The Empire State Building is one of the most recognized symbol of New York city and the
tallest skyscraper from all over the world until 1970, when another building took its place.
The top of the Empire State has famous coloured lights representing for its owners a great success, owing to their ambition to build towers tht can reach for the skies. Today, it was decided to become “green” for the reason to make the project to save 4.4 million dollars in the energy costs.
Even though today the Empire State Building is not the tallest from the world, it still being a symbol of the New York city. At its time, the skyscraper was called the eighth world wonder.
At the time it was built on Fifth Avenue, the Empire State Building broke all records and was dubbed ‘the 8th world wonder’. At the beginning, the building had 64 elevators, but now it has 102 and 1050 rooms. Its construction started in March 17 1930 and finished in May 1 1931 , one year later.
To make this attraction more impressive for travellers, there will be replaced around 6500 windows of the Empire State Building, the system of heating and air conditioning, showing how to reduce the consumption.
Empire State Building will be as famous as it was someday in New York city for inhabitants and tourists.
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

The Atlanta History Center is a must-see destination because of its incredible and interesting history. The center includes a museum, five gardens, a library and temporary exhibits. a
The center also includes community events, such as holiday events and summer camps for children. If you have decided to do this type of journey, make sure all attractions are available for you.
Most of the great changes that took place in the history center occurred between 1983 and 1991. For example, the historical society decided to build new facility that would house a large museum and many other things based on professional growth. That’s why its name was changed from Atlanta Historical Society in Atlanta History Center.
The center is renowned through different parades. A few years ago here have been brought some important collections of soldiers uniforms, several weapons and different artifacts, attracting more and more tourists around the world.
The five gardens (Quarry Garden, Cherry Sims Asian American Garden, etc) are another touristic attraction. You could visit it in you free time. An important thing is what you see there, not what another people say about it.
Posted on April 14th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The Medieval City of Rhodes is a perfect destination which has a lot to say
tourists,an impressive history. Tourists would like to visit one of the oldest buildings in the medieval city as the arsenal of the Knights. The Rhodes city is a port and a trading center for agricultural products.
Your journey around this medieval city will give you different news and historical events that took place here, offering to your holiday a cultural image of the city.
Since its history about 2400 years, the Rhodes city has been always fascinating and impressing its visitors.
Nowadays, the city offers tourists attractive beaches to visit, modern buildings instead of medieval, traditional fountains,Gothic churches, all you need in a perfect holiday.
The medieval buildings are situated in the old section as: Grand Hospital of the Knights and the Palace of the Grand Masters, and the modern buildings in the modern section; it contains the government buildings, hotels,the theatre, etc.
The city today is situated near the place where the ancient city of Rhodes was.
Posted on April 13th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The Two Oceans Aquarium represents a wonderful view under the sea. It is located in Cape Town, South Africa. The main creatues you will find here are the colourful fishes, turtles,sharks even frogs.
In surrounding area there is apenguin pool where children love to come, they can even have fun on a beautiful child play area. Especially it is necessary in holiday. Besides penguins, there are more than 300 creatures, making the aquarium the largest and the greatest from South Africa.
The Two Oceans Aquarium is open every day for tourists. It is called like this because here the Atlantic and Indian Ocean meet.
The most important exhibits are: The Oceans of Contrast, Indian Ocean gallery, the Sappi River Meander, etc.
The aquarium is a great popular attraction and it also offers a unique chance for sports entertainment spending a while under the watchful eye of one of the aquarium’s divers.
The aquarium remains the most important touristic destination of the city.
Posted on April 11th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The Merlion is a wonderful statue representing a lion head and a fish body. The gr
eat statue was built by Mr Lim Nang Seng in 1972 and it has aproximately 9 metres high and 40 tonnes. On 15 September, the same year, took place the ceremony which was officiated by the Prime Minister of Singapore.
Being one of the most important symbols of Singapore, The Merlion statue was also designed as an emblem for the Singapore Tourism Board. At night, the statue is illuminated giving the city a great touristic importance.
The statue is situated at the Merlion Park for the reason to attract tourists in the middle of a natural reserve as the Merlion Park. It is a great connection between these two.
From then, the park and the statue became a popular tourist attraction for travellers.
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
Taj Mahal is a monument-tomb which was built by the Shah Jahan Emperor. This
building is located in the city of Agra, in India. Nowadays, this monument is the most
famous and most visited from all over the world, attracting annually over 2 million tourists. It was built in 17th century and it has important and expensive stones, marble, which is in the building’s dome.
As a monument built for love, the Taj Mahal was finished after 20 years since the construction began. The Taj Mahal has the following dimensions: 186 x 186 feet with 4 corners truncated forming an octagon. Around the mausoleum there are many other buildings and behind it the Jamuna river.
Around the Taj Mahaj monument there are a lot of decorative flowers and may other plants giving a fascinate charm to the builindg’s beauty. The walls inside the monument are decorated with Islamic symbols.
All features of the Taj Mahal are included in your holiday plans, so don’t miss the opportunity to visit something you can rarely see.
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

The Washington National Cathedral is the most recognized cathedral from Washington DC and it is also the sixth largest cathedral from all over the world.
The building of the Cathedral started in September 1907 whose architect was Philip Hubert Frohman and it was completed in 1990 September again.
At the Washington National Cathedral came often two Presidential state funerals: Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, and Woodrow Wilson.
Its style was adopted after the Gothic architectural sculptures, with flying buttresses, vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows, mosaics ,wood carvings and the most important: three similar towers.
The area where the Washington National Cathedral is situated has around 230,000 square meters being located in the northwest Washington DC.
About the height of the building we can say that it is 115 meters above sea level.
A very important Christian symbolism with historical events of the city will be always visited by tourists from every corner of the world.
Posted on April 6th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The National Mall is located in the capital of the United States, Washington DC. Designed by L’Enfant in 1791, this building is about 1600 meters high.
This mall includes the area between the Lincoln Memorial and Capitolium.
This building from Washington DC is considered for many of tourists the center of holiday‘s destinations from Washington DC. The area where the National Mall is situated stretches two and a half miles. Besides this, there are many renowned buildings as the National Museum of Natural History, the National Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian Institution building.
The National Mall has been dating since the capital exists. Around the Mall there are many types of plants and fountains that enrich the views. The great Mall makes the city the most impressive because once you get there, you will realize it is a destination that is hard to visit. Getting photos from a very visited place in the world seems to be the same idea as in Disneyland .
Posted on April 5th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
Kew Gardens is an attractive place located in London. Its area has around 121
hectares where were built 6 glasshouses that creates the perfect and unique attraction of London. The Kew Gardens are known as The Royal Botanic Gardens. The historical gardens have around 250 years old. Definitely visiting this place gives you a chance that not most of people can have it. Just thinking on the great number of species of plants encountered here makes you to do a unique journey among the world of plants. This collection of 30.000 of plants from all around the world creates a paradise on the Earth. Kew Gardens gives tourists an amazing day of all opportunities to enrich every moment of your journey.
The recent Kew Gardens is recognized as being a botanical research centre that maintains the most important and largest collection of the world’s plants.
At first, there was a small glass building housing the evolution of all plants of the Earth. From then, more and more types of plants were brought here and that’s why you can’t explore all plants in one day. As many tourists came here, they said to not hurry up. Stay longer and enjoy full of things that maybe you can see once in your life.
Posted on April 4th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The London Planetarium gives tourists the opportunity to find new thing of
astronomy, things that you have never seen it before. Through some exhibitions about the solar system and everything’s about it. During 30 minutes aproximately, you will have a great journey in space. Suddenly, a light will fascinate the whole show that start to begin.
This place takes you into a complete legend of the Earth that most of celebrities have seen it. Precisely, the London Planetarium is dealing with the explorations of starts, other planets, the night sky and other cosmic activites. You can even find out what shape, length and weight you will have on other planets.
London Planetarium gives you not a real trip, because you just stay and watch. This kind of trip we cold say is virtual because it feels like you’re taken in the space. This thing is realized through an advanced start projector from the whole Europe. One of the most important thing that nowadays people talk about is the term “black holes”. That’s a good way how you can learn more about them. Don’t miss such an amazing and important thing that can develop you knowledge and come here with your family.
The audience travels through the solar system was more and more explored. We can’t say many thing about it because your interests will be not so great.
The London Planetarium is situated in Marylebone Street in a green dome which has been closed to open another London’s attraction. Even if this Planetarium started to be a great attraction of the city, last years were less tourists who came here.
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by admin | No Comments »