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The Merlion Statue

The Merlion is a wonderful  statue representing a lion head and a fish body. The grmerlioneat 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 »

CN Tower

The CN Tower is situated in Toronto, Canada. It is a great attraction, a must-seCN Towere destination where just courageous people can reach it. Just because it has more than 550 meters, the building’s height provokes you to eliminate all your fears because it is really worth.The CN Tower is the centre of tourism from Canada and it is the most famous and recognizable from this country. Once you reached the top, you will enjoy a spectacular view. Annuly more than 1 million tourists come here trying to see if they can muster up the courage to walk across the see-through glass floor.

If you saw all these things, try to relax a bit here. At first, you will find a restaurant, the only where you can eat from pleasure, enjoying city’s sight. It’s really interesting at this restaurant that from 70 to 70 minutes the restaurant beggins to rotate.  It’s really a famous tower because it won many titles as  World’s Tallest Building, World’s Longest Metal Staircase World’s Highest Wine Cellar.  The other employees take part to the realization of this amazing and attractive place making possible a free time spent in holiday, with a plenty of entertainments, must-see exhibits and other attractions of the city. There are more reasons why National Railway built  this tower but this is the most important.

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

Santa Marie del Fiore

Santa Marie del Fiore is recognized since the Renaissance period and it was compleflorence dometed in 1466.
The building continues to be the third largest dome from the whole world, and it was no less than 4.000.000 bricks. If you want to get a fabulous view that you can’t so often see it, try to reach the top of the dome. The dome is situated nearby the Piazza del Duomo. The architect Filippo Bruneschelli constructed the cathedral’s cupola.
The arches raise to over 75 feet in the air being one of the most beautiful decorations inside the Duomo cathedral from Florence .
Another important and artistic event is that Donatello designed the glass window, depicting the coronation of the Virgin and many other works of significant artists.
For this reasons, Florence offers many spectacular views of the dome, things that tourists can see it just if they come here.
SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE basilica is recognized through its history. We all know for sure that travelling here means to turn back into the the history of Santa Marie del Fiore. Arnolfo di Cambio designed Santa Maria del Fiore as the greatest, the largest Roman Catholic Church that the world has ever known around 1294 year. We could say that its building was inspired from the Panthenon from Rome.
In conclusion, tourism in Italy it’s a chance that shouldn’t be missed once you did a holiday.

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

Costa Rica

Costa Rica is located in the Central America , between the Pacific Ocean aamericand the Caribbean Sea. It is considered a very exciting destination because of its location in the middle of the Western Hemisphere.Here, you and your family can enjoy for a spectacular vacation or health tourism, the perfect meeting in such a beautiful landscape and views. All extreme sports from here represent the essential thing for which tourists come annually. There are sports like bungee jumping, diving, snorkeling, mountain biking and many more sports. If you don’t want to complicate your existence here, try a relaxing on beaches because there are a lot of them.
Palo Verde National Park is an undiscovered jewel in Costa Rica park . The bird population is really spectacular.Costa Rica gives you the pleasure and things which rarely you have found in your native place. When you think about spending your night or eating, there are several options. Hotels aren’t so difficult to find, neither restaurants. But I could say that the most popular and the characteristic breakfast is “gallo pinto” which is served with eggs. All travellers who ate there, had the pleasure to leave the restaurants delighted. All these facilities couldn’t be mentioned in just a few words.  You just have to visit it and surely your wishes will be as you tought.

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

Canterbury Cathedral

UK

Canterbury is a city from United Kingdom, one of the most visited country from the whole Europe. Canterbury Cathedral was founded in 602 by the holy missionary Augustine and it is also known as “the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion”. In time, the cathedral became one of the most wanted palces of pilgrimage.
Travelling here will help you to find and to see every corner of the church.The exterior of the Canterbury Cathedral it’s amazing and it captures your attention through its size.
The main entrance is through the Gothic southwest porch. There is very impressive the way how everything’s in change from Romanesque to Gothic style. Even if in XI century, the cathedral was destroyed by a fire, it came back in the image of tourism being rebuilt in 1077. Canterbury became very quickly a very popular pilgrimage site in United Kingdom as the decorations of the cathedral attest it.
Being one of the tourist , the Canterbury Cathedral reveal this thing through its famous history which has been dating since the Middle Ages. We could mention that it is one of the oldest churches from Europe and this increase the Canterbury Cathedral’s fame.

Posted on February 15th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Brandenburg Gate Triumphal Arch-Berlin

The most representative and the greatest symbol of Berlin has a very sculpturefascinating history. Built in 1791, the Brandenburg Gate has the model made after the Acropola from Athens. But what this monument has interesting is the Quadriga statue of the top, created by sculptor Gottfried Schadow.The statue represent  goddess of peace, Victoria, in a battle chariot pulled by four horses. This construction is the only which remains  from the other sculptures. Brandenburg Gate is recognized in Berlin and its history because of the great events which someday took place here.During the war, since 1806, France took the great sculpture and returned it after France lost the war.  Even if after 1950 it was affected, rebuilt for many times and the Berlin Wall took its place, the Brandenburg Gate Triumphal Arch remains as a symbol of the Cold War.
Nowadays, tourism here is very attractive, Brandenburg Gate’s structure has never been  considered so important from years.However, we could just say that the Brandenburg Gate was a Doric version of a Roman Triumphal Arch .That’s the reason why Berlin city is so attractive . Tourists came here every year to see not just this sculpture because there are many buildings, museums, precisely things which surely travellers want it to discover.

Posted on February 13th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Haulover Beach

Situated in the north side of Miami, The Haluover Beach has no more and no less length 1.25 miles length, between Sunny Isles Beach and Bal MiamiHarbour. The beach is also a part of the Haluover Beach Park. Absolutely, it is a wonderful beach area also called the North Beach.It is funny and interesting for tourists to go there because they have a lot of opportunities to have fun: they can go fishing, diving into the sea, all sports that many tourists do. Precisely, the Haulover Beach is a nude beach which is officially recognized by the government of Florida state.Tourism here is very agglomerated because travellers come from all around the world by train, by airplane or by car. We could mention that every weekend is more interesting than other days because then is when most of tourists come.At the Haulover Beach you will also find a car parking which isn’t too expensive.It is just 5 dollars and it opened from 7:00 AM till dusk.
With a very pleasant climate and with Miami city in the neighborhood, it’s easy to understand why this beach is a great fame for tourists.There is a real paradise of nudists and nowhere is better then here.

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

Dongshai Bridge

Donghai bridge is one of the largest bridges from the world and also the first bridge over the sea from China which connects Shanghai and Yangshan Island.The famous bridge was officialy opened in 2005 and idonghait has a length of 32 kilometers.It is also recognized as being the “Suspended Snake”, another name given because of its forme.Even though last year, the bridge was dethroned by another chinese bridge which has 36 kilometres length, the Donghai bridge remains a miracle of technology.Bridge’s height can reach even 420 meters, an amazing view.Here are two cable-stayed sections which allow ships to pass.Travelling with your car, could be a good opportunity to pass the bridge in safety because it has no more and no less than 7 lanes and what’s really impressive to its construction is the structure of cables which sustains the whole constructions.
For tourists, the bridge creates a variety of easy ways to develop the tourism, the travel.Even if its construction was a little expensive(over one million dollars), it’s worth.
At night, the entire bridge is lit with big bulbs, and gives you the most pleasant thing in the moment you take part at such a beautiful view.

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

Bran castle

Bran castle, the best known from Roumania. Is situated on 30 kilometers away from Brasov city.cb
The legend say that here was borned Vlad Tepes , onbe of the most scarried person because of his methods of torture against his enemies. This gave his

name Dracula.
The castle is more than 6 centuries oldm built in 14 century.A lot of tourists which visit the castle are very interested to knowm to satisfied their own

curiosities about Dracula’s legend .
Nowadays, his existence is situated between truth and legend because people don’t know very well about him and his life .The castle is the only thing

which maintain in life people’s hope, it attracts tourists and finally it seems like everything comes alive. An  historical monument is represented by

The Customs House situated at the feet of the castle made up by some buildings like:a central pavilion, 2 houses united and ground floor.It keeps even a

great collection of furnitures and sculptures which take part to the castle’s decor. Precisely, tourism here increase people’s adrenaline when they feel

to go inside because of castle’s ghosts(not real), and some other things which just gives to the castle its fame.Starting with producers which made

movies into  the castle , it started to be the most visited and known from all over the world and surely it would be a great idea for spending your here.

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Boswash

Boswash is a group of metropolitan areas  from North America which includes cities like:Boston, Washington D.C, New York, Philadelphia,etc.
New York is the biggest city from Boswash, but also from the whole Nboswashorth America.Just because it has a huge number of people, this thing increase the chance to meet better Boswash megalopolis.
For the reason that the megalopolis include such a wonderful, big cities, it offers to the tourists an unforgettable holiday .
Young ladies could start shopping, jogging, all these places  wich give you some fresh air.
The economic and social development of cities offers to you a chance to get into more communication with other travellers.
It could not miss the parks(The central Park in Manhattan), museums and others, like going to zoo.
To be a goob traveler you have to integrate faster in other communities and to profite of your free time which remains you .
As a result, we could mention that Boswah is an important center for tourism, in despite of other states,less developed in science and other professions.
The first megalopolis in the world, whose image has increased after the Second World War, remains the most typical, representing in the same time the strongest concentration of assets.

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »