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The elegant Montelucia Resort is ranked as #1 Hotel in Arizona by Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards and #13 Top Resort in the United States and Canada.  One of the most luxurious in Scottsdale, this 35-acre retreat so resembles an Andalusian pueblo blanco that you’ll forget you’re in Arizona. Montelucia Resort is a top-rated luxury hotel inspired by the rich history, culture and architecture of Europe’s Andalusia region. Points of interest close to the resort include Sun Devil Stadium, Downtown Old Scottsdale Shopping Center, US Airways Center, Scottsdale Fashion Square, the Heard Museum, and Biltmore Fashion Park.

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Located in the Ladder District, Nine Zero Hotel is a boutique hotel with a great location in downtown Boston. It is minutes from the Broadway Theatre, Boston Athenaeum, the Financial District, Boston City Hall, Boston Common, Massachusetts State House and everything this historic city has to offer. If you are visiting United States of America for business or on vacation, make sure to take some time to enjoy this excellent urban accommodation.

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Set against the beauty of the Allegheny Mountains, West Virginia USA, The Greenbrier is an award-winning resort which has been offering a welcoming home to its guests since 1778.  For more than 200 years, The Greenbrier has been known as one of the country’s grandest resorts. Set amidst on 6,750-acres of lush landscape, Greenbrier provides a world-class haven for discerning business guests and sophisticated leisure travelers. Features an impressive architecture, plentiful scenic beauty and a rich history, it has welcomed kings and queens, presidents and politicians, luminaries and celebrities from all corners of the globe.

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Hotel Monticello is near White House, United States Capitol and Supreme Court, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. Located in the historical district at Washington, this is a luxury boutique European-style hotel offers personalized and friendly service. Located on the street where Thomas Jefferson once lived, it houses the classic 18th Century Georgian architecture that is the trademark of historic Georgetown.

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Located in a new building near the historic Water Tower in the heart of downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, the Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the world’s largest contemporary art venues. Established in 1967, the museum is an innovative center of modern art where the public can directly experience the work and ideas of living artists. This is one of the best places in Chicago to excite, challenge, and discuss about contemporary art and culture.

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Set in a hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center is a $1.3 billion center campus for cultural institutions overlooking the beautiful Los Angeles landscape and the Pacific Ocean. Created by the oil magnate J Paul Getty it started as the millionaire’s private collection. Opened to public in 1997, today the J. Paul Getty Museum attracts about 1.3 million visitors annually make it one of the most visited museums in the United States.

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Busy at all hours, Greenwich Village in New York City has always been a favorite hangout for the creative and rebellious. Often simply called “the Village”, Greenwich Village is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The Village has certainly got its charm! The zigzagging streets and charming brownstones of the village have a far more laid back atmosphere than most neighborhoods in the city.

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New York is definitely the place to be for a hungry art lover and there are places that should not be missed out. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met) is one of the largest and finest museums in the world. Its collections now contain more than three million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. Located in New York City’s Central Park along Fifth Avenue it was founded in 1870. Every year nearly five million people visit the museum make it one of the most popular tourist attractions in NYC.

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Situated on the west side the very lovely Laleh Park in the center of the capital, Tehran, the Museum of Contemporary Art is surrounded by 7000 sq. m of sculpture park, in which sculptures by renowned international and Iranian artists are on display. The Park is home to works by a number of the world’s leading sculptors, including “Capricorn” by Max Ernst; “The Prickly Pear” by Alexander Calder; “The Reclining Figure” by “Henry Moore” and more. The museum is considered to have the largest collection of valuable Western modern art outside of Europe and the United States.

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Nestled in Greenbelt Park in the heart of Makati City, the Philippines, Ayala Museum is considered one of the leading cultural institutions of Philippine art and culture. It displays the finest collections of dioramas of Philippine history and works of renowned Filipino painters. Established by Filipino abstract painter and one of the premier multimedia artists in the country – Fernando Zobel, the museum was opened in 1967 but the current building was inaugurated in September 2004 and was designed by Leandro V. Locsin and Partners.

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