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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the sovereign United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and was first opened to the general public in 1993. The entrance to the Buckingham Palace is through the Court Street Ambassadors of Buckingham Palace. The Great Hall of the Palace is the place where the old reception room is situated. This room is dominated by the imposing stairs and railings in bronze floral ornaments. In the Guard Room visitors can admire on the walls the upholstery and decorations. Colored green silk on the walls of the room shows perfectly the beauty of the molding ceiling. This is the place where the room of Queen Charlotte is situated.The Bal Room is almost 40 meters long and was inaugurated during the reign of Queen Victoria in 1856 to celebrate the end of the war in Crimea. Among the collection of paintings at Buckingham Palace you can find artistic treasures by Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Vermeer and many others. This selection of paintings from the Art Gallery of Buckingham Palace is found in entrusting the Queen for her successors and for the nation and it is part of the national heritage of Great Britain. The History of Buckingham Palace began in 1702 when the Duke of Buckingham built it as his residence in London. Son Duke sold the Palace in 1761 to George III and was renamed the “Queen’s House” in 1744 because Queen Charlotte lived there. When the Palace has passed into the possession of George IV in 1820, Nash was hired to redecorate the Palace. The main part was kept but a new wing of flats was built in the west, garden. Since 1837, when Queen Victoria was established at the residence in Buckingham Palace, a lot of changes took place. One of the most important changes was the removal of huge portions of marble which today is found in the area called Tyburn. Nowadays, the Buckingham Palace is used not only as a residence for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh but also for the administrative affairs of the monarchical institution.

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

Paris vacation rentals

It’s great to be in a vacation as this one, in Paris, Monmartre. There, tourists are having a fantastic time, staying in some of the greatest apartaments in Paris, which is perfectly situated,right by the park,right above some beautiful caffes,and is very peaceful when tourists go to the park in spring here and then they go downtown, come back and love the piece of serenity. Another important target of a Paris vacation could be the Sacre Heart Church which is just wonderful to visit as many other attractive places. Monmartre is a quite place in this big city,it’s a very interesting place of streets that are all up and down, and the stairways that are historicaly famous and romanticaly famous for this area.Here tourists would prefer to stay and live right in this area. You can turn left or right, to go straight, outside of your apartment you will find something new everywhere they turn.As a conclusion, some of the best chioces a tourist could have is an apartment from the whole list of paris vacation rentals.
This is really beautiful. Is nice to be in an apartment, then they don’t have to stay in a hotel, tourists will cook for themselves.Surrounding they will find some minimarkets from where they could buy meat, cheese, vegetables and cookies, so this is a lovely place for most of them, be sure of that. But also the majority is inspired by the sound inside the other restaurants, the caffes downstairs. We could say even starting with the studio, apartment in which tourists are staying, it could be felt the presence of something artistic. The apartments are designed so elegantly, so beautifully. Every detail is just really amazing, wonderful and makes you feel like living in a very loved home. It’s like your goal in a travelling when you feel like the locals and when you try to live like them.

The Paris vacation rentals today are completely renovated with wonderful furnishings. Specially those from the Monmartre district are offering the most spectacular sights which will remain in your mind for a good period. Surrounded by those buildings mentioned before, tourists will never forget this staying in a large furnished studio or apartment entirely equipped.
Try to explore the Montmartre quartier from the hill, overlooking the rooftops of Paris, which is known to be one of the most favorites in Paris.

Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin  |  2 Comments »

Parc Festyland

Festyland Park is a small amusement theme park for all ages located in Caen, France. Besides more specific attractions, here you can find a variety of restaurants and entertainments. The Festyland Park attractions are grouped in several areas:

Les pirates which are Le Captain Roc, Pirata’k, Le Repère des Pirates, La tour d’Esnambuc.

Le moyen age: La chevauchée de Guillaum, Le 1066, Le Chateau de Mathilde, Le Tourny.

Le vikings: Le Dakkar Express, Le Valhala.

La belle époque
: Carrousel des arts, La Nationale 13, Les essards, Les cabines, Le Paris-Granville train.

The last is Prehistyland, an area which has as a theme the prehistoric era and which also includes dinozaurs models and a bridge of rope over the lake. It is considered an educational area of the park.

Pirates are worth represented by Captain Roc with his boat which is shaking, Piratak and vertiginous slides. Further, Drakkar Express, the most famous attraction of the Viking world will delight fans thrilling. On the board of a Viking ship, they will embark on an adventure with dizzying speed.

But the world of the Middle Ages, the great eight “1066 Spirit of the conqueror” compete with others in order to ensure visitors boarding adrenaline.

Fortunately, the beautiful Age, allows you a pleasant relaxation in family with a walk on the water in cabines or on the train Paris – Granville.

As we said, by September, Festyland will organize summer shows, three performances a day, when the humor, action and history are answering now at the meeting. Guillaume, a life on a horse is an equestrian humorous show while Mordread required as a competition of Knights of the park.

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

Marbella Holiday

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.

Posted on July 10th, 2009 by admin  |  2 Comments »

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Tel Aviv Museum of Art is situated in Israel and is known to be the most visited museum from Israel. This famous museum hosts some of the most renowned paintings of important artists as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet,Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, etc.

Through these marvelous objects there are also many exhibitions and cultural programmes for children and adults with classical music, dance, different types of arts, important events and cinema for movies. It has even a department for design and architecture.

Tel Aviv Museum Of Art is also considered the biggest museum from Israel representing the specific traditions of Tel Aviv and sombolyzing the Israelian culture and art.

This museum has been opened since 1932. Interesting is that the Israel state has been not founded yet.
The most important attraction of this museum is that it offers a peek into the fascinating world of Israel’s art created by artists.

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by admin  |  2 Comments »

Nanjing Road in Shanghai

Nanjing Road situated in Shanghai and is kown to be the most important tourist streets from here. It is considered the best place where visitors have the chance to learn something about the history of Shanghai City.

Tourists should also know that Nanjing Road is the first commercial road ever built Shanghai. At the beginning of this century, there were only 4 stores along the Nanjing Road.

But in time, the street has become  the most visited shopping center in Shanghai and now beside departament stores, there are several restaurants, shopping malls, souvenir shops, and even an incredible night scene and different hotels where every tourist can spend his night.You wil never be sorry to visit this place, it is a must-see tourist attraction for every traveler who comes to Shanghai.

The road which is situated to the east part of Tibet Road is practically the East Nanjing Road and the road to the west part of it is called the West Nanjing Road.

Around this famous street, there are a lot of cultural buildings as Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Theatre, People’s Square,  etc that you can visit all day.

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »