All excursion routes of Belarus start from the capital of the country – the city of Minsk . The city is located in the center of the country on the Minsk Upland. In 1974, Minsk was awarded the title of Hero City. The main historical districts of Minskare the Upper Town, the Trinity and Rakovskoe suburbs. The upper city began to be populated in the 12th century and became the…
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Mount Saint Michael Mount Saint Michael is a rock in the ocean 70 meters high, five hundred meters from the shore, located in the county of Cornwall. It is the most famous landmark in the county. A port was located on the mountain, through which tin and copper were traded from 350 BC. After the capture of the island by Julius Caesar in 56 BC. he was left to hermits.…
Read MoreFaroe Islands Politics, Population and Geography
General information: According to behealthybytomorrow, The population of the Faroe Islands mainly comes from the Vikings who arrived here in the 9th century. The islands became part of Denmark in the 14th century. In 1948 the islands were granted a high degree of self-government. Geography Location: Northern Europe, a group of islands between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between Iceland and Norway. Geographic coordinates: 62°…
Read MoreYakhroma, Russia
According to beautypically, Yakhroma is located 46 km north of Moscow. The city is located on the slopes of the Klinsko-Dmitrovskaya ridge, this is a great place in terms of ecology. The terrain and clean air have become the main factors for the formation of several sports and entertainment parks. In the Yakhroma park, the height difference is 60 m, there are 9 ski slopes, cross-country skiing tracks, 4 drag…
Read MorePoland Travel Tips
Tipping is usually already included in the bill, but you can additionally leave up to 10% of the amount. It is customary to give to waiters, taxi drivers and hairdressers, rounding the amount when paying for services. Rounding by more than 10% is not accepted. Sights of Poland In 1927, at the UNESCO conference in Paris, a convention was adopted for the protection of the cultural and natural scientific heritage…
Read MoreScience and Culture of Italy
Activities in the field of R&D are carried out by economic entities of three types – universities, state scientific institutions and enterprises. Financing of R&D in universities and public institutions is carried out mainly by the state, in state enterprises – with significant participation of the private sector, in private enterprises – almost entirely by private capital. According to andyeducation, there are 64 universities in the country, 51 of which…
Read MoreChildren’s Amusement Parks and Museums in Paris, France
WHERE TO GO WITH CHILDREN IN PARIS The vast majority of tourists do not even suspect that Paris is simply replete with places where you can go with the whole family, and it will be interesting not only for the child, but also for the parents. You can always order transfers and a Russian escort or guide who will help you get your bearings faster and save time. Let’s start…
Read MoreLondon, United Kingdom
“Seeing London, I learned as much about life as the whole world can show.” Samuel Johnson Without a doubt, London is the quintessence of the entire United Kingdom, it strikingly combines English stiffness and centuries-old traditions with an adventurous spirit of cosmopolitanism and the most advanced trends. The majestic Palace of Westminster rising above the dark waters of the Thames, the legendary Big Ben tower, the formidable Tower or the…
Read MoreGreece Dramatic Poetry
But at the same time he felt that they had lost all sincere consistency, all interior heroism: and therefore he continually exerted the goad of criticism around them; he discussed them on purpose, or instinctively deformed them, lowered them, humiliated them: he reduced facts and mythical characters to the proportions of ordinary bourgeois life. In Euripides, therefore, the heroic world, which from Homer had gradually diminished but in Aeschylus had…
Read MoreSwitzerland Economic Conditions and Finance
Economic conditions. – According to the 1941 census, the agricultural population amounted to 866,720 (22.1% of the total); the production area exceeded 3 million ha. distributed roughly in equal parts between arable land, meadows-pastures and woods. In 1946 there were 211,350 ha. to cereals (of which 93,852 to wheat), and almost 80,000 ha. with potatoes, generally with a very high unit yield. There is also a high production of fruit…
Read MorePaphos, Cyprus
The city of Paphos is considered one of the best resorts on the island of Cyprus. It is located in the southwestern part of the island among a cluster of gently sloping hills, on the very shore of the sea. It was here, according to legend, that the goddess of beauty and love, Aphrodite, was born from the sea foam. Formerly a quiet and inconspicuous place, today Paphos is a…
Read MoreItaly Textile Industries
For the weight they have in the general economy of the Italian state, the first place among industries belongs by far to the textile industries: they are those that have made the greatest progress in recent times; they normally employ about 650,000 people, 16% of the total population employed in industries, and determine a movement of money that, between imports and exports, is close to 10 billion lire. The silk factory stands…
Read MoreGreece Literature – Hesiod Part II
The Hesiodic poetry must in reality be connected with the cyclical one, of which it is contemporary. In fact it represents, like the cycle, the decay of the fantastic and heroic spirit in the generations following Homer; and it is channeled, together with that, into the same riverbed that will lead to history and philosophy. This does not mean that in Hesiod – in the compositions that belong to his…
Read MoreGreece Literature – Hesiod Part I
The epic poetry of the motherland did not have the splendor of oriental production: it stood in more arid and narrower terrain; it responded to the modest living conditions that were typical of the Greek continent. The main representative of it was Hesiod: whose name is linked a number of works (preserved only in part), which make him appear as a leader, as the initiator of a tradition and a…
Read MoreWest Germany Economy
The agriculture of the BRD was in critical condition in 1945 due to the neglect it had suffered in the last period of the war. Furthermore, the trade in agricultural products was damaged by the barriers existing between the different areas of occupation. But for the BRD economy the biggest drawback was the detachment of the eastern territories which traditionally represented the agricultural regions, while those of the west had…
Read MorePortugal Geography and Population
Portugal is a state of southern Europe, whose territory, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean for about 850 km, occupies the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores (➔ # 10132;) and Madeira (➔ # 10132;) join the metropolitan territory. Physical characteristics Morphology The geological structure of the Portugal follows the general one of the Iberian Peninsula: the prevailing rocks are the granite and metamorphic ones of…
Read MoreSpain in the Early 21st Century Part 2
Equally controversial was the attitude of the Zapatero government towards Catalonia’s demands for greater autonomy. The premier, in fact, allowed the presentation to the Congress of the new Statute of Catalonia (previously approved by the local Parliament), which recognized that Autonomous Community wider fiscal and juridical powers, and also sanctioned its right to define itself as “a nation”. A decision strongly contested by the PP and by a part of…
Read MoreSpain in the Early 21st Century
In the early 21st century was consumed in the Spain rise and decline of the hegemony of political Partido Popular (PP), came to power in 1996. A singular parable, the latter characterized by a progressive growth until 2002, with a brief lull, and then a sudden fall on the eve of the general elections of 2004, which marked the return to the government of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE). In this period the…
Read MoreParis, France
With its extraordinary architecture and contemporary art, Paris is a place where every visitor feels comfortable. Therefore, at least a “detour” to the capital is a must for every vacation. The story of the beautiful city on the Seine goes back to 5,000 BC. At that time, Celtic fishermen and boatmen settled on the banks of the Seine near Bercy. In the Middle Ages, Paris became the capital of the…
Read MoreBelgian Music
Belgian music, although politically divided into principalities, looks back on a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages. Only since the founding of the state of Belgium (1830) can one speak of Belgian music in the narrower sense. On the history of Belgian music in the 15th and 16th centuries Franco-Flemish music. Flemish and Walloon School As a result of the historical situation, Belgian music is primarily a mixture…
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Palacio Real A visit to the Palacio Real, which means “Royal Palace” in German, is worthwhile, because the city palace of the Spanish capital Madrid and the official residence of the Spanish monarchs knows how to impress. Story: Until the 18th century, a Moorish castle called the Alcazar stood on the site of the Palacio Real. This was used by the Spanish rulers, but completely destroyed by fire, which made…
Read MoreDenmark Landmarks
Kronborg Castle The Danish name of the castle is Kronborg Slot. The castle has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. The fortress in Helsingør on the Danish island of Zealand was not built until centuries after the death of the Danish prince who served as the model for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. But the Danish castle with its imposing fortress walls, its gloomy castle dungeon and its secret passages forms…
Read MoreSightseeing in Albania
Rozafa Rozafa Castle is one of the most important sights in the south of the northern Albanian city of Shkodra, which is considered one of the oldest localities in the country. The impressive fortress, which was built directly on a rock, sits enthroned on a 130 meter high hill directly between the two rivers Buna and Drin. The castle was built in the 4th century BC. Built by the Illyrians.…
Read MoreLuxembourg History
Early history and the rise of the House of Luxembourg The area, which was inhabited as early as the Paleolithic (15,000-year-old bone find in Oetringen) and the Mesolithic (discovery of an approximately 7,000-year-old grave near Reuland in the Blumental) belonged to around the 7th and 3rd centuries BC. To the Hunsrück-Eifel culture (excavation of the settlement Aleburg, northwest of Beaufort) and was settled by Celts (oppidum of the Treveri on…
Read MoreTravel to England
England is equal to pubs and pints. The noses are red and the mood is at its peak when the bartender lets the large beer mugs slide away like curling stones over the dark bar counter. A couple of drunk gentlemen in green oil rock pat each other good-naturedly on the shoulder and tune into a common song that overpowers both the slot machine and the crackling fire in the…
Read MoreHiking Between Villages and Mountain Peaks
Vikos-Aoos National Park is located in northern Greece, near the border with Albania – an unknown gem and one of the most untouched areas in Greece. You will not meet many other tourists here which together a wild and untouched nature makes this place completely unique. The journey begins in Athens from where you travel to Vikos-Aoos National Park in northern Greece. On this hiking trip you cross the impressive Vikos gorge…
Read MorePoland Culture
The development of Polish cultural identity is inseparable from the history of a nation at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe and its perennially discussed and changing borders. According to petsinclude, Poland has had to undergo foreign oppression, territorial divisions and invasions that have profoundly marked the soul of its people. The placement of the Polish artistic-cultural experience in the international scenario of art and cultural maps is a…
Read MoreTransportation in Sweden
ON THE GO Traveling by plane SAS (SK) flies to Stockholm Arlanda from almost every domestic airport in Sweden. BRA (DC) (Internet: www.flygbra.se) and Norwegian (DY) (Internet: www.norwegian.com) fly to domestic airports. On the way by car / bus According to youremailverifier, Sweden has a good road network and traffic jams are rare. In remote regions you should drive particularly carefully and carefully because of the game movement (especially moose).…
Read MoreTransportation in Portugal
ON THE GO Traveling by plane TAP Portugal (TP) flies to Lisbon, Faro, Madeira, Porto Santo, Porto and the Azores. The airline SATA (Sociedade Açoriana de Transportes Aereos) (SP) (Internet: www.sata.pt) connects the individual Azores islands with each other, with mainland Portugal and other European and non-European cities. ATA – Aerocondor Transportes Aéreos (Internet: www.aerocondor.com/) offers regular domestic flights and international charter flights. In addition, charter flights from other providers.…
Read MoreTransportation in Cyprus
GETTING THERE Arriving by plane According to youremailverifier, there are several direct flights to Cyprus from several German and Austrian airports, including from Munich with Lufthansa (LH) and from Vienna with Austrian Airlines (OS). In addition, several international airlines offer daily connections to Cyprus via Athens and London. For Austria there are direct flights from Vienna several times a week with Austrian Airlines (OS). Charter companies fly non-stop to Larnaka…
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