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30
Jul

The Military Museum

Posted in Africa  by visit on July 30th, 2009

The Military Museum is situated in Cairo, the capital of Egypt and it has several collections of weapons and costumes since the ancient times. Impressive are the artifacts inside of the museum dating since 1956, when the Anglo-French-Israeli attack took place.

This Military Museum was founded in 1937 and today contains the old building of ministry of defense from Cairo. It was also renovated 3 times in 1982,1988 and the last time in 1993. This is the best tourist attraction you could ever visit there.

Mostly, the museum is very renowned due to its rich collection of historical artifacts existing since the reign of Mohamed Ali, the man who founded the royal family from Egypt.
This building has 3 wings and 3 storeys, each of them has many different halls. Besides the artifacts mentioned above, there are even around 220 paintings ilustrating old famous battles.

The Military Museum is believed to be a great celebration and glorification of the Egyptian history. It is a place where with family you can ever find a bit of fun, a way to enjoy this new sight.

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28
Jul

Freedom Trail

Posted in North America  by visit on July 28th, 2009

A kind of red path you will find it through downtown Boston.
-Situated at only 4 km away from the Boston Common, the Freedom Trail is considered one of the most popular tourist attraction from Massachusetts.

-More than that, tourists can see every historic site of this place; closer to this area, visitors can see different resources as restaurants, museums, acompanied by the green squares around and offering many extreme activities

-The Foundation of the Freedom Trail is trying to preserve its introduction to the Colonial Revolutionary Boston.

-This famous Trail leads visitors to sixteen historical sites in only 2-3 hours.

-Sometimes, there are even travellers who come around trying to study these exhibits so, a whole day can take you or even more to see all that stuff along the Freedom Trail.

- More often, visitors would like to ride, they just have to pay for one of the trolley tours, a kind of guided tours, which takes you in every site along this amazing path.

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26
Jul

San Juan

Posted in North America  by visit on July 26th, 2009

San Juan is situated in the north part of the Coastal Plains region and the west part of Carolina.

People know San Juan as a great port and tourist attraction and also being one of the oldest city from the United States Of America.

This metropolitan area of San Juan is known to have 3 areas: The Old San Juan, the resort area with the Beach and many other important landmarks as Río Piedras, Puerta de Tierra, etc. The most visited of them is Río Piedras, maybe because it was founded more quickly, in 1714. It has become a part of San Juan’s destination in 1951.

Throughout the 16th century, San Juan had an important role in the Spanish expeditions. But in the 20th century, San Juan has decided to expand itself by incorporating suburban Miramar, Santurce, Condado and Río Piedras.

San Juan is also the largest center from surroundings, an area which has several facilities for natural resources as petroleum and sugar refining. It is also important for the industry by producing cement, pharmaceuticals, metal objects,etc.
The well known port has a lot to do in the Caribbean, specially when there are a lot of tourists who come here in summer.

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24
Jul

Meeting House Square

Posted in Uncategorized  by visit on July 24th, 2009

The Meeting House Square is situated in the center of Temple Bar. The square is named after a Quaker Meeting House. It has a back wall of the Ark which in summer becomes screen of movies for shows held in the air on a small stage for every type of activities and performances. The Meeting House Square is renowned through its best Irish organic food, several restaurants and the National Photographic Archive. At the restaurants visitors could get a well prepared and a delicious burger, a pie, a hot-dog or many and many other foods.
Meeting House Square is a square in Temple Bar. On one side of it is it Gallery of Photography and another side is a stage (which is part of The Ark Theatre).

The Temple Bar’s development was a real inspiration for the city square’s creation. This area has around a great contemporary architecture.

This place hosts a very beautiful market where tourists could come on weekends, and also markets where they could see movies projected on the back walls.

Some importan events held there are the occasional “Films in the Square”  which you could see only at night and only in summer. This is a good point for you and a great way to spend your free time.

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22
Jul

The Malahide Castle

Posted in Europe  by visit on July 22nd, 2009

The Malahide Castle is situated in the north part of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. The well known castle has around 250 acres of park land being located in a pretty part of the Malahide town. Someday, this castle was a famous fortress for a period of almost 8 hundred years. It was also considered a home for the Talbot family who lived here between 1185 and 1973 years. In 1973 the last Lord Talbot has died.

The ex-house has a beautiful furnishing and a lot of expensive collections of paintings. These portraits paintings are starting with the oldest generation of the Talbot family.
The family’s history is telling us their story of stormy history of Ireland country.
Today,the castle is open for tourists around the world. The Malahide Castle has also several ghostly traditions. As many other castles have one, two or three ghosts, the Malahide Castle has 5 of them.

Some of these ghosts are the young Lord Galtrim, Lady Elenora Fitzgerald, Lady Maud Plunkett, Sir Walter Hussey, who was killed in his wedding day in the 15th century. This Lord Galtrim is believed to haunt the Castle to show his own resentment for his bride.

Another qand the most interesting ghost is of Miles Corbett, who received  during his life the Castle from Cromwell. At the Restoration, Miles had to pay for many crimes he had commited. .

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20
Jul

Times Square

Posted in North America  by visit on July 20th, 2009

Times Square is situated in new York city and it is one of the the most renowned squares from New York. It has many different theatres, cinemas and supersigns. This place make the NY city never sleeps.

At the 19th century’s end, the city had adopted the new 42nd street, place which has become the center of the city’s scene. Preciselly, in 1904, the New York Times has decided to build the Times Tower on the 43rd street. This square was named the Longacre square, afterwards it was called Times Square.
The inauguration of Times Square new area has started with fireworks as a tradition of New Year’ city.

In the first World War, Times Square was the Theater district’s center and also it has attracted a great number of tourists from all over the world, even in the given conditions of war. This thing made the square the perfect place for billboards, which was installed in 1917.

In the thirties something went wrong. The Great Depression has met a decline in theater attendance. A lot of businesses were closed, but the area has still attracted tourists. But after the 2nd World War, the Theater district was expanded again, and even better.

10 years later, when the Walt Disney Company has decided to open a Disney store on Times Square, the number of tourists was bigger and the area has also attracted more family-friendly businesses . The place is believed to have an amazing magnet for tourists in New York City.

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18
Jul

Madrid

Posted in Europe  by visit on July 18th, 2009

As well as being Madrid one of the most popular tourist attraction with The Puerta Del Sol or Gate of the Sun is also a point for the main destination in Spain and six of the national highways technically start here. So, the capital of Spanish is known for its special cookies or biscuits, but unless figure it out where to buy them, that information it’s useless. Spanish people have even a particular way to drink wine. The wine contains red wine and limonade in equal measure.

The Carboneras, is probably better kkown for ladies who sell their home-made cookies.
Madrid has also a train station to the South of the City, is around over one hundred years old. But the garden didn’t make an appearance until the 1980’s.
Originally created exclusively for loyalty and high society, Madrid’s huge and beautiful Park Del Retiro, has more relaxing rules to include anyone in a short journey. These days anything goes. So everyone can enjoy a walk in the park, opened-spaces or the cool water of the artificial lake. For 4 generations, Capa Sesena, having high capes to the lights of Hilary Clinton, Michael Jackson and the Spanish Royal family and the classic design is basically a circular piece of croft. A slightly more sinistre landmark is the Statue Of The Fallen Angel, which is also located in the Retiro Park, Madrid, depicting himself at the moment he fell from heaven.
But El Sobrino De Botin isn’t just the oldest restaurant in Madrid or even in Spain. It’s officialy listed in the Guiness Book Of Records as the oldest restaurant in the world, dating back to the 1720’s.

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16
Jul

The High Museum of Art

Posted in Europe  by visit on July 16th, 2009

The High Museum of Art is situated in Atlanta, in the United States Of America.This museum was also founded in 1905 as being the Art Association of Atlanta. and the leading art museum.

The museum has more than 10,000 art works in its huge collection. It also host several important European paintings and decorative art. his collection continue to grow up in the African combined with the American art, modern and contemporary art.

The High Museum Of Art hosts some of the most important works of Southern artists and it is considered the only museum from North America which has a curatorial department devoted to the field of folk.

Even a very important galerry as The Greene Family Learning is designed for children between five and ten years old. The musuem offers a lot of experiences for new tourists who come here, enhancing the museum visit.

Most of children who visit the museum don’t want to visit the other buildings, the reast of them. In weekends, the family tours will leave from the Greene Family Learning at 2PM. In the collection of the museum there is also a drawing area and a sculpture section.

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14
Jul

Manila Bay

Posted in Asia  by visit on July 14th, 2009

There is said that Manila Bay could possibly have an aquarium in the hotel, food museum and even exhibits with jellyfish.

In the interior of the Manila Ocean Park there is launched the Sunset quay which is a floating shooping.

Maybe in future several attractions will be opened.These tourist destinations arekno0wn to be the Jellyfish Bar, Makansutra, Hotel H2O and Open Marine Habitat.

This important attraction was opened one year ago, as a project released by the Philippine Tourism Authority and it have already had investors fromMalaysia and Singapore.

The Hotel H2O will become an aquarium-themed urban hotel with a lot of aquarium walls. While it hosts toruists from all oer the world,but only creative travellers.
Guests have the chance to choose from 3 types of 127 rooms and 20 suites.The views of this landscape is well pronounced by  the Rizal Park, the Bay View overlooking Manila Bay.

If tourists want to eat something, they have as a landmark the Makansutra Asian Food Village,  a kind of museum and restaurant in the same time.

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13
Jul

The Famous Central Park

Posted in North America  by visit on July 13th, 2009

Central Park is a very renowned park from New York city and is also situated in the center of it.

Central Park is considered to be a National Historic Landmark. It has as designer Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux.

The park has so much natural as no one park in the world. There are rare of them which are entirely landscaped. A lot of flowers, many natural-looking lakes and several extensive paths, 2 ice-skating rinks and all around the Central Park is the Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden, etc. The entire space is occupied with natural woods. We could not forget the Delacorte Theater. This is one of the most visited attraction when tourists come at the Central Park. More than 20 million tourists are coming annually.

This makes the Central Park being one of the most visited and exciting park of the city from United States Of America. This park is also renowned through its fame, appearing in many different movies.

The park has also its own oasis for different species of birds, around two hundred of species which are waiting to be seen by birds watchers.
Here you can also practice some simple sports, preferably jogging.

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