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Visiting the Cost del Sol
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Spain
The stunning Costa del Sol, or Sun Coast, is one of Spain`s most popular tourist attractions and, once you`ve set eyes on the striking whitewashed villages, blue skies and pristine sandy beaches you`ll understand why. Comprising a long stretch of the Spanish south coast, the Costa del Sol is the ideal spot for a beach holiday for those that also like to explore the culture and history of the place ...
The Great Sphinx of Egypt
Country:
Egypt
City: Cairo
In a depression to the south of Chephren's pyramid sits a creature with a human head and a lion's body. The name 'sphinx' which means 'strangler' was first given by the Greeks to a fabulous creature which had the head of a woman and the body of a lion and the wings of a bird. The sphinx appears to have started in Egypt in the form of a sun god. The Egyptian sphinx is usually a head of a king weari ...
Clock Museum
Country:
Austria
City: Vienna
The City of Vienna Clock Museum has been housed since 1921 in the "Harfenhaus" (Harpist's House), one of the oldest houses in Vienna. The collection is on three floors and illustrates the development of clocks from the 15th C. to the present day. The 1,200 or so exhibits include very basic clocks, tower and table clocks, pocket watches, Austrian lantern timepieces of the Biedermeier period, clocks ...
Castle Ashby
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United Kingdom
City: Northampton
Castle Ashby is the magnificent ancestral home of the Compton family. Nestled amidst two hundred acres of beautiful parkland. Steeped in history, the House is one of the only Stately Homes truly available on an exclusive basis. An ideal venue to host meetings, corporate and incentive events. It is also a perfect setting for weddings and private celebrations. The 26 exquisite bedrooms and many ele ...
Church of Our Lady (Fraumunster)
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Switzerland
City: Zurich
Of all the church spires that pierce Zürich’s skyline, the slender, blue spire of Fraumünster (Minster of Our Lady) is the most graceful. And it is best known for housing magnificent stained glass windows by Marc Chagall. A Benedictine convent was founded on this site in 853 by Emperor Ludwig (Louis the German), the grandson of Charlemagne. There was already a convent on the site, for how long w ...
Mirabell Gardens
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Austria
City: Salzburg
The world-famous Mirabell Gardens were built along a north-south axis and oriented towards the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Salzburger Dom cathedral. The original gardens were re-modelled according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach under the reign of Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst Thun in 1689. Only some decades later, Franz Anton Danreiter altered them again in 1730, shaping what ...
Town Hall
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Belgium
City: Brussels
The Town Hall of Brussels, Belgium, stands on that city's famous Grand Place. The oldest part of the present Town Hall is its east wing. This wing, together with a small belfry, was built from 1402 to 1420 under direction of Jacob van Thienen, and future additions were not originally foreseen. However, the admission of the craft guilds into the traditionally patrician city government probably spu ...
Tokyo Tower
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Japan
City: Tokio
In the postwar boom of the 1950s, Japan was looking for a monument to symbolize its ascendancy as a global economic powerhouse - it was also looking to build a television and radio relay tower. Looking to the occident for inspiration, the Tokyo Government decided to erect its own Eiffel Tower. Constructed by Takenaka Corporation, Japan' oldest architecture, engineering and construction firm, and c ...
Musee du Louvre
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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 ...
Musee d'Orsay
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France
City: Paris
The musée d'Orsay is a museum housed in a grand railway station built in 1900. Home to many sculptures and impressionist paintings, it has become one of Paris's most popular museums. New Railway Stations At the turn of the 19th century, two large railway stations were built in Paris, the Gare de Lyon and the Gare d'Orsay. The Gare d'Orsay had the most prominent site, along the Seine opposite the ...
Visiting the Cost del Sol
