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These majestic cliffs rise from the Atlantic Ocean to a height of nearly 200m. They take their name from a ruined promontory fort, Mothar, which was demolished during the Napoleonic wars to make room for a signal tower.
The rock consists of layers of shale and sandstone. And every now and then a piece of the cliff falls off and disappears in the ocean down below.
O’Brien’s Tower and the Cliffs of Moher are located a short distance from the village Doolin famous for its traditional music and from Liscannor famous for its slate flagstones which were used at the time for fencing purposes. In fact the story goes that Cornelius O’Brien, one time member of the parliament for County Clare won a bet with his English counterparts that he could build a fence a mile long, a yard high and an inch thick.

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The track was built over a hundred years ago, but the journey is timeless. Chose your train – perhaps the 1950s ornate beauty The Canadian, or the Royal Canadian Pacific which carried a cigar-puffing Sir Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II when she was a young princess.
Travelling onboard the Rocky Mountaineer is an unforgettable experience, considered by many to be, a trip of a lifetime. The two-day rail journey recaptures the romance of rail travel as it follows the historic train route constructed over 100 years ago through Canada’s West and the Canadian Rockies, uniting the country. The entire train ride takes place during daylight hours to ensure you enjoy every minute of the breathtaking scenery of glacier-fed lakes, majestic mountains ranges and ferocious rivers.

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The City of Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan and modern urban centre, where every day millions of people, among them tourists, come and go either to work or to visit the city.
The planetarium is impossible to miss as it rises out of Palermo’s busy and popular park district like a spacecraft or a giant eggcup. Between the appropriate architecture and the giant hunk of space rock on display outside the front door, those on the lookout can’t miss it.

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The Bolshoi Ballet, located in Moscow, is one of the oldest Russian ballet companies in existence. The company’s emotional, dramatic style was not popular in the 18th century, but by the late 19th century the Bolshoi style began to influence ballet worldwide.
Take a lover for an experience that lifts you out of the mundane and into the fantastic.
Whether you catch them doing Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre, where the hammer and sickle is still on display, or Spartacus in New York, you will not want the evening to end.

Let the newest generation of ballerinas pull at your heart strings, be dazzled by the opulent costumes and stunning set design, the impossible leaps of the men, the grace of the corps de ballet.

The Great Moscow State Circus was opened on 30th of April 1971. It has been designed and built by a group of the architects and engineers under the leadership of Mr. I.Belopolsky and still today it strikes everyone with its technical possibilities. There wasn‘t and still there isn‘t a similar circus anywhere in the world. Its auditorium represents a 36 meters high amphitheatre consisting of 23 rows totaling to 3400 seats.
Traditional circuses are a rarity in many parts of the world these days, but the Moscow State Circus is one troupe keeping the art form vividly alive. Headquartered at its flagship arena near Red Square, it tours the world for much of the year bewitching audiences with the extraordinary talents of its array of artistes.

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The Monaco Grand Prix is the last street course remaining in the Formula One calendar. Staged around the narrow, winding streets of Monte Carlo, the attraction of the Monaco Grand Prix is the proximity of the speeding Formula One cars to the race spectators. The twisting 78-lap circuit offers countless opportunities over the 263-kilometre race to witness the thrill of screaming engines, smoking tyres and the genius of the drivers on a course that allows no margin for error. Since the first Monaco Grand Prix was staged on the 14 April 1929, the fastest average race speed for the Monte Carlo circuit has risen from 80 kilometres (50 miles) per hour to 142 kilometres (88 miles) per hour.

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First time visitors will be pleasantly surprised with the diverse range of attractions on offer in Gibraltar.
Steeped in a history that has evolved from its strategic location at the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula, where Europe meets Africa, visitors are assured of breathtaking scenery, wildlife and architecture, that captures the unique flavour of this Mediterranean City and its inhabitants.

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The highlight of the annual fiesta in Buñol is the tomato battle where thousands of participants, dressed in their worst clothes, pelt each other with ripe tomatoes. The local town council provide lorry loads of ripe tomatoes for the crowds to hurl at one another. No one is safe.The battle starts at 11a.m. and lasts for one hour.
If you can’t have a laugh at La Tomatina, there is probably no hope for you. Every year, on the last Wednesday in August between 11am and 1pm, the little town of Bunol in the east of Spain is almost literally painted red – by over 125,000 kilos of tomatoes.

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The attractive climate and numerous beaches of Malta have been among the features that have attracted numbers of tourists each year. Malta is perfect destination for memorable holidays, with exciting accommodations of its luxury hotels. Its 451 guest rooms and suites are superbly furnished and have all the comforts expected of a five-star hotel. Inter Continental Malta is the premier venue for functions and events of any size, with over 2700 square meters of flexible conference and banquet space, and the Ice Arena can be converted into a conference or banquet venue. The state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment and a well-equipped Business Center incorporate all the necessary resources for business travelers.

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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires has little historical significance and no real purpose of function in the city, unlike its national symbol counterparts worldwide including US’s Statue of Liberty, Italy’s Vatican, or England’s Big Ben. This monolith is a meeting place for political demonstrations, musical performances and celebrations over victories of the national soccer team. The obelisk symbolized the sun god Ra and during the brief religious reformation of Akhenaten was said to be a petrified ray of the aten, the sun disk. It was also thought that the god existed within the structure.

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