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Hotel Missoni Edinburgh features a pleasant atmosphere, fine service and quality accommodation. The hotel offers 136 rooms and suites, the bar, restaurant and conference facilities. Missoni is the name of a prestigious Milan fashion house conjures up images of a skilled use of many tones and shades. Hotel Missoni provides convenient access to visit Edinburgh Castle, Royal Observatory Edinburgh Visitor Centre and Edinburgh Zoo.
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Lewis and Haris, surprisingly is one single island, the largest and the most northerly of Western Isles, otherwise known as the Outer Hebrides. The largest part of the island is Lewis to the north, which becomes Harris at the point where two sea lochs, Resort and Seaforth. Harris in turn is also situated between north and south by a narrow isthmus, again formed by two sea lochs. Photo by: -JM-
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This article is for tourists which are interested to the literature. London is this year’s winner in the competition for most atractive literatute destination, among the towns such as Paris, Rome and New York. London – the birth place of writers as Charles Dickens and John Keats, was definite as “home to the literature, which we love and explore”.
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Edinburgh has been called the Athens of the North and the gateway to central Scotland. Built atop extinct volcanoes on an inlet from the North Sea (the Firth of Forth), and enveloped by rolling hills, lakes, and forests, Edinburgh is a city made for walking.
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Each year the Edinburgh International Festival stages one of the greatest celebrations of the arts, attracting audiences from around the world to the city’s thrilling atmosphere. The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual feast of classical music, opera, theater and dance. The festivities offer a unique opportunity to experience the excitement of live performance by internationally renowned artists as well as the joy of discovering new and unfamiliar works.

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Situated above the center of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh Castle has watched over the history of Scotland for almost 1400 years. Today it offers a wide range of superb attractions for the visitor to explore. Edinburgh Castle sits on top of what was, at one time, a volcano – a 437 feet high plug of basalt rock.

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1. The Ice Hotel, Sweden
Consistently getting top scores in readers’ surveys, the Ice Hotel is the coolest hotel around (literally). Built afresh every December with ice from the River Thorne in northern Sweden, and featuring specially commissioned artwork each year, this fairytale hotel is a very romantic retreat (you sleep on ice blocks covered in reindeers skins), if you can face the sub-zero temperatures in the rooms. There is an ice bar, a wedding chapel and more traditional cabins for those who don’t like to be quite so chilled. Go now: with the impact of global warming, the option of staying at this amazing hotel might not be with us for long. (website: www.icehotel.com)
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