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Park Asterix is a theme amusement park in France, based on the stories of Asterix and Obelix. Situated approximately 35 km north of Paris in Plailly in the department of Oise, it opened in 1989. The park offers its visitors an excellent mixture of rides, shows, and cartoon characters. In all there are 28 main attractions, so you’ll be hard pushed to fit everything in during a one day visit. There are around 30 permanent rides at the park, as well as regular shows to entertain visitors. Magic and crazy, the cinema-theatre is launched at Parc Asterix!

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The Brandenburg Gate is a former city gate and the symbol of Berlin, Germany. It is located between the Pariser Platz and the Platz des 18 Marz and is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin. One block to its north lies the Reichstag. The sandstone construction, built from 1788–91 to plans by C.G. Langhans, has 12 Doric columns and is based on the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens. On both sides, six Doric columns support the 11 meter-deep transverse beam, dividing the gate into five passageways. In 1794 the building was crowned with the quadriga and goddess of victory created by Schadow, which face eastwards towards the city center. The Brandenburg Gate was surrounded by further buildings which were destroyed in the war.

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It’s a joyous riot of color,
abundant and flowing,
a corner of nature just barely tamed,
a paradise made to order by an Impressionist to please the eye
and provide endless motifs to paint.
Giverny is a small French village 80 km to the west of the capital city Paris, within the valley of the river Seine and the northern region of Haute-Normandie. The village is best known as the rural retreat of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. French impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926) developed his garden in the Parisian village of Giverny, covering his extensive grounds with brilliant flowers and profuse greenery.

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Copenhagen is a great shopping city for design pilgrims, but for some reason the choice of hotels can be aesthetically underwhelming considering the superb quality of nature and interiors on offer there. So when a new experimental hotel with spectacular rooms and affordable rates opened its doors in April in Denmark, there was cause for celebration. Hotel Fox was initially conceived as part of a marketing strategy for the launch of the new VW Fox. The idea was to get young designers and artist to paint some rooms and create a hip urban hotel that would open at the same time as the European launch of the car. However, what makes Hotel Fox really interesting is that the people chosen to curate the project were Berlin’s Die Gestalten Verlag – publishers of some of the most sumptuous, cutting -edge graphics and illustration books on the market.

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Estoril is a civil parish of the Portuguese municipality of Cascais. The Estoril coast is close to Lisbon – the capital of Portugal. It starts in Carcavel, 15 kilometres from Lisbon and stretches as far as Guincho. The two main resort towns are Estoril and Cascais. The town has since lost much of its status, but maintains a certain faded grandeur and is still a fashionable cosmopolitan playground with Europe’s largest casino, tennis courts, some of Europe’s finest golf courses, an automobile race track that has held Formula One Grand Prix races, and an attractive sandy beach. Early in the 20th century the resort became the playground of the rich and famous who came here to relax and sunbathe; luxurious hotels accommodated illustrious visitors which included royalty and ex-royalty.

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If you saw the film Mission Impossible, you’ve already seen Europe’s “Chunnel” passenger train in action. In that movie, Tom Cruise fended off a helicopter from the Eurostar’s roof until the chopper blew up inside the English Channel Tunnel.

Most Eurostar trips are less dramatic. More than two dozen high-speed electric trains (based on French TGV designs) connect London with Lille, Paris, Brussels, Avignon, the French Alps, and the Disneyland Paris resort at speeds of up to 300 km/h or 186 mph.

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Gyllyngvase Beach is just a 3 minute walk away and the Princess Pavilion offering a wide variety of music and shows during the summer and free nightly entertainment in the picturesque Biergarten. A pleasant beach walk takes you along the Bay and around Pendennis headland and Castle to Falmouth town centre and harbour front.
Four acres of formal gardens and a beautiful Edwardian perimeter veranda to provide exterior covered seating. Centrally placed in the lawn is the Edwardian cast iron Bandstand from which regular open-air concerts are given by local town bands. A bandstand is a circular or semicircular structure set in a park, garden or pier, designed to accommodate musical bands performing outdoor concerts.

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It has become customary for people who put premium in traveling to different places in the world to at least schedule some time to have the family stop over at Disneyland in Anaheim California. This world-renowned amusement and theme park has become one of the necessary trips for kids to at least experience what this much ballyhooed place has to offer. Disneyland is topical an amusement Park, made by the animator Walt Disney and discovered, of 17 juli,1955 in Anaheim, California, USA. The park was built in one year at a cost of $17m. The opening ceremonies were televised, with Art Linkletter, Bob Cumming, and Ronald Reagan, acting as emcees.

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Every king’s dream, Versailles was the residence of the French king and the cultural heartbeat of Europe for about 100 years — until the Revolution of 1789 ended the notion that God deputized some people to rule for Him on Earth. Louis XIV spent half a year’s income of Europe’s richest country turning his dad’s hunting lodge into a palace fit for a divine monarch. Louis XV and Louis XVI spent much of the 18th century gilding Louis XIV’s lily. In 1837, about 50 years after the royal family was evicted, King Louis Philippe opened the palace as a museum. Europe’s next-best palaces are Versailles wannabes.Versailles is more than a palace, it’s a symbol – of absolute monarchy, of the excess that brought about a revolution. Occupying a pleasant Parisian suburb, the chateau is one of the city’s top tourist destinations and with good reason.The park and gardens are a joy in their own right, elaborately landscaped with grand fountains and central canal; stand on the terrace, with the palace behind you, and soak up a view fit for a Sun King.

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The Antwerp Cathedral of Our Lady is a masterpiece of lace work in stone. Begun in 1352, it is one of the finest Gothic buildings in Europe. The church, which became a cathedral in 1559 replaced a Romanesque church built in the 12th century. The last vestiges of that church were demolished in 1481. It contains a number of significant works by painter, Rubens. Its spire is 123 m high. This portal features statues which include the missionary Saint Willibrordus. He is thought to have spent time in Antwerp in the 7th century.

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