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Amsterdam:
Holland, Amsterdam, architecture, canals that criss-cross the city,
shopping. traveler's, travel, tour, culture and history, serious partying,
Coffee Shop, European city. urban area, and is located in the Province
of North-Holland. Although Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands,
the seat of government is The Hague, provincial capital is Haarlem,
canals ring the old city; the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht,
the Prinsengracht, and the Singelgracht (Singel!), Nassaukade, Stadhouderskade,
and Mauritskade, Amsterdam, historic city centres, registered historic
buildings. y - World War II. The centre consists of 90 islands, linked
by 400 bridges. Its most prominent feature is the concentric canal ring.
The city office for architectural heritage architectural history, a
historical buildings. Warmoesstraat and Zeedijk. Mediaeval wooden houses
survive, at Begijnhof 34 and Zeedijk 1. , Warmoesstraat 83 (built circa
1400), Warmoesstraat 5 (circa 1500) and Begijnhof 2-3 (circa. 1425),
The Begijnhof is a late-mediaeval enclosed courtyard with the houses
of beguines, women living in a semi-religious community. Beguinages
are found in northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and north-western
Germany. Admiralty Arsenal (1656-1657), Maritime Museum (Scheepvaartmuseum)
at Kattenburgerplein. turf warehouses (1550) along the Nes, Waterlooplein,
(Arsenaal, 1610), architectural academy, West India Company (1642),
Prins Hendrikkade and s-Gravenhekje. Oostelijke Handelskade, Amsterdam
was ruled by a merchant-based oligarchy, canal houses, mansions in the
most prestigious locations, main canals, Singel, De Dolphijn, Oudezijds
Voorburgwal, Wapen van Riga, Oudezijds Voorburgwal, De Gecroonde Raep,
Baroque Amsterdam Renaissance,Herengracht, Bartolotti House, Keizersgracht,
House with the Heads, Herengracht, Rokin, Kloveniersburgwal, Trip House,
Oudezijds Voorburgwal, Singel, Zeevrugt, Zuiderker, Zuiderkerkhof, Noorderkerk,
Noordermarkt, Prinsengracht, Westerkerk, Anne Frank House, Royal Palace,
Hash, Marihuana and Hemp, villages of Ransdorp, Zunderdorp, Schellingwoude
or Durgerdam, The Jordaan, ondelpark, Rembrandtpark, Not too far west
of the Vondelpark, Museumplein. the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum,
the Concertgebouw, Stedelijk Museum, Wertheimpark. botanical gardens,
second world war memorial, Amsterdam, Westerpark, Haarlemmerweg, Oosterpark,
"tropical museum", Sarphatipark, Amsterdamse Bos. Amstelveenseweg.
Horse rental, canoe rental,"Heineken Brewery" (Heineken Experience),
"Red Light District", "canal cruises", "Queens
Day", Weesp, Vecht river, Muiden, Vecht river, Netherlands, Muiderslot,
Naarden, fortifications. Naarden-Bussum, Weesp, Zaanse Schans, Historic
windmills, tradesmen's workshops, open-air museum, Monnickendamm Amsterdam.
'picturesque' Broek in Waterland, Volendam, attractions, historic canals,
Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank House, its red-light district
and its many cannabis coffee shops. Herengracht (Gentleman's Canal),
Keizersgracht (Emperor's Canal), and Prinsengracht (Prince's Canal’).
, the Singelgracht (not to be confused with the older Singel), earthen
dikes, Jordaan, De Bijenkorf, Maison de Bonneterie, Pieter Cornelisz
Hooftstraat and Cornelis Schuytstraat, Vondelpark, Kalverstraat, Negen
Straatjes, Grachtengordel, Albert Cuypmarkt, Westermarkt, Ten Katemarkt,
and Dappermarkt, G-star, Gsus, BlueBlood, 10 feet and Warmenhoven &
Venderbos, Mart Visser, Viktor & Rolf, Marlies Dekkers and Frans
Molenaar, Elite Models, Touche models, Tony Jones, Yfke Sturm, Doutzen
Kroes and Kim Noorda, Rederijkerskamer (Chamber of Rhetoric), theatre,
Ballet, Opera, metronome, Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, Rijksmuseum, Gemeentelijk
Museum, Concertgebouworkest, cinema, radio and television, Hilversum
and Aalsmeer, Rembrandt's masterpiece, the Nightwatch, Van der Helst,
Vermeer, Frans Hals, Ferdinand Bol, Albert Cuijp, Van Ruysdael and Paulus
Potter. ,Delftware, giant dollhouses from the 17th century, P.J.H. Cuypers,
Stedelijk Museum, Piet Mondriaan, Karel Appel, and Kasimir Malewitsj,
Verzetsmuseum, Anne Frank House, Rembrandthuis, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdams
Historisch Museum, and Joods Historisch Museum, Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Concertgebouw, Van Baerlestraat, Museum Square, Grote Zaal,
Kleine Zaal, and Spiegelzaal, The two main nightlife areas are the Leidseplein
and the Rembrandtplein. cafes. bruine kroeg (brown cafe), Leidseplein,
discothèques,Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein. The Paradiso, Melkweg
and Sugar Factory, Rembrandtplein are the Escape and Club Home, Panama,
Hotel Arena (East) and The Powerzone. Koninginnedag (Queen's Day), Uitmarkt,
podia, musicians, poets.
Australia:
Australia is the only country that has a whole continent to itself.
World famous for its natural wonders and wide open spaces (beaches,
deserts and "the bush" or "the Outback"), Australia
is ironically one of the world's most highly urbanised countries and
is well known for the cosmopolitan attractions of its globally significant
cities, such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart
and the Australian capital city Canberra. Australia is also a major
tourist destination, and is one of the world's wealthiest countries.
The country is renowned worldwide for its vast, untouched landscape
and its unique culture. * New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland
(QLD), Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA), Tasmania (TAS),
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Canberra, (NT) "Northern Territory",
"Ashmore and Cartier Islands", "Christmas Island",
"Cocos Island", "Coral Sea Islands", "Heard
Island" and "McDonald Islands", "Lord Howe Island",
"Norfolk Island", "Macquarie Island", Sydney Opera
House, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne, Canberra - capital of Australia,
Adelaide - the "City of Churches", South Australians, Brisbane
- sun-drenched capital of Queensland, fastest growing city in Australia
(and the Southern Hemisphere), beautiful sandy beaches. Cairns, "Great
Barrier Reef", "Port Douglas", the "Atherton Tablelands",
"Daintree National Park",beaches and resorts, Darwin, Northern
Territory, Hobart, Tasmania , Perth, Western Australia , Sydney, "New
South Wales", Queensland's "Sunshine Coast", Caloundra,
Noosa, Maroochydore and Mooloolaba, "The Outback", "Australia's
red centre"-Uluru, "Ayers Rock", located in the "Uluru-Kata
Tjuta National Park", "Great Barrier Reef ". Papua New
Guinea, East Timor, Indonesia, Australia, Arafura Sea and the Timor
Sea, "Aboriginal peoples", "Australian aborigines",
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. Canberra, Australian
Capital Territory (ACT). Jervis Bay Territory, New South Wales, Christmas
Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Coral
Sea Islands, Heard Island, McDonald Islands, ,Australian Antarctic Territory
(largely uninhabited). Norfolk Island, The Great Barrier Reef, the world's
largest coral reef, Mount Augustus, world's largest monolith, Western
Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, Great Dividing Range, Mawson Peak, Heard
Island, eucalyptus, eucalypts and acacias, legume species, rhizobia
bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, monotremes (the platypus and the echidna),
marsupials, kangaroo, the koala, and the wombat, saltwater and freshwater
crocodiles, 'crocodile hunter', birds, emu and the kookaburra, venomous
snakes, The dingo, Austronesian, Indigenous Australians, Many plant
and animal species, thylacine, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders,
Sydney NSW, Hobart TAS, Melbourne VIC, Geelong VIC, Brisbane QLD, Townsville
QLD, Perth WA, Cairns QLD, Adelaide SA, Toowoomba QLD, Gold Coast-Tweed
QLD, Darwin NT, Newcastle NSW, Launceston TAS, Canberra-Queanbeyan ACT
/ NSW, Albury-Wodonga NSW / VIC, Wollongong NSW, Ballarat VIC, Sunshine
Coast QLD, Bendigo VIC
China:
Chinese Tea, Chinese Food, Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Medicine, Chinese
Religions, Chinese, Arts, Traditions & Customs, Ethnic Groups, Chinese
Festivals, Chinese Wine, Chinese Opera, Chinese Silk, Dali, Tibet, Shenzhen,
Nanjing, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Guangzhou, Macau, Chongqing, Kunming, Lijiang,
Hangzhou, Suzhou, Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen, Huangshan, Wuhan, Chengdu,
Harbin, Beijing, Changchun, Changde, Changsha, Chengde, Chengdu, Chongqing,
Dalian, Datong, Dunhuang, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou,
Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Jinan, Jiuquan, Kaifeng,
Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Luoyang, Macau (Macao), Nanchang, Nanjing,
Nannin, Pingya, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Qufu, Sanya, Shanghai, Shaoxing,
Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Urumqi,
Wuhan, Wuxi, Wuyuan, Wuzhen, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Yanan, Yangzhou,
Zhengzhou, Big Bell Temple, Chengde Mountain Resort, Confucius and Confucius
Mansion, Dazu Stone, Carvings, Fengkai National Geopark, Forbidden City,
The Great Wall, Heavenly Lake, Huangshan, Jiuzhaigou, Li River (Lijiang
River), Guangxi, Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, Mingsha Mountain and Crescent
Spring, Mogao Grottoes, Mount Tai (Tai'shan), Old Town of Lijiang, Potala
Palace, Qufu (Confucius's Hometown), Shanghai Museum, Shangri-la, Shaolin
Temple, Siguniang Mountains, Summer Palace, Taibai Mountain (Mt. Taibai),
Temple of Heaven, Terra-cotta Warriors, Wutaishan (Mt. Wutai), Wuyuan,
Wuyi Mountain, Yellow Mountain, Zhangjiajie, Zhujiajiao, Anhui Province,
Fujian Province, Gansu Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Autonomous
Region, Guizhou Province, Hainan Province,Hebei Province, Heilongjiang
Province, Henan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region, Jiangsu Province, Jaingxi Province, Jilin Province,
Liaoning Province, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, Shaanxi
Province, Shandong Province, Shanxi Province, Sichuan Province, Tibet
Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Yunnan Province, Zhejiang
Province, East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam
to the South; Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to the West; Russia
and Mongolia to the North and North Korea to the East. North-east -
Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang - Dongbei, the "rust belt",
North - Shandong, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin
- the Yellow River Basin area, historical heartland of China, North-west
- Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang - grasslands and deserts,
nomadic people, Islam, South-west - Tibet, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou,
Southern-central - Anhui, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi
- farming areas, South-east - Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, East - Jiangsu,
Shanghai, Zhejiang, Beijing, "2008 Olympics", Guangzhou, Guilin,
Chinese and foreign tourists, Hangzhou - silk industry, Kunming - capital
of Yunnan, Nanjing - "historic relics", Shanghai - riverside
scenery, Suzhou - "Venice of the East "for canals and gardens,
Xi'an - terminus of the ancient Silk Road, and home of the "terracotta
wariors" , "Great Wall of China" , Tibet, "Silk
Road" , "Hainan island" tropical paradise, "UNESCO
World Heritage sites". Yungang Grottoes (near Datong) in "Shanxi
Province" - "Buddhist carvings", Yangang Valley mountainsides,
"Mogao Caves" (near Dunhuang) in "Gansu province"
- "Dazu Rock Carvings" near Chongqing, "Longmen Grottoes"
Luoyang, "Forbidden City", Emperor, This article is about
Chinese civilization. For the modern political state using "China"
in its formal name and comprising Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau,
see People's Republic of China. For the modern political state using
"China" in its formal name and comprising Taiwan, Penghu,
Kinmen, and Matsu, see Republic of China. For other uses, see China
(disambiguation). Chinese characters. China, The Great Wall of China,
Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Transliterations, Kejia, Romanization,
Chûng-koet, Mandarin, Hanyu Pinyin, Zh?ngguó, Tongyong
Pinyin, Jhongguo, Wade-Giles, Chung-kuo, zh-zhongguo.ogg, Hokkien POJ,
Tiong-kok,Yue (Cantonese), Jyutping zung gwok, a cultural region, an
ancient civilization, East Asia.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, Central America, Nicaragua, Panamá, Pacific Ocean,
Caribbean Sea, Plains of the North, Guanacaste, Nicoya Peninsula, Central
Valley, Central Pacific, Caribbean Costa Rica, South Costa Rica, Cocos
Island National Park, Alajuela, "Juan Santamaría International
Airport", Cartago, Heredia , "Coffee plantations", Jacó
- Surfing paradise, Liberia, "Danuel Oduber International Airport",
beaches of Guanacaste, Pochote, "Whale Bay", Puntarenas, Puerto
Limón , "Caribbean side", Puntarenas - "Nicoya
Peninsula", Parismina - "Tortuguero Canals", Quepos -
"Central Pacific coast", "Manuel Antonio National Park".
San José, Tamarindo - "North Pacific coast", tourists,
Arenal Volcano, "active volcano", "Cahuita National Park",
"Chirripo National Park", "Corcovado National Park",
"Manuel Antonio National Park", "Pacuare River"
and "Protected Zone", Monteverde and "Santa Elena Cloud
Forest" Reserves, Tapanti National Park, wind surfing, surfing,
in the Tilaran area, rafting, fishing, scuba diving, kayaking, mountain
biking and boating, tours and itineraries to the active "Arenal
Volcano" and "Monteverde Cloud Forest"."The Pacific
coast", Puntarenas and Guanacaste, surfing in Central America.
Tamarindo, learn to surf, Playa del Coco, advanced surfers, "Witches
Rock" and "Ollie´s Point", On the "Caribbean
side", there are "beautiful beaches", southern Costa
Rica, Dominical and Pavones Beach. heavy waves. barrels, guaro, Hermossa,
"Surf Travel", Eco-Tourism, 1. Manuel Antonio National Park
Stunning tropical beaches, birds and wildlife, rich dense forestation,
easy accessibility and a plethora of things to do. Monteverde Cloud
Forest Reserve, mountain rainforest, animals and plants. Arenal Volcano
& Hot Springs, La Fortuna, Hot Springs, tropical paradise, Tamarindo
& Playa Langosta, ‘Gold Coast’, surfing destinations,
serious surfer. 'Beautiful beaches', water sports, fun in the sun. Drake
Bay & Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, biodiverse places
on earth. Drake Bay, ecotourism hot spot, one with nature. Jaco &
Playa Hermosa, Central Pacific Coast, Jaco and Playa Hermosa, topnotch
surf zones, consistent breaks all year round, experts as well as beginners.
Playa Hermosa, expert surfer, international surfing competition. Rincon
de la Vieja Volcano, eco-adventure haven, active volcano that is more
than a million years old. national park, dramatic sceneries, roaring
waterfalls, relaxing hot springs, bubbling mud pits and wonderful picnic
areas to enjoy, Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica’s largest and
only coral reef, the Parque Nacional Cahuita, lush coastal rainforests.
Tortuguero National Park, turtle breeding ground in the Caribbean, habitat
and nesting ground, marine turtles, meandering rivers and lovely lagoons,
this area is also home to the endangered West Indian manatee. Grecia
& Sarchi, highlands of San Jose, San Ramon, wooden handicrafts.
Egypt:
Abu Mena, Abu Simbel, Abu Simbel - Great Temple, Abu Simbel - Great
Temple - Reliefs, Abu Simbel - Great Temple Colossal Figures, Abu Simbel
- Great Temple Mural Reliefs, Abu Simbel - Small Temple / Temple of
Hathor, Abu Simbel - Small Temple Colossal Statues, Abydos - Temple
of Sethos I, Abydos - Temple of Sethos I - Reliefs, Abydos - Temple
of Sethos I Abydos King List, Akhmim - Colossal Statue, Alexandria;
El-Iskandariya, Amada - Rock Tomb of Pennut, Aswan, Asyut, Bahriya Oasis;
Wahet el-Bahnasa, Behbeit el-Hagara - Temple of Isis Reliefs, Beni Hasan,
Beni Hasan - Tomb of Beket, Beni Hasan - Tomb of Khnumhotep III - Wall
Paintings, Bigga, Cairo; Misr el-Qahira / Ei-Qahira, Cemetery of Deir
el-Medina - Tomb of Peshedu, Cemetery of Deir el-Medina - Tomb of lpuy,
Christian Cemetery of El-Bagawat, Dahshur - Bent Pyramid, Dahshur -
Northern Stone Pyramid, Dakhla Oasis; El-Dakhla, Deir el-Bahri - Mortuary
Temple of Mentuhotep II, Deir el-Bahri - Temple of Hathor Altar, Edfu
/ ldfu, El-Arish - Beach, El-Asasif Valley - Tomb of Pabasa, El-Kab,
El-Kab - Ruins of Ancient Nekhab, El-Kab - Temple of Amenophis III,
El-Lahun - Pyramid of Sesostris II, Esna, Fayyum, Gebel Musa - Views,
Giza - Ascent of the Pyramid of Cheops, Giza - Pyramid of Cheops,Giza
- Pyramid of Chephren, Giza - Sphinx, Harrania, Hurghada - Beaches,
Hurghada - Offshore, Hurghada / El-Ghardaka, Ismailia - Garden of the
Stelae, Khams el-Dinei - Church, Kharga - Temple of Hibis, Kharga Oasis,
Kharga Oasis, Temple of Nadura, Lisht, Lisht - Valley Temple, Luxor,
Mallawi, Medinet Habu - Temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu - Temple
of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu - Temple of Ramesses III - South Tower,
Medinet Madi - Temple of Sobek, Memphis - Colossal Figure of Ramesses
II, Memphis - Sphinx, Mersa Matruh / Marsa Matruh, Monastery of the
Syrians; Wadi Natrun - Deir el-Suryan, Natrun Valley; Wadi el-Natrun,
Necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga - Tomb of Roi, Necropolis of Saqqara,
Philae - Kiosk of Trajan, Philae - Temple of Hathor, Philae - Temple
of Isis, Philae - Temple of Isis, Philae - Temple of Isis First Pylon,
Philae - Temple of Isis Proper - Osiris Chambers, Pyramid of Hawara,
Pyramid of Meidum, Pyramid of Mycerinus, Pyramids of Abusir, Pyramids
of Dahshur, Pyramids of Giza, Qena, Ramesseum - First Court, Rock Temple
of Amada, Saqqara - Mastaba of Ptahhotep, Saqqara - Mastaba of Ti, Saqqara
- Mastaba of Ti Chapel Murals, Saqqara - Pyramid of Unas, Saqqara -
Serapeum, Saqqara - Step Pyramid; El-Haram el-Mudarrag, Saqqara - Tomb
of Ankh-me-hor, Saqqara, Tomb of Horemheb, Saqqara - Tomb of Mereruka,
Saqqara - Tomb of Nefer and Companions, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna - Subterranean
Chambers of Sennofer, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna - Tomb of Menne, Sheikh Abd
el-Qurna - Tomb of Nakht, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna - Tomb of Neferhotep,
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna - View from the Tombs, Sidi Abd el-Rahman - Beach,
Sinai Peninsula, Siwa Oasis, Springs of Moses; Ain Musa, St Antony's
Monastery - St Antony's Church, St Antony's Monastery; Deir Mar Antonios,
St Catherine's Monastery - Church of the Transfiguration, St Catherine's
Monastery - Gardens, St Catherine's Monastery - Library, St Catherine's
Monastery; Deir Sant Katerin, St Paul's Monastery; Deir Mar Bolos, Suez
Canal; Kanat el-Suweis, Tanis / Djanet, Temple Complex of Karnak, Temples
of Abydos, Thebes, Thebes - Colossi of Memnon, Thebes - Mortuary Temple
of Sethos I, Thebes - Necropolis, Thebes - Ramesseum, Thebes - Sheikh
Abd el-Qurna, Thebes - Temple of Deir el-Bahri, Thebes - Temple of Deir
el-Medina, Thebes - Valley of the Kings; Biban el-Muluk, Thebes - Valley
of the Queens, Valley of the Kings - Path, Valley of the Kings - Tomb
of Amenophis II, Valley of the Kings - Tomb of Merneptah, Valley of
the Kings - Tomb of Ramesses I, Valley of the Kings - Tomb of Ramesses
III, Valley of the Kings - Tomb of Ramesses VI, Valley of the Kings
- Tomb of Sethos I, Valley of the Kings - Tomb of Sethos I - Antechamber,
Valley of the Kings - Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Queens - Tomb
of Prince Amen-her-khopshef, Wadi Hof, Wadi Kom Ombo, Wadi el-Sebwa
- Temple of Sebwa, hieroglyphs, mummies, pyramids, Pyrmids, north-eastern
Africa, Cairo. Egypt, Asia, Sinai Peninsula. Israel, Jordan, "Saudi
Arabia", Red Sea, Sudan, Libya ,Mediterranean, River Nile, "Lower
Egypt ", "Nile delta", "Mediterranean coast",
Cairo, Alexandria, Middle Egypt, "Upper and Lower kingdoms",
" Upper Egypt", temple, Luxor, Aswan, "Lake Nasser",
"Western Desert" ,"Western Oases", "Red Sea
Coast" , Sinai, Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, Cairo, "Giza Pyramids",
the "Egyptian Museum" ,"Islamic architecture", Alexandria,
Aswan, Luxor, "Valley of the Kings", Memphis, Siwa, Hurghada,
Red Sea, Abu Simbel, Lake Nasser, Tell Basta (Bubastis) , Abu Simbel,
Lake Nasser, Tell Basta (Bubastis),Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Hurghada,
Sharm el-Sheikh, Alexandria, Mersa Matruh and Kharga oasis, the Pyramids,
the Egyptian Museum, "temples of Luxor", "West Bank",
"Valley of the Kings", "Library of Alexandria",
"Temples of Abu Simbel", Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey,
"Great Pyramid of Khufu" (Cheops), "Pyramid of Khafre"
(Chephren), "Pyramid of Menkaure" (Mycerinus), Sphinx and
the "Temple of the Sphinx", Tomb of Tutankhamun, "King
Tut", Tomb of Thutmose III, Tomb of Horemheb, Tomb of Merneptah,
Tomb of Ramesses VI
Athens:
Athens attractions, Poseidon at Sounion, sanctuaries in Attica. Sporadic,
prehistoric period, "Sounion Hiron",sanctuary of Sounion,
Gazi (Gaz) Factory Workshops, Gazi (Gaz) Factory, NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL
MUSEUM OF ATHENS, archaeological museum, Greek art. OLYMPIEION, mythical
Deucalion, prehistoric period and the cult of Zeus, historic times.
Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympeion), the largest temple in Greece, Parthenon,
Peisistratos, National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum,history
of Greek and Western European art, Acropolis Museum, sculptures of ancient
Greek art. sacred sculptures from the temple of Athena Polias on the
Acropolis, The Railway Museum of Athens, Greek Railways Organization.
THE PNYX, Pnyx, the place where the Assembly of the Athenians held its
meetings. Byzantine and Christian Museum, "Ilisia" mansion,
Duchess of Placentia, architect Stamatis Kleanthes. Aristotle Zachos.
HERODEION, Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Dionysus, Odeon of Herodes
Atticus, Herodeion. Odeon functions as a theatre, PANATHENAIC STADIUM,
Agra and Ardettos, over Ilissos river. Lykourgos, Great Panathinaea
Festivities. Herodes Atticus, The Athens Concert Hall or "Megaron".
Athens Concert Hall, superb acoustics, National Gardens or Vassilikos
Kipos - Royal Gardens, Greek capital. Greek Parliament, The Old Palace,
Τhe Museum of the ancient Agora, Stoa of Attalos, King Attalos II
of Pergamon, Lycabettus Hill, KERAMEIKOS, necropolis in Athens stretches
along Ermou Street, the Iera Pyli (Sacred Gate) and the Dipylon, public
buildings, impressive civilians graves and military, ZAPPEION, The Parliament
Building (Old Palace), Neoclassicism in Greece, The Vallianios National
Library "Neoclassical Trilogy" of the City of Athens: Academy
- University - Library. The War Museum of Athens was inaugurated, Greek
nation, The Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Municipal Library, The south
slope of the Acropolis, Odeion of Perikles, the sanctuary and theatre
of Dionysos, the choregic monuments, the Asklepieion, The National Historical
Museum , The Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece (HESG), relics
and documentary evidence, modern Greek history. ATHENS CITY HALL, austere
morphological elements. PLATO ACADEMY Academy, Academos or Ecademos.
Gymnasiums of Athens, The Academy of Athens, "Neoclassical Trilogy",
City of Athens: Academy - University - Library. New Palace - Presidential
Mansion architectural heritage, Ernst Ziller, Crown Prince Constantine,
The Museum of Popular Instruments - Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
(MELMOKE) Greek popular musical instruments The Nicholas P. Goulandris
Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art The Museum of Cycladic Art Cycladic
and Ancient Greek art Nicholas and Aikaterini Goulandris. The National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens ARCHAELOGICAL MUSEUM OF PIRAEUS
Piraeus Museum, NATIONAL THEATER Hadrian's Library in Athens, Corinthian-style
column row an, neo-classical composition. NAUTICAL MUSEUM, Nautical
Museum of Greece, nautical history of Greece, Greek painter BENAKI MUSEUM,
The Benaki Museum, Anthony Benaki, independent museum in Greece, Greek
museum, collector's love for his country, PHILOPAPPOS, Acropolis, hill
of the Muses, Athenians for Gaius Julius Antiochus Philopappos, Philopappos
Hill, ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF KERAMEIKOS, The museum of Kerameikos,
H. Johannes, Gustav Oberlaender, Boehringer brothers. AREIOS PAGOS,
The Areios Pagos (the Hill of Ares or Curses), Areopagus hill , council
of ancient Athens, council of nobles, judiciary body specialized in
cases of murder. OLD PARLIAMENT, Old Parliament Building, Stadiou Street,
statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis, Revolution of 1821, is also situated.
architectural jewel,, centre of Athens, historic building, OBSERVATORY
At Thisseion, on the hill of the Nymphs, a neoclassical building, 19th
century, first Observatory, founded in Greece, Balkans. Danish architect
Theophile Hansen with the financial aid of Georgios Sinas, ILIOU MELATHRONIliou
Melathron (Mansion) "Iliou Melathron" , Heinrich Schliemann,
the German archaeologist, surrounded by a garden embracing its three
sides. FRISSIRAS MUSEUMThe Frissiras Museum, Museum for Contemporary
European Painting in Greece, President of the Republic Constantine Stefanopoulos,
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)The National Technical
University of Athens, humanist architect Lysandros Kaftantzoglou , Athens
architectural traditions.Michail and Eleni Tossizza, Nikolaos Stournaris
and Georgios Averoff and ANCIENT AGORA, The Agora was the heart of ancient
Athens, the focus of political, commercial, administrative and social
activity, the religious and cultural centre, and the seat of justice.
CANELLOPOULOS MUSEUM, Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos, private collection
of Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos, Greek state. Michaleas, MUNICIPAL
GALLERY, The Municipal Gallery of Athens is housed in a neoclassical
building, on Koumoundourou Square, built on the plans of the architect
Panagis Kalkos. HERAKLEIDON, heart of Athens,,the evolution of Art.
EPIGRAPHICAL MUSEUM, Epigraphical Museum, National Archaeological Museum,
L.Lange and E.Ziller. ACROPOLIS The Acropolis hill (acro - edge, polis
- city), so called the "Sacred Rock" of Athens, most recognizable
monuments of the world. Greek culture, symbol of the city ROMAN AGORA
Roman Agora of Athens, spacious rectangular courtyard surrounded by
stoas, shops and storerooms. east, Ionic propylon and a west, Doric
propylon, known as the Gate of Athena Archegetis. JEWELLERY MUSEUM,
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum (ILJM) international jewelry studies.
Ilias Lalaounis, jeweler and goldsmith, French Academie des Beaux-Arts.
Acropolis,"high city", marble temples, goddess Athena Plaka,
Monastiraki and Thissio, neoclassical, shops and restaurants, ruins,
Kifissia, Kolonaki - cafes, boutiques and galleries, Omonia and Exarheia,
National Archeaological Museum, now somewhat revitalized by the metro,
Piraeus - the ancient port of Athens, Attica, Crete, Aegean Islands.
Psiri - trendy or alternative restaurants, cafés, bars, Syntagma
Square (Plateia Syntagmatos) - old Royal Palace, Syntagma Square. Ancient
Agora, Syntagma Square, Kerameikos, Zeus, Sparta, 300, Panathianiko
Stadium, Lycabettus Hill, Benaki, Sculpture, Greek, Greece, "Pink
Palace", Party, Beach, Cruise, History,
London:
United Kingdom, England, "Big Ben", "Tower Bridge","Tower
of London", "Ghost Tour", Parliment, Bukingham, Royal,
River Thames in South-East England, "Greater London", Central,
West End - theatres and shops, Chinatown, "Covent Garden"
- designer and alternative shopping, "Royal Opera House",
"Leicester Square - mainstream entertainment hubs. cinemas. Oxford
Street - high-street shopping, Soho - nightclubs and restaurants, the
heart London, Trafalgar Square" - churches, galleries and monuments,
"Bloomsbury", academic and intellectual, University of London's
constituent colleges, Clerkenwell, "City of London", historical,
and financial, core of the city, Holborn, Marylebone, Mayfair, South
Bank, artsy, river Thames, St James's, "British government",
"royal family", Diana, "Paddington Station", includes
Bayswater and Queensway, Chelsea, Kensington, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing,
Fulham, Hammersmith and "Shepherd's Bush", Finchley, Hampstead,
Hampstead garden suburb, Maida Vale and St John's Wood, Kilburn and
Wembley. Archway, Camden, "Crouch End", Islington and Wood
Green. galleries and bustling nightlife, "London 2012 Olympic Games".
Bethnal Green, Bow, Brick Lane, Clerkenwell, Docklands, Hackney, Mile
End, Poplar, Shoreditch, Stepney, Stratford, Walthamstow and Whitechapel,
Battersea, Brixton, Clapham, Kingston, Putney, Richmond, Wimbledon,
Streatham, Tooting, Twickenham and Wandsworth, Greenwich, Bromley, Croydon,
Deptford, Dulwich, Lewisham and Penge. "London Eye", Wimbleton,
tennis, "Hyde Park" Showing, St Mary Axe 'the Gherkin' distinctive
skyscraper, NatWest Tower. Big Ben or the London Eye. Abney Park Cemetery
'the poor man's Highgate', Admiralty Arch, Trafalgar Square, Edwardian
monument, a triple-arched stone entrance , Aston Webb, Buckingham Palace,
royal processions and state visits,Albert Memorial, Queen Victoria's
German husband Albert Alexandra Park & Palace, Crystal Palace, Alexandra
Palace 'Ally Pally', multipurpose conference and exhibition centre,
indoor ice-skating rink, Phoenix Bar & Beer Garden. All Souls ChurchA
Nash, Regent St, delightful church, circular columned porch, needlelike
spire, Greek temple, churches in central London. All-Hallows-by-the-Tower
All Hallow, Samuel Pepys, Great Fire of London, WWII. copper spire a
Wren church in Cannon St, master woodcarver Grinling Gibbons, Apsley
House (Wellington Museum), 'No 1, London'. Robert Adam for Baron Apsley,
Duke of Wellington, Wellington Museum. Apsley House (Wellington Museum)
Arsenal Emirates Stadium, Bank of England Museum, Soane's original stock
office, Bankside Gallery, Bankside Gallery, Royal Watercolour Society,
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. watercolours, prints and engravings.
Artists' Perspectives, Banqueting House, Tudor Whitehall Palace, Renaissance
building, Inigo Jones, Barbican, Barbican, London's, three cinemas,
two theatres which feature touring drama, Barbican Gallery, Battersea
Park, Henry Moore sculptures and Peace Pagoda, Hiroshima Day, King Charles
I, Duke of Wellington, Battersea Power Station, Pink Floyd's, four smokestacks,
Giles Gilbert Scott, BBC Television Centre, TV production, BBC's TV,
TVC, BBC staff, BFI South Bank, British Film Institute. NFT, Mediatheque,
BFI archive, well-stocked film and bookshop, stand-up piano. Borough
Market 'London's Larder', food-lovers, tourist destination. Bramah Museum
of Tea & Coffee, Holland and England, China; nearby Butler's Wharf,
Brick Lane, Brick Lane, Bengali community, Banglatown, curry and balti
houses intermingled with sari and fabric shops, Indian cookery stores,
streetwear boutiques. Brit Oval, Surrey County Cricket Club, the Brit
Oval is London's second cricketing venue after Lord's. Surrey matches,
international test matches. cricket-lover John Major, Britain at War
Experience, Tooley St railway arch, the Britain at War Experience, WWII
had on daily life, nostalgia of the war generation, mock Anderson air-raid
shelter, simulated sounds of warning sirens and bombers flying overhead,
British Library, British Library, King's Cross and Euston Stations,
Colin St John Wilson's, straight lines of red brick,Prince Charles 'secret-police
building', British Museum, world's oldest and finest museums, royal
physician Hans Sloane's 'cabinet of curiosities', seven million items,
Broadcasting House, Broadcasting House, BBC began radio broadcasting,
BBC's radio output, BBC programmes, Shepherd's Bush, Brompton Cemetery,
London's vast population, Fulham Rd and Old Brompton Rd. St Peter's
in Rome. Emmeline Pankhurst, Beatrix Potter's characters. Brompton Oratory,
London Oratory and the Oratory of St Philip Neri, Roman Catholic church,
Italian baroque style, marble, candles and statues, Tony Blair, Buckingham
Palace, Buckingham House, royal family's London lodgings, St James's
Palace, Queen Victoria Memorial, Green Park. Buddhapadipa Temple, Wimbledon
Village, Thai temple Bangkok. Buddhists in Britain, The wat (temple
compound), bot (consecrated chapel) Burgh House, Queen Anne, Hampstead
Museum of local history, Buttery Garden Café, Cabinet War Rooms
& Churchill Museum, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, cabinet and
generals, WWII, 'the greatest Briton'.deprivation and duty. 'We will
fight them on the beaches', Churchill Museum. Camden Market, Camden
Lock, Grand Union Canal, Camden Town tube station to Chalk Farm tube
station, tourist-oriented, Canary Wharf Tower, Cenotaph, The Cenotaph
(Greek for 'empty tomb'), British and Commonwealth victims, two world
wars. Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), Old Bailey leaves watching
a TV courtroom drama for dust. 'The Old Bailey', crime and notoriety.
Kray twins and Oscar Wilde, Changing of the Guard, 'must see', The old
guard (Foot Guards of the Household Regiment), Buckingham Palace, bright
red uniforms and bearskin hats, marching soldiers, Charterhouse, Carthusian
monastery, whose centrepiece is a Tudor hall with a restored hammer-beam
roof. Great Chamber, where Queen Elizabeth I stayed on numerous occasions.
Chelsea Football Club, London's richest football club, Chelsea, Chelsea
Old Church, monument to Thomas More, the former chancellor (and now
Roman Catholic saint), lost his head, Henry VIII's, Church of England.
Chelsea Physic Garden, Apothecaries' Society, medicinal plants and healing.
rare trees, shrubs and plants, Chiswick House, Palladian pavilion with
an octagonal dome and colonnaded portico. Earl of Burlington, tour of
Italy, Roman. Lord Burlington library and art collection. Churchill
Museum & Cabinet War Rooms, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, WWII,
'the greatest Briton'. Cabinet War Rooms, City Hall, Glass-clad City
Hall, Sir Norman Foster and Ken Shuttleworth, 'London Photomat', Clapham
Common, Clapham neighbourhood. Graham Greene,The End of the Affair and
Ian McEwan, outdoor summer events. Clarence House, Prince Charles, Clarence
House Clink Prison Museum, detain debtors, whores, thieves and even
actors, 'in the clink' (in jail). County Hall, County Hall, art museum
and gallery, the vast London aquarium and two hotels. Cutty Sark, Greenwich
landmark, great clipper ships to sail between China and England. Dennis
Severs' House, American eccentric who restored and turned it into what
he called a 'still-life drama'. 'family' of Huguenot silk weavers, Spitalfields.
Design Museum, Sir Terence Conran, Manolo Blahnik shoes; Formula One
racing cars, Velcro - and Dickens House Museum, The great Victorian
novelist, trail of blue plaques. four-storey house, Kent. Docklands,
Docklands. Sir Norman Foster's sleek Canary Wharf Underground station,
Cesar Dr Johnson's House, Georgian city mansion. Gough Sq, Samuel Johnson,
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life'. Dulwich Picture
Gallery, public art gallery, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sir John Soane,
Dulwich College' , paintings by Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Reynolds,
Gainsborough, Poussin, Lely, Van Dyck and others. Eltham Palace, Art
Deco, Eltham Palace, Courtauld House on its grounds. Estorick Collection
of Modern Italian Art, Italian art, futurist painting, Georgian house,
Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Ardengo Soffici.
classic Italian film posters. Fan Museum, museum entirely devoted to
fans, ivory, tortoiseshell, peacock-feather and folded-fabric examples
alongside kitsch battery-powered versions and huge ornamental Welsh
fans. Fenton House, Hampstead, merchant's residence, walled garden with
roses and an orchard, porcelain and keyboard instruments - harpsichord
played by Handel - needlework pictures and original Georgian furniture.
Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum, artillery has developed through
the ages, The History Gallery traces, catapults to nuclear warheads,
artillery gunners from WWI to Bosnia, Florence Nightingale Museum, St
Thomas's Hospital, Florence Nightingale nurses to Turkey in 1854 during
the Crimean War. improve conditions for the soldiers, set up a training
school for nurses at St Thomas's, Fulham Palace, bishops of London,
architectural styles set in beautiful gardens, longest moat in England.
Tudor gateway, Fuller's Griffin Brewery, bitter, comprehensive tasting
session, last working brewery in London. Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch's
ivy-clad series of almshouses with a herb garden, domestic interiors,
Elizabethan times right through to the end of the 19th century. Golden
Hinde, Sir Francis Drake's famous Tudor ship, five-deck galleon, Drake,
circumnavigate the globe. Great Fire Memorial, corpulent boy, 'In memory
put up for the fire of London occasioned by the sin of gluttony 1666'.
busy bakery. Great Mosque, Brick Lane. New French Church for the Huguenots,
Methodist chapel, Great Synagogue for Jewish refugees from Russia and
central Europe, Great Mosque, Green Park, St James's, this park has
trees and open space, sunshine and shade, though no flower beds - duelling
ground, vegetable garden, fireworks were held in the Green Park to celebrate
peace; Handel, music that accompanied them. Greenwich Foot Tunnel, crossing
beneath the River Thames. Greenwich Park, London's largest and loveliest
parks, with a grand avenue, wide-open spaces, a rose garden and impressive
views across the River Thames to the Docklands from atop the hill. Le
Nôtre, who landscaped the palace gardens of Versailles for Louis
XIV. It contains several historic sights, a teahouse, a café
and the Wilderness - a deer park in the southeast corner, Guards Museum,
Change of Guards, guards in formation outside the museum for their march
up to Buckingham Palace. five regiments of foot guards and their role
in military campaigns from Waterloo, Charles II Guildhall, Square Mile,
the Guildhall, secular stone structure to have survived the Great Fire
of 1666, severely damaged both then and during the Blitz of 1940.Guildhall
Art Gallery, gallery of the City of London, great collection of paintings
of London, darkened basement, where the archaeological remains of Roman
London's amphitheatre, or coliseum, lie. Ham House, 'Hampton Court in
miniature', Ham House, Earl of Dysart, 'whipping boy' to Charles I,
Hampstead Heath, Sprawling Hampstead Heath, rolling woodlands and meadows,
four - from the city of London. woods, hills and meadows, Parliament
Hill, Hampton Court Palace, history is palpable, from the kitchens and
grand living quarters of Henry VIII to the spectacular gardens complete
with a 300-year-old maze. British history. Handel House Museum, George
Frederick Handel, German-born composer was in residence, complete with
artworks borrowed from several museums. Highgate Cemetery, Most famous
as the final resting place of Karl Marx and other notable mortals, Highgate
Cemetery, Victorian graves, grave of Marx. Herbert Spencer - Marx and
Spencer, Highgate Wood, With more than 28 hectares of ancient woodland,
this park is a wonderful spot for a walk any time of the year. It also
has a huge clearing in the centre for sports, a popular playground and
nature trail for kids and a range of activities - from falconry to bat-watching
- throughout the year. HMS Belfast, Moored in the Thames opposite the
newly laid-out Potters Fields Park, HMS Belfast large, light cruiser,
Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff, it served in WWII, most noticeably
in the Normandy landings, and during the Korean War. Hogarth's House,
artist and social commentator William Hogarth, caricatures and engravings,
including such famous works as the haunting Gin Lane , Marriage à
la Mode and a copy of A Rake's Progress . Holborn Viaduct, This fine
iron bridge was built in 1869 in an effort to smarten up the area, link
Holborn and Newgate St, four bronze statues represent Commerce and Agriculture,
Science and Fine Arts, Horniman Museum, collection of wealthy pack rat
tea merchant Frederick John Horniman, who had the Art Nouveau building
with clock tower and mosaics specially designed, dusty stuffed walrus
and voodoo altars from Haiti and Benin to a mock-up of a Fijian reef
and a wonderful collection of concertinas. Horse Guards Parade, Buckingham
Palace's Changing of the Guard, Household Cavalry royal palaces (opposite
the Banqueting House). Queen's official birthday, the Trooping of the
Colour, House Mill, trio of mills that once stood on this small island
in the River Lea, the House Mill, sluice tidal mill, grinding grain
for a nearby distillery, East End industry. Houses of Parliament, The
House of Commons and House of Lords are housed here in the sumptuous
Palace of Westminster. Charles Barry, assisted by interior designer
Augustus Pugin, neo-Gothic style was all the rage. The most famous feature
outside the palace is the Clock Tower, commonly known as Big Ben. Hunterian
Museum, pioneering surgeon John Hunter, slightly morbid, little-known,
yet fantastic London museum. Among the more bizarre items on display
are the skeleton of a giant, half of mathematician Charles Babbage's
brain, and, Winston Churchill's dentures. Hyde Park, London's legendary
park spreads itself over a whopping, manicured gardens and wild, deserted
expanses of overgrown grass. Spring prompts the gorgeous Rose Gardens
into vivacious bloom, and summers are full of sunbathers, picnickers,
Frisbee-throwers and general London populace who drape themselves across
the green. Imperial War Museum,15-inch naval guns outside the front
entrance to what was once Bethlehem Royal Hospital, Bedlam, sombre,
thoughtful museum. Most of its exhibits are given over to exploring
the human and social cost of conflict. Inner Temple, Duck under the
archway next to Prince Henry's Room and you'll find yourself in the
Inner Temple, a sprawling complex of some of the finest buildings on
the river. The church was originally planned and built by the secretive
Knights Templar. At the weekend you'll usually have to enter from the
Victoria Embankment. Institute of Contemporary Arts, the ICA is as untraditional
as it gets. This is where Picasso and Henry Moore had their first UK
shows, cutting and controversial edge of the British arts world. experimental
progressive radical obscure films, music and club nights, photography,
art, theatre, music, lectures, multimedia works and book readings. Jewel
Tower, The Jewel Tower, treasury of Edward III, medieval Palace of Westminster.
history and procedures of Parliament. House of Commons. Jewish Museum,
Judaism and Judaistic religious practices, Ceremonial Art Gallery, Jewish
community in Britain from the time of the Normans to the present day
through paintings, photographs and artefacts in the History Gallery.
Karl Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell has quite a radical history.
An area of Victorian-era slums (the so-called Rookery), it was settled
by mainly Italian immigrants in the 19th century. Modern Italy's founding
father Garibaldi, European exile, Lenin edited 17 editions of the Russian-language
Bolshevik newspaper Iskra (Spark). Keats House, A stone's throw from
the lower reaches of the heath, this elegant Regency house was home
to the golden boy of the Romantic poets. Keats wrote his most celebrated
poem, Ode to a Nightingale , whilst sitting under a plum tree (now replaced).
Kennington Park, rabble-rousing tradition. common, where all were permitted
entry, it acted as a speakers' corner for South London. After the great
Chartist rally, where millions of working-class people turned out to
demand the same voting rights as the middle classes, the royal family
promptly fenced off and patrolled the common as a park. Kensal Green
Cemetery, Thackeray and Trollope, handsome Victorian cemetery, Kensington
Gardens. Princess Diana's memory, with a playground, a walk and now
a fountain dedicated to her. Art is another feature - George Frampton's
famous statue of Peter Pan is close to the lake, beside an attractive
area known as Flower Walk. There are also sculptures by Henry Moore
and Jacob Epstein here. Kensington Palace, Diana, Princess of Wales,
Kensington Palace's lawn was covered with a mountain of flowers following
the death of the 'people's princess' ,princess with unprecedented sentimentality.
Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, Kenwood House, neoclassical mansion
stands in a glorious sweep of landscaped gardens leading down to a picturesque
lake. The house was remodelled by Robert Adam in the 18th century; his
Great Stairs and the library are especially fine. Today it contains
paintings by the likes of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Turner, Hals, Vermeer
and Van Dyck. Kew Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, popular visitors'
attractions in London, lawns, formal gardens and greenhouses has delights
to offer. Kinetica -clear glass walls of the UK's first museum dedicated
to kinetic, electric and magnetic art. Whether it's a robot playing
drums or a giant inflatable figure 'squirming' on the floor, King's
Road, Charles II set up a Chelsea love nest here for him and his mistress,
an orange-seller turned actress at the Drury Lane Theatre by the name
of Nell Gwyn. Heading back to Hampton Court Palace of an evening, Charles
would make use of a farmer's track that inevitably came to be known
as the King's Rd. The street begins at Sloane Sq, to the north of which
runs Sloane St, celebrated for its designer boutiques. Lambeth Palace
- redbrick Tudor gatehouse beside the church of St Mary-at-Lambeth leads
to Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Leadenhall Market, Victorian London, a visit to this dimly lit, covered
mall is a minor time-travelling experience. market on this site since
the Roman era, but the architecture that survives is all cobblestones
and late-19th-century ironwork; e Diagon Alley in Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone. Leighton House -quiet street near Holland Park,
George Aitchison, Lord Leighton, a painter belonging to the Olympian
movement. Linley Sambourne House, Kensington High St, Punch political
cartoonist and amateur photographer Linley Sambourne, typical home of
a well-to-do Victorian family: dark wood, Turkish carpets and rich stained
glass. Lloyd's of London, world's leading insurance brokerstrains, planes
and ships to cosmonauts' lives and film stars' legs, stainless steel
external ducting and staircases of the Lloyd's of London building. French
free climber, or 'spiderman', Alain Robert London Canal Museum, housed
in an old ice warehouse (with a deep well where the frozen commodity
was stored) Regent's Canal, the ice business and the development of
ice cream through models, photographs, exhibits and archive documentaries.
London Dungeon, Tooley St railway bridge, the London Dungeon, Madame
Tussauds Chamber of Horrors frightening enough. London Eye, you can
see 25 miles in every direction from the top of the world's tallest
Ferris wheel. To the west lies Windsor, while to the east the sea. In
between, you have the chance to pick out familiar landmarks. A ride
in one of the wheel's 32 glass-enclosed gondolas holding up to 25 people
is something you really can't miss, London Transport Museum, buses from
the horse age until today, plus taxis, trains and all other modes of
transport) and more new collections, more display space and a 120-seat
lecture theatre for educational purposes. You can get your Mind the
Gap boxer shorts and knickers at the museum shop. London Wetland Centre,
inland wetland projects, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Victorian reservoirs,
London Zoo, these zoological gardens are among the oldest in the world.
This is where the word 'zoo' originated. London Zoo, conservation, education
and breeding, with fewer species and more spacious conditions. Lord's
Cricket Ground - 'home of cricket' is a must for any devotee of this
peculiarly English game: the ground and facilities, which takes in the
famous Long Room, where members watch the games surrounded by portraits
of cricket's great and good, and a museum featuring evocative memorabilia
that will appeal to fans old and new. Madame Tussauds - wax celebrities,
movie stars and fantastically lifelike figures of the Windsors, you're
in for a treat. Marble Arch, John Nash, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace,
royal manor. London's grandest bedsit. Marble Hill House, Palladian
love nest, originally built for George II's mistress Henrietta Howard
and later occupied by Mrs Fitzherbert, the secret wife of George IV.
The poet Alexander Pope had a hand in designing the park, which stretches
down to the Thames. Henrietta, early-Georgian furniture. Michelin House
- Art Nouveau Michelin House was built for Michelin, François
Espinasse, upmarket fish and flower stalls, modern stained glass, tiles
showing early-20th-century cars. Mile End Park - Burdett and Grove Rds
and the Grand Union Canal. Piers Gough's 'green bridge' Mile End Rd.
Millennium Bridge - 'wobbly' bridge, the Millennium Bridge, 10,000 people
a day…St Paul's Cathedral through the Perspex decking at the
bridge's southern end. Museum in Docklands,200-year-old warehouse once
used to store sugar, rum and coffee, this museum offers a comprehensive
overview of the entire history of the Thames from the arrival of the
Romans, Museum Of Immigration & Diversity, Huguenot town house,
housed a prosperous family of weavers, home to waves of immigrants including
Polish, Irish and Jewish families, museum of immigration and diversity,
whose carefully considered exhibits are aimed at both adults and children,
Museum of London, Museum of London is one of the capital's best museums
Anglo-Saxon village to global financial centre. Museum of Rugby, rugby-lovers,
is tucked behind the eastern stand of the stadium. 10,000 items related
to the sport. National Army Museum, next door to the Royal Hospital,
history of the British army from the perspective of the men and women,
horrors and perceived glories of war, National Gallery, Western European
paintings on display, the National Gallery is one of the largest galleries
in the world. But it's the quality of the works, and not the quantity,
that impresses most. history of art. National Maritime Museum, this
museum designed to tell the long and convoluted history of Britain as
a seafaring nation is the most impressive sight in Greenwich. From the
moment you step through the entrance to this magnificent neoclassical
building you'll be won over. And it just gets better as you progress
through the glass-roofed Neptune Court into the rest of this three-storey
building. National Portrait Gallery, Excellent for putting faces to
names over the last five centuries of British history, the gallery houses
a primary collection of some 10,000 works, which are regularly rotated,
among them the museum's first acquisition, the famous 'Chandos' portrait
of Shakespeare. Natural History Museum, Victorian pursuit of collecting
and cataloguing. Life Galleries, Cromwell Rd, Victorian gentleman scientist.
blue and sand-coloured brick and terracotta, Alfred Waterhouse, diplodocus
dinosaur skeleton in the entrance hall. New London Architecture, A large
model of the capital highlights the new building areas, shows the extent
of the 2012 Olympics plans and various neighbourhood regeneration programmes.
No 10 Downing St, British prime ministers have it pretty good postcode-wise.
Number 10 has been the official office of British leaders since 1732,
when George II presented No 10 to Robert Walpole, and since refurbishment
in 1902 it's also been the PM's official London residence. As Margaret
Thatcher, a grocer's daughter, famously put it, the PM 'lives above
the shop' here, No 2 Willow Rd, Fans of modern architecture will want
to swing past this property, the central house in a block of three,
designed by the 'structural rationalist' Ernö Goldfinger. artworks
by Henry Moore, Max Ernst and Bridget Riley. O2 (Millennium Dome, O2
(renamed from the Millennium Dome in 2005) Tutankhamun and the Golden
Age of the Pharaohs., Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret,
narrow and rickety 32-step tower of St Thomas Church, focuses on the
nastiness of 19th-century hospital treatment. The garret was used by
the apothecary of St Thomas's Hospital to store medicinal herbs and
now houses an atmospheric medical museum delightfully hung with bunches
of herbs that soften the impact of the horrible devices displayed in
the glass cases. Old Royal Naval College, the Painted Hall and the chapel
Greenwich Tourist Information Centre in the Pepys Building. Christopher
Wren naval hospital view of the river from the Queen's House, Inigo
Jones' , Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Egyptian, most impressive
collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. Behind
glass - and amid an atmosphere of academia - are exhibits ranging from
fragments of pottery to the world's oldest dress (2800 BC). Photographers'
Gallery, O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects. Piccadilly Circus, Together
with Big Ben and Trafalgar Sq, this is postcard London. And despite
the stifling crowds and racing midday traffic, the flashing ads and
buzzing liveliness of Piccadilly Circus always make it exciting to be
in London. The circus looks its best at night, when the flashing advertisement
panels really shine against the dark sky. Pollock's Toy Museum, Simultaneously
creepy and mesmerising, this museum is aimed at both kids and adults.
You walk in through the museum shop laden with excellent wooden toys
and various games, and start your exploration by climbing up a rickety
narrow staircase. Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, Queen's Chapel,
contemporary royals from Princess Diana to the Queen Mother - Inigo
Jones in the Palladian style post-Reformation, Roman Catholic worship.
Queen's Gallery, Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, furniture and jewellery,
royals over 500 years. John Nash as a conservatory. It was converted
into a chapel for Victoria, Queen's House, 'House of Delight', Palladian
building by architect Inigo Jones after he returned from Italy, Turners,
Holbeins, Hogarths and Gainsboroughs. Ragged School Museum, Ragged School
Museum, a combination of mock Victorian schoolroom - with hard wooden
benches and desks, slates, chalk, inkwells and abacuses - on the 1st
floor, and social history museum below. 'Ragged' was a Victorian term
used to refer to pupils' usually torn, dirty and dishevelled clothes.
Ranger's House, Georgian villa, Greenwich Park, once housed the park's
ranger. works of art (medieval and Renaissance paintings, porcelain,
silverware, tapestries etc) amassed by one Julius Wernher, a German-born
railway engineer's son who struck it rich in the diamond fields of South
Africa, Red House, From the outside, this redbrick house built by Victorian
designer William Morris in 1860 conjures up a gingerbread house in stone.
The nine rooms open to the public bear all the elements of the 'Arts
and Crafts' style to which Morris adhered - a bit of Gothic art here,
some religious symbolism there. Regent's Park, London's many parks,
Regent's was createdby John Nash, he could build palaces for the aristocracy.
buildings along the Outer Circle, and in particular from the stuccoed
Palladian mansions he built on Cumberland Tce. Richmond Park, At just
over 1000 hectares (the largest urban parkland in Europe), Richmond
Park, formal gardens, ancient oaks to unsurpassed views of central London,
several roads that cut up the rambling wilderness, making the park an
excellent spot for a quiet walk or picnic, even in summer when Richmond's
riverside can be heaving. Rose Theatre, The Rose, for which Christopher
Marlowe and Ben Jonson wrote their greatest plays and in which Shakespeare
learned his craft, is unique in that its original 16th-century foundations
have been unearthed. They were discovered in 1989 beneath an office
building at Southwark Bridge and given a protective concrete cover.
Administered by the Globe Theatre, the Rose is open to the public only
when matinees are being performed at the Globe Theatre. Royal Academy
of Arts, Britain's first art school, free art, thanks to the John Madejski's
Fine Rooms, where drawings ranging from Constable, Reynolds, Gainsborough
and Turner to Hockney. Royal Albert Hall, This huge, domed, redbrick
amphitheatre adorned with a frieze of Minton tiles is Britain's most
famous concert venue. The home of the BBC's Promenade Concerts (or 'Proms')
every summer, it was ironically never meant to be a concert venue. Instead,
this 1871 memorial to Queen Victoria's husband was intended as a hall
of arts and sciences. Royal Courts of Justice, Strand joins Fleet St,
gargantuan melange of Gothic spires, pinnacles and burnished Portland
stone, designed by aspiring cathedral builder GE Street. Royal Geographical
Society, Royal Albert Hall, headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society,
Queen Anne-style redbrick edifice (1874), explorers David Livingstone
and Ernest Shackleton outside. Exhibition Rd. Royal Hospital Chelsea,
Christopher Wren, shelter for ex-servicemen. housed hundreds of war
veterans, Chelsea Pensioners. They're fondly regarded as national treasures,
and cut striking figures in the dark-blue greatcoats (in winter) or
scarlet frock coats (in summer) that they wear on ceremonial occasions.
Royal Mews, South of the palace, the Royal Mews started life as a falconry
but is now a working stable looking after the royals' immaculately groomed
horses, along with the opulent vehicles the monarchy uses for getting
from A to B. Highlights include the stunning gold coach of 1762, which
has been used for every coronation since that of George III, and the
Glass Coach of 1910, used for royal weddings. Royal Observatory, Charles
II had the Royal Observatory built on a hill in the middle of the Greenwich
Park, establish longitude at sea. The Octagon Room, designed by Wren,
and the nearby Sextant Room are where John Flamsteed, the first astronomer
royal, made his observations and calculations. Royal Opera House, On
the northeastern flank of the piazza is the gleaming, redeveloped -
and practically new - Royal Opera House. Unique 'behind the scenes'
tours take you through the venue, and let you experience the planning,
excitement and hissy fits that take place before a performance at one
of the world's busiest opera houses. As it's a working theatre, plans
can change so you'd best call ahead. Of course, the best way to enjoy
it is by seeing a performance. Science Museum, progressive and accessible
museums of its kind, interactive and educational exhibits, informative
and entertaining, every age group. Serpentine Gallery, tea pavilion
in the midst of the leafy Kensington Gardens, Damien Hirst, Andreas
Gursky, Louise Bourgeois, Gabriel Orozco and Tomoko Takahashi, natural
light onto sculpture and interactive displays. Serpentine Lake, Hyde
Park is separated from Kensington Gardens by Serpentine lake, Westbourne
RiverAt Christmas, it's the site of a brass-balls swimming race, rent
pedalos. solar ferry going veeerry slowly from the boathouse to the
Lido Café. Shakespeare's Globe, Shakespeare's Globe reconstructed
Globe Theatre exhibition hall, Rose Theatre. exhibition focuses on Elizabethan
London and stagecraft, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Victoriana, deerstalkers,
burning candles, flickering grates, waxworks of Professor Moriarty and
'the Man with the Twisted Lip'. Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir John Soane's
Museum, atmospheric and fascinating sights in London. Sir John Soane
effects and curiosities, exquisite and eccentric taste. Smithfield Market,
Smithfield is central London's meat market. smooth field where animals
could be grazed, notorious St Bartholomew's fair, where witches were
traditionally burned at the stake, Scottish Independence leader William
Wallace was executed, Somerset House, Passing beneath the arch towards
this splendid Palladian masterpiece, it's hard to believe that the magnificent
courtyard in front of you, with its 55 dancing fountains, was a car
park for tax collectors up until a spectacular refurbishment in 2000.
William Chambers designed the house in 1775 for royal societies and
it now contains three fabulous museums. Somerset House Museums, Courtauld
Institute of Art impressionism and post-impressionism, with works by
Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Matisse, Renoir and Van Gogh.
The Hermitage Rooms St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Southwark
Cathedral, atmospheric retrochoir, Priory of St Mary Overie (from 'St
Mary over the Water'). Victorian. Speakers' Corner, oratorical acrobatics
and soapbox ranting. demonstrators can assemble without police permission,
demonstrate against the Sunday Trading Bill before Parliament. Spencer
House, Spencer House first Earl Spencer, an ancestor of Princess Diana,
Palladian Lord Rothschild, St Andrew Holborn, Holborn Circus, rebuilt
by Wren, St Bartholomew-the-Great, Norman church, monastery of Augustinian
Canons, Smithfield King Henry VIII Norman arches, weathered and blackened
stone, the dark wood carvings and the low lighting. St Bride's, Fleet
Street, Rupert Murdoch Wapping 'the journalists' church'. John McCarthy
and Terry Anderson, St Clement Danes, St Clements - St Clements Eastcheap
in the City - Luftwaffe - allied airmen. St George's Bloomsbury, Nicholas
Hawksmoor, Corinthian capitals, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. George I
in Roman dress. St Giles-in-the-Fields, BCity and Westminster, St Giles
church leprosy hospital. St James's Palace, Tudor gatehouse of St James's
Palace, Henry VIII St James's St official residence of kings and queens
foreign ambassadors Court of St James, tea and biscuits served at Buckingham
Palace. St James's Park, smallest but most gorgeous of London's parks.
views of the London Eye, Westminster, St James's Palace, Carlton Terrace
and Horse Guards Parade, and the view of Buckingham Palace from the
footbridge spanning St James's Park Lake. St James's Piccadilly, Christopher
Wren Great Fire warm and elegant user-friendliness. The spire, although
designed by Wren, was added only in 1968. St John's Gate, medieval gate
cutting across St John's Lane Crusades, the Knights of St John of Jerusalem
Clerkenwell they established a priory, St John's Smith Square, Thomas
Archer in 1728 Fifty New Churches Act, St Katharine's Dock, cafés
and restaurants, St Katharine's Dock Tower Bridge or the Tower of London.
shops and a popular pub called the Dickens Inn opulent luxury yachts
in the marina. St Lawrence Jewry, Sir Christopher Wren City of London,
St Martin-in-the-Fields, The 'royal parish church' is a delightful fusion
of classical and baroque styles, St Pancras Chambers, Victorian Gothic
masterpiece Houses of Parliament. St Pancras' train station and with
the adjacent Eurostar Terminal George Gilbert Scott St Pancras International,
I King's Cross St Pancras station, fabulously imposing Victorian Gothic
masterpiece, hotel by the renowned architect George Gilbert Scott, St
Paul's Cathedral, Ludgate Hill, Sir Christopher Wren's masterwork, St
Peter's Church, Norman church Georgian box pews, Staple Inn, Staple
Inn Chancery Inns of CourtInstitute of Actuaries, Sunday Up Market &
Truman Brewery, The Old Truman Brewery shops, bars and a Sunday barbecue
along Dray Walk, Up Market, Spitalfields Market young designer fashion,
Sutton House, Tudor noblemen such as Thomas Sutton, founder of the Charterhouse
almshouse, living in 'ackney, but as East London's oldest surviving
house National Trust, Syon House, Kew Gardens, Syon House medieval abbey
named after Mt Zion, but in 1542 Henry VIII Bridgettine nuns, Tate Britain,
Tate Britain Tate Modern, collection of British art, Tate Modern, Carl
Höller's funfair-like slides, Olafur Eliasson's participatory The
Weather Project , both in the vast Turbine Hall and poked holes in its
collection. London's most visited sight. Temple Churchwalls of the Temple,
built by the legendary Knights Templar, protect pilgrims travelling
to and from Jerusalem. older headquarters in Holborn. Thames Flood Barrier,
Thames Flood Barrier is in place to protect London from flooding, rising
sea levels and surge tides, consists of 10 movable gates anchored to
nine concrete piers, each as tall as a five-storey building. The Garden
Museum, Kew Gardens, Museum of Garden History church of St Mary-at-Lambeth
seriously green-thumbed. charming knot garden, formal garden, with topiary
hedges intricate, twirling design. Tower Bridge, Big Ben as London's
most recognisable symbol, Tower Bridge neo-Gothic towers and blue suspension
struts revolutionary bascule (seesaw) mechanism, Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Park, Magnificent Seven, Highgate and Abney Park in Stoke Newington
act of Parliament London's rapid population growth turned into a park
and nature reserve. Tower of London, Tower of London, murder and political
skulduggery have reigned as much as kings and queens, Trinity Buoy Wharf,
London's only lighthouse, Michael Faraday Canary Wharf. Container City,
web designers, architects and other creative tenants even have their
own balconies. Tyburn Convent, Tyburn Tree gallows where many Catholics
were executed place of Catholic pilgrimage. Tyburn Tree, Marble Arch
infamous Tyburn Tree,dragged from the Tower of London. V&A Museum
Of Childhood, Victorian-era building Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) award for outstanding design, antique doll houses, model trains,
teddy bears and other toys arranged thematically. Victoria & Albert
Museum, V&A, give yourself plenty of time, The Museum of Manufactures,
decorative art and design, with four million objects collected over
the years from Britain and around the globe. Victoria Park, Mile End
Park affords, Grove Rd, Victoria Park. lakes, fountains, a bowling green,
tennis courts, a deer park, East End's first public park, MP presented
Queen Victoria, Vinopolis, Vinopolis, Victorian railway vaults in Bankside,
red, white and rosé. Wallace Collection, London's finest small
gallery the Wallace Collection Italianate mansion paintings, porcelain,
artefacts and furniture Sir Richard Wallace the centre of London. Wandsworth
Common, Clapham, Wandsworth Common toast rack, Baskerville, Dorlcote,
Henderson, Nicosia, Patten and Routh Rds are lined with Georgian houses.
David Lloyd George. Wellington Arch, Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner
Arc de Triomphe, Napoleon's at the hands of Wellington). West End Theatre,
London's West End, music gigs, comedy shows etc, Leicester Sq. Westminster
Abbey, Westminster Abbey British royalty political and artistic idols,
Edward V and Edward VIII, William the Conqueror in 1066, Henry III to
George II were buried here. Westminster Cathedral, John Francis Bentley's
neo-Byzantine architecture: candy-striped redbrick and white-stone tower
west London skyline. Roman Catholic Church in Britain. White Cube Gallery,
Charles Saatchi, erstwhile Saatchi Gallery, the White Cube's Jay Jopling
'Britart' White Cube Britain's 'new establishment' Damien Hirst, Tracey
Emin another White Cube in St James's. Whitechapel Art Gallery, Whitechapel
Art Gallery Whitechapel Laboratory, changing exhibitions, live music,
poetry, talks and film. an Education and Research Tower and a street-facing
café. Whitechapel Bell Foundry, The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Big Ben and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia were cast here, and the
New York City's Trinity Church, Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, Wimbledon
CommonSouth London for walking, nature trailing and picnicking. Caesar's
Camp settled before Roman times. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, specialist
interest,tennis playing, tall-important lawnmower and of the India-rubber
ball video tearoom and a shop selling tennis memorabilia. Winchester
Palace, Winchester rose window carved Great Hall, rose window was discovered
in a Clink St Women's Library Whitechapel Art Gallery, Women's Library,
London Metropolitan University, women's history. archive and museum
collections.
Paris:
France, Seine, Metro, "City of Light", Mona Lisa", Tshirts,
T-Shirts, Paris District, "Louvre Museum", the "Jardin
des Tuileries", "Place Vendôme", "Les Halles"
and "Palais Royal", "Archives Nationales", "Musée
Carnavalet", "Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers",
"Notre-Dame Cathedral", the "Hôtel de Ville"
(Paris town hall), "Beaubourg", "le Marais", "Jardin
des Plantes", "Quartier Latin", Paris, Universités,
La Sorbonne, Le Panthéon, "Le Musée de l'AP-HP",
"Jardin du Luxembourg", Park, "Saint-Germain des Prés",
"Tour Eiffel", "Les Invalides", "Musée
d'Orsay", "Champs-Elysées", the "Palais de
l'Elysée", la Madeleine, "Jacquemart-Andre Museum",
"Opéra Garnier", "Grands Magasins", "Canal
Saint-Martin", "Gare du Nord", "Gare de l'Est",
"Rue Oberkampf", Bastille, Nation, "New Jewish Quarter",
"Opéra Bastille", Bercy Park and Village, "Promenade
plantée", "Quartier d'Aligre", "Gare de Lyon",
the "Bois de Vincennes", "Quartier Chinois", "Place
d'Italie", "La Butte aux Cailles"," Bibliothèque
Nationale de France "(BNF), "Montparnasse Cemetery",
"Denfert-Rochereau", "Parc Montsouris", "Cité
Universitaire", "Montparnasse Tower", "Gare Montparnasse",
Stadiums, "Palais de Chaillot", "Musée de l'Homme",
the "Bois de Boulogne", "Palais des Congrès",
"Place de Clichy", Montmartre, Pigalle, Barbès, "Museum
of Science and Industry", Paris, "Parc de la Villette",
"Bassin de la Villette", "Parc des Buttes Chaumont",
"Père Lachaise Cemetery", "La Défense".
architecture, "public art", "Eiffel Tower", "Arch
De Triumph" , "World Cup", apparel, shirts, travel, tourist,
holiday, Aquarium Tropical, The Tropical Aquarium, Bois de Vincennes,
is Paris' Exposition Coloniale, Arc de Triomphe, The Arc de Triomphe
is the world's largest traffic roundabout, 12 avenues. Napoleon, Arc
de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris' most famous arc de triomphe , Jardin
du Carrousel Tuileries, Napoleon's army. Archives Nationales. France's
National Archives Soubise wing of the Hôtel de Rohan-Soubise.
Joan of Arc to the wills of Louis XIV and Napoleon. rococo style. Arènes
De Lutèce, The Roman amphitheatre called Lutetia Arena, gladiatorial
combats Rue Monge Assemblée Nationale, The National Assembly,
the lower house of the French parliament, Palais Bourbon fronting the
Seine. Av des Champs-Élysées, Av des Champs-Élysées
'Elysian Fields'place de la Concorde with the Arc de Triomphe. style
and joie de vivre of Paris popular tourist destination. The Eutelsat
Balloon run by Aeroparis in Parc André Citroën Basilique
de St-Denis, St-Denis Basilica Dagobert I (ruled 629-39) to Louis XVIII,
single-towered basilica, Gothic style, French cathedrals Chartres. Basilique
du Sacré-Cœur, The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Butte
de Montmartre (Montmartre Hill), Parisian Catholics Franco-Prussian
War, Bateaux Mouches, Bateaux Mouches tour boat company on the Seine.
Cruises depart from and return to the Pont de l'Alma and pass the Statue
of Liberty and Eiffel Tower in the west, and Île St-Louis in the
east. The night time spectacle of Paris shimmering off the Seine on
a summer evening is an unforgettable experience. Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, Seine from Bercy four glass towers National Library
of France President François Mitterrand as a 'wonder of the modern
world' Bois de Boulogne, Bois De Boulogne (Boulogne Wood) Baron Haussmann,
Hyde Park in London. Parc de Bagatelle in the northwestern corner, Château
de Bagatelle. irises, roses and water lilies. Bois de Vincennes, The
'Vincennes Wood', the Château de Vincennes fortifications. Louis
XIV Pavillon du Roi, the two royal pavilions flanking the Cour Royale
(Royal Courtyard). Bourse de Commerce, Trade Exchange copper dome murals
Cabinet des Médailles et Monnaies, Bibliothèque Nationale
de France coins, medals and tokens, Catacombes de Paris, Cathédrale
de Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame de Paris French Gothic architecture,
Catholic Paris' medieval engineering, Centre Pompidou, The Pompidou
Centre, Beaubourg, modern and contemporary art. Musée Nationale
d'Art Moderne, Champs-Élysées, Place de la Concorde with
the Arc de Triomphe. joie de vivre of Paris since the mid-19th century,
Chapelle Expiatoire, Atonement Chapel,Pasquier, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette
Reign of Terror Louis' brother, the restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII,
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris after Père Lachaise. Zola,
Dumas the younger, Stendhal and Heinrich Heine, Jacques Offenbach and
Hector Berlioz, artist Degas, Vaslav Nijinsky François TruffautCimetière
du Montparnasse, Charles Baudelaire, Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Paul Sartre
and Simone de Beauvoir; playwright Samuel Beckett; Man Ray. Montparnasse's
tomb Serge Gainsbourg 'Le Poinçonneur des Lilas'. Cimetière
du Père Lachaise, Père Lachaise's, open-air sculpture
garden. famous composers, writers, artists, actors, singers, dancers
Abélard and Héloïse. Cinémathèque Française,
screening classic foreign films, (Passion Cinéma) (Espace Cinéphile).
Bibliothèque du Film (Film Library) for researchers. Leonard
Bernstein. Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, City of Science
and Industry, Parc de la Villette. iconic silver sphere Géode,
screening 180-degree films, and the Cité des Enfants ('Children's
City'; lots of robots) Cité map, Conciergerie, The Conciergerie
Palais de la Cité, prison and torture chamber. The huge Gothic
Salle des Gens d'Armes (Cavalrymen's Hall) Rayonnant style, Crypte Archéologique,
Archaeological Crypt Notre Dame. Gallo-Roman period (including actual
rooms), Dalí Espace, Catalan surrealist Dalí lived in
Montmartre Empress Lucie Valore, Dalí's illustrations, sculptures,
engravings and furniture, 'Dalí and Fashion'. Église Notre
Dame de L'espérance, Church of Our Lady of Hope designed by Bruno
Legrand, Église Notre Dame de la Pentecôte, Our Lady of
the Pentecost Catholic Church CNIT flame-shaped pulpit, Virgin Mary
that looks Buddha. Église St-Étienne du Mont, Church of
Mount St Stephen, Paris' rood screen late Renaissance because they prevented
the faithful assembled Église St-Eustache, Forum des Halles.
St-Eustache is primarily Gothic, though a neoclassical façade
Flamboyant Gothic arches holding up the ceiling of the chancel, Renaissance
and classical. Église St-Germain des Prés, St-Germain
des Prés, site of an abbey, Catholic worship until it was eclipsed
by Notre Dame. Saint Germain, the first bishop of Paris. Église
St-Germain l'Auxerrois, Gothic and Renaissance Gothic Revivalist architect
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Église St-Sulpice, Église
St-Sulpice's Eugène Delacroix, Chapelle des Stes-Agnes.Dan BrownThe
Da Vinci Code here, pivoting around the Rose Line , Eiffel Tower, Exposition
Universelle (World Fair), Revolution, the Tour Eiffel was the world's
tallest structure Manhattan's Chrysler Building was completed. Flame
of Liberty Memorial, In August 1997, underpass parallel to the Seine,
Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident, Dodi Fayed,
and their chauffeur. The bronze Flame of Liberty a memorial to Diana
and was decorated with flowers, photographs, graffiti and personal notes.
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, architect de jour Jean Nouvel,
contemporary art paintings, photography, video and fashion. Fondation
Dubuffet, 19th-century hôtel particulier Jean Dubuffet, chief
of the Art Brut school, all works of artistic expression not officially
recognised. incredibly modern and expressive. Forum des Halles, Les
Halles, wholesale food market, Église St-Eustache Rungis near
Orly. glass-and-chrome, Galerie-Musée Baccarat, Baccarat Gallery-Museum
displayed its 1000 stunning pieces of crystal, many of them custom-made
for princes and dictators of desperately poor excolonies, at the CIAT
(Centre International des Arts de la Table) building, a fine example
of Napoleon III-era industrial architecture in the gritty but gracious
10e arrondissement. And then the Noailles stately home became available
in the uppity 16e, interior designer Philippe Starck Rue de Paradis
(Paradise St) restaurant called the Crystal Room. Gare Montparnasse,
train station unusual attractions rooftop. The unique Jardin de l'Atlantique,
greenery and tranquillity futuristic Observatoire Météorologique
'sculpture', precipitation, temperature and wind speed. Grand Palais,
The 'Great Palace', Exposition Universelle, houses the Galeries Nationales
du Grand Palais Art Nouveau glass roof. Grande Arche de la Défense
La Défense's Grande Arche (Great Arch). Danish architect Johan-Otto
von Sprekelsen Carrara marble, grey granite and glass, Hôtel de
Sully, Jeu de Palme - national photography centre, monograph and thematic
photography exhibitions. Renaissance courtyards, Monuments Nationaux,
Hôtel de Ville, Paris' neo-Renaissance illustrious Parisians.Paris-based
themeRobert Doisneau Hôtel de Ville here in 1950, Hôtel
des Invalides, Hôtel des Invalides, (disabled veterans). Bastille
prison. Institut de France, The French Institute, France's academies
of arts and sciences. Académie Française (French Academy),
Cardinal Richelieu. , known as the Immortels (Immortals), safeguarding
the purity of the French language. Institut du Monde Arabe, The Institute
of the Arab World Islamic and Western worlds. The museum, art and artisanship
from around the Islamic world, astronomy and other fields of scientific
endeavour in which Arab technology, Jardin des Plantes, Louis XIII's
herb garden, Paris' botanical gardens serious institute leisure destination,
winter garden, tropical greenhouses and an alpine garden, as well as
the school of botany. menagerie. Batobus. Jardin des Tuileries, Axe
Historique, formal gardens André Le Nôtre,Unesco World
Heritage Site, the paths, ponds and old-fashioned merry-go-round Jardin
du Luxembourg, formal terraces and chestnut groves of Luxembourg Gardens.
galleries, activities and plenty of room around the grounds just to
run about. Jardin du Palais Royal, young Louis XIV two arcades, old-fashioned
toy soldiers. The black-and-white striped columns at the southern end
Daniel Buren, Jeu de Paume, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume jeu de
paume (royal tennis court), Jardin des Tuileries. national collection
of impressionist art Musée d'Orsay contemporary art. La Défense
Espace Histoire, La Défense History Space Espace Info-Défense
La Défense via drawings, architectural plans and enough scale
models, Gulliver. La Seine, Seine River, major trade route, today the
river's islands, bridges and quays evoke romantic visions of Paris.
This nostalgia after dark when the Seine shimmers with the watery reflections
of floodlit monuments and bridges. C'est magnifique! Maison de Balzac,
Balzac's House, Jardins du Trocadéro, Passy spa house realist
novelist Honoré de Balzac Comédie Humaine and writing
various books. memorabilia, letters, prints and portraits, Maison de
Victor Hugo, place des Vosges, Victor Hugo Les Misérables . The
museum featuring drawings, portraits, and furnishings preserved. Maison
Européenne de la Photographie, European House of Photography,
Hôtel Hénault de Cantorbe, history of photography and its
French connections. Manufacture des Gobelins, Gobelins Factory, haute
lisse (high relief) tapestries on specialised looms, Beauvais-style
basse, Savonnerie rugs. guided tour, Mémorial de la Shoah, Memorial
to the Unknown Jewish MartyrMemorial of the Holocaust and the German
occupation of France and Paris during WWII; Mémorial des Martyrs
de la Déportation. The Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation,
de la Cité,Nazi concentration camps during WWII. A single barred
'window' Mosquée de Paris, Paris' central mosque ornate Moorish
style popular at the time. North African-style salon de thé and
restaurant, and a hammam , a traditional Turkish bath, Musée
Atelier Zadkine, Russian Cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine Jardin du Luxembourgwork
in wood, clay, stone and bronze. Musée Bouilhet-Christofle nis,
Musée d'Art et d'HistoireBouilhet-Christofle Museum, pieces of
silverware exquisite Art Deco pieces. Musée Bourdelle, Bourdelle
Museum, Gare Montparnasse, Antoine Bourdelle, a pupil of Rodin, lived
and worked. The three sculpture gardens, one of which faces rue Antoine
Bourdelle, are particularly lovely and impart a flavour of the Montparnasse
of the belle époque and post-WWI periods. Musée Carnavalet,
The artefacts important museum, Musée de l'Histoire de Paris,
Paris History Museum, chart the history of Paris Gallo-Roman important
documents, paintings and other relics from the French Revolution, Musée
Cernusch, Cernuschi Museum, exhibition space ancient Chinese art, funerary
statues, bronzes, ceramics and works from Japan banker and philanthropist
Henri Cernuschi, who settled here from Milan before the unification
of Italy. Musée Cognacq-Jay, oil paintings, pastels, sculpture,
objets d'art, jewellery, La Samaritaine department store Hôtel
de Donon. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme Dreyfus
Affair, Parisian novelist Emile Zola , J'accuse…! I Accuse…!
Jewish Art and History museum Jewish communities throughout Europe Chagall
and Modigliani. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The
Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, established in 1961 and housed
in what was the Electricity Pavilion during the 1937 World Expo, displays
works from just about every major 20th-century artistic movement: Fauvism,
cubism, Dadaism, surrealism, expressionism and so on. Artists represented
include Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Modigliani and Chagall. Musée
d'art Naïf Max Fourny, Museum of Naive Art, Halle St-Pierre, Willette,
funicular. Permanent collection represent Art Brut schools around the
world. Musée d'Orsay, former railway station, French Impressionist
and post-Impressionist works, must-see for any art lover. France's national
collection of paintings, sculptures, objets d'art produced between 1848
and 1914, including the fruits of the Impressionist, Post Impressionist
and Art Nouveau movements. Musée Dapper, Sub-Saharan African
art collected by Dapper Foundation in a 16th-century hôtel particulier
(private mansion) carved wooden figurines and masks, influenced the
work of Picasso, Braque and Man Ray. Musée de L'assistance Publique-Hôpitaux
de Paris, History of hospitals in Paris since the Middle Ages, paintings,
sculptures, drawings, medical instruments etc - for nurses andlovely
Hôtel Miramion,was city's central pharmacy, Musée de L'évantail,
fans - screen, folding and brisé. Around 900 breeze-makers are
on display, dating as far back as the once a well-known fan manufactory,
Musée de l'Orangerie, Monet's Waterlilies, collections of Jean
Walter and Paul Guillaume, which include additional works by Monet and
many by Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani;
the collection also includes Derain's Arlequin & Pierrot . Musée
de la Chasse et de la Nature, Hunting and Nature Museum oxymoron to
the politically correct, France, Hôtel Guénégaud,
weapons, paintings, objets d'art related to hunting and, of course,
lots and lots of trophies - horns, antlers, Musée de la Contrefaçon,
museum is dedicated to the not-so-fine art of counterfeiting. ersatz:
banknotes, liqueurs, designer clothing, even Barbie dolls.displays the
real against the fake to spot the difference. Musée de la Curiosité
et de la Magie, The Museum of Curiosity & Magic caves (cellars)
of the house of the Marquis de Sade, ancient arts of magic, optical
illusion and sleight of hand, with regular magic shows, optical illusions
and wind-up toys , Musée de la Franc-Maçonnerie, Grande
Orient de France, Freemasonry, medieval stone masons' guilds popular
sights, Musée de la Monnaie de Paris, The Parisian Mint Museum
history of French coinage presses and other minting equipment. Musée
de la Poste, postie or a philatelist to appreciate this postal museum.
travel and communications, antique postal equipment, telecommunication
and ancient French stamps. Musée de la Vie Romantique, 'New Athens'
writers and scholars, the Museum of the Romantic Life, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan,
Baronne Aurore Dupkin, George Sand, Montmartre's oldest building, garden-set
manor, bohemian history, paintings and documents, , Fête des Vendages
de Montmartre Wine. Musée des Arts et Métiers, Foucault's
original pendulum, which he used in 1855 to prove the world turns on
its axis, 80,000 instruments, machines and working models at Europe's
oldest science and technology museum. gleaming copper panelling and
crafts. Musée des Arts Forains, The Museum of the Fairground
Arts in trendy Bercy Village, housed in an old chai (wine warehouse),old
amusements from 19th-century funfairs - carrousels, organs, stalls etc.
Musée des Égouts de Paris, Musée du Fumeur, Smoking
Museum, smoking of tobacco Hard-core butt-fiends will feel vindicated,
though the museum's stance is impartial, providing a vantage point for
the observation of changing behaviours. Musée du Louvre, World's
greatest art museum, Paris. human civilisation from antiquity to the
19th century, Musée du Luxembourg, Prestigious temporary art
exhibitions Jardin du Luxembourg. Musée du Montparnasse, Russian
Cubist artist Marie Vassilieff, av du Maine, the Museum of Montparnasse,
Musée du Parfum, Perfume Museum, perfumerie Fragonard, Palais
Garnier, history of scent and perfume-making from ancient Egypt to today's
designer brands. Musée du Quai Branly, Urban-industrial, Africa,
Oceania, Asia and the Americas, music box Branly's on-site café
and elevated restaurant, Les Ombres, ringside Eiffel Tower views. Musée
du Stylo et de L'écriture, Museum of the Pen and of Penmanship,
collection of writing utensils in the world, paper and calligraphy.
Musée du Vin, Wine Museum, International Federation of Wine Brotherhoods,
mock-ups, glass of wine at the end of the visit. Musée Édith
Piaf, memorabilia, recordings and video footage of legendary Parisian
chanteuse Édith ' Non, je ne regrette rien ' Piaf. Born Édith
Gassion, la Môme Piaf (the Little Sparrow) by nightclub-owner
Louis Leplée. Musée Galliera de la Mode de la Ville de
Paris, Fashion Museum of the City of Paris, Palais Galliera, warehouses
some 100000 outfits and accessoriesItalianate building and gardens,
Musée Grévin, waxworks museum, Marilyn Monroe, Charles
de Gaulle and Spiderman, Revolutionary leaders, Musée Guimet
des Arts Asiatiques, Guimet Museum of Asiatic Arts is France's Asian
art, sculptures, paintings, objets d'art and religious articles from
Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, Cambodia, China, Japan and
Korea. Musée Jacquemart-André, Édouard André
wife Nélie Jacquemart, furniture, tapestries and enamels but
is most noted for its paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck and Italian
Renaissance works by Bernini, Botticelli, Tintoretto, Titian, Uccello
and more. Musée Maillol-Fondation Diana Vierny, sculptor Aristide
Maillol works by Matisse, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Cézanne and Picasso
collection of Dina Vierny, Hôtel Bouchardon. Musée Marmottan-Monet,
Marmottan-Monet Museum, Bois de Boulogne and between Porte de la Muette
and Porte de Passy, impressionist painter Claude Monet, Gauguin, Sisley,
Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, Manet and Berthe Morisot. Musée National
d'Histoire Naturelle, France's national museum of natural history Jardin
des Plantes: the Galerie de Minéralogie et de Gélogie,
minerals and geology; the Galerie d'Anatomie Comparée et de Paléontologie,
anatomy and fossils; Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, ecosystem
and global warming. Musée National du Moyen Age, National Museum
of the Middle Ages Musée de Cluny, or just Cluny Gallo-Roman
baths Hôtel de Cluny, Paris' finest civil medieval building. 15th-century
tapestries, The Lady with the Unicorn. Musée National Eugène
Delacroix, Father of French Romanticism intimate courtyard studio Louvre
and the Musée d'Orsay, St-Sulpice, the museum's collection of
oils, watercolours, pastels and drawings, and, especially, magnolia-shaded
square, Musée National Gustave Moreau, Gustave Moreau Museum,
Pigalle, Moreau's studio, 4800 of his paintings, drawings and sketches.
Musée Nissim de Camondo, The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Petit
Trianon at Versailles, furniture, wood panelling, tapestries, porcelain
and other objets d'art collected by Count Moïse de Camondo, a Jewish
banker who settled in Paris from Constantinople in the late 19th century.
Musée Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist,h Pasteur's private
rooms, Musée Picasso, Pablo Picasso. Musée Rodin, Auguste
Rodin tranquil spots in the city, the Musée Rodin, Palais de
Chaillot & Jardins du Trocadéro, Palais de Chaillot, World
Exhibition held in Paris, panorama of the Jardins du Trocadéro,
the Seine and the Eiffel Tower., Palais de la Découverte, The
Palace of Discoveryscience museum interactive exhibits on astronomy,
biology, medicine, chemistry, maths, computer science, physics and earth
sciences. Exposition Universelle, Palais de Toky, The Tokyo Palace,
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'Site de Création
Contemporain' event-driven rather than static museum, it has no permanent
collection, Palais Garnier, This renowned opera house by Charles Garnier
Napoleon III's France. Napoleon III stages operas, ballets and classical-music
concerts. Panthéon, The Panthéon neoclassicism ornate
marble interior Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis Braille, Victor
Hugo, and Émile Zola. Mirabeau and Marat. Parc de Belleville,
best panoramas of Paris alongside the teensy vineyard at the top, Parc
de Bercy, Palais Omnisports Bercy Village, Maison du Lac du Parc de
Bercy Maison du Jardinage, Parc de la Villette, Cité des Sciences
et de l'Industrie Citeé de la Musique. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont,
Buttes-Chaumont Park Paris Manhattan's Central Park. grottoes and artificial
waterfalls, romantic lake Baron Haussmann, Parc du Champ de Mars, Eiffel
Tower, 'Field of Mars' Mars, the Roman god of war parade ground École
Militaire French-classical building Napoleon Bonaparte , Petit Palais,
'Little Palace Grand Palais Exposition Universelle, Musée des
Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Museum of Fine Arts. Renaissance objets
d'art, porcelain and clocks, tapestries, drawings and 19th-century French
painting and sculpture Place de la Bastille, French Revolution, winged
Liberty. Revolutionaries buried beneath. Paris' most symbolic destination
for political protest marches. Place de la Concorde, Place de la Concorde
pink granite obelisk with the gilded top given to France by Muhammad
Ali, viceroy and pasha of Egypt. Temple of Ramses at Thebes Luxor. Place
de la Madeleine, fine-food and gourmet shops, the place de la Madeleine
neoclassical church Église de la Madeleine. Greek temple, La
Madeleine, Place des Vosges, Marais, Paris' Vosges. Royale, ground-floor
arcades, steep slate roofs and large dormer windows large square., Place
du Tertre, Église St-Pierre de Montmartre, du Tertre, village
of Montmartre. cafes, restaurants, portrait artists and tourists Moulin
de la Galette and Moulin Radet, rue Lepic. Place Igor Stravinsky - The
Place Igor Stravinsky Georges Pompidou, sculpture and street performers.
mechanical fountains of skeletons, dragons and a big pair of ruby-red
lips, created by Jean Tinguely and Niki de St-Phalle, Place Vendôme,
Napoleon married Josephine Hôtel Ritz Paris Ministry of Justice,
Pletzl, Marais began in the late 1960s, rues des Rosiers and des Écouffes
Pletzl Jewish community Jewish bookstores and kosher butchers' shops,
restaurants and felafel joints. Pont Neuf, 'New Bridge', have linked
the Île de la Cité Henri IV seven arches, Porte St-Denis
& Porte St-Martin, St Denis Gate, commemorate Louis XIV's Rhine.
Maastricht, Promenade Plantée, walking path, flowers and park
benches film Before Sunset Quartier Latin, Quartier Latin students and
professors communicated in Latin until the Revolution centre of Parisian
higher education since the Middle Ages. students and academics, Sainte
Chapelle, Palais de Justice. stained glass (the oldest and finest in
Paris). Sorbonne, 'La Sorbonne' Robert de Sorbon theological college
imposing buildings, domed chapel and lime tree-shaded squares dominate
the Latin Quarter, Stade de France, Stadium of France central St-Denis
rue Gabriel Péri football World Cup, place de la Concorde, football
and rugby matches, major gymnastic events and big-ticket music concerts.
Tour Jean Sans Peur, The Gothic, John the Fearless duke of Bourgogne
\feudal military architecture extant in Paris. Tour Montparnasse, Montparnasse
Tower, spectacular views over the city, Viaduc des Arts, Daumesnil place
de la Bastille, trendy designers and artisans; tapestry restored, porcelain
repainted or the bottom of your antique saucepan re-coppered, the sights
and destinations of Paris France.
Prague:
Praha, "Czech Republic", "Charles Bridge", Old Town
Hall, Old Town Square, "St. Jame's Church", "Prague Castle",
"Astrological Clock" , "Prague Travel", "Travel
Czech Republic", "Prague Tours" , "Guided Tours
Prague", "Old Town Prague", "Josefov Jewish ghetto"
, "Astronimical Clock", Mozart, Dušek, Kafka, Kampa,
Brewery Museum, Kbely, Beer, " Pub Crawl, 'Hanging Out' Sculpture,
Sigmund Freud Czech Viselec. 'Piss' Sculpture, animatronic sculpture
of two guys pissing in a puddle shaped like the Czech Republic. Proudy
by David ?erný. The microchip-controlled sculptures famous Prague
literary quotations. 'Quo Vadis' Sculpture, Trabant car on four legs
granted political asylum and leaving their Trabants behind. Vlašská,
'Quo Vadis' Sculpture Aircraft Museum, Kbely airfield northeastern Prague
Russian MiG fighter planes exhibits on aeronautics and space flight.
Archbishop's Palace, Schwarzenberg Palace rococo Archbishop's Palace,
Archbishop Antonín Brus of Mohelnice, Jewish Cemetery, New Montefiore.
Mt Ararat,Wellwood and Beth Moses, Army Museum, Hill Czechoslovak army
and resistance movement assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Astronomical
Clock, Old Town Sq, Master Hanuš, was allegedly blinded so he
could not duplicate the clock elsewhere, although this is undoubtedly
a myth. Basilica of St George, early-baroque façade Romanesque
church, Vratislav I (the father of St Wenceslas). Bethlehem Chapel,
Bethlehem Square Bethlehem Chapel, Hussite cause. Reformist Praguers
Bohemia had ever seen, Bílek Villa, Dejvice, František
Bílek unconventional stone and wood reliefs, furniture and graphics.
Monastery Czech Republic's oldest Benedictine monastery, Boleslav II
and Bishop Vojt?ch Slavníkovec St Adalbertb?evno (beam), after
the beam laid across the spring where they met. Casemates Brick Gate
(Cihelná brána) Castle Entrance, Václav Havel brought
some pizzazz to the castle after 1989, Masaryk - son of first Czechoslovak
president Tomáš Masaryk foreign ministry. Charles Bridge,
Charles Bridge baroque statues that line the parapets, Jewish Cemetery,
Charles University (Karolinum), Central Europe's oldest university,Charles
IV Rotlev House Jan Hus Wenceslas IV German students, Charles University
Botanical Garden, Just south of Karlovo Charles University's botanical
garden. Smíchov country's oldest botanical garden. Central European
flora. Children's Island, swings, slides climbing frames and sandpits,
Church Of Our Lady Before Týn, spiky-topped Týn Church
is early Gothic, Týn School Týnský Štupartská.
Church of Our Lady of the Snows, Wenceslas Square. It was begun in the
14th century by Charles I , Church Of Our Lady Victorious, 'Bambino
di Praga' 400-year-old, wax 'Baby Jesus of Prague', Church Of SS Peter
& Paul, Vratislav II's Church of SS Peter and Paul Josef Mocker
Vyšehrad skyline, Art Nouveau frescoes, Church Of St Giles, Romanesque
columns, tall Gothic windows, baroque interior, St Giles Prague's religious
buildings. proto-Hussite reformer Bethlehem Chapel Counter-Reformation,
'baroquefied' Václav Reiner, ceiling frescoes, Church Of St James,
Gothic mass of kostel sv Jakuba, Minorite monastery church, Count Jan
Vratislav of Mitrovice, lord chancellor of Bohemia, Church Of St Nicholas,
Church of St Nicholas, Kilian Dientzenhofer St Nicholas churches in
Prague, Dientzenhofers' masterwork in Malá Strana). Jewish Cemetery,
New Montefiore. Mt Ararat,Wellwood and Beth Moses, Church Of The Assumption
Of The Virgin Mary & Charlemagne, Ke Karlovu Charles IV Charlemagne's
burial chapel in Aachen. Church Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Our Lord,
Slovenian architect Prague Castle. Inspired by Egyptian temples and
early Christian basilicas, Convent of St Agnes, Bohemia and Central
Europe. Convent of St George, Bohemia's first convent, Boleslav II.
National Gallery, with collection of Renaissance and baroque art. Cubist
Lamppost, Wenceslas Sq., Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Romanesque and Gothic
buildings, this often-overlooked little gallery stages temporary exhibitions
of 20th-century and contemporary art, though it's worth the admission
fee just for a look at the architecture. Dancing Building, The junction
where Resslova Rašínovo Frank O Gehry. 'Fred & Ginger
Building', Divoká Šárka, Šárecký
potok warrior Šárka, who is said to have thrown herself
off a cliff here. Vila Amerika, French-styleKilian Dientzenhofer. baroque
buildings, composer Antonín Ecotechnical Museum, WH Lindley.
Emmaus Monastery, Slavonic Benedictine Charles IV, Na Slovanech, Emmaus
Monastery WWII Gestapo Dachau concentration camp, Estates Theatre, Karolinum
Prague's oldest theatre neoclassical building, the Estates Theatre,
Mozart's Don Giovanni Nostitz Theatre Count Anton von Nostitz-Rieneck
Estates Theatre - the Estates being the traditional nobility. Franz
Kafka Monument, Jaroslav Róna's Franz Kafka Society, Spanish
Synagogue. Franz Kafka Museum, original letters, photographs, quotations,
period newspapers and publications, and video and sound installations.
Franz Kafka's Birthplace, bust of the great writer Old Town Sq's St
Nicholas Church is named after him. Futura Gallery, contemporary art,
ranging from painting, photography and sculpture to video, installations
and performance art. Gallery spaces, 'white cube' halls,brick-vaulted
cellar, and a garden with children's play area, Czech and international
artists. Golden Lane, Golden Lane is a picturesque, cobbled alley colourful
cottages sharpshooters of the castle guard, used by goldsmiths., Goltz-Kinský
Palace, late-baroque Goltz-Kinský Palace Prague's finest rococo
façade, Kilian Dientzenhofer Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor
of dynamite, once stayed here; his crush on pacifist Bertha Kinský
Nobel Peace Prize., Gothic Cellar, Charles IV's palace Vyšehrad.
Hc Slavia Praha, Although Sparta is the leading Czech team, Slavia Ice
Hockey World Championship, Hc Sparta Praha, ice-hockey, Historical Pharmacy
Exhibition, Hotel Crowne Plaza, Stalinist building in northern Dejvice
Russian capital. Hotel International, tower of Moscow University, Soviet-style
star on top of the spire, House at the Golden Ring, Renaissance House
at the Golden Ring, Týnská just outside the western entrance
to Týn courtyard, branch of the Prague City Gallery, 20th-century
Czech art. House at the Stone Bell, Goltz-Kinský Palace 14th-century
Gothic dignity Gothic chapels Prague City Gallery, modern art, chamber-concert
venues. Jan Palach Memorial, Jan Palach set fire to himself and died
in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia marked by a
wooden cross, Jewish Cemetery, Franz Kafka 3 June, the anniversary of
his death., Jewish Town Hall, Next to the Old-New Synagogue, Jewish
Ghetto mayor Mordechai Maisel clock tower, which has one Hebrew face
where the hands run 'backwards' like Hebrew script., This Gothic bell
tower, dating from the 15th century but rebuilt in the Gothic style
in the 1870s,Wenceslas Square. exhibition space, shop, café and
restaurant, and a lookout gallery on the 10th floor. John Lennon Wall,
John Lennon became a pacifist hero for many young Czechs. image of Lennon
was painted on a wall in a secluded square opposite the French Embassy,
along with political graffiti and Beatles lyrics. Jubilee Synagogue,
Moorish façade of the Jubilee Synagogue, also called the Velká
(Great) synagóga, Kampa Museum, bronzes by Cubist sculptor Otto
Gutfreund, and paintings by František Kupka, a pioneer of abstract
art. Kupka's Cathedral, Klaus Synagogue & Ceremonial Hall, Klaus
Synagogue Old Jewish Cemetery mortuary Jewish Museum. exhibition on
Jewish traditions relating to illness and death, Klementinum, Roman
Catholic Church in Bohemia, the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand I Jesuits
Prague Church of the Holy Saviour Counter-Reformation, Kobylisy Anti-Fascist
Resistance Memorial, quadrangle of earthen embankments, Kobylisy Rifle
Range. national memorial Fountain performs computer-controlled light-and-water
dance. New World symphony Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, Lapidárium,
National Museum, 400 sculptures from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
Renaissance Krocín Fountain Old Town Square, Charles Bridge statues,
superb sculptures. Letná Gardens & Terrace, Vratislav Karel
Novák's huge metronome, Lobkowicz Palace, Czech history from
prehistoric times. marionettes in the Czech Republic, Loreta, baroque
place of pilgrimage founded by Benigna Lobkowicz Santa Casa (Sacred
House; the home of the Virgin Mary). Loreto as the Turks Nazareth. Lucerna
Palace, Art Nouveau Lucerna Palace between Václav Havel theatres,
a cinema, shops, a rock club, cafés and restaurants. Lucerna
Passage, Art Nouveau shopping arcade, Lucerna Palace Havel's grandfather,
café, club atrium, Wenceslas Sq statue has its Wenceslas (or
Václav) Maisel Synagogue, Renaissance original built by Maisel
silver, textiles, prints and books. Malá Strana Bridge Tower,
Malá Strana end of Charles Bridge. Judith Bridge , history of
Charles Bridge, Maltese Square, Knights of Malta around Malá
Strana Church of Our Lady Beneath the Chain Mánes Gallery, Mánes
Building painter Josef Mánes, Czech Academy of Arts. Prague's
better displays of contemporary art, Oskar Novotný, Functionalist
architecture. Maroldovo Panorama, Maroldovo Panorama 360-degree diorama
battle of Lipany Hussite Taborites Hussite Utraquists and Emperor Zikmund's
Marold, Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Olbram Zoubek desiccation
concrete staircase. escape across the border, Miniature Museum, microscopic
creations. eye microsurgery, world's smallest book and strangely beautiful
silhouettes of cars on the leg of a mosquito., Mirror Maze, Mirror Maze,
Prague Exposition. Praguers and Swedes Church of St Lawrence Mozart
Museum, Vila Bertramka František Dušek. Don Giovanni .
Mozart museum. Mucha Museum, Art Nouveau posters, paintings and decorative
panels of Alfons Mucha sketches, photographs and other memorabilia.
Mucha's trademark Slavic maidens with flowing hair and piercing blue
eyes, bearing symbolic garlands and linden boughs. Municipal House,
exuberant and sensual building Royal Court, seat of Bohemia's Vladislav
II Prague Castle Municipal House Czech National Revival. Musaion, National
Museum's ethnographic collection, Czech folk culture and art, including
music, costume, farming methods and handicrafts. blacksmithing and wood-carving.
Museum Of Communism, museum of communism - aristocrat's palace, Museum
of Czech Cubism, Josef Go?ár's House of the Black Madonna Cubist
architecture - Czech Cubist paintings and sculpture, as well as furniture,
ceramics and glassware in Cubist designs. Museum of Decorative Arts,
neo-Renaissance museum, Industrial Revolution .artifacts, including
furniture, tapestries, porcelain and a fabulous collection of glasswork.
Museum of Marionette Culture, multitude of authentic, colourfully dressed
marionettes Museum of Marionette Culture. Czech figures Spejbl and Hurvínek.
Museum of the City of Prague, Jewish ghetto St Vitus Cathedral Antonín
Langweil. , Museum Of The Infant Jesus Of Prague, The Church of Our
Lady Victorious (kostel Panny Marie baby Jesus brought from Spain Infant
Jesus of Prague jezulátko protected Prague from the plague and
from the destruction of the Thirty Years' War, and is visited by a steady
stream of pilgrims, especially from Italy, Spain and Latin America.,
Náprstek Museum, Náprstek Museum ethnographical Asian,
African and American cultures, Vojta Náprstek, anthropology and
modern technology, National Memorial To The Victims Of Post-Heydrich
Terror, assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhardt Heydrich hid in the
crypt of the Church of SS Cyril and Methodius for three weeks after
the killing, National Monument, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Klement
Gottwald, National Museum, Wenceslas Square neo-Renaissance National
Museum, Josef Schulz as an architectural symbol of the Czech National
Revival., displays of rocks, fossils and stuffed animals glass display
cabinets arranged on creaking parquet floors - views down Wenceslas
Square. National Technical Museum, vintage trains, planes and automobiles,
Škoda and Tatra cars and a couple of Bugattis.1926 BSA 350-L
vintage bicycles you'll find a 1921 predecessor of the 1970s Raleigh
Chopper. Nerudova, Malá Strana's castle to Malostranské
touristy restaurants and shops 'baroque-ified' Renaissance façades
and ornate Casanova and Mozart Bretfeldský Palace. Czech writer
Jan Neruda, New Town Hall. Charles Square is the New Town Hall, New
Town window of the tower, two of Wenceslas IV's Catholic councillors
followers of the Hussite preacher 'defenestration' sparking off the
Hussite Wars., castle staff curving cobblestone streets Loreta. diminutive
cottages pastel shades, 'New World' Golden Lane. Danish astronomer Tycho
Brahe No 1 Kapucínská. Globally renowned animator and
filmmaker Jan Švankmajer , Old Jewish Cemetery, Old Jewish Cemetery
is Europe's oldest surviving Jewish graveyard. Old Royal Palace. The
Old Royal Palace, oldest parts of the castle, Czech princesses, the
king's own palace. Old Town Bridge Tower, Charles Bridge, Petr Parler.
Swedish army was finally repulsed by a band of students and Jewish ghetto
residents. vintage musical instruments, amazing view from the top.,
Old Town HallPrague's Old Town Hall, hotch-potch of medieval buildings
tall Gothic tower, House at the Minute Renaissance sgraffito - Franz
Kafka town hall. Old-New Synagogue, Old-New Synagogue is Europe's oldest
working synagogue and one of Prague's earliest Gothic buildings.winter
prayer hall men-only services. Olšany Cemetery, Prague's main
burial ground plague epidemic; St Roch Chapel (kaple sv Rocha). Vinohradská,
east of Flora metro station, and beside the chapel on Olšanská.
Jan Palach, Orthodox Cathedral Of Ss Cyril & Methodius, Czech partisans
Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich , Palace Gardens Beneath Prague Castle,
These beautiful terraced gardenscastle hill Renaissance frescoes of
Pompeii and a baroque portal with sundial gloomy neo-Renaissance palace
served as the wartime headquarters of the Gestapo. Ministry of Trade
and Industry., 'people's observatory', which boasts a double Zeiss astrograph
telescope for observation of the sun or the night sky. Strahov or directly
from Újezd - funicular railway from Újezd. lookout point
stone fortifications that run from Újezd to Strahov, Hunger Wall
Lookout Tower, To the north of the observatory is rozhledna, Eiffel
Tower lookalike Prague Exposition. best views of Prague; , Mirror Maze,
Prague Exposition Prazaks and invading Swedes on Charles Bridge Picture
Gallery, Swedish army looted Emperor Rudolf II's art collection original
bronze statues in the Wallenstein Garden Rubens, Tintoretto and Titian.
Pinkas Synagogue, moving memorial, wall after wall inscribed with the
names, birth dates, and dates of disappearance of the 77,297 Czech victims
of the Nazis. It also has a collection of paintings and drawings by
children held in the Terezín concentration camp during WWII.
Monolith, St Vitus Cathedral is a huge granite monolith Slovene architect
St George slaying the dragon; Story of Prague Castle exhibition. Postal
Museum, Philatelists will love this tiny museum with its letter boxes,
mail coach and drawers of old postage stamps, including a rare Penny
Black. beautiful stamps by Czech artists Josef Navrátil and Alfons
Mucha. Across the street is the Petrská vodárenská
Petrská Waterworks Tower , Powder Gate, Powder Gate King Vladislav
II Jagiello Royal Court to Prague Castle gunpowder magazine Josef Mocker
rebuilt, decorated and steepled it neogothic, Powder Tower, St Vitus
Cathedral leads to the Powder Tower Mihulk part of the castle's defences.
workshop of the cannon- and bell-maker Tomáš Jaroš,
cast the bells for St Vitus Cathedral. Alchemists employed by Rudolf
II Prague Castle Gallery, famous bronzes in the Wallenstein Garden Rudolf
II's art collection. This gallery, housed in the beautiful Renaissance
stables at the northern end of the Second Courtyard based on the Habsburg
collection works by Rubens, Tintoretto and Titian. Prague Main Train
Station, Art Nouveau building designed by Josef Fanta The domed interior,
Prague Planetarium, The Planetarium, in Stromovka park Czech only, Prague
Zoo, Prague's Przewalski's horses, still survive in the wilds of Mongolia,
Public Transport Museum, large collection of trams and buses, from an
1886 horse-drawn tram to present-day vehicles. Radio Free Europe Building,
US-financed Radio Free Europe broadcasting from the capitalist West
to the communist East. moved from Munich to Prague, National Museum.,
Rotunda Of St Martin, Vratislav II's little chapel,Prague's oldest surviving
building. plague column and the baroque St Mary Chapel in the Ramparts
(kaple Panny Marie v hradbách),Beheading of St John the Baptist
, Royal Garden, Powder Bridge Stag Moat Renaissance-style Royal Garden.
Ball-Game House a masterpiece of Renaissance sgraffito Habsburgs badminton.
Summer Palace Riding School Schwarzenberg Palace, The Renaissance Schwarzenberg
Palace, Schwarzenberg family black-and-white sgraffito façade.
National Gallery, Slav Island, Vltava River, rowboats, Smetana Museum,
This small museum is devoted to Bohemia's favourite composer. Smetana
fan, popular culture's feverish response to Smetana's opera The Bartered
Bride Andrew Lloyd Webber of his day. Southern Gardens, The three gardens
lined up below the castle's southern wall - Paradise Garden, the Hartig
Garden and the Garden on the Ramparts - views over Malá Strana's
rooftops. The two main gardens, Paradise Garden and the Garden on the
Ramparts, Spanish Synagogue, museum's synagogues, ornate Moorish interior,
Jewish history and a handy bookshop. Concerts, Square, Prague Castle's
main gates, black-and-white sgraffito façade Schwarzenberg Palace
(Schwarzenberský palác). National Gallery, 3D optical
illusio Sternberg Palace already hosts National Gallery, Breughel, Dürer,
Goya, Rembrandt and Rubens. St George's Basilica, Czech Republic's best-preserved
Romanesque church. T Vratislav I (the father of St Wenceslas), St Ludmilla.
St George's Convent, Bohemia's first convent, National Gallery. extensive
collection of Renaissance and baroque art here. St Vitus Cathedral,
Gothic to the very tips of its pointy spires, Great Tower Art Nouveau
stained-glass window by Alfons Mucha, the baroque, silver tomb of St
John of Nepomuk with its draped canopy and cherubs, or the ornate Chapel
of St Wenceslas. Star Summer Palace, The Letohrádek is a Renaissance
summer palace in the shape of a six-pointed star for Archduke Ferdinand
of Tyrol. wooded park of Obora hunting reserve established by Ferdinand
I battle of White Mountain. Sternberg Palace, Archbishop's Palace baroque
Sternberg Palace, National Gallery's valuable collection of European
art, including works by Goya and Rembrandt. Fans of medieval altarpieces
will be in heaven; there are also several Rubens, some Rembrandt and
Breughel, and a large collection of Bohemian miniatures. Feast of the
Rosary by Albrecht Dürer, an artist better known for his engravings.
Story Of Prague Castle. castle's newest and most compelling exhibitions,
low-lit, state-of-the-art environment and explained in English. The
collection of armour, jewellery, glassware, furniture and other artefacts
skeleton of the pre-Christian 'warrior', still encased in the earth
where archaeologists found him, Strahov Monastery, Prague, Strahov Monastery's
main draw is the baroque Strahov Library (Strahovská knihovna).
It's divided into two magnificent book-lined halls - the two-storey
high Philosophy Hall (Filozofický sál), with its grandiose
ceiling fresco, and the stucco-encrusted Theology Hall (Teologiský
sál). Cabinet of Curiosities full of sea creatures. Stromovka,
Stromovka, Prague's largest park. royal hunting preserve, Královská
obora (Royal Deer Park). Rudolf II had rare trees planted here and several
lakes created (fed from the Vltava River via a still-functioning canal).
strollers, joggers, cyclists and inline skaters., Toy Museum, model
trains, robots, teddy bears and wooden dolls to colourful German tambourines
and tiny tin horses with whistles in their tails. Barbie dolls (including
celebrity lookalikes). Troja Chateau, baroque palace Prague City Gallery's
Czech art, and modern Czech sculpture history of wine-making in the
Czech lands. There's free admission to the palace grounds, beautiful
French gardens, Tunnel, Josef Pleskot beneath the castle's Powder Bridge,
Malostranská metro Tv Tower, Prague's tallest landmark, U Kalicha,
Karlovoe pub U kalichag of Jaroslav Hašek's comic novel of WWI,
The Good Soldier Švl for Švejk fNational Gallery's jaw-droppingly
impressive collection of Czech and European art. Small Hall atrium displays.
Czech cubist masterpieces and French impressionist works, Villa Müller,
Functionalist architecturis masterpiece of domestic desigtion entrepreneur
František Mülhe Viennese architect Adolf Loos, whose clean-cut,
ultramodernist exterior contrasts with the polished wood, leather and
oriental rugs of the classically decorated interior. , Vítkov
National Monument, This hilltop monument Hussite commander and independence
fighter one-eyed warrior Communist president Klement Gottwald accompanying
mausoleum history museum, Vrtbov Garden, This 'secret garden' Karmelitská,
Vrtba, chancellor of Prague Castle. baroque garden, terrace graced with
baroque statues of Greek mythological figures by Matthias Braun Vulcan,
Diana and Mars. Czech painter Mik of Prague Castle and Malá Strana.
Vyšehrad Cemetery, For Czechs, the Vyšehrad Cemeter memorial
cemetery for famous figures of Czech culture, with a graceful, neo-Renaissance
arcade running along the northern and western sides. Vyšehrad
Citadel, Tábor Gate (Táborská brána) at
the southeastern end.brick ramparts and ditcthe Gothic Peak G Charles
IV's 14th-century fortifications. Leopold Gate (Leopoldova brána),
Jubilee Exhibition. Fountain Lapidarium ten of Charles Bridge's original
statues, among others. Wallenstein Garden, formal lawns, fountains,
ponds and statues Prague castle. Wallenstein Palace and from Letenská,
Malostranská metro station. Wallenstein Palace, Wallenstein Square
Malostranské Albrecht of Wallenstein, generalissimo of the Habsburg
armies. brickworks and three gardens, Protestant nobles defeated at
the Battle of Bílá Hora Wenceslas Statue, Wenceslas Sq
St Wenceslas Sculptor Josef Myslbek duke of Bohemia and the 'Good King
Wenceslas', Bohemia - Prokop, Adalbert, Agnes, and Ludmila. Nearby,
Jan Palach and fellow martyred student Jan Zajíc. White Mountain,
gentle hillock, actually - collapse of Protestant military forces that
ended Czech independence small memorial cairn located on a mound in
the middle of a field, Zbraslav Chateau, Otakar II hunting lodge and
a chapel a Cistercian monastery. baroque chateau which now houses the
National Gallery's collection of Asian art, Czech sculptures in the
gardens. Miminka , city's tallest landmark.
Rome:
"The Eternal City", Romans, "Janiculum Hill", "Leonardo
Da Vinci", "St. Peter's Basilica", Vatican, "St.
Peter's", "Sistine Chapel", Raphael, "Roman Forum,
"Palatine Hill", Colosseum, Gladiator, ""Circus
Maximus", "Appian Way", Catacombs, Pantheon, Trevi, Shopping,
"Sight Seeing"
Tuscany:
Italy, Italian, Historic, Tyrrhenian, Tuscans, Etruscan, Roman, saints,
Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Michelangelo, Arno, Dante, "Tuscan
Hills", "Sienese Crete", "Calanchi of Pratomagno",
"Tufa hills", Grosseto. Boccaccio, Petrarch, Cosimo, Lorenzo
dei Medici, Machiavelli, Pisa, "Galileo Galilei", Latin, Byzantine,
Leonardo, Tuscanity, Carrara, Massa, Viareggio, Lucca, Pisa, Livorno,
Cecina, Volterra, Siena, "San Gimignano" , "San Miniato",
Empoli, Scandicci, Florence, Prato, Pistoia, "Montecatini Terme",
Lucca, Civitella, Montalcino, "Chinciano Terme" , Orbetello,
Grosseto, Piombino, "Tyrrhenian Sea" , Arezzo, Cortona, Montepulciano,
"Sienese hills", "Ponte Vecchio", "Piazza dei
Mircoli", Duomo, Uffizi, "Palio Siena", Chianti. "Leaning
tower of Pisa"