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Archive for the Monuments Category
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Scarisoara – an ice cave and the oldest glacier in the world
Summer and cold? Heaven for me (someone living in the heat of Bucharest during summer). We’ve spent one of the first days of our vacation in the Apuseni Mountains (Western Carpathians) from this year visiting two caves: the one at Scarisoara and
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Top 10 experiences
Many people asked me which is the nicest, best, more interesting place I have ever been. It is tough to make such a ranking… Probably, the nicest for me is Bali which I feel is the closest place on Earth which suggests me how the heaven looks like.
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The beautiful and dear Aiud
by Valentina Roman Aiud is a city located in Transylvania which has an interesting story related to medieval and contemporary times. Here you can find many historical buildings, museums and churches. It is a small city, having a not very attrac
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Photo of the week: Saint Elijah Monastery (Manastirea Sfantul Ilie)
In this year's vacation we saw an interesting, rather new, monastery in the Western Carpathians, in the Albac village: The Monastery of St. Elijah/Elias (in Romanian Manastirea Sfantul Ilie). Today a photo of the entrance in this monastery. Enjoy!
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Top 50 weirdest buildings from around the world
To look like others, or to look different? This is a dilemma and designers and architects often imagine different (and sometimes strange) buildings. Some construction developers actually choose to put those ideas into reality. Is the usual environ
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Traveling in medieval times – Corvins’ Castle
by Valentina Roman If you love the medieval atmosphere, you should definitely go to Hunedoara - the place were you can find the most important Gothic-style secular building in Transylvania. I guess you know about “Transylvania”, due of Drac
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Thirteen interesting facts about Paris as picked out by Michael Schuermann, author Paris Movie Walks
Guest post ParisBuff 1. In the years immediately before the French Revolution, the Palais Royal – nowadays the epitome of bourgeois calm and good taste – was the mother of all open air brothels. 2. Marie Antoinette was so unfamiliar
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Want to visit Spain for 20 Euros a night?
Guest post by Eileen Barish Spain is a bargain, especially if you choose to stay at any number of monasteries, convents and casas that offer hospitality to all, regardless of religious affiliation. These are working monasteries and convents in met
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Vienna – The Red (Soviet) Army memorial „Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee”
If you are walking trough Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna, near Hochstrahlbrunnen (the giant fountain) (that we've presented here) you can see The Soviet memorial „Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee", a monument raised short after WWII (the Second World Wa
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Light show fountain in Vienna
Vienna is a city with many places worth seeing. Walking around Schwarzenbergplatz you'll see The Russian Freedom Monument (we'll present it in another dedicated post) and the Hochstrahlbrunnen (the giant fountain). This fountain was erected to com
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