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.

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.

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.

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.

The Glass Museum is situated in in Italy, preciselly in the Palazzo Giustinian, nearby another important tourist attraction which is the Santa Maria Church and San Donato.

This museum is open to the public from 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM in the period between December and February. In the other seasons the museum is opened with an hour longer; also opened every day, with exception on Wednesday.

- for tourists, the entrance tickets are 4,00 euros while 6,00 euros costs a ticket whose entrance combines the Glass Museum’s and the Lace Museum’s.

- at first, this museum was a palace used by bishops. Nowadays, this building hosts several collections of glass which are even from the 15th to the 20th century.

- the ex-palace was someday the residence of the bishops of Torcello. Many years later, the palace has become the city hall of Murano. Then, the Glass Museum turned into a civic museum of Venice.
-the building today has an impressive Gothic style, a building dedicated only to glass works.
-the collections of this museum have impressively increased being occupied today only with this kind of stuff.
- through the Renaissance period collections and many other, you will also find an archaeological section which hosts many exhibits from the necropolises of Enona.

Tourists around the world who are very excited to find out the main attractions of Marbella should take a break and prepare a couple of days for a marvelous holiday in one of the most popular tourist attraction of Spain.

At first, Marbella has some of the most beautiful beaches that offer tourists a variety of water sports and don’t miss the tennis and golf clubs.

There are a lot of attractions that each visitor must see it. If you like horse-riding, than don’t waste time and get to the Costa del Sol Equestrian Art School which is not so far away from Marbella.
If you would like to choose something else, then try the Selwo Animal Park which is practically a safari park where animals are kept in safe to not hurt adults and children.

As we said, Marbella has a lot of beaches to offer and a lot to choose from. Funny Beach and Paseo Maritimo are not some exceptions.

Funny Beach is a place where children can make many outdoor activities with motor bikes, boats or children’s cars. This beach has even a great restaurant and bar where families can eat a delicious barbecue food. But this beach is specific to kids when whey host their birthday.

The weather couldn’t be better than that. With plenty of sun and warm summer time, no raining in the afternoon, golden sandy beaches there is no doubt Marbella attracts more and more tourists around the world.

Another two attractions of the city are the Alameda Park and Murallas del Castillo.

Alemada Park is the place where you should go in the morning, with fresh air and shade trees for passers, jasmines and many other flowers. But two centuries ago, in the park there were no botanical species of plants planted. Now, the Alameda Park has around 20,000 sq. metres only with plants and sculptures of the great artist, Salvador Dali.

Murallas del Castillo is known to be the only building that remains even nowadays from the Muslim era. This castle was initially built in the tenth century and continued in the fourteenth century.

Throughout these centuries, people said a lot about the posible legends of the castle. There is even said that the old castle has some underground passages and secret doors. The castle measures now only  90 x 160 square meters. Unfortunately, tourists could not visit the castle inside of it.

The last landmark we have to mention is the Paseo Marítimo which stretches more than five kilometers. On both sides of this boardwalk you can see a plenty of palm trees, several buildings and mini shops. A promenade along this boardwalk makes you very delighted in any season of year.

The city at night

San Luis Potosi is the perfect place where you can have part in the same time of flexible moments and parties.

Most of places where parties could take place are the hotels from the center of the San Luis Potosi city. In this way, you can even stay at night in a hotel room enjoying the Mexican parties at night. This tradition makes the locals more popular than they seem to be. A very special and traditional Mexican night is the day of 16th of September when it is the Mexico’s Independence Day. This party hosts tourists from all around the world offering them excellent dinners, shows with dancers and even live music or the most specific Mexican musician are the mariachis.
Besides this special night, you have part of several night bars or restaurants. There are a plenty of them.

Conditions of weather

San Luis Potosi is very lucky in this situation. Tourists don’t have to complain about the weather the throughout the year. If they do this, this happens rarely. It seems that all the time is spring. You can feel it because of the altitude. But definitely if you want to relax by practising some extreme sports, this is not the right place you should choose.
Nowhere is better than here, be sure of that.

A Gothic cathedral from Paris, the capital of France is known to be the Notre Dame de Paris. This cathedral is situated on the eastern part of the Île de la Cité.

In English, Notre Dame means “Our Lady” and it is one of the finest Catholic cahtedral of France. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, one of the most famous architects of France has prevented and avoided the cathdral from desctruction.

The building has thinner walls, but several issues had appeared when the walls pushed outward. But many measures were taken by the architects of the cathedral, building supports around the outside walls and adding more missing.

Even if in the French Revolution’s time, in 1790 the cathedral suffered several damages on its image,  until the 19th century a project of a large restoration was finished.

In the 19th century, the Notre Dame cathedral was almost completely rebuilt. Only in 1992 everything was completed finally.

At the Notre Dame there are even 5 bells. The first is Emmanuel, which is situated in the South Tower, and it has around 13 tonnes.The other 4 bells are moving like a swing. They are used only for festivals and different services.

The Camp Nou stadium is known to be the most famous of all stadiums all over the world. It is often called the “Nou Camp”  and it is situated in Barcelona city, from Spain. The Camp Nou stadium is the home of FC Barcelona team since it was constructed, in 1954. The stadium was completed three years later, in 1957 and it was designed by three architects. They were Lorenzo García Barbon , Josep Soteras Mauri and Francesc Mitjans-Miró.

The Cam Nou, or the Nou Camp is also called as a 5-star stadium, and it hosts annually several matches at the senior level and UEFA Champions League finals. The most recent of them were in 1999. The stadium has a capacity about 98,770 seats. Definitely this is the largest stadium from Europe and the 11th largest from all around the world.
The stadium also includes a chapel for players and a shop with several souvenirs.
The old name of the statiudm was “Estadi del FC Barcelona”. But only until the 2000 year, when it was decided to be turned its official name into a popular nickname. This nickname is the recent “Camp Nou”.

Big Ben, that’s the name given for the greatest bell of the clock which is situated at the northeastern end of the Westminster Palace from London city.

Another nickname is the tower clock because it is famous through its massive and amazing bell. The Big Ben clock has a weight of over 13 tonnes. The clock is known to have the most accurate tiem all over the world.

The clock’s hands are about 2.7 and 4.3 metres long. The clock tower’s length rises up to 96 metres. The Big Ben clock’s chimes have been broadcast since the 1924 year as once per day signal by the BBC. The Big Ben clock have had this year, on May 2009, no more and no less than 150 years of anniversary. It was built at Westminster in 1288, with the Ralph Hengham’s money, who is theChief Justice of the Beach of King.
Most of people are wondering why was the Big Ben Clock built?

The old Westminster Palace was burned on 1834 and ten years later, in 1844, the Parliament had decided that the new buildings for the Parliament’s Houses, should have incorporated a tower clock.

Then, George Airy ,the Astronomer Royal had to make a project for the clock. His required that “the first stroke of the hour bell should register the time, correct to within one second per day, and furthermore that it should telegraph its performance twice a day to Greenwich Observatory, where a record would be kept.”
As a conclusion, the clock has become nowadays the most renowned symbol of UK and London.