Archive for the Monuments Category
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Ankeruhr (Anchor Clock) – the public clock with human figures in Vienna, Austria
In Vienna there is a clock that marks each hour with a special figure from history. We’ve visited on the same day with Jungferngasse - for it’s very close to this street. The clock forms a bridge between two buildings that belong to the Anker
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Rooftop Ornaments Association in Riga*
Chances are most of what you think you know or imagine about Riga is wrong. It’s not a typical communist city, it’s not a typical Russian city, it’s not a sad city or an empty one, it’s not a new city but it’s not an old one, either. This
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Colosseum’s dungeons opening for the first time in history to visitors
Next week seems to be a great week for traveling and new discoveries. The Roman Colosseum's dungeons are opening for the first time in history to visitors. The Colosseum is one of the greatest Roman relics. In 1970s a part of the monuments wa
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Park Guell – Barcelona, Spain
When you visit Barcelona you simply must go to Park Güell. This special place was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built between 1900 and 1914. Park Guell is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí". W
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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
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 attractive train station or
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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
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 Dracula’s legend spread
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