Wayfaring Travel Guide. Interesting vacation places, spa and resorts

 

Charles Bridge in the city of Prague has become a national symbol for the Czech Republic. Known also as Karluv most, was built over the Viltava River, in 1357, although there was an earlier bridge which collapsed during a flood. Charles Bridge is not just a tourist attraction, it’s the main pedestrian route linking the Old Town with Mala Strana, and then onto Prague Castle itself.

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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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The exhibition building of the Maritime Museum was built at the place where the first batch of Portuguese landed. The Museum looks like a special vessel anchored at the bay where the fishermen lived. The white outer wall looks like a ship with three masts full wind.

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Manneken Pis is a Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain’s basin. Manneken Pis is among Brussels’ most famous statues. The statue is only 2 feet tall — can be found behind a small fence at the corner of rue de l’Etuve and rue Chenet. Similar statues can be found in the Belgian towns of Gerardsbergen Broksele and Hasseld . Sometimes known as ‘Little Julian’, the statue is in its own way, a typically Belgian symbol of cultural self-mockery.

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Part retail store, part television screen, the glass facade of the Chanel store in Tokyo’s swanky Ginza district lights up the night sky with 700,000 embedded LEDs. The massive display can project footage of fashion show runway scenes or an electronic version of Chanel’s iconic black-and-white tweeds on a larger-than-life scale. The electronic mille-feuille can also transform from see-through to opaque, thanks to a combination of 3,675 square feet of canvas scrim and electronically controlled privacy glass.

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Dongtan is a new city planned for the island of Chongming, near Shanghai. The city should be open, with accommodation for 50,000, by the time the Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai. By 2040, the city is slated to be one-third the size of Manhattan. Dongtan is the first of up to four slated “eco-cities” to be designed and built in China by Arup, a British company. The cities are planned to be ecologically friendly, with zero-greenhouse-emission transit and complete self-sufficiency in water and energy.Ecologically sensitive design will be a key element of the masterplan.

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The building probably featured on more postcards than any other contemporary building. Even the whole area, the Flatiron district, was named after the building. Originally the Flatiron building featured an observatory on the top floor, but taller buildings have taken over this function. It is still however a popular tourist attraction, and one of the most photographed landmarks in New York.The Flatiron Building was constructed between 1901 and 1903 at the intersection of Broadway and 5th Avenue, at the time one of the most prominent sites. It is located near Madison Square at the end of the Ladies Mile, one of Manhattan’s most important shopping districts at the turn of the 19th century.

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