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The Devil’s Bridge

The Devil’s Bridge is located in Toscana, Italy. This bridge is one of 30 marvels which are found in Europe and which throughout the centuries have spawned a lot of legends.

This bridge is found in the mountainous Lanzo area being known as the “Ponte del Diavolo”.

The Devil’s Bridge was also built in the 1300s and it also is rising above the level of the water with 15 meters hig. This thing is creating travelers around the world a sturdy passage from Mount Buriasco to Mount Mombasso.

There are many legends about this bridge that have swirled around it. When you see it, you will think of the legend of Dracula and many thing in your mind will ask you how the name of this bridge has come out.

Most of the stories claims the devil himself has built this bridge which wears his name. It was even built only in a single night in exchange for the sacrificial soul of a local resident.

In that moment, the authorities have decided to put a tax on wine to help the bridge being paid. The wine tax was known to remain in effect for around 10 years. Then the locals said “To hell with this bridge.”
Since then, the legend has stood along the years, even today…

Posted on August 27th, 2009 by admin  |  1 Comment »

Olympiapark

The Olympiapark is located in Munich, Germany, and it is an Olympic olimpiaparkPark whose construction has begun for the 1972 Summer Olympics games. This park still serving as a venue for cultural and religious events.
It is a place located in the north of Munich and it also contains the Olympic stadium, the Olympic tower and many wonderful gardens and lakes.

The Olympiapark will be a World Cup fan park while hosting the Football World Cup every year.

This park is a great area to be visited by tourists while doing some outdoor activities and many easy sports, also with your friends. So go for a walk along these many paths of the park and take benefit of it as long as you can. You may never know when it will be the last time you visit this place. Catch the sounds and be ready for a great concert or game and go buy your ticket.

This is the remarkable modern landscape today, which in past was dull and flat, being surrounded with many ugly buildings. Now, it was transformed into something more acceptable. The roof flows with the land and the landform sweeps into the water. The tented structures were designed by the architect called Günter Grizmek. Along its history, many successful projects were released throughout this area, making the park the only one which has a landscape quality alike the ancient Olympia.

Posted on August 18th, 2009 by admin  |  2 Comments »

Ocean Breeze Waterpark

Ocean Breeze Waterpark is situated in the Virginia Beach, being the only water park from surroundings. The fact of being located just a couple of miles from the ocean , makes the 19 acre park being popular as long as tourists are welcome in the area.

There are slides that cater to the adventurous and many others for travellers who are ready to get wet. But children aren’t allowed on every slide, they should go at least with with parents or somebody else, just an adult.
So, tourists go through this attraction on a tube. The water is a little bit rough, but it has something good at it, featuring waterfalls.

The first slide is Bahama Mamma, available for tourists who want a thrill. This slide is known to be the fastest and the most furious from all in the park.
Another is the Paradise Pipeline which propels travellers through the inside of a pipe before shooting them into a pool.

These slides are for children, as well as for adults. While children are having fun playing , their parents could relax in a private cabana and watching them.

The park is fun for a happy family with positive aspects, while other thing this park didn’t do as much as it should to cater to parents of smaller children. The park is not so hard to be found, so go ahead and make your own vacation as long as you can.

Posted on August 16th, 2009 by admin  |  1 Comment »

The Boyana Church

The Boyana Church is one of the most important antiquities of the history’s significance. It is located at the foot of the mountain of Vitosha, in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The oldest part of the Boyana Church is dating since the 9th century.

But the best part of this monument is represented by the murals, which are done since 1259. The art of this place combines the iconagraphical canons with the real life.

There are no less than 90 scenes depicted on walls which also contain 240 human images, a great art of the 13th century. The Boyana Church architecture is dating since the 10th, until the 11th century. This architecture is represented by the eastern part of the building today. Practically, there are around 18 scenes depicting only the Life of St. Nicholas.

If you want to visit this great attraction for faithfull people, you will find the Boyana Church in a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Sofia. It is not so hard to find it. The church is located in a lovely park, it is hidden and you can almost see it.

Posted on August 14th, 2009 by admin  |  5 Comments »

Rila Monastery

The Rila Monastery is located in Bulgaria, in the south part at only 117 km away from Sofia, the capital of it.

John of Rila is the person who dwelt in a stone cave close to the monastery’s main complex. The Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century. whose originator lived during the Bulgarian Tsar Peter reign.

This monastery is one of the most famous building belonging to the Eastern Orthodox monastery. The history of the monastery is about the medieval hermit Ivan who was born in the 970’s, and chose seclusion due to the moral decline in the period of the Bulgarian Tsar Peter reign.
But after his death, the legend around these places of him has become stronger.

The Rila monastery’s buildings are dating also since the 10th century. 4 centuries later, these buildings were turned into a fortress by Hrelyo Dragovol. Even today, there are parts of the buildings that still remained since then.

In the 19th century it was constructed the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, which is situated around the monastic grounds.

Posted on August 12th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Nicosia

Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus. This great attraction is known in our days as the Europe’s only divided city. The city today is very modern from different points of view: around you will find many elegant tree-lined suburbs, mostly tourists would prefer the old town which lately it has had several renovations.

The Nicosia city is divided in two: Turkish Cypriots in the north part and Greek Cypriots in the south.

Nowadays, Nicosia is known to have several department stores, many restaurants, malls and great museums to visit. The biggest city of Cyprus, Nicosia has a population of around 270 000 inhabitants.
Here, every visitor could receive a new and unique experience in their life. Be sure of that.

About the old town, we could say Nicosia was encircled by very strong fortress walls which were built in the sixteenth century. The old Nicosia also was mainly pedestrian-only.

But the city today has seriously become a well known cultural center, with has to offer a lot of facilities tourists from all over the world.

Museums are the unique attractions they could ever choose. The Cyprus Museum  houses today very important collections of antiquities, treasures of Cyprus since the Roman Period. Another two great museums are the Jewels Museum and the Municipal Arts Center and Ethnological museum. They shouldn’t be missed.

The best outdoor activity is football, a very popular sport in Cyprus. But if you don’t want this, you can try another kind. A day of shopping in areas as Makarios Avenue, Stasikratous Street, Ledra Street. Take advantage of all these opportunities we can offer you.

Posted on August 10th, 2009 by admin  |  5 Comments »

Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum is a huge and great place that gives you a panoramic view to this historical museum which is dating since the Stone Age. The museum also hosts more than 20,000 objects situated in 36 rooms in order to show the evolution of the Greek paintings and sculptures.

The Benaki Museum is known as the oldest museum which was established in 1926 by an Athenian family.

About the exhibits, we could say the author concludes the visitors should see anything from a 5,000-year-old hammered gold bowl to a Byzantine icon of the Virgin Mary.

He also states that the gift shop is a 2nd café serves coffee and snacks with a buffet dinner. This museum, due to its fame is believed to have a 5 stars rating.

The Benaki Museum was founded by Antoni Benaki in 1931. Another part of the museum was opened in 2003, while doubling the number of the exhibitions, some new and special exhibitions. This is a very beautiful place if you want to spend some of your free hours. After visiting this museum, you can take in its new branch, Benaki Museum of Islamic Art.

Posted on August 8th, 2009 by admin  |  5 Comments »

What would you do on vacation?

At first, this is want you should think of while trying to plan your own vacation.

If you wan to rent a vacation home, well you know in our days is pretty simple, but with rising costs and with people not travelling much these days, more more these days people go directly to the owner of the home and they are bypassing an agent in order to save a little bit money. It is perfect. It means that if the owner of the property sells you that rental for a week, he doesn’t have to get a comission to the agent, or which means in some cases he can give you a better deal. So, this can be what tourists would like to do in the summer vacations to keep everybody’s costs down to a minimum. Be sure each space of the house you’ve decided to rent is spacious and confortable with lovely views of the gardens and bays. Enjoy the swimming pool in the property if it has, an exotic balinese massage at spa or head to the full-service marina for a day of sailing lessons.
But once you are installed there, you should also think of something else. What would you do on vacation?
For example, London is a great city, so let’s talk about some free things you can do once you are there. Of course, the sightseeing, Buckingham Palace, but you can’t go into the rooms they are except, usually in August or September, but sightseeing in the outside there is not. Changing of the Guard, which takes place at 11:30 o’clock in the morning from April until October and less frequently in the other times of the year. The British Library, The Victoria and Albert Museum, all of them are in the parks of London, the Royal Parks, Reget Park, Kensington Park, Saint James Park, Green Park, these are wonderful places London should really use too in tourists favore as well as its. Or even the Covent Garden, where you have got the market inside with wonderful shops, you’ve got street performers, you’ve got places to eat, is just a great place. If you travel  with kids, there is the Princess Diana Memorial Playground, or of course back to those parks. Of course, things just look very different from the Thames River or even London Bridge itself. And also, did you know that London Bridge actually leaves ships to go through, and there is published online a schedule for what times the crossings take place and you can go watch that.

Posted on August 7th, 2009 by admin  |  6 Comments »

Anne Frank Museum

The Anne Frank House today has some historic rooms that can be visited in order to see also the exhibits and many other important things as the Anne’s famous diary.

This diary is displayed in the museum as a landmark for visitors which contains several photographs, official documents, her own letters, books and many possessions from the Frank family. But this house-museum continues to procure as many as possible collections it can.
For beginning, the Anne Frank Museum has 2 parts. The first is the rear part of the museum where during her life, Anne with her family remained in hiding.

But when the house has become a museum, more people came to visit the museum. In 1999 the rear part of the house has received the old and the original conditions while the front part was reconstructed.

The other part of the house, the front part has returned to the atmosphere existing since the period of hiding and remaining in its original condition. The Anne Frank’s story is using quotes from her diary to bring back the old objects, documents and photos. The entrance to the Anne Frank Museum is located next to it.

Each year, the Anne Frank House comes with a new exhibition whose theme is related to the World War II sowing us the historical informations, people’s lifestyle and even personal stories.

Posted on August 5th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Acropolis

Acropolis, translated in English means Upper City, even if this is not a city where people have lived since the 6th century Before Christ. The monuments are located on a rock with 60 meters height, that would impresse the Athens city. The Acropolis has several walls that turn this building into an amazing fortification.

Here is also located the well known Parthenon, dating since the 5th century BC. The Parthenon was built as a Doric temple, that has eight columns in width and 17 columns in length. Someday, there was inside the statue of Athena made of gold, but it was destroyed in time.

The foundations for the temple were established in 490 BC, but the works have not begun yet until the Golden Age of Pericles. This place includes the Acropolis Museum and another 4 buildings, from the 5th century Before Christ.

The Temple of Athena is situated to the left of the Propylaea, but the original did not survive because of the Turkish forces that have invaded this place in the 17th century.

Acropolis has the greatest and the largest construction represented by the Parthenon.

Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »