Historical Tours
Today we travel to Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, particularly its picturesque colonial district. This corner of the city exudes colonial history hundreds of years we can see among other things, at the Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo Fortress and the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria. These colonial treasures we find the wonderful Church of the Mercedes. Are we going to know?
The Church of Our Lady of Mercy is one of the historic sites of Santo Domingo’s most recognised and has been one of the most important temples of India in colonial times.
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The Ahwahnee Hotel (California)
Built in 1920 in the heart of Yosemite National Park, a place that had formerly housed an Indian tribe called the Miwok. The Ahwahnee Hotel has kept its architecture and decor in the rich native heritage site.
We continue our cruise the most beautiful beaches in Europe and today it is the turn of the Pelosa beach in Sardinia, where we arrive to enjoy all the most recurrent topics related to the beautiful coastline, but it is also, in this case, they are all true: crystal clear waters, soft white sands, spectacular panoramic …
Stirnino is necessary to reach a relatively young town with little more than two decades as an autonomous municipality. It is a village of fishermen and sailors who have finished converting much of its economic and social activity towards tourism. No wonder if we handle the data that one of its beaches, of course the Pelosa, is regarded as possessing the miraculous waters of Italy.
It has completed the 66 anniversary of one of the most sinister of history, the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the August 6, 1945 and the world witnessed the devastating power of the new weapon of mass destruction: the atomic bomb.
Attack of the Americans, ordered by President Truman, precipitated the end of World War II and won, after Nagasaki also bombed, the unconditional surrender of Japan. The camp “ally” was winner of a war that lasted six long and grueling years and was the scene of some of the greatest horrors of the History of Mankind.
Malacca is a city that is the capital of the state of the same name, in the southwest of Malaysia, which lies on both banks of the river of the same name, near the Strait of Malacca. This city has a great story that can be seen in its old center, which is complemented by the excellent modern environment which is currently being a great destination to discover.
One of the most recommended to visit in this city is its oldest part, where you can see the old palace and a lot of buildings left over from the times when Europeans were living there. Also there is no private houses and shops that were made a little more than a century by Chinese traders.
Veszprem is considered by some to be the oldest town in all of Hungary, while for others it is simply one of the oldest, but regardless of that, it’s a place with history in all its streets, which makes it lovely for tourism. This is the county town of the same name and is about ten miles north of Lake Balaton, another important place to visit.
This city is on both sides of the creek thirst, a little over a hundred kilometers from the Hungarian capital, Budapest, which can be reached by the M7 motorway and then take Highway 8. There can also be reached from other cities like Gyor, through the highway 82 and from Szekesfehervar, the number eight, so it is excellently connected.
To the south of Spain, Andalusia generous, there is still something of a haven of calm and beauty that has managed to preserve their generous nature of urban atrocities. We refer to Bologna, a spectacular beach in the province of Cadiz, very few miles of the well known rate.
Think of this beach is almost automatically bring the image of a dune your head, as if it were really a synonym of Bologna. The long sandy, thin and in constant motion, forming the Bologna Dune a decade is a Natural Monument.
In 2010, Lonely Planet consulted his public museums he liked, and from this vote drew up a list of the best museums in the world, which spread through his blog.
Of course, these are the most popular museums, and perhaps there are other very good but little known. However, it is interesting to know which of these famous museums are the most captivate travellers. Moreover, that fame is not in vain in these museums is where the most emblematic pieces of art and world history.
Spoleto Cathedral, also known as the Duomo of Spoleto, a temple in this city of the province of Perugia in central Italy. This place, which is also known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the twelfth century and is known for its great beauty, and its impressive Romanesque facade and frescoes by Filippo Lippi.
This cathedral was built in 1155 to replace what was there, that was destroyed when the emperor destroyed Spoleto for not paying their taxes. Visitors can see the cathedral in the lower part of a grand staircase that will give the Piazza del Duomo, and has a background that complements it, which is a hill covered with a nature of a deep green.
One of the most desirable cultural attractions of the city of New York are the museums in here we have already shared an excellent guide to the major museums of this city. Today we focus on one of the most important: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, also known as Met, located on the sides of Central Park.
Without doubt this is one of the most attractive and complete. The giant Met receives more than 5 million visitors a year who dazzle with their vast collection and permanent exhibits, covering art shows of all time, from ancient Egyptian vessels, passing by statues of ancient Rome to the paintings of European Impressionism and its complete collection of American art from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – the renowned New American Wing.