Showing posts with label Monuments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monuments. Show all posts
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Atomium (The Belgian national icon)

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Built in 1958 for the the Brussels World’s Fair (Expo ’58), it is103 metre(335-foot) tall monument represents a cell of an iron crys...

Zheravna (attractive tourist destination in Bulgaria)

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The village has 330 houses and 550 inhabitant. It is an architectural and ethnographic reserve of over 150 houses, a workshop for chu...

The Harimandir (a living symbol of spiritual )

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The Harimandir , now called the Golden Temple is a living symbol of spiritual and historical traditions of the Sikhs . The Golden Templ...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Bamiyan Buddhas (the most impressive Buddhist monuments in western Asia)

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The Bamiyan Buddhas were among the most impressive Buddhist monuments in western Asia before their demolition in March 2001. No one kn...
Monday, December 24, 2012

the Caribbean sea (tropical paradise)

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The country is located in West Indies , the Caribbean sea . Antigua is tropical paradise. Antigua’s economy has become increasingly rel...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Ka’ba in Mecca (The most sacred place in Islam)

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The most sacred place in Islam is the Ka’ba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Ka’ba is a mosque (built by Abraham according to Muslim traditio...
Friday, December 21, 2012

The Leaning Tower of Pisa (the world’s most famous construction mistake)

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the world’s most famous construction mistake . The architect, Bonanno Pisano , found his bell tower starti...

The Easter Island (One of the world’s most famous archaeological sites)

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One of the world’s most famous yet least visited archaeological sites, Easter Island is a small, hilly, now treeless island of volcanic ...

Shwedagon (The mountain of gold)

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The origins of Shwedagon are lost in antiquity, its age unknown. Long before the pagoda was built, its location on Singuttara hill was ...

The Eiffel Tower (The most famous tower on the Earth)

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The Eiffel Tower , an immense stucture of exposed latticework supports made of iron, was erected for the Paris Exposition of 1889 . The ...

Colosseum of Rome (the Most Dramatic Historic Monuments on Earth)

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The Colosseum – the greatest amphitheatre of the antiquity – was built in Rome, Italy, about 1920 years ago . It is considered an archi...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Parthenon (the one historical site you can’t miss)

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What would a visit to Athens, Greece be without going to the Acropolis to see the Parthenon ? The Acropolis is the one historical si...