parish that surrounds it. The town of Santa Coloma is located in the province.
The principal industry is tourism, although the country also earns foreign income from being a tax-haven. Furniture and brandies are local products.
The site of ... |
Musee du LouvreCountry: France
City: Paris
Located in Paris, the Louvre is one of the largest palaces in the world and, as a former residence of the kings of France, one of the most illustrious. It exemplifies traditional French architecture since the Renaissance, and it houses a magnificent collection of ancient and Western art.
The Palace
The first Louvre was a fortress built at the beginning of the 13th century by Philip II Augustus t ... |
The Royal Palace of MadridCountry: Spain
City: Madrid
The Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of His Majesty The King of Spain, who makes use of it for official ceremonies, though not residing there.
The origins of the Palace go back to the 9th century, during which the Islamic Kingdom of Toledo built a defensive fort on the site, later used by the Kings of Castile. It was on this ancient fortress that the Old Alcázar was constructed i ... |
The Getty Center Country: United States
City: Los Angeles
The Getty is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and the humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation.
The Getty Center opened to the public in December 1997, unites the J. Paul Getty Trust's museum, institutes, and grant program on one site in Los Angeles. It has received well over one mill ... |
The Art Institute of ChicagoCountry: United States
City: Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago holds one of the world's great art collections. The following describes just a few of the wonderful exhibits:
The African & Amerindian collection includes an African exhibit of wood sculpture, masks, ceramics, furniture, textiles, and beadwork from West, Central, and Southern Africa and an Amerindian collection of Mesoamerican and Andean ceramics, sculpture, texti ... |
The Victoria & Albert MuseumCountry: United Kingdom
City: London
Being the world's foremost museum of decorative arts, The Victoria and Albert Museum was originally founded in 1842. It later became home to the India Museum which had been established in 1799 by the East India Company. The collection of the Asian Department includes material from the Punjab dating from the 16th to the 19th Centuries. From paintings, textiles, rare photographs, arms and armo ... |
Tigre DeltaCountry: Argentina
City: London
About the Paraná River Delta: The Paraná River delta is a 14,000 square kilometer area where thousands of islands and inlets, water channels, rivers and backwaters form a sub-tropical wonderland about twenty miles northeast of Buenos Aires. See this image and this interactive map from Expedia.
The Paraná is South America's second longest river, after the Amazon. It originates in southeastern Braz ... |
M'Zab ValleyCountry: Algeria
City: London
The M’zab Valley is an oasis in the Sahara desert. Located about 500 kilometers south of Algiers in the Ghardaia province of Algeria, the 10-kilometer-long valley contains approximately 3,000 wells that supply 270,000 green date palms with water.
The M’zab Valley has been inhabited since 1012, when M’zabite Berbers, a fiercely independent group of Ibadiyy Muslims, moved to the region in an attemp ... |
Dracula's Castle - Myth or truth?Country: Romania
City: Bran
CASTLE HISTORY:Deep in the Carpathian Mountains, in the heart of rural Romania is Transylvania, where perched atop a rocky peak, there has been a fortress of some kind for nearly 1,000 years and the fortress that stands here today is now known as 'Dracula's Castle' (the actual Castle Dracula is in ruin on a secluded site near the Arges River). Bran Castle was originally a stronghold built by the K ... |
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