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Boston Common

Boston Common is known as the oldest park ever made in the United States Of America. The history of this place returns in 1634, when this space was used for military purposes. The gallows were removed from here only in 1817. Starting with 1830 year, the grazing of cattle was forbidden.

But in the big part, the Boston Common is used as a park for tourists where they could recreate a bit their mind. The Boston Common has also a lot of historical monuments representing some of the most important events of its history.

Built in 1912, the Parkman Bandstand should have been honored to George F. Parkman, the person who invested around 5 million dollars for the reason to maintain the Boston’s parks.  It have had as architect and sculptor Martin Milmore, in the 1877 year.

Another target of this park is the Brewer Fountain which was donated by Gardner Brewer in 1868 year. But there is also a similar copy of the fountain designed by another person,French artist Liénard. The fountain was built for the World Exposition in Paris, 1855 .

This park of Boston is home to one of the oldest graveyards of Boston.

It’s great to see a musical performance, a picnic in park, almost anything but a cow. They have been banned since the 1830 year. This is an event which is related to the Common, but it still not being commemorated with a plaque.

People who visit this place, should not forget this history, they should remember this with glory.

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

St. Patrick’s Cathedral

The St. Patrick’s Cathedral is the largest Catholic cathedral from United States Of America and it also attracts tourists day by day, even at night.
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The Cathedral is situated on posh 5th Avenue near Rockefeller Center. The old church which was original, was opened in 1815 on Mulberry Street. But during many tens of years, the population from the New York City continued to grow. In 1853, The Archbishop Hughes affirmed that the faithful citizens of the New York city must have another place to worship.

His plans were unexpected. The majority of people called this new project the “Hughes’ Folly.” The designer of this cathedral was James Renwick whose costs were around 850,000 dollars, but without the furniture. One of the most renowned cathedral was opened in 1879, 15 years later after Hughes died.

In a good way, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral has escapes by debts in 1911. In the same time, the cathedral’s image was improved and the total costs were around 4 million dollars.

Once tourists came here, they could attend one of several daily masses at the St. Patrick cathedral. Even pamphlets are available for visitors who come at the church, known as a guide for them. You will also find a gift shop where each visitor can buy books about the history of cathedral and many other interesting things about it.

Posted on July 20th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Piedmont Park

The Piedmont Park is known as one of the most popular tourist destination from Atlanta. It attracts annually over 2 million tourists.

Tourists who like extreme sports could enjoy this in the Piedmont Park which offers the best opportunity to spend abit of your time in the outside.

The park has also 189-acres and is home to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and scenic Lake Clara Meer. That’s why this place hosts a lot of concerts and festivals from all over the world.

The Piedmont Park is also one of the oldest park from the Atlanta city and it is located at the northeastern Atlanta.

Around the paved paths there are several water fountains and also soccer fieldswith a swimming pool, or even a tennis court where tourists could practice their favorite sports. as bike, roller blade, etc.

But in 2006, the Piedmont Park was re-opened and it has adopted a new image. Plans for the new project required around 2 million dollars.
In summer there is when most of tourists could benefit of a remarkable day camp. If they are hungry, there are a lot of restaurants on the street where you can go while you can make your own holiday.

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Japanese Tea Garden

It happened in 1899, when the president of San Antonio Water Works Company, George W. Brackenridge, has decided to donate around 200 acres to San Antonio City to build a park.

While the park has suffered many different improvements, it was finally opened for tourists around the world in 1901. The owner of Pearl Brewery, Otto Koehler, has donated this land to San Antonio in 1915 to open the Japanese Tea Garden.

The City Parks Commissioner, Ray Lambert added some ideas on the Japanese Tea Garden project. Without so much money, but a lot of plans, Lambert has finally succeeded to build the Japanese Tea Garden.

Between 1917 and 1918 Ray Lambert used the prison labor to make new projects: walkways, stone arch bridges and even an island. This garden has several exotic plants provided by the nursery of San Antonio. The lightning system was also provided by the City Public Service Company. Opened as a garden, it was finished in 1919 spending just 7,000 dollars. The Japanese Tea Garden was considered to be unique in the world.

Few years later, in 1926, a local Japanese-American artist has decided to move the garden and opened the Bamboo Room. But after the death of the artist, in 1930, everything came to normal and the garden was reopened to the public.

The garden will also add a new system through which they could provide a safe habitat for new aquatic plants. This means that around 1,600,000 dollars will be spent for these plans.

Posted on July 14th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Maritime Museum of San Diego

The Maritime Museum of San Diego has one of the most precious collections which consist on 5 galleries represented by some historic ships as Star of India (the oldest ship in the world) the 1904 yacht Medea, the HMS Surprise which is practically a replica of a ship from the 18th century).

This museum represents several themes of maritime histories and their strong connection with San Diego City.

The Maritime Museum of San Diego is a good landmark for tourists who want to find thing about the maritime history. It’s a great place to start with.

People who live here know for sure the Star of India as being a majestic ship which is anchored alongside North Harbor Drive. They shouldn’t be aware of the other ships which are in the museum.

Posted on July 8th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Badlands Golf Club

Johnny Miller is the person who has designed the Badlands Golf Club. Together with his team he has capitalized a terrain where he could create a golf club.

Chi Chi Rodriguez, who was twice the Senior Class Champion in Las Vegas had a very important contribution to this design.

He has seen a  design course through which golfers are challenging eachother. In this way, the Badlands Golf Club incorporated five or six sets of tees on each hole.

This Club was chosen one of the Top 10 Courses in Nevada. It also has decided to offer 27 golf holes. Players even have the chance to select from 4 sets of tees. In this way could be created rounds for all level of talents and abilities.

The Badlands Golf Club has 3 nine-hole layouts. These are Diablo, Desperado and The Outlaw. All of them had as designer Johnny Miller. Johnny has opened this club for the public in 1995.

It is not so hard to get there and the surrounding views are more spectacular and beautiful than in other countries where golf is a good choice to spend your time.

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Shark Reef

The Shark Reef is also called the deep blue world. Here you will also find some of the most incredible and famous creatures from all the aquariums and exhibits of North America.

A lot of types of sharks with green sea turtles, fishes as piranha, moon jellies and even golden crocodiles are in total more than 2,000 animals situated in 1.6 million gallons of seawater.

All the tourists have the chance to SCUBA dive in the seawater, until 22 foot deep Shipwreck Exhibit. It is surrounded by all these species of animals.

If you thought to visit it, there is a serious program for people of all ages. This kind of program has an hour in which you can visit the aquarium and an hour for the classroom session. It will have as a leadership the Education team.

To protect these animals, serious measures are taken by Shark Reef. Ths is for conservating and preservating this environment. One of the most important way of preserving these natural resources are the recycling water and turn the imitation corals into some exhibits.

The Shark Reef is believed to maintain the standard of life of every animal and to take care of their lifecycles.

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

San Francisco

San Francisco is famous for the phenomenon of fog which sometimes takes several months for the hills with steep slopes, for the combination of Victorian architecture and modern architecture.

The most famous monuments and places to visit are the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, cable pulled trams in San Francisco, Transamerica Pyramid Building, Coit Tower and Chinatown.

San Francisco is the second largest city after density. San Francisco is characterized by a high standard of living. The great wealth and opportunity generated by the Internet revolution continues to draw many highly educated and high-income workers and residents to San Francisco.

Lower-income neighborhoods have consequently become increasingly gentrified, and many of the city’s traditional business and industrial districts have experienced a renaissance driven by the Redevelopment of the Embarcadero, including the neighborhoods South Beach and Mission Bay.

The city’s property values and household income have escalated to among the highest in the nation, allowing the city to support a large restaurant and entertainment infrastructure.

Because the cost of living in San Francisco is exceptionally high, many middle class families have decided they can no longer afford to live within the city and have left.
Yet San Francisco is a beautiful and interesting city.

Posted on July 4th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Field Museum

The Field Museum is situated in North America, precisely in Chicago, Ilinois state being funded in 1893. The museum has several historical exhibitions and decorative objects, archaeological objects, scientist.

The main purpose of the Field Museum is to concentrate on accumulating and disseminating of knowledge over 20 million biological collections. Besides that, the great museum has to offer several programs about how could people educate themselves.

After the museum was built, it was known as the Columbian Museum of Chicago. But 12 years layer, in 1905, the name of the Field Museum became longer: The Field Museum of Natural History for the reason to to honor Marshall F, the benefactor of the first major of the museum.

But the collections of biological arts have composed the exhibition of the museum.

Through these exhibits we could mention for example the bird habitats, African culture, animal biology, fossils, eskimos, Native American cultures, and much, much more. Check the Museum’s website for current temporary exhibits. You won’t want to miss everyone’s favorite, Sue, the world’s largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex.

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

San Luis Potosi-Part 2

The Center of The City

Exactly in the center of the San Luis Potosi city the atmosphere is better than anywhere. Here tourists could most feel like having fun and also from there you can see every outdoor activity.

Several things that in other tourist destinations you will not find are for example the cosed off traffic. In the city’s center only pedestrian could take a ride and visit it. Maybe that’s why the city is one of the cleanest top attraction of Mexico.

Without noise, without cars, people could definitely choose this city as a great holiday maker.As many cities have, there is a square in the center, the Plaza de Armas, the main of them. On the other side, the most important park is the Alameda. This is the perfect place where you can have a cool drink. You can get some fresh air in the shade of the trees.

It also hosts the Cathedral, the Gobierno Palace, another must “visit” attractions. Another plazas could be Plaza del Carmen, Plaza de los Fundadores and Plaza de San Francisco.

The Municipal Palace is the best place where the priceless arts and sculptures could have ever been. It’s like you bring back a part of its history.

The San Luis Potosi’s museums

San Luis Potosi city has a lot of museums to show you. The most important of them are the National Mask Museum which has a large variety of national exhibits and arts; and Casa de la Cultura for different archaeological finds.

Posted on July 1st, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »