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Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria

Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria

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  Zentralfriedhof (German for "Central Cemetery") is the largest and most famous cemetery in Vienna. It was built in 1863, due to the fact that by that time, the city's population has increased largely and communal cemeteries were no longer sufficient. Later, Zentralfriedhof cemetery became the burial place for the writers and composers of that time.     With a size of 2.4 square kilometers, Zentralfriedhof is the second largest cemeter...

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Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic

Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic

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  The Old Jewish Cemetery is located in Josefov, the Jewish Quarter of Prague in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Europe, dating from the second half of the XVth century. Since the local government of that time did not allow Jews to use another place of burial, the graves were dug very deeply, so that 12 people would be buried here, in an upright position. The result is one of the world's most “crowded” cemeteries. The number of people buried her...

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Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France

Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France

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  Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is one of the most famous and fascinating places in the world, attracting thousands of visitors each year. It is no wonder, if we think about the great personalities that have found their eternal peace here: Moliere, Marcel Proust, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Honore de Balzac, Chopin and others.       Stretching over 44 hectares with more than 12,000 trees, it is a true oasis of greenery and an ou...

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Highgate Cemetery in London, UK

Highgate Cemetery in London, UK

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  Highgate Cemetery originates from the Victorian era and is acknowledged as one of the most famous tourist sights in London. It is located on a hill, in an elegant district of north London. Highgate Cemetery in London is a fascinating place because of its location in a wooded area. Thus, burial tombs and crypts are surrounded by trees, ferns and wildflowers.      Over 850 personalities found their eternal peace here. The cemetery consists o...

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Almudena Cemetery in Madrid, Spain

Almudena Cemetery in Madrid, Spain

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  Almudena cemetery in Madrid City, the largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world, is home to nearly 5 million graves and has become a tourist attraction. With a history of 125 years, Almudena is the cemetery of Spain’s greatest personalities and offers tours to tourists interested in its existence.      The cemetery covers 120 acres of land and it is crowded with visitors especially on All Saints' Day, celebrated on Novemb...

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, USA

Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, USA

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  Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, the place where Michael Jackson has found his eternal peace, is among the world's most fascinating and famous cemeteries, being one of the tourist attractions in the City of Angels.      Forest Lawn is located on the hills of Hollywood, on the southern slope of the San Fernando Valley, near Burbank and is bordered by Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. It is a cemetery of stars an...

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National Gallery of Art in Washington

National Gallery of Art in Washington

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  The richest collection of ancient paintings in the United States is displayed at the National Gallery of Art, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art is closed only two days a year, on Christmas day and on the 1st of January 1 and access is free of charge. A unique feature is the guided visits organized for the blind people.     The collection owned by the National Gallery of Art comprises, on one hand, works be...

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Musée d'Orsay

Musée d'Orsay

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  Musée d'Orsay is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Paris and houses an incredible collection of art works from the 19th and 20th century belonging to some of the greatest artists in the world such as Degas, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin or Van Gogh.      It is one of the most interesting museums of modern art in the world, not just for its collection, but particularly for its history. A f...

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National Gallery of London

National Gallery of London

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  National Gallery of London houses a brilliant collection of European art from the early period of the Renaissance (XIIIth century) up to Impressionism period (XIXth century). The gallery contains around 2300 paintings from each great European school, and was founded in 1824 when the private collection of 38 paintings of the banker John Angerstein was bought by the British Government. The 38 paintings were originally displayed at Angerstein's house Pall Mall. It was opened in 1938 ...

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Pushkin Museum

Pushkin Museum

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  The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts houses one of the richest art collections in Russia and it is conveniently located in downtown Moscow, few steps away from Kremlin and the Red Square. Pushkin Museum is the second largest museum of foreign art in Russia after the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the largest museum of European art in Moscow.     One of the most beautiful buildings in the world, Museum Pushkin in Moscow was built in 1898 at t...

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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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  Art Institute of Chicago is a world-class art museum and a famous, independent school of fine arts. It was founded in 1866 and from 1868 became an arts high school in Chicago, Illinois. Institute of Arts was born as a result of the city's wealthiest citizens' initiative, which donated funds and their collections of paintings, among these there are Arthur Jerome Eddy, Bertha Honoré Palmer and Martin Antoine Ryerson.      The first bu...

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Sao Paolo Museum of Art

Sao Paolo Museum of Art

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  The largest city in South America and the third most populated one in the world, with over 10 million inhabitants, Sao Paulo is Brazil's economic capital, but also one of the most important cultural centers in the region, with numerous museums and attractions. Sao Paulo Museum of Art is a must-see destination for all those who arrive in town, even if they are not very interested or connoisseur in the domain. The museum was founded in 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Mar...

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Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg

Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg

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  Hermitage Museum is the largest art gallery of Russia, one of the most remarkable museums in the world and certainly the main attraction in St. Petersburg. Hermitage Museum was founded as a collection of art works by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, and opened to the public in 1852.      The main building of the Hermitage Museum is the Winter Palace, built by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1754-1762), in Baroque style. The first p...

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Museo del Prado in Madrid

Museo del Prado in Madrid

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  Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain features one of the greatest collections of European art from the fourteenth century until the early nineteenth century. This collection is impressive and can easily compete with what can be found in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Besides the art collection at “El Prado” (Spanish equivalent), here there is also found an impressive collection of over 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and almost 2,000 decorative objects. Sculpture is...

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Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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  The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities is commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and is located in Cairo in Egypt. Egyptian Museum is one of the greatest museums in the world, housing the richest collection of ancient Egyptian art, among which the famous treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb, the museum's most valuable artifacts: jewelry, the gold coffin, the mask of solid gold, sandals and the young pharaoh’ gold gloves. If you are in Cairo, do not miss a visit to this museum –i...

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The British Museum in London

The British Museum in London

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  The imposing British Museum exhibits works of art created from prehistoric times up until nowadays, presenting human culture from its beginnings to the present in impressive collections that bring together masterpieces from all over the world.      A museum of human history and culture, it is currently one of the largest and most comprehensive museums in the world. The museum was founded in the mid eighteenth century, in 1753, on the basis...

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The Museum of Modern Art in New York

The Museum of Modern Art in New York

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  The Museum of Modern Art, also referred to as MoMA, is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Founded in 1929 as a settlement of culture and education, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is considered to be the most influential museum of modern art in the world. MoMA hosts the most beautiful art work collection in the world from the 19th century up to the present, including those belonging to van Gogh, Picass...

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Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi Gallery

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  In the Italian city where Renaissance has flourished, the imposing palace of arts houses for centuries one of the richest art collections in the world. Uffizi Gallery is the largest Renaissance pinacoteca. Also, it  is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.The building, originally designed in 1561 at the request of Cosimo I de Medici for the Florentine magistrates' offices, turned into a museum.     Gallery owe...

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Vatican Museums

Vatican Museums

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  Vatican City is the smallest state in the world, occupying an area of only 50 hectares. The population of this state is only slightly more than 550 people, and its form of government is theocracy, headed by Papa.      Inside the Vatican City there are the Vatican Museums, which are considered to be among the greatest museums in the world, with an impressive collection, where one can admire some of the world’s most renowned classical ...

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Louvre Museum in Paris, France

Louvre Museum in Paris, France

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  Louvre Museum is the most visited art museum in the world, a monument full of historical meaning and the greatest national museum of France. It is a central tourist attraction in Paris, located on the Right Bank of the Seine, in the first arrondissement. Here there are displayed over 35,000 art objects dating from the 6th millennium BC and up to the nineteenth century AD.       Louvre Museum is housed by Louvre palace, which was originally...

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Burgos Cathedral

Burgos Cathedral

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  The Burgos Cathedral is a Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral in Burgos. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is famous for its vast size and unique architecture. The entire history of Gothic art is summed up in the gorgeous architecture and its unique collection of artworks, including paintings, tombs and stained glass. Works of extraordinary artists are preserved here, such as the architects and sculptors of the Colonia family (Juan, Simón and Francisco), the sculptor...

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Iglesia de Santa Maria del Mar

Iglesia de Santa Maria del Mar

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  The most symmetric church in Barcelona and certainly the best example of Mediterranean Gothic structure in town, Santa Maria del Mar Church is located in the Ribera district in Barcelona. Known as the Catedral de la Ribera (or Catedral del Mar), it was built between 1329 and 1383 in Catalan Gothic style, by architect Berenguer of Montagut, in collaboration with Ramon Despuig.   Santa Maria del Mar was built due to a vow made a century ago by Jaume I, ...

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San Juan de Gaztelugatxe

San Juan de Gaztelugatxe

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  San Juan de Gaztelugatxe is a tiny picturesque island on the coast of Biscay in Basque Country. On top of the island stands a hermitage dedicated to San Juan. It dates from the 10th century, although certain discoveries indicate the 9th century.     It is a small church, which is usually closed, that apparently belonged to the Knights Templar. In 1053, it was donated by Íñigo López, the first lord of Biscay, to the monaster...

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Valli of Porto Pino wine

Valli of Porto Pino wine

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Valle of Tirso wine

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Trexenta wine

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Tharros wine

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Sibiola wine

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Romangia wine

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Parteolla wine

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