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 Visiting the Cost del Sol
Country: 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 EgyptCountry: 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 ... |
Discover LebanonCountry: Lebanon
City: Cairo
Article from www.discoverlebanon.com
Lebanon, country of peaceful genius, humanism and love, has an eight-thousand-year history of producing philosophers, thinkers, mathematicians, magistrates, soldiers, atomists, navigators, historians, scholars, and pioneers in the fields of research, discovery, metallurgy, industry and agriculture, serving humanity in the past, the present and the future. Jus ... |
Pas de la Casa - Grau RoigCountry: Andorra
City: Cairo
Even before the link with Soldeu, Pas de la Casa had the biggest ski area and highest lift-served terrain in Andorra. Now the two resorts have a combined 186km of pistes - that's about the same as some big-name Alpine resorts such as Kitzbühel, Wengen-Grindelwald and Les Deux Alpes.
Sited right on the border between Andorra and France, Pas de la Casa is a size-able collection of concrete-box styl ... |
Stephansdom - St. Stephen's CathedralCountry: Austria
City: Vienna
Visit St. Stephen's Cathedral - Stephansdom, one of Vienna’s most famous sights. St. Stephen's Cathedral defines the city centre and has been the heart of Vienna for centuries. It is one of the most famous Viennese sights and was built in 1147 AD. For a long time it was uncontested as highest building in Europe measuring almost 137 m.
Duke Rudolf IV of Habsburg ordered the complete restructuring ... |
The Swiss AlpsCountry: Switzerland
City: Vienna
The Alps cover three-fifths of the Swiss territory, making Switzerland the second most Alpine country after Austria, where the proportion reaches two-thirds. Setting aside that part of Graubunden which lies to the east of the Hinterrhein Valley - a high valley like the Engadin, which, with its extra-continental climate, is more typical of central Europe - the Swiss Alps, like the French ones, belo ... |
Mirabell GardensCountry: 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 ... |
Stonehenge Great Trilithons Country: United Kingdom
City: Salzburg
There are problems with Stonehenge not just the age old problems of interpreting Europe's best known ancient site, but modern problems of security and overwhelming visitor numbers. These mean that, at the time of writing, access to the Stonehenge themselves is forbidden. Visitors must keep outside a fence that draws a wide circle around the monument. There's an inadequate interpretive center, and ... |
Island Of LundyCountry: United Kingdom
City: Salzburg
This little, windswept, granite island lies at the mouth of the Bristol Channel where it meets the Atlantic . Only 5 kilometres (3 miles) long by 0.8 kilometre (1/2 mile) wide, with an area of just over 405 hectares (1,000 acres), it has fewer than 20 permanent residents, employed by the Landmark Trust, which manages the island for the National Trust. There are three lighthouses (two in use), one ... |
National Park of American SamoaCountry: American Samoa
City: Salzburg
The Park
The National Park samples the best of American Samoa scenery, shorelines, reefs, and rainforest. In essence, it is really “three parks” on four separate islands. All the units have fine scenery and tropical rainforests. Lata Mountain on Ta’u excels in its wild and remote forests, free-flowing streams, and rugged coastline. Ofu and Olosega have the most accessible coral reefs and miles of ... |
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