Montreal is unique in North America, combining the New World modern with the romantic charm of historic districts and a European air Gallic lifestyle, evident in the cafes and the city’s dynamic nightlife.
Although skyscrapers downtown are testament of the economic influence of the second largest city of Canada, visitors are most likely attracted by the promise of rides in a cart on the cobbled streets of old town near the St. Lawrence River.
Montreal is on an island between Rivière des Prairies and Saint Lawrence River. When Jacques Cartier discovered the island in 1535, it was already inhabited. Until Paul de Chomedey arrived in 1642 to found the Ville-Marie, the first European colony has been already abandoned. Cross on the Mount Royal, which is visible from most of the city, marks the place where Maisonneuve planted a wooden cross to thank that the city was spared by the floods in the first winter.
French revolt against the British in the economy led to the “silent revolution” between 1950 and 1960, culminating in the crisis of 1970 and the referendum about royalty from 1980 to 1995.
As a result, French became the predominant language at work and a number of companies in Quebec have become active in global market forces. Approximately 65% of people claim that French is their native language, making Montreal the second most populous French-speaking city after Paris.
But in Montreal there is a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants around the world, who contributed to the rich cultural heritage and lively atmosphere in the city. This is most evident during one of the largest festivals in Montreal, International Festival of Jazz in Montréal, when tens of thousands of music fans fill the streets of every day.
Elegant buildings of Old Montreal, which was the heart of the city until the late nineteenth century, are now full of shops, bars, hotels and restaurants.
The best time to visit Montreal is summer, when even the nights are muggy and the whole city seems to spend. Autumn that reveals the leaves color is the right period to visit the Laurentians forest.

On the eastern shore of Sicily are rising three large rocks, caressed by the waves. They have volcanic origin and they don’t seem to be like the other rocky formations from the shore. Rocks, they are said to have been thrown by a monster in the footsteps of Odysseus’s ship, the hero of the Trojan wars hero of the Greek mythology.
Homer, the Greek poet of the seventh century before Christ said in Odyssey that the hero of Ithaca and his comrades were held in Sicily by some giant man eaters. Their leader was Polifem more hideous than the others because he had only one eye, sitting in the middle of the crowd. While Polifem was sleeping, Odysseus and the others have sharp  a piece of olive wood, then they flushed into the fire and burning, stuck it into the only eye of the monster, then they fled to the ship with which they came.

Blind and tormented by pain, Polifem tore rocks from the mountains coast and threw them on the tracks of the fugitives. He did not hit them, but even today boulders are still being there where he throw, thing which still remember the terrible power of the monster.
As for the legend’s truth, if we look carefully to the inside of the island at about 20 km, we can see the conical tip of the Etna volcano. Its single crater, blind and deep, is like the monster’s eye.
Not once, but many times during the centuries Etna has demonstrated its ability to spout boulders on large and long distances, and it still gives today such dramatic proofs of its anger from depths.
Its eruptions are fed by a reservoir of lava, of 30 km long and 4 km deep, located under the mountains and fed by huge quantities of molten material filled with gas, located in the depths of the Earth. You might think that place is not at all favorable for human settlements. However, the Etna slopes makes one of the most densely populated regions of Sicily. The rivers of lava that flow are slow and not very numerous, rarely killing someone. People collect even five harvests of vegetables per year and fruits are growing in abundance.

Beyond the gray plains of pebble, in northwestern South Africa, land is slightly inclined to lay open one of the timeless masterpieces of nature: a large  old sand appearing as a baked apricot, which stretches like forever. This is the Kalahari, a vast territory on the African plateau. Surreal beautiful in its immensity, prehistoric culture and structure, the Kalahari Desert covers almost the whole Bostwana, continuing to the west in Namibia and north in Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe. People who live here call it Kgalagadi, meaning “wilderness” – a region so vast, so impenetrable, as it hides secrets of ancient civilizations that disappeared a long time ago. Its sands are home and hunting territory of the oldest populations in the world, the tribes of Bushmen or San, who live today as they did 25,000 years ago. Their amazing adaptations in scorching heat, to the lack of the water and insufficient food, allowed people to survive where others would surely not. Although there is currently no longer than a few thousand bushmen in the Kalahari , their ancestors have left behind them numerous paintings in caves and on rocks in the region. For example in caves and on cliffs of the Tsodilo Hills, in the north-western desert, there are no fewer than 2750 pictures in 200 sites. These subjects vary from simple geometric designs to various groups of people and animals.
Even today, large groups can be seen as marching along the dried  rivers of Auob and Nossob, throwing gold dust in the air. Here, lions are often hidden under the foliage of trees, waiting for night to start hunting.

Innumerable tributaries feed the Congo river along the arc of a circle which is being crossed from its sources, to the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, until flowing into the Atlantic. On the road or 4700 km, the river winds through dense jungle and mangrove forests accumulating so much power that flows into the sea 41,700 tons of water per second, its  debit being exceeded only by the Amazon’s one.
When the river estuary was discovered, in 1482, by the portuguese explorer Diogo Cao, he could not cross the cataracts upstream of the river mouth, today named Livingstone Falls, so the river has remained unexplored for nearly 400 years. For Europeans of the nineteenth century, this area was known as the “darkest Africa”.
The upper Congo River is partially navigable. Initially, it flows to the north through a narrow, steep and rocky gorge, then winds through swamps covered by reeds and flowing into Lake Kisa, a paradise of egrets and seagulls, but the fishermen in the area. Further, navigable portions alternates with thresholds before Nyangwe, where the river enters into the dark jungle which frightened Livingstone in 1871, preventing him from going forward to the north. The river crosses 7 waterfalls along the 90 km, with the largest flow of water in the world, approximately 166,850 tonnes per second.

Georges Pompidou Center is a cultural center and museum in France. Located in the heart of Paris, Georges Pompidou Center was built in the years 1972 – 1977 and he also was the initiator of French President Georges Pompidou. International architectural competition for the proposal was attended by about 700 architects from 50 countries worldwide. Selection procedure eventually won the British, a pair of Italian architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.

Operating modern glass palace is 166 m long and a height of 42 meters. Georges Pompidou Center has 5 main levels with a total area of 7 500 meters square. Communication and distribution are kept outside the buildings and are different and distinct besides construction, reminiscent of the scaffolding, created in this building very unusual appearance.

Construction Georges Pompidou Center was about 1 billion francs, and raised several discussions with experts and the general public. In the complex there are many exhibition spaces, library, museum of modern art, shops, cafes, cinemas and other areas, with the possibility of different uses. It is remarkable exposure of 5 – floor, where you will find works by artists which lead to the 20 century, such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró and many others. Georges Pompidou Center is one of the most visited tourist destinations in France.

Built between 1972 – 1976, Georges Pompidou Center is one of the most interesting and original buildings in France, currently hosted in one of the best modern art museums in the world.

Situated right in the heart of town, on the right bank of the Seine and within walking distance of Notre Dame and the Louvre Museum, Pompidou Center is located near Les Halles, the main market price for centuries of Paris.

Massive structure, with a unique and strangely distinctive architecture in an area that keeps a lot of the charm of old Paris, currently hosting not only modern art museum, but a vast library, Industrial Design Center and a dedicated music center. Libraries, administrative offices, restaurants, cinemas, children’s spaces ,make from Georges Pompidou Center a huge space dedicated to creation and art. His interdisciplinary character makes it very popular for French and foreign tourists, because here you can enjoy a theater performance or a good movie, you can visit an art exhibition to discover new themes and trends, you can buy books harder to be found.