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Basilica Santa Maria della Salute
Basilica Santa Maria della Salute - The most beautiful churches of Italy Basilica Santa Maria della Salute - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
On one of the banks of Grand Channel, in the seventeenth century, one of the most beautiful churches in Venice, Santa Maria della Salute, was built. A symbolic image of the floating city, it appears in many documentaries about the Venetian architecture but also in many paintings made by famous artists such as Michele Marieschi, Francesco Guardi, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and, of course, Canaletto. After the plague of 1630, which is said to have ki...
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Rialto Bridge
Rialto Bridge - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
Rialto Bridge is the oldest bridge over the Grand Canal and probably best known in town. It was built between 1588 and 1591 and was the only way to walk cross the channel in 1854 when the Bridge Academy was built. Rialto Bridge is 7.5 meters high and covers three ways to go. Two sides and a railing along the middle lane that serves as a space for retailers that sell various jewelry, blades, Murano glass and other items for tourists....
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San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
San Giorgio Maggiore Island Venice is one of them located south of the main island. Channel Island is surrounded by Della Grazia, Canal della Giudecca, San Marco Basin, Canal di San Marco and south of Laguna. The island was probably occupied during the Roman occupation and was named Memmi Island (owned by a family). Since 829 was a church dedicated to St. George (San Giorgio). San Giorgio Monastery was founded in 982 when the Doge Tribuno M...
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Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
Ca 'd'Oro is the most beautiful castle of the Grand Canal. The palace was built between 1428 and 1430 for the Contarini family, who were part of eight crack between 1043 and 1676. After the election, each doge was to leave his palace and move to Doges Palace. Main facade on the Grand Canal was built in Venetian Gothic style floral. In this style were built Palace Giustiniani Barbaro Palace. Lodge Downstairs access a channel directly from th...
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Doges Palace
Doges Palace - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
Doges Palace in Venice is a superb example of Venetian Gothic architecture. He served as Senate, administrative center, courthouse, public archive and prison until 1797 when the Venetian republic fell. First built in the ninth century, Doges Palace was rebuilt several times but since 1340, with the construction of Hall Councils, really began to take shape. Doges City Election was private and lasted 1000 years since 697 till 1789. Council Ha...
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Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
Church of Santa Maria gloriosa dei Frari - the largest church in Venice and is in the middle of San Polo district. Imposing edifice is built of bricks in the Italian Gothic style. Just as many Venetian churches, the exterior is simple, free prints and only the wall of wood inside the choir. Originally built in XIII century church of Santa Maria gloriosa dei Frari Venice is home to many masterpieces such as "Madonna with child and saint...
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The Grand Canal
The Grand Canal - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
Although Venice is divided into islands and canals, the Grand Canal is the only really great channel. Has as one 'S' in the mirror and is approximately 3.8 km long, 30-90 wide and an average depth of five meters. Grand Canal is the highest rated district in Venice: the houses are older (built between the thirteenth century - XVIII), decorations are much bigger scale and have the lightest boat transportation with the largest boat traffic in ...
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Basilica San Marco
Basilica San Marco - The most beautiful churches of Italy Basilica San Marco - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
The Basilica di San Marco is the most famous church from Venice and one of the best examples of Byzantine architecture. It is located in Piazza San Marco. Originally the church was a chapel for the Venetian rulers. Since 1807, it has been the sanctuary of the Patriarch of Venice. Thanks to its opulent form, decorated with Byzantine mosaics, and due to its status as a symbol of Venetian wealth and power, has been also called The Golden Church (Chiesa d'Oro). &n...
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St. Mark's Square
St. Mark's Square - The best places to visit in Venice, Italy
Piazza San Marco is the best known market Venice surrounded by superb cafes and boutiques. In New York, every tourist must go to Times Square, in London should see Trafalgar Square or Piccadilly Circus in Paris even really need to cross the Concorde Square. Their equivalent in Venice is Piazza San Marco. It differs from its foreign counterparts in two major aspects: it is more attractive and has not been corrupted by car traffic. Nap...
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Sunken Palace
Sunken Palace - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
This huge tank, founded by Emperor Justinian I, the people called "Palace of the sink." Tanks on the site was found a huge church which may have been built centuries III and IV of Age Roman and served as a place of artistic and scientific activities but also to commercial businesses. This place is rumored that some gardens which were surrounded by marble columns and the garden is a bronze statue of the Prophet Solomon stood ...
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Miniaturk Park
Miniaturk Park - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Park construction began on June 30, 2001 and lasted two years. Miniaturk covers an area of 60,000 square meters is the largest miniature park in the world. Park includes 40,000 square feet free, 3,500 square meters covered with various buildings, 2,000 square feet of pools and channels and an immense park with a capacity of 500 vehicles. Miniaturk Park currently has 105 buildings constructed on a scale of 1 / 25, 45 of them are in Ist...
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Chora Church
Chora Church - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Although today Chora church building dates from XI-XIV centuries, the original church was originally built in the fourteenth century by Constantine the Great. Besides the attractive exterior, interior frescoes mozaicele and art of Byzantine Renaissance period. Mozaicele of the two lobbies infatisandu church's biblical scenes contain the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. The two domes of the host entry portraits of ancestors of Jesus to Adam, a ...
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Bosphorus Channel
Bosphorus Channel - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
One of the most strategic waterway channel, Bosporus connecting the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles, together with (in Turkish "Canakkale") separates Europe from Asia, is a flooded valley that follows an irregular course north-east to south- west over a length of 32 km, 730-3300 m wide and 30-120 meters deep. Bosphorus word comes from a word of unknown origin Thracian language. This Greek word is inter...
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Galata Tower
Galata Tower - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Galata Tower (Galata Kulesi) dominated Beyoglu (district) since 1348 it was built as part of a Genoese colony served as a fortification and observation tower. After the Ottomans conquered Istanbul in 1453, became a prison tower and barn water. During the nineteenth century served as the observation point to the frequent fires that took place in the city since there were many wooden houses. From the tower you can see a panoramic view of the ...
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Covered Bazaar
Covered Bazaar - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest covered markets in the world with 60 streets and 5,000 shops, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 daily visitors. Best known for jewelry, hand painted ceramics, carpets, embroideries and junk shops. The vast majority of stands are grouped by type of goods that were exposed, with an area for leather goods and gold jewelry. Grand Bazaar is an important commercial center since 1461 it wa...
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Dolmabahce Palace
Dolmabahce Palace - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Dolmabahce Palace is the largest and most luxurious residence in Turkey: 15,000 square meters built, 285 rooms, without calculating baths, halls and annexes. In the palace of oriental opulence meets six sultans who have lived (past rulers of the Ottoman Empire) with Western sophistication. Moreover, the palace looks more like an imperial residence French or Austrian, but the locations of 1001 nights, for Romanian visitors, the closest comparison would be within the President...
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Topkapi Palace
Topkapi Palace - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Topkapi Palace has hosted all the Ottoman sultans until the kingdom of Abdulmecid I (1839-1860), totaling almost four centuries. Mehmed II ordered the construction of the palace immediately after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Final form of the palace which covers an area of 700,000 square meters were added wall 1400 meters long. Along the wall there are three main gates: gate Otluk, Demir gate and the Imperial gate (Bab-i Humayun), and several smaller gates. After ...
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Blue Mosque
Blue Mosque - The best places to visit in Istanbul, Turkey
Wishing to be a rival to the Ayasofya mosque the Sultan Ahmet I, the Blue Mosque built between 1609 and 1616 as the largest mosque in Istanbul. Blue Mosque is one of the most famous sights in Istanbul, the only mosque in Turkey with six minarets (towers), most mosques with only four, two or even a minaret. Went to the news that the Sultan has commissioned architect Mehmet Aga to make a mosque with minarets of gold (Altina) but understood that the architect must make six (oth...
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Heroes's Square
Heroes's Square - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Heroes Square is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Budapest and in front of Central Park at the end of Andrássy Avenue, one of the most important streets of Budapest. Heroes Square in Budapest is part of UNESCO World Heritage. The monument was built in 1896 to commemorate a thousand years after the arrival of Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin. The monument consists of two circles which are placed above the ...
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The Great Synagogue and Jewish Museum
The Great Synagogue and Jewish Museum - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Great Synagogue in Budapest is the most beautiful synagogue in the world and second largest, certainly one not to be missed sightseeing holiday in Budapest. Jews were banished from the city in the eighteenth century such as Hebrew, founded a neighborhood just outside the old city. Jews have built their main synagogue in a residential area. This great Temple was built between 1844 and 1859 after plans and advice Ludwig Forster. ...
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St. Stephen's Basilica
St. Stephen's Basilica - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Saint Stephen's Basilica is dedicated to the first king of Hungary, Saint Stephen. It is the largest church in Budapest, can accommodate around 8500 people. Besides being very extensive, Saint Stephen's Basilica you other points of interest. St. Stephen's Basilica houses the most sacred treasure of Hungary, namely the mummified right hand of St. Stephen (Szent Jobb - Holy Right Hand). Dome of the basilica where tourists can climb, can admir...
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Chain Bridge
Chain Bridge - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Chain Bridge became one of the most famous sights in Budapest. Bridge connecting Pest and Buda across the Danube between. Offers one of the most beautiful sights in the city, with all the majesty of the Danube which finds its way under the bridge. It can also be seen grandiose Parliament building which dominates the Pest side of Danube and towers on the hill in Buda Castle. Panorama can be admired while it is more fascinat...
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Gellért Hill
Gellért Hill - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Gellert Hill is a large rock, 140 meters high which rises above the Danube in Budapest. According to legend, witches came to the hill every night and went back a man. Gellert Hill and was named after one of Bishop Gellért who came to Hungary in Italy at the request of King Saint Stephen, the Hungarian Christian to them. Some pagans put him in a barrel and threw him bishop of the hill into the Danube. A large statue that ...
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Matthias Church
Matthias Church - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Matthias Church is located in Buda and is one of the main attractions of the Hungarian capital. Church ranks of other churches built during King Bela IV between 1255-1269. It was rebuilt several times. Parts of the church were extensive and were given the shape of polygons in the late fourteenth century. For the same period dates and magnificent southern entrance gate which has a bas-relief depicting the death of Mary. In 1309 ...
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Parliament Buildings
Parliament Buildings - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian Parliament building is where the National Assembly meets, is one of the most beautiful buildings in Europe and the third legislative building the world's largest hosting a national parliament. National Assembly of Hungary has decided to clear this imposing building in 1880, nearly a decade and a half after the compromise with leaders of the Habsburgs. Construction plan has been used for building was designed by Imre Steindl, a professor at the Technical University of Bud...
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Fisherman’s Bastion
Fisherman’s Bastion - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
As part of the renovation works of the district hosting the Royal Palace in Budapest, Fishermen's Bastion was built in 1905. There are two explanations about the origin of the name bastion. Some people say that a fish market is nearby here in the Middle Ages and pulling and name bastion. Another explanation is based on the assumption that fishermen guilds defended this part of the castle wall in Budapest. Despite being called a bastion is actually building is a terrace where the v...
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Budapest Royal Palace
Budapest Royal Palace - The best places to visit in Budapest, Hungary
The Royal Palace was destroyed and rebuilt many times. King Bela IV started building the palace of the XIII century after the Mongol invasion. The original palace was built in Gothic style and continued to be extended for 300 years. Golden Age of the palace was during the reign of King Matthias. It was totally destroyed in 1686 when the Habsburg army liberated Buda under Ottoman occupation. Habsburgs built a new palace, lower-century baroq...
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Jewish quarter
Jewish quarter - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
Named after Emperor Joseph II, whose reforms helped to improve their Hebrew on the living conditions in Prague, the district contains remnants of the old ghetto Hebrew Hebrew. During the Second World War many Hebrew died and those who survived the communists were forced to leave the country, today the Jewish community in Prague just counting 5000-6000 people. There are lots of mysterious legends of the Golem and spirit of Franz Kafka (1883-1924). ...
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Sea World
Sea World - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
Sea World means 1000 square meters and 75 tons of ocean water in which large numbers of ocean fish species and corals. Aquarium is equipped with a mechanism that simulates the movement during the night and moon. Sea World also includes a giant aquarium sand shark, one of the most feared species of sharks after great white shark. Sand sharks grow to a length of 3.5 meters and can weigh 180 kg. Every year, 80,000 tourists visited Sea World....
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Prague Zoo
Prague Zoo - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Zoo is one of the largest zoos in Europe. It is a very pleasant and very interesting for everybody and if you organize the walk can be truly an unforgettable experience. Watch for signs to "Do not miss", where you will find a program with the most important events taking place in the garden during the day. One of the most popular pavilions and Planet of the Apes is the Indonesian jungle where you can see flora and fauna of ...
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Wallenstein Palace and Gardens
Wallenstein Palace and Gardens - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
In Wallenstein Palace garden you will see probably the first of a palace in Prague. Belongs to the Wallenstein Palace, the Senate today as the Czech Republic. The garden was built with baroque-style palace in 1623. In the eastern part of the garden you can discover terrena room with three arches. Room walls are decorated with frescoes representing the Trojan war. Terrena Hall organizes many concerts and theatrical performances. If you...
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National Theater
National Theater - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
National Theater (Narodni divadlo) is an impressive neo-Renaissance building built between 1868 and 1881 with money donated by Czech citizens. Stands proudly on the river Vltava, or golden roof shining in the sun on sunny days. Theatre opened its doors on 18 November 1883 with the launch of the Smetana opera Libuše devotion and union representing the Czech people. Inside the National Theater was renovated in 1883 after a major fire....
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Dancing House
Dancing House - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
Dancing house was built between 1994 and 1996 for an insurance company, the Czech architect Vlado Milunic with Canadian architect Frank Gehry. The house is called Ginger & Fred, referring to the famous pair of dancers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair. Initially, her place was a house built in neo-renaissance of the late nineteenth century. That house was destroyed during bombing in 1945. Dancing house stands among buildings built in...
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The City Hall and Prague Astronomical Clock
The City Hall and Prague Astronomical Clock - The best places to visit in Prague, Czech Republic
The first documentary attestation of the Market Hall in 1377 was Charles. At the beginning of the fifteenth century there were some parts added to Town Hall, the most important being the clock tower. The new mayor is held role initially is to host the administration council offices until 1784 Quantity Emperor Joseph II decided to unite the four parts: the Old Town, Lesser Town, Hradcany and New City. After this connection, the ...
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