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Arco de la Victoria
Arco de la Victoria - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
In the Plaza de la Moncola, near Park Oeste even near the center of town, there is a big triumphal arch, Arco de la Victoria - Victoria acre. Arch seems older than it really is. Franco the dictator built in 1956 as a tribute to his nationalist army that defeated the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Arco de la Victoria is known as the Puerta de Moncloa, a name that is preferred by those who no longer wish to remember the...
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Puerta del Sol
Puerta del Sol - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
Plaza Puerta del Sol is the perfect starting point to explore the city of Madrid. This bustling market, is centrally located one of the most lively places in town. Puerta del Sol is now the historic heart of Madrid, but last place was at the eastern edge of town. Market name comes from the east gate of the city that existed here in the 15th century. Gate was probably named after the sun painted on it - Puerta del Sol or the Sun Gate. Presen...
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Almudena Cathedral
Almudena Cathedral - The most beautiful cathedrals of Spain Almudena Cathedral - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
Almudena Cathedral in Madrid took over 100 years to be built. It was finally consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1993. Shortly after King Philip II assigned Madrid the capital of Spain in the year of 1561, he wanted to build a cathedral for the new capital. Because of political turmoil and strong opposition from the Archdiocese of Toledo City, which was then a much larger city, the construction of the building was constantly delayed. Finally, in 1868 a congregation devoted to t...
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Puerta de Alcala
Puerta de Alcala - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
In the middle plaza called Plaza de la Independencia is located one of the most popular tourist attractions in Madrid: Puerta de Alcala - Alcala Gate. In 1764 King Charles III, to pay the Italian architect Sabatini to build a large gate to replace the old baroque 16th century built by King Philip III. King believed that bears the mark of the eastern border town was too small for important link to Aragon. ...
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Gran Via
Gran Via - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
The only street that should not be missed on a trip to Madrid is the Gran Via, a veritable exhibition of 20th century architecture. This lively street and one of the most important shopping areas of the city. Also here are also a lot of hotels and cinemas. But what makes this street is exciting architectural design of large buildings. A ride on a crowded street must not forget to head higher from time to time to admire the lavish decoration of the most important 'Edificios'. ...
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Plaza de Espana
Plaza de Espana - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
Plaza de Espana is one of the largest and most important markets in Madrid. One sunny day of summer is filled with vendors, tourists and locals. Market is located at the end of superb Gran Via, one of the busiest streets in Madrid. Green Square is surrounded by streets and yet is still a very relaxing place during daytime. A large fountain and a beautiful statue which honors him by the Spanish writer Cervantes adorn the small square.&...
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Parque del Buen Retiro
Parque del Buen Retiro - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
Parque del Retiro Buena is the most popular park in Madrid. Can be very crowded especially on weekends when families come to Madrid for a ride through the park and musicians, painters, astrologers, jugglers and street artists animates crowd. Retiro Park was created to be a royal park, the palace belonged to the Real Sitio del Retiro Buena. In 1632, the palace was built by King Philip IV as an oasis of relaxation for the royal family. ...
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Royal Palace
Royal Palace - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
Palacio Real or Royal Palace is the largest and certainly one of the most impressive palaces in Europe. Has over 2,000 rooms decorated in the most luxurious as possible, 50 of which can be visited. It is located in the historic center of town east of Madrid and very close to Plaza de Espana. Shortly after the Royal Fortress burnt down on Christmas Eve since 1734, King Philip V wished to replace the fortress with a palace built of ston...
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Plaza Mayor
Plaza Mayor - The best places to visit in Madrid, Spain
Plaza Mayor, a large square in downtown Madrid is very popular among tourists and locals alike. Rectangular market has a uniform architecture, very similar to market Vosges in Paris. In the Middle Ages it was just a market place of consumer goods outside the city walls. In 1560 King Philip II asked Juan de Herrera, architect of the Escorial to transform the church fair in a real small square. Only in the year 1617, during the reign of...
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Bairro Alto
Bairro Alto - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Bairro Alto, Lisbon is a picturesque neighborhood, dating back centuries. Sixteenth and famous for a kind of Montmarte the Portuguese capital - the best place Bohemian city, a privileged destination for artists and writers. Network of streets is pretty quiet during the day but at night is transformed into a most active area of the city. Behind the colorful facades and full of graffiti is an excellent variety of traditional and international...
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Alfama
Alfama - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Alfama is Lisbon's most emblematic quarter, one that gives most tourists who like joy riding down and photographers because of the multitude of medieval streets and magnificent views. Because it is built mostly of stone, managed to survive the 1755 earthquake and a walk through this neighborhood old-fashioned buildings equates to a return in time. Alfama is a kind of village in a big city, distinguishing himself through the narrow str...
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Ajuda Palace
Ajuda Palace - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Ajuda Palace in Lisbon is an exuberant extravaganza. Though construction of this palace was not completed as planned due exilarii royal family in Brazil, caused by the invasion of armies of Napoleon, is still one of the most beautiful romantic buildings in Europe. The interior is decorated with furniture, tapestries, sculptures and decorative art extravaganza. All are the result of endless wealth of the 18th century when diamonds were...
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Monumento Cristo Rei
Monumento Cristo Rei - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Monumento Cristo Rei is located on top of a hill about 110 meters high on the southern bank of the river Tejo and can be seen in the distance. Likeness of Jesus Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro is not accidental. Cartinalul Lisbon Patriarch saw the statue in Rio in 1934 on a visit to Brazil and then spread the idea of having a similar statue erected in Portugal. At a meeting held in 1940 in Fatima, Portugal priests made a vow to erect ...
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Vasco da Gama Bridge
Vasco da Gama Bridge - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon is a marvel of modern technology and a city sightseeing. Vasco da Gama bridge is the newest in Lisbon and allow free flow of traffic between north and south of the Portuguese capital. This bridge looks like it never ends for a cable bridge whose construction has made great efforts. Special measures were taken to protect a local species of birds. Over three hundred species of this family have been relocated to allow construction of the bridge....
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Monument to the Discoveries
Monument to the Discoveries - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Across the street from Jeronimo Monastery, Monument of Discoveries added. It was built on the northern bank of the river Tagus in 1960 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. The monument is a vessel with three sails ready to go on tour with sculturi of some important historical figures such as King Manuel I, the poet Camões, Vasco da Gama, Magellan and other explorers, crusaders, monks or Por...
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Castelo de Sao Jorge
Castelo de Sao Jorge - Top castles to visit in Europe Castelo de Sao Jorge - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Castle can be seen from almost any point of Lisbon and is one of the major sights. Its oldest parts date back to the VI century when it was fortified by the Romans, Visigoths and Moors eventually. Castle served as a Moorish royal residence until Portugal's first king, Afonso Henriques conquered in the year 1147 with the help of warriors from northern Europe who were en route to the Holy Land to attend the crusade. Why was dedicated to...
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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
North east of the Park Eduardo VII is located Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, one of the most important museums in the world and one of the priceless treasures of Europe. Part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, hosting collections of Egyptian art museum, Greek, Romanian, Islamic, Asian and European. In 2001 it was renovated and upgraded substantially - during the renovation works many masterpieces have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. &nb...
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Tower of Belem
Tower of Belem - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Built in 1515 as a fortress defending the role of the port entrance Lisbon, Belem Tower was the starting point of many expeditions and for seafarers was the last thing he saw on his mother's land to return to sea. Belem Tower Portugal is a monument dedicated to the great age of discovery period, often used as a symbol of the country. Belem Tower on UNESCO past monuments that are part of world heritage. Built Manueline style tower has m...
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Jeronimo Monastery
Jeronimo Monastery - The best places to visit in Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon Jeronimo Monastery is listed on UNESCO's World Heritage list and is the resting place of Vasco da Gama. Jeronimo Monastery is the most impressive symbol of Portugal's power and wealth in the great geographical discoveries. King Manuel I built it in 1502 on the site of a hermitage founded by Prince Henry the Navigator, where Vasco da Gama and his crew spent their last night in Portugal, praying before going to India. Was built to...
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Damme
Damme - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Damme small town is situated on the river Zwin between Zeebrugge and Bruges. River mud has played an important role in increasing or fall Damme's between year 1180 until today. Damme city has many beautiful cafes and restaurants. Channel is superb ride and if you will walk through Damme will see many sculptures made by Charles Delporte representing some huge heads. City of Damme, built between 1464-1468, is an excellent example of Gothic ar...
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Palace of the Liberty
Palace of the Liberty - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Liberty Palace Bruges (Landhuis van het Vrije Brugse) took centuries more uses. After construction in 1525, the building was used as the Region Palace and after the second building was in 1725 became the Royal Court. Later the building became a tourist information point. Today, hosting national archive. The most important part of the building, is of course "Aldermann Room" with beautiful fireplace made of different materials: alabaster, marble and wood....
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Diamond Museum
Diamond Museum - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Diamond Museum, the newest museum in the world diamond. Bruges is the city where diamond polishing was invented in the fifteenth century by Lodewijk van Berquem locals. Museum in Bruges offers visitors the unique experience within an imaginary workshop of Lodewijk van Berquem's a rare replica of the crown of Margaret of York which was handmade in Bruges, original equipment for mining, a model made exclusively on a scale of 1:1 the total amount of diamonds worldwide, grinding and c...
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Bruges City Hall
Bruges City Hall - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
City of Bruges was built between 1376 and 1420 and was among the first mayors in the Netherlands monument. Comprises six main facade and two Gothic windows of the city arms. The entrance hall is magnificent ceremonial staircase leading visitors to the first floor, where there is room Gothic (built between 1386 and 1401). This room was decorated with neo-Gothic paintings illustrating the most important events of history's Bruges....
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Chocolate Museum
Chocolate Museum - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Chocolate Museum is a tourist attraction which is arranged in the house "The Croon" Saint John the market. House "The Croon" dates from 1480 and was originally a tavern and later a bakery. The twentieth century has been used as general office work forces, police, school and municipal bank of Belgium. Chocolate lovers can find not only very interesting visit to this museum. Here you can see various sculptures in chocolate...
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Belfort Tower
Belfort Tower - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Belfort Tower in Bruges is a tourist attraction that was built in XIII century. This tourist attraction in Bruges is not less than 88 meters high and houses the old treasure map of Bruges. If you decide to climb the 366 steps, you can admire the impressive clock mechanism which has 47 bells, each with different sounds and functions, and the climax is a panoramic view of the city from the top of the tower. Belfort Tower, Bruges is the central square is truly special....
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Basilica of the Holy Blood
Basilica of the Holy Blood - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Church of the Holy Blood has a remnant of the holy blood of Jesus Christ. Legend says that after the crucifixion, St. Joseph of Arimathea, wiped the blood and body Savior kept his clothes. These clothes have left the Holy Land until the Second Crusade, when King of Jerusalem, Baldwin III, and gave the brother or the Count of Flanders, Diederik van de Elzas. Count Saviour brought clothes with blood on 7 April 1150 and placed her in a chapel he built a square Burg. ...
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Gruuthuse Museum
Gruuthuse Museum - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Gruuthuse Museum is the largest complex of museums in Bruges and is located in the house which belonged to Van Gruuthuse Brugghe-van der Aa. Gruut represent a mixture of flavors from which he used to make beer. Present collections of art and antiquities have been started in 1865 by the Archaeological Society in 1955 and Burges, Bruges city council won a collection and expanded. Sculptural art - the collection consists of objects of di...
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Groeninge Museum
Groeninge Museum - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Groening is a Landmark Museum in Bruges, also called fine arts museum, named after the field where his armies were defeated Flemish king of France in 1302. Museum collection was begun in XVIII century but the building was built between 1929 and 1930. Museum name was given after the street where, in 1302, Flemish army troops defeated French king. Museum's collection includes works belonging artists who lived or worked in Bruges. Largest artwork in...
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Historical Centre of Bruges
Historical Centre of Bruges - The best places to visit in Bruges, Belgium
Bruges City Centre is part of UNESCO heritage. Historical city center has been carefully built since the Middle Ages and is remarkably preserved today. The city can tell their own story through all the monuments, churches, historic buildings and markets. Bruges site is an example of medieval settlement, which has preserved original buildings of centuries, and Gothic buildings are part of the city identity. As one of the commercial and cultural capitals of Europe, Brugge developed ...
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Plaka
Plaka - The best places to visit in Athens, Greece
Plaka is the historic district of Athens, north of the Acropolis, near Monastiraki districts - bohemian - and Thissio. Here you can see more nineteenth-century neoclassical buildings restored pedestriene you can walk the streets, visit shops, restaurants and historical sites Romanian era. Plaka district boundaries are not specific but can be identified: Ancient Agora in Monastiraki and Plateia west Dhionysiou Areopayitou Acropolis and south street, Temple of Zeus and Leoforos Amal...
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Piraeus
Piraeus - The best places to visit in Athens, Greece
Port of Piraeus is Greece's largest port. It was built during the reign Temistocles, when the city walls were built (Ch D. 478 year), and the town was built by architect Hippodamus. He quickly gained importance when Athens became a naval power. Piraeus port covers a distance of 8 km southwest of the Acropolis, hence leaving many Greek ferryboats. Piraeus is composed of three ports of the "Grand Port" is the largest being loca...
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Dionysos Theatre
Dionysos Theatre - The best places to visit in Athens, Greece
Theater of Dionysus, built in a natural hollow in the south of the Acropolis, was the first theater in the world is the birth stone and Greek tragedy. Original place of the revered god Dionysus, god of wine and fertility, in dance and song in the fifth century, songs like Aeschylus, Sofocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were played here. The theater was built in less moving stages, each contributing to the development of drama in the fourth ...
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Poseidon Temple
Poseidon Temple - The best places to visit in Athens, Greece
Construction of Temple of Poseidon, god of the sea, started the year 500 but i Ch monument was never finished. Temple and its attractions were destroyed by the Persians in the fist year i Ch 480 Temple of Poseidon that you can visit today was built on the site of ruins of another temple. At the same time it was built and Temple of Athena, the goddess of the place where he was given sanctuary. The sanctuary began to dry I pulled down M...
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Benaki Museum
Benaki Museum - The best places to visit in Athens, Greece
Benaki Museum is the oldest private museum is a monument of Greece and Greek culture and art. Neoclassical building located at street intersection Vasilissis Koubari Sofias and was built between 1867-1868 by Ioannis Peroglou merchant. Villa Charokopos, as was known, was sold in 1910 that changed his Emmanouil Benakis house according to his needs and the family. Changes in assumed an increased entry and a luxurious interior. Between 1929 and 1931, the house was again changed, addin...
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