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Nashville
Nashville - The Best Places to Visit in Tennessee, U.S.A.
Nashville has been named one of the best places to visit in 2013. Nashville is authentic, accessible, accommodating and affordable. It is a multicultural city that attracts many visitors for its diversity. Nashville is the capital and the second most populous city in the state of Tennessee . Located on the south-eastern United States on the Cumb...
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Khajuraho - the origin of Kama Sutra
Khajuraho - the origin of Kama Sutra - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Visit Khajuraho and make sure that the Kama Sutra actually originated in India. If the Taj Mahal monument is called love, Khajuraho can definitely be called a monument of sex. This small town in the heart of India's well known around the world of medieval Hindu and Jain temples and even more due to their erotic sculpture. Images of a sexual nature were the reason that the places of worship were referred to as temples of the Kama Sutra. Imbued with passion and se...
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Mysore - A City of Palaces
Mysore - A City of Palaces - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Mysore is one of the main reasons why tourists opt for a visit to South India. The city combines a wealth of history and beauty of nature in their palaces, temples, parks and other attractions, annually attracting 2.7 million tourists. While in Mysore, you can visit the castles and get acquainted with the lifestyle of the royal dynasty, enjoy the grandeur of architecture, relax in a beautiful pair of Brindavan, and, if desired, make a trip to the national parks o...
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Calcutta - A beautiful city of India
Calcutta - A beautiful city of India - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Beautiful and squalid, cultural and vile, Calcutta belongs to the category of cities in India that fascinate and amaze at once. The intellectual and the cultural capital of India showed the world famous Indian poets, writers, producers and Nobel Prize winners. Dozens of places in the city are Bengali dance, poetry, art, music, film and theater. This third largest city in India has long been associated with images of human suffering to most Westerners. Extrem...
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Mumbai - A City of Contrasts
Mumbai - A City of Contrasts - The Best Cities to Visit in India
The contrasts of Mumbai strike. More than any other metropolis of the world - except, perhaps, Sao Paulo - it is a world of contrasts. It adjoins the antiquity and modernity, poverty to luxury. The city has many night clubs and churches, lay people and religious fanatics. In Mumbai, is the biggest slum and the most expensive real estate in Asia. Dressed in a sari (traditional clothes), women wear expensive clothes sported by young designers Western indiykami. Thi...
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Amritsar - The Golden Temple city
Amritsar - The Golden Temple city - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Amritsar is a major center of cultural, religious and political history of the Sikhs. The residents are proud of their city, but above all they are proud for the beautiful and the unique Golden Temple, which serves the spiritual center for the 20 million Sikhs worldwide. The construction of the temple was initiated by Ram Das, the fourth Guru of Sikhs and was completed in 1604 by his successor, Guru Arjan Dev. Currently, the Golden Te...
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Udaipur - Venice of the East
Udaipur - Venice of the East - The Best Cities to Visit in India
If you were in India you have heard of Udaipur, one of the most beautiful cities in the northern state of Rajasthan. The impressions from the first to explore the city remain in the memory of a lifetime: Lake Pichola, spread palaces, mansions, Ghat and the most famous landmark - the Lake Palace - altogether "floats" in its very center. Beautiful palaces of the city sh...
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Goa - The Realm of White Beaches
Goa - The Realm of White Beaches - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Swaying palms, white sand and clear water, three main factors that attract in Goa over 2 million tourists annually, far more than the residents of the state. The attractiveness of the resort is mainly due to the beautiful beaches stretching along the coast. For many Goa is associated with beaches, hippies, hedonism and nightly entertainment in the moonlight. But the popular resort of India can offer much more than a fun experience und...
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Jodhpur - The Blue City of India
Jodhpur - The Blue City of India - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Jodhpur is one of the most interesting cities to visit in India, the ancient fortress and palaces which cannot but arouse admiration. Founded in 1459, this city is securely protected by one of the most impregnable fortresses in history, it has become almost the richest city in Rajasthan due to the convenient location on the trade route Delhi - Gujarat. Today, the second largest c...
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Delhi - The Beauty of the Chaos
Delhi - The Beauty of the Chaos - The Best Cities to Visit in India
Delhi has not always been the capital of India, but it has always played a key role in India's history due to its location on the way to the West to South-East Asia. The capital of one of the largest countries in the world has a fascinating history, but a population of almost 17 million suffer from high levels of pollution and poverty. Attractions in Delhi are not immediately noticeable. Even the resident...
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Agra - An Architectural Marvel of India
Agra - An Architectural Marvel of India - The Best Cities to Visit in India
In the epic poem by the English writer John Milton " Paradise Lost", Agra describes the life of Adam. The protagonist saw the great city of Mughal Agra, which struck him as one of the wonders of God's creation. It is unlikely that this view was an exaggeration: in the 17th century the city was more than Constantinople, London and Paris seemed to be dwarfed by the large population of Agra. A number of magnificent palaces and "fragrant gardens with s...
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Varanasi - The City of Life and Death
Varanasi - The City of Life and Death - The Best Cities to Visit in India
When the first rays of the morning sun rose on the banks of the River Ganges, an old man holding out his hands towards the ball of fire slowly rises and says "namaste" (adoration and glorification of God). Such scenes are repeated every day for more than three thousand years in Varanasi, the holy city of India. Watching the scene on the banks of the River Ganges, the impression of the city freezes in time. Varanasi...
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The Verman Garden
The Verman Garden - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Verman Garden was one of the first public gardens created in the 19th century. The Garden is located in the heart of Riga's streets between Cr.Baron, Terbatas and Elizabetes. The park was officially opened on June 8, 1817. Originally the area was 8 hectares of the park. Now the park has the area of 5 ha. The City has given Anna Gertrud Woermann, a part of the park with exotic trees, a rose garden and a restaurant. Initially, there was a fence around the par...
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The Convent Court
The Convent Court - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Convent Court has its origins in the first half of the 13th century, when the Order of the Sword built a castle on the site of the Order. Rigans destroyed this castle in 1297. When the Order began the construction of a new residence in 1330 on the banks of the Daugava River, the former castle suffered the Convent of the Holy Spirit founded an orphanage. From him and then went the current name Convent Court. Since 1554 in the courtyard of the Convent were onl...
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Arc de Triomphe or the Aleksandrov Gates
Arc de Triomphe or the Aleksandrov Gates - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
Arc de Triomphe or the Aleksandrov gates are in the park Viesturs. This is the only triumphal arch in Latvia. The author is ID Gottfried. The arch is made after the example of the Roman triumphal arch. It was built in 1817 at the end of Alexander Street (today Brivibas Street) near the air-bridge. The Arch was built in honor of the victory over Napoleon in 1812. The height of the arch is of 10.1 meters, the width is of 9.7 meters, the width of the carriageway...
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The Swedish Gate
The Swedish Gate - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Swedish Gate is the only gate of Riga, which has been preserved to this day. The gate is located on Tornya street 11. The gate was built in 1698 to connect the inner city to the barracks and the houses outside the city walls. As well as the rest of the gates of Riga, it is opened at dawn and closed at sunset. The Swedish gate was built in the building of the street as medieval Riga towers – the Tower Jurgen, in the docum...
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The Church of St. Gertrude
The Church of St. Gertrude - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The current building of the old church of St.Gertrude was built in 1864 - 1866's by the architect C. Felsko. This is a typical example of eclecticism expressed in neo-Gothic forms. In the external appearance of the church there is a vertical dominance. The decorative turrets that adorn the stepped gable turrets and spiers of the footboard confirm this. The tower of the church with a step-declining volume, the height of 63 meters is cov...
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St. John's Lutheran Church, Riga
St. John's Lutheran Church, Riga - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
Originally on the site of the Church of St. John was a monastery founded by the Dominicans in 1234 and named after St. John the Baptist. After numerous surgeries, around 1500 the church acquired its present appearance - with a high Gothic stepped gable, a gable roof and a small turret. In 1523 the town hall at the Dominican Convent selected. Latvian parish acquired in the property in 1582.However, a small Lutheran parish church of the ...
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TV Tower, Riga
TV Tower, Riga - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The height of the TV tower is of 368 meters. It is one of the ten tallest TV towers in the world and the third in Europe. The observation deck is located at a height of 97 meters, from where you can see the center of Riga, Pardaugava, Riga HPP, and in fine weather, even the Gulf of Riga, the ships in it, and the highest point of Sigulda. The tower was designed by the Georgian architect Nikuradse. Zakyusale began broadcasting in 1986. For the first time the n...
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The Riga Circus
The Riga Circus - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
In 1880 the land on which the circus is now and its property were acquired by a well-known circus performer - Albert Salamonsky. Every summer, he came to Riga to deliver on its site a tent and show the program in which he took part. However, the tent was small and Salamonsky decided to build a stone building. The current building was constructed in the circus in 1888 by the architect Frederick John Baumanis. The Circus bu...
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The Parliament Building ( Seimas)
The Parliament Building ( Seimas) - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The building of the Seimas (Parliament) of Republic of Latvia was built in 1867 as the Vidzeme Knighthood house designed by the architect Robert Pflug and the first academically educated Latvian architect Janis Baumanis. The architecture of the building of the House of Knights was focused on the Florentine Renaissance palaces. In 1900 - 1903 the Knight's house greatly expanded the project Common Q. Neumann having a new wing on the...
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St. Jacob Cathedral
St. Jacob Cathedral - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Cathedral of St. Jacob was built in the early 13th century and it is the smallest of the churches of Old Riga. At first it was outside the city walls. The Cathedral burned, was rebuilt, reconstructed and completed several times. From the original appearance of the church it is best that the altar room has survived. In the 15th century, the tower clock appeared, the mechanism of which was outside of the tower under the small roof....
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The Powder Tower
It is not known when the Powder Tower was built. The very name of the tower - Powder, too, appeared later. It is possible that the first tower on the site for protection has been built in the 13th century. The place for the first time in papers was mentioned in the 14th century under the name of Sand Tower. The current tower was built at the turn of 15 - 16 centuries and was built to protect against bullet ...
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The Powder Tower
The Powder Tower - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
It is not known when the Powder Tower was built. The very name of the tower - Powder, too, appeared later. It is possible that the first tower on the site for protection has been built in the 13th century. The place for the first time in papers was mentioned in the 14th century under the name of Sand Tower. The current tower was built at the turn of 15 - 16 centuries and was built to protect against bullet ...
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The Cat House
The Cat House - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
Built by the architect F. Shefel, the Cat House is located on the square in front of Liv Great Guild on Meistaru 10 street. The building is well-known for the fact that there are two metal cats on the roof of the house. In 1910 this house as a residential and office building, was constructed by a rich Latvian merchant, who was not admitted to the Great Guild. The merchant was very upset and on the roof of his house two cats put , th...
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Riga Museum of Art Nouveau
Riga Museum of Art Nouveau - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
A century ago, Riga, as well as other cities in Europe was inspired by the breath of surprised creative freedom and a luxury style of architecture and life. The nature rejoicing in an armful of flowers, ornaments, curved sleek lines, admiring the beauty of the antique, fantasizing about the sphinxes, griffins, and guard Psakhie, Art Nouveau made Riga beautiful, mysterious and provocative. Look up and discover the most beautiful art nou...
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The Three Brothers
The Three Brothers - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Three Brothers is the oldest residential complex in Riga. It is located on the street Little Castle 17, 19, 21 (Maza Pils). The name "Three Brothers" appeared on the similarity with the "three sisters" of the city of Tallinn.The oldest surviving residential building in Riga is located at Little Castle 15 (Maza Pils 15), it is built in the late 15th century, when Riga has established contacts with merchants from ...
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The Laima Clock
The Laima Clock - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Laima Clock is known to everyone in Riga. There is no resident of Riga, who didn’t ever assign his date to Lima at the clock next to the Old Riga. The Clock was created in 1924 and installed in the square at the Freedom Monument. They then have called Lyme. Although the logo “Laima” appeared to them in 1936.Lima was the name of the girl. Laima was the name of the famous Chocolate Fa...
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The House of Blackheads
The House of Blackheads - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The House of Blackheads, initially known as the new house was built in 1334. It was reconstructed several times since 1522, when Mats stones were installed at the entrance, until the 19th century, when at the entrance were sculptures of lions and an extension in the corner, the image of St. George. The Roland statue, installed in the Town Hall Square in 1896 is now in St. Peter's Church and the square is a copy made in 2000. The ho...
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The Small Guild
The Small Guild - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
If the Great Guild has historically united and founded by German merchants, the artisan took in the Small - guild masters. In the old days in Riga were up to 150 craft fraternities. In Soviet times the Small Guild was the House of Culture. And now the building of Riga, the Small Guild is a center of culture and folk art. As in the building of the Great Guild, there are cozy places here where concerts...
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The Great Guild
The Great Guild - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
Historically, the Grand Guild took the merchants. Riga was the largest shopping center and a member of the Hanseatic League. Also the Great Guild took some high-ranking officials, priests, men of letters, but only from the artisans of goldsmiths. The rest of the artisans had to apply to the Little Guild. The buildings guilds of Riga were multifunctional public facilities: once people prayed here, stored grain and gave shelter and lat...
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The Freedom Monument
The Freedom Monument - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Freedom Monument is the main monument of the capital symbol of independent Latvia, the heart of Riga today, its center and a popular venue for official ceremonies. The monument was built with money collected by the people. It was opened on November 18, 1935. The monument represents a five-story composition, with a gradual increase in emotional impact. The first tier has a massive base and a terrace. The terrace is lined with pink...
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The Church of St. Peter
The Church of St. Peter - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
The Church of St. Peter, located in the Old City is one of the great monuments of culture. The church of St. Peter's Lutheran Church is known as a cultural and a tourist center. The church of Sts. Peter is mentioned in the story of 1209. The church of St. Peter's was built as a city church. The construction of the church was made due to the donated money by merchants and craftsmen who had their altars i...
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The Dome Cathedral in Riga
The Dome Cathedral in Riga - The Best Places to Visit in Riga
Some years ago, this magnificent cathedral, located in Riga, was closed for renovation, but after the renovation its doors were thrown open to welcoming back many tourists and locals. The construction of the Cathedral and the monastery began in 1211 and lasted for many centuries. Finally, the outlines of its Baroque 90 - meter tower acquired in 1766 in the cathedral. Its body is one of the largest in the world. It was built in the 80...
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