2011 June travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

 

The Hotel Tassel is an elegant urban house with facade defined around centered, stacked oriel bay windows and balcony. Designed by Victor Horta – the architect to initiate the Art Nouveau style, the building was built for the Belgian scientist and Professor Emile Tassel. Because of Horta’s highly innovative plan, the old urban house was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000. This building is generally considered as the first Art Nouveau building in Brussels.
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Smolny Convent is a Baroque ensemble of buildings situated on the curve of the left bank of the River Neva, in the city St. Petersburg, Russia. The complex’ name means “Holy Virgin Convent of the Resurrection”. It was built at the behest of Empress Elizabeth I in the years 1748. Designed by the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the Smolny Convent consists of a cathedral and a complex of buildings surrounding it.
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Antigua Guatemala is the best-preserved colonial city in South America. Famous for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque inspired architecture and and cobblestone streets, it has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded in the early 16th century, every year Antigua Guatemala attracts visitors from around the world to enjoy its natural beauty and historic monuments.
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A district of Karabük Province, Turkey, Safranbolu is a typical Anatolian ancient city that has survived to the present day. It was described by Homer in his epic poem, The Iliad and its known history dates back to 3000 BC. From the 13th century to the advent of the railway in the early 20th century, Safranbolu was an important caravan station on the main East–West trade route. The caravan trade was for centuries the main commercial link between the Orient and Europe. Safranbolu brings history to life through its well-preserved Ottoman era architecture. It was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994.
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Located in central Shanxi Province, the city was founded in the 14th century. This tiny city was the main banking center in China during the Qing Dynasty in 19th century. There is no charming landscape. No green mountain or clear waters. But Ping Yao is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city. Pingyao was added to the UNESCO‘s World Heritage List on December 31st, 1997.
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La Laguna in short, is a city in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. In Spanish ‘The Lagoon”, the city is third-most populous city of the archipelago and second-most populous city of the island. It was founded more than five centuries ago some time between 1496 and 1497 by Alonso Fernandez de Lugo. It was the main cultural centre and several teaching institutions were established like Canary Islands University.
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Kilwa is an Islamic community on an island off the coast of East Africa, in present day Tanzania. It was the principal of about thirty-five ports of trade on the Indian Ocean, trading gold, ivory, iron and coconuts from southern Africa during the 11th through 16th centuries AD. The Great Mosque of Kilwa is the earliest remaining mosque structure on the East African coast. It was likely founded in the tenth century, but the two major stages of construction date to the eleventh or twelfth and thirteenth century, respectively. The mosque was built in two stages – the small, northern prayer hall, in the 11th century, and the southern enlargement in the 14th century.
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Phinda Forest Lodge is placed in the Phinda Secret Line Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Set intense in the nerve of a extraordinary and lovely dry smoothen ground, the impressive Vegetation Lodge at and Beyond Phinda fuses architectural decoration and improvement. Situated in the Phinda Gamy Request, Phinda Set Fix enjoys an surround princely in wildlife and big spunky, as good as pleasing and unequalled views. With only a handful of lodges superior wildlife sightings, guests are assured an exclusive occupation watch experience.
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The wall that encloses the present-day Old City of Jerusalem, in Israel/ Palestine was built in the sixteenth century and originally it had seven gates; an eighth, aptly named New Gate, was added in the late nineteenth century in the wall’s northwest sector. The Damascus Gate is one of many entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem and it has been the site of the city’s main entrance since ancient times. It is the busiest and most magnificent of all Jerusalem’s gates.
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If you are traveling around Florida,  Daytona Beach is a magical city of entertainment and fun, a city where fun never stop. It boasts resorts, attractions and the Daytona International Speedway and is famous for its evening shows like musical and magical dinner shows, events, and other hot happenings. The beaches, bike weeks, and racing attracts over eight million visitors each year.
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