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 Blue Lagoon Island & Stingray City
Country: Bahamas, The
Blue Lagoon Island Bahamas is warm little island located about 30 minutes from Paradise Island and Nassau Island. At Blue Lagoon Island Bahamas, tourists can participate in a number of interactive programs. Activities include Blue Lagoon dolphin encounters and the popular Stingray City Bahamas, where children and adults can swim with stingrays and other marine life.
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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 Fremont Street ExperienceCountry: United States
City: Las Vegas
The Fremont Street Experience (FSE) is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The FSE occupies the westernmost 5 blocks of Fremont Street and portions of some other adjacent streets.
The FSE was conceived in the 1990s as a way to draw more people to the ailing downtown gambling area. The FSE is a cooperative venture, owned and operated by a group of ten downtown hotel/cas ... |
La Sagrada FamiliaCountry: Spain
City: Barcelona
The "Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia" (Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family) was the idea of a bookseller, Josep María Bocabella, literate and devoted man who in 1866 founded the Asociación Espiritual de Devotos de San José (Spiritual Association of Devotees of St. Joseph), whose objective was to achieve, through the protection of St. Joseph, the triumph of the Catholic Church in a time in ... |
Congresso NacionalCountry: Brazil
City: Brasilia
In the new capital of Brazil, Brasília, inaugurated in 1960, the Legislative Power, which has accumulated 180 years of parliamentary work up to now, was bestowed a new siege: the Congresso Nacional Palace. The author of the project, architect Oscar Niemeyer, has thus defined the architectural conception of his work:“Architecture does not constitute a simple matter of engineering, but a manifestati ... |
Tigre DeltaCountry: Argentina
City: Brasilia
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 ... |
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