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Louisiana Art Museum - The best art museum in Scandinavia

Louisiana Art Museum - The best art museum in Scandinavia

One of the best art museums in Europe is the Louisiana Art Museum, in the Dutch capital city of Copenhagen.   Situated some 22 miles north of the city, Louisiana Art Museum sits among some of the prettiest natural settings on the i [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

Riga (Latvia): Famous for its architecture

Riga (Latvia): Famous for its architecture

Famed for its Art Nouveau architecture, and with a city centre that is protected as the world’s heritage site, Riga, the capital city of former USSR’s satellite region, Latvia, is truly an architect’s marvel.   Fo [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

Lublin: Poland's best-kept secret

Lublin: Poland's best-kept secret

One of the best-kept secrets of Poland is its eastern city of Lublin. Capital of Poland’s administrative region of the same name, it is its nation’s ninth largest metropolitan area.   Though, it doesn’t emerge on th [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

Castle Stuart  - Your hotel in the Scottish Highlands

Castle Stuart - Your hotel in the Scottish Highlands

More famously known as the ghost hideout, than a stately home, Stuart Castle is an officially a hotel, or in this case – a Castle Hotel.   The current owner, Charles Stuart have spend a large part of his life renovating th [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2007 | Comments : 0

Iberian Peninsula: Home to the Spaniards, Portuguese and Andorreans

Iberian Peninsula: Home to the Spaniards, Portuguese and And...

Iberian Peninsula is not only the southern-most peninsulas of the three European peninsulas but also the largest of them all.   Iberian Peninsual, or Iberia, as the region is called is the area, south of France, on which, Spain, [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2007 | Comments : 0

Heart of the French Riviera in Nice (France)

Heart of the French Riviera in Nice (France)

Often called the heart of French Riviera, which is a part of coast of southern France stretching up to Italy. Nice is literally, a cultural behemoth along the Mediterranean coast. It lies between the cities of Marseille and Genoa and [...]

Posted On : May, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Scone Palace: The crowing place of Scottish Kings

Scone Palace: The crowing place of Scottish Kings

Built on a place, where ancient Scottish Kings used to be crowned, Scone (read: Skoon) Palace, is a category A listed historic house. Situated at Scone, hence the name, near the eastern town of Perth, Scotland, this palace was built commi [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Dettifoss waterfall: Iceland's largest falling body of water

Dettifoss waterfall: Iceland's largest falling body of water

Located in the northeastern Iceland, Dettifoss Waterfall is one of the largest waterfalls of in the country. It is situated on the Jokulsa-a-Fjollum river, which flows from the Vatnajokull Glacier. The Glacier, which itself is the largest [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2007 | Comments : 0

Marseille: France's cultural centre along the Mediterranean

Marseille: France's cultural centre along the Mediterranean

Second largest city of France and its largest port, Marseille lies on the southern coast along the shores of Mediterranean Sea.   Marseille, among its other historical ‘attachments’ has a very proud tradition of host [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

Great Belt Fixed Link: Linking the Danish nation

Great Belt Fixed Link: Linking the Danish nation

One of the greatest engineering feats carried out by the Danes is the construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark. So called, as it is a combination of a suspension bridge, an underwater tunnel and a box girder bridge. The whole co [...]

Posted On : May, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Cylcades Islands: Pearls in the southern Aegean Sea

Cylcades Islands: Pearls in the southern Aegean Sea

One of the many prefectures or ‘junior’ administrative units of Greece, Cyclades are a group of some 220 islands in the Aegean Sea. The islands are usually peaks of a submerged mountain range, with only two of these islan [...]

Posted On : May, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Majorca: A Spanish Jewel in the Mediterranean

Majorca: A Spanish Jewel in the Mediterranean

One of the main islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the largest Island under the Spanish patronage, Majorca is famous for being a tax haven.   One of the four main islands of the Balearic Islands Archipelago, Majorca is among the [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Sardinia - Home to Emerald Coast

Sardinia - Home to Emerald Coast

One of the largest islands and the second largest overall in the Mediterranean Sea, Sardinia is an autonomous region of Italy. It is also one of the most oldest, inhabited islands, with recent discoveries proved that people (our fore [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Sicily (Italy): Home of the Mafioso

Sicily (Italy): Home of the Mafioso

Lying at the ‘toe’ of Italian peninsula, Sicily as some wrongly believe is not a province but an autonomous region of Italy. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of 5 million inhabitants.   [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2007 | Comments : 0

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