Archive for October, 2010
SITE Archaeology in Geneva which was found beneath the Cathedral of St-Pierre when its foundation have refurbishment in 1976 is a discovery that high appreciating history. If a vacation to Geneva, Switzerland, where it seems a pity to miss. So far, excavations conducted under the cathedral has found a Roman mosaic floor, two-century Christian temple 4, the three parts of the early church buildings, and a hidden room 11th-century cathedral, which is part of the first Roman at this site (completed at 1000 AD).
The ruins are found under the cathedral also includes a variety of different era so that it can be very confusing. Even so, you still can brkeliling quietly for a variety of signs in English audio guides are equipped with diagrams and pictures would be very helpful.
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Natural Beauty in Salzburg, Austria, not only on the beautiful landscape that decorate the surface of the mountain. But, deep in the bowels of the earth is also stored natural carvings that are not less beautiful. You can find it by visiting the Ice Cave or Eisriesenwelt.
Eisriesenwelt ice is a limestone cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 miles south of Salzburg. This cave is in the mountain Tennengebirge Hochkogel in part from the Alps. Please note in this cave you register yourself as one who has ever visited the largest ice caves in the earth. With more than 42 kilometers long, about 200,000 tourists are also often explored this cave every year.
Although this year you could not visit because the cave is open from May 1 to October 26, but next year you can make it as one tourist destination if the trip to Salzburg. This is possible because it opened the same schedule every year. Read the rest of this entry »
Hercules, the god-powered human figure derived from the Roman myth, somehow initially said to have a relationship with a lighthouse in Spain. Aside from being a marker for vessels that pass, the lighthouse has become attractive tourist destinations in Spain.
The lighthouse in question is the Tower of Hercules from the ancient Roman era are in a peninsula, about 2.4 kilometers from the center of A Coruna, Galicia, northwestern Spain.
Until the 20th century, the tower is known as â € ~ Farum Brigantiumâ € ™. Farum in the Latin word derived from the Greek Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria. This lighthouse structure has a height of 55 meters with a bonus view of the North Atlantic coast of Spain. Read the rest of this entry »
BOOK is a repository of knowledge. This expression has long existed and the proof may be found in Efeseus, Asia Minor, Turkey. There you will find a library Celcus who also serves as a tomb. Built at the beginning of the 2nd century AD. Celcus Library is one of the most beautiful buildings that successfully reconstructed in Ephesus who later incarnated as the ancient city icon.
Located on the south side of the gate, Library of Celsus has a width of 21 meters and height of nearly 16 meters by 2.4 meters deep porch. Library as well as the tomb was originally had three floors, with galleries on the second floor.
In the past, its ancient scrolls and manuscripts are stored in the recesses by a librarian. In total, 30 racks of books available to accommodate about 12,000 rolls. While reading room designed to face east in order to take advantage of the best light. Read the rest of this entry »
BEAUTY Lake Toba to Samosir Island was no doubt. And if you travel to the island of Samosir, there is one that must be visited tourist sites, the Museum Hutabolon, Simanindo Village, District Simanindo. At the museum, you can see the life of the Batak tribe near, based on heritage objects time immemorial.
In the vicinity of the museum’s eyes we will immediately looked at five houses in the front area of the museum, back-Pangururan Simanindo causeway, the capital of Samosir regency.
Size is not too large, about two feet wide by four feet long that line neat. The building is not a place to live people who live, but the graves of ancestors. This shows that the Batak tribe appreciates and upholds their ancestors.
Behind the building, there are two major traditional Batak house roofed roofed overgrown weeds. Batak house first that is what is the museum, a collection of various relics of the ancestral history of Toba Batak. Read the rest of this entry »