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The Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier is practically a opera-house which is situated on the Place de l’Opéra from Paris, the capital of France. The Palais Garnier has also a second and a third name, the Paris Opéra and Opéra Garnier.

Also designed by Charles Garnier, the building is known as one of the architectural masterpieces of the Neo-Baroque style. It was also taken in front of the Opera Garnier construction. It is not as easy as tourists think if they want to photograph the interior of the Palais Garnier building.

The Palais Garnier is used for concerts and other performances since it was opened, in 1874 and inaugurated in one year later, in 1875. On the southeastern part of the Palais Garnier you will find the Louvre museum.

Seating 2,130 people, the Paris Opéra or the Opéra Garnier is an architectural treasure for the classical opera of the city and several ballet scenes. On the the inside there is a big hall with a grand staircase.There are even several rehearsal rooms, a library and a museum which hosts many famous exhibits.  It is believed to have one of the largest hall from all over the world.

In the 20th century, in 1964, Marc Chagall had decided to paint the ceiling an he got inspired by some of the most famous operas.

Posted on June 24th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Tokyo Tower

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Tokyo Tower is a famous tower situated in the capital of Japan, Tokyo. It was built after the Eiffel Tower model, with a height around 333 metress, higher than the Eiffel Tower.Tokyo Tower had become famous through its appearance in many movies.It is a must-see attraction of Tokyo, something you don’t have to miss it.The Tokyo Tower is different from the Eiffel Tower because it is situated in the middle of a city block, painted in white and orange. Sometimes the tower is illuminated in orange, specially when tokyo-tower-1-22there are some important events.

The Tokyo Tower is the best known as a tourist destination and it  can be seen from many points as the Roppongi Hills complex and the Toky Bay.

Built in 1958, the Tower has mantained its fame for decades, attracting annually millions of tourists from all over the world.

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

Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix

The Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix is a great touristic destination for your familylvmgr. It’s a place where you can eat, have fun, ride and race. Its has been voted as being the best attraction of Las Vegas city for a long while.

Las Vegas Mini Gran Prix has 4 interesting tracks which include the Go Kart Road Course, Kiddie Karts, Sprint Kart Speedway, and the Adult Gran Prix. This park has a super Tornado Twister and a Dragon Roller Coaster for tourists of all ages. There are several restaurant where you can eat some delicious food.

As well as parents can enjoy this and go karts, their children could play on the kiddie karts and junior roller coaster.

Definitely every tourist who come here will love this kind of adrenaline, a place where you can test your abilities, skills. This type of actions represents something that you can rarely do in your mini-holiday.
It is a must-see attraction because you can visit it  7 days per week beginning with 10:00 o’clock. Share your experience to your friends and make this destination more attractive and renowned all around the world.

Posted on April 19th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

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 »

Polynesian Cultural Center

The Polynesian Cultural Center is one of the most recognized activities of Hawapolynesian cultural centerii. Tourists are fascinated with the sight of the Hawaii area. It was founded in 1963 by the Church of Jesus Christ .
Polynesian Cultural Centre is one of the greatest tourist attractions of Hawaii being situated in the Oahu island. This amazing destination is visited annually by more than 1 million tourists.  This centre gives travellers a great entrance into the Polynesian communities’s culture.
I fyou want to get there learn some native lifestyles from the South Pacific islands habits. The history combined with the hospitality creates the perfect attractive place that you ever dreamed to see. Everything’s here is formed by wedding ceremonies, rub sticks to create fire, carve tiki figures, wield fire knives, etc.

The Cultural Center represents a great experience that you should try it with your family or your friends.  There are a lot of things that should be seen.

Polynesian Cultural Center is considered one of the most successful attractions from all over the world because of its great number of . Restaurants around  the great center offers free gifts, souvenirs to every tourist who  comes here.

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

Balboa Park

Balboa Park is a great park situated in San Diego, California from United States of balboa park san diegoAmerica. It has no more and no less than 1000 acres. Here tourists can visit around fifteen museums, some great gardens, a lot of art types. It offers to every tourist a part of its history. Once you get there, you visit it surely say that you want more and more.  It’s really interesting to see something that in your country you have never seen it before. Besides that, it is a great relaxation for travellers, you should know that annually here come more than 10 million visitors. This thing I guess will increase you hopes in coming here. All these exotic animals, different species of them, are something that you must see, something that you rarely see.
If you are from San Diego, you just have to do a brief way until you reach the Balboa Park.  This park is recognized through its spectacular flowers, amazing trees with shady formes, etc.
What it’s impressive there is that you can do in the same time many other things as coming with your family in a flying visit. The park’s area offers to you picnic places, you can come here with your dogs in a free ride  and get some fresh air or to do some sports.
Take your chances and try to visit this fabulous park. You will not feel sorry for it.

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is situated in Missouri. Other people called it botanical garden “The Shaw’s Garden” . This attractive place was founded in 1859 being one of the oldest botanical garden from United States. The Garden is a center for botanical and scientist research. Its area has around 80 hectares and it’s near the Tower Grove Park, another important tourist attraction.
Every year come here a lot of tourists from all over the world to see this place devoted to many cultural festivals as the Japanese Festival and the Chinese Culture Days by the St. Louis Chinese Culture DC. During the festival travellers will see some elements of culture’s botanics like arts,music, food, etc. When the fesival began, it was known as  The Shaw’s Garden.
This Botanical Garden  is considered one of the top three in the world. rare collections of botanical and historical materials:  architecturally significant buildings, fountains, and the famed Seiwa-en Japanese Garden.
The dome of the botanical garden is 70 feet high and 175 in diameter, permitting tall palm trees to tower  above the tropical view of waterfalls. It deserves to be visited because here you will see around 1.200 different species of exotic plants and trees . Temperature are from 64 to 74 degrees and average humidity is 85 %.
While you visit it, every tourist feel like in a jungle when they see all these kind of flowers, orchids, etc.

Posted on March 9th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Little Mermaid statue

The Little Mermaid is a very important and attractive statue of Copenhagen made in 1913 by the sculptor Edvard Erichsen. Thstatuee bronze statue “The Little Mermaid” which has 1.25 meters high and 175 kilos is situated on the entrance of the Copenhagen city. Even if the statue was rebuilt of several times, it remains in Copenhagen’s history dating since 1913.There is not just a legend, there’s a lot which turn the mermaid’s life into something magical, waiting to be discovered.Nowadays is said that the mermaid turned into a statue waiting for his real love, the prince.It is also said that in 2010 the statue will be moved to Shanghai to an exhibiton.
It is a real attraction for travellers from all over the world even if you see that the statue is situated just on a great stone.Its name is also recognized through Disney which produced a movie with it. Copenhagen continue to maintain a statue in her honour, a statue which remains one of the most populat tourist attractions from Europe, even from the whole world.The Little Mermaid was for several times painted in pink, green and also inspired from a Hans Christian Andersen story. Definetly, the relatively small size of the statue impressed the tourists who came to visit it for the first time.

Posted on February 18th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Canterbury Cathedral

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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 »

Belem Tower-Lisbon

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The Cultural Center of Belem in Lisbon is the most impressive cultural institution from Portugal and also from the whole Europe. With a total area of 100.000 square meters, the center is the creation of some important architects like Manuel Salgado. The interior was designed by Daciana Costa. Here you will find also the Belem Tower which represents for the city the entrance door. The tower was built between 1515 and 1521 by the Francisco de Arruda architect.
But what’s amazing and what makes the tower more attractive is the place where it is situated. Precisely, the tower is built on a little island, on the right side of Tagus river surrounded by water.Every tourist who come in Lisbon will not miss the chance to visit the great Belem Tower.
Travelling here means to take a deep breath and enjoying the pleasure given by the seascape. It is also impressive at night, when the tower is lit up.
For many years, the Center of Belem which include the Belem Tower will be for travellers the most famous construction and in the same time a well known symbol.
What about the interior of Belem Tower? All we could say is that the building has a several number of rooms from which the lower rooms were used sometimes as a prison.If you want more, take your chances and make a great in such a beautiful place.

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