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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Dubai Sports City, the world’s first integrated sports city and corner
stone project of Dubailand.Arabtec-Max Bogl, a joint venture partnership, has been contracted to design and build a 60,000-seater multi-purpose outdoor stadium and a 10,000-seater multi-purpose indoor stadium.
The contract, worth 830 million Dirham, would see the indoor stadium completed in April 2009 and the outdoor stadium by the end of that year. Designed by gmp, the architectural practice made famous for its work on the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and the Commerz Bank Stadium in Frankfurt, both stadia are set to be recognised internationally for the elegance and ambition of their design.Taken together, they will become key venues at Dubai Sports City, capable of hosting the most prestigious sporting and entertainment events and firmly positioning Dubai Sports City, and Dubai, as a leading sports and entertainment destination.

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The Oberbaum bridge is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin’s River Spree, considered one of the city landmarks. It link Friendrichshain and Kreuzberg, former city districts that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.
It was neglected for a long time when Germany was divided because the division of East and West went right through the middle of the bridge, which means that it wasn’t used and nobody really took care of it. Now it’s a very vital structure connecting Kreuzberg and Frierichshain. There’s even a U-Bahn train traveling over it.

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The Jewish Museum Berlin first became known for its architecture – the building designed by Daniel Libeskind was already a much frequented place by Berliners and tourists in 1999, two years before the permanent exhibition was opened. The Museum also reflects the great interest in the architecture with texts and pictures of the two buildings: the Old Building (the baroque Collegienhaus) and the modern Libeskind Building.
The Jewish Museum Berlin is dedicated to the telling of narrative history. The museum contains a great fund of material, stories and knowledge concerning all areas of German Jewish History.The museum contains a great fund of material, stories and knowledge concerning all areas of German Jewish History.

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The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg. The leading role in this unique architectural ensemble is played by the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian tsars that was built to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754-62. The basic display areas of the State Hermitage occupy 365 rooms in the Main Museum Complex located in the historic centre of St Petersburg.

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The tropes are located 60 km south of Berlin and 100 km north of Dresden. Housed in a former zeppelin hangar, soaring to 107 metres, the structure spans over 710,000 square feet and is the largest freestanding building in the world. With a length of 360 meters, a width of 210 meters and a height of 107 meters, it is large enough to hold 8 entire soccer fields. It can accommodate up to 7000 visitors. At the Tropical Islands you will find white sand beaches, the world’s largest indoor rain forest, a blue lagoon, the South Sea even with its islands, a complete tropical village, show and culture, sports and fun, all at a pleasant temperature of some 25°C. It’s in the biggest self-supporting dome in the world! The Tropical Islands dome has a ground surface of 66,000 square meters.

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Located 79km south of the Latvian capital of Riga, Rundale Palace and Museum lie just outside the town of Bauska. The Rundale Palace is one of the most outstanding monuments of Baroque and Rococo art in Latvia, built between 1736 and 1740 as a summer residence of the Duke of Courtland Ernst Johann Biron.

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The Loveparade is a legend in its own time. It began life as a demonstration and, over the course of the years, has developed into an event that makes it possible for fans to celebrate electronic dance music in a relaxed way with like-minded people from all over the world.
Our values are internationality, peace, tolerance and community. Participation is free of charge and freely accessible for all visitors. It’s the world’s largest open-air party – and everyone is welcome. The thematic core of the Loveparade is electronic dance music in all its topical currency and variety – and it will always remain so!!
Outstanding features of the Loveparade are people celebrating uninhibitedly, spectacular sights and a wide-ranging programme. The event is a mirror of current worldwide trends. By bringing in the hottest international artists, it attains a significance ranging far beyond Germany. We want to win the heart of each and every music fan for the Loveparade!

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The park, which covers the size of 25 soccer fields, is divided into seven subject areas. Every subject area was constructed with the thought that all of our heros, unconditioned by their age and in equal measure, have something to discover at the centers of experiment, rollercoasters, water attractions and shows. This is how the familiy altogether can spend the day exploring the park and experience something new. The core of the park is the so-called “MINILAND”. This is where famous buildings and landscapes in Europe were rebuilt with more than 25 billion LEGO® bricks and a lot of love for the details. In order to make MINILAND to look as realistic as possible, people, animals, cars, ships, trains and airplanes are moving when pushing a button, surrounded by the suitable background noises.

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The Hermitage Museum is Russia’s best gallery of world art, one of the most prominent art museums in the world and definitely the main tourist attraction of St. Petersburg. The museum was founded in 1764 when Catherine the Great purchased a collection of 255 paintings from the German city of Berlin. Today, the Hermitage boasts over 2.7 million exhibits and displays a diverse range of art and artifacts from all over the world and from throughout history (from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century Europe).

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Hram-pametnik Aleksander Nevski (St Alexander Nevski Memorial Church)
Said to be Sofia’s most photographed monument, Alexander Nevski is a magnificent neo-Byzantine cathedral-sized church, topped by copper and golden domes. Considered the heart of the city, it was built between 1882 and 1912, in honor of the Russian soldiers, who fell when the Russian army helped liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878. The church takes its name from Alexander Nevski, credited with saving Russia from Swedish troops in 1240 and the patron saint of the family of the tsar at that time, Alexander II – also known as Tsar Osvoboditel, the ‘Tsar Liberator’ – who led the army that drove out the Turks.

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