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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"