Museo del Prado, Spain
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Museo del Prado, Spain

The Museo del Prado which is commonly known as Prado is a museum as well as art gallery. Pardo is placed in Madrid, which is the capital of Spain. Pardo showcases few of the world’s finest anthologies of European art belong to the 12th century as lasts up to the early 19th century. It is having its base on the earlier Spanish Royal Collection. Pardo was initially founded as a museum of sculpture as well as various paintings , Pardo does also include significant collections of over five thousands drawings, two thousand prints, one   thousand coins and numerous medals, and around two thousand decorative objects and also various works of creative art. The Sculpture section is signifies itself by the exhibition of over seven hundred works and also a smaller quantity of the sculptural wreckage. The painting section has a collection of about  [...] 


Acropolis Of Athens
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Acropolis Of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens is the most popular and renowned acropolis around the globe. You will come across many acropoleis in Greece. Commonly the Acropolis of Athens is known as the Acropolis without Qualification. This monument was declares as the pre-eminent monument in the list of European Cultural heritage. This declaration was made on 26 March in the year 2007. The Acropolis is a rock which has a flat top. It is located in Athens and its height above the sea level is 150 m. The area surface covered by the Acropolis is nearly about 3 hectares. It is commonly known as Cecropia which is inspired from the very first Athenian King named Cerops. The oldest artifacts that are found in the acropolis belong to the Middle Neolithic era. It has been found in the various age-old documents that people had started living their life in Attica from 6th  [...] 


Palenque – The Maya City
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Palenque – The Maya City

Location Palenque is Maya city region it is located in the southern Mexico region. This region prospered during the seventh century. When the region took a rain check it got converted into the jungle. Later the area was been restored after excavation. This region is now well-known as the archaeological site that attracts a number of visitors every year. Palenque is situated near the River Usumacinta which is located in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Also it is placed at around 130 km to the south of Ciudad del Carmen which is situated at about 150 meters height above sea-level. The size of the site is medium it is very much small when compared with huge archaeological sites such as Copan or Tikal. Even if the size of the city is small it has a huge collection of one the optimum sculpture, architecture, roof comb as well as the bas-relief carvings  [...] 


Caen Memorial, France
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Caen Memorial, France

Caen memorial is been founded in the year 1988 and devoted to the peace, the Caen Memorial also known as Le Mémorial de Caen and un musée pour la paix is supposed to the best World War II museum located in France. “Peace is not a gift from God to man, but a gift from man to himself” is the statement quotes by Elie Wiesel which is very well observed in the museum. Caen Memorial is situated on the outskirts of Caen in the north side in Normandy. Also the Caen Memorial does include the various guided tours that will show you the D-Day beaches and exhibition. Such tours are organized on the days of failures as well as the triumphs of peace for example on September 11th as well as on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Caen Memorial is constructed on the location of an old bunker, and was inaugurated by the by President François Mitterrand  [...] 


Château De Chillon, Veytaux
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Château De Chillon, Veytaux

The Château de Chillon is commonly known as Chillon Castle. Château de Chillon is located on Lake Geneva’s shore and is a part of the municipality of Veytaux. It is situated at the eastern side end of the lake and about 3 km from the Montreux located in Switzerland. The entire castle has around 100 different independent buildings that are more or less connected with each other. And thus now they together outline a single whole. The definite dates of the old parts of the huge castle are not known. The first written record regarding the castle is around 1160 or 1005. The castle acted as the house to the Counts of Savoy in the mid of the twelve century. Pietro II expanded the castle in the 13th century. The castle was hold by many treaties but it was never blockade. The castle gained huge popularity when Lord Byron wrote the poem The Prisoner  [...] 


Tuareg, Africa
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Tuareg, Africa

The Tuareg is commonly known as Twareg and also Touareg. Tuareg are a Berber roaming pastoralist people. They are the major population of the Saharan center of North Africa. They call themselves by various names such as the Kel Tamasheq and also Kel Tamajaq which mean “Speakers of Tamasheq”, also Imuhagh, mashaghen, which means “the free people” and also Kel Tagelmust that means the “People of the Veil”. The name Tuareg was given to them by early historians as well as the explorers those belongs to Leo Africanus. The meaning and the origin of the name Twareg has been long discussed with numerous etymologies superior, although it would come into view that Twārəg is derivative of the “broken plural” of Tārgi, a name whose previous sense was “inhabitant of Targa” . Also the Tuareg  [...] 


Forbidden City, Beijing
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Forbidden City, Beijing

The Forbidden City did acted as the Chinese Imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty and continued to be the same till the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the central Beijing in China. These days it is known for being the palace museum. It did serve as the royal palace of the king for nearly five centuries. It has been a political as well as ceremonial centre of the Chinese Government. The construction of the palace started from 1406 and was completed on 1420. This complex has in all 980 buildings and near about 8707 rooms. The total area covered by the imperial palace is about 720000 square meters. The buildings of the palace epitomize the traditional Chinese palatial architecture. Also it has played a major role in the architectural as well as the cultural developments in East Asia. In the year 1987 the Forbidden City was announced  [...] 


Babylon, Iraq
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Babylon, Iraq

Babylon in present day is a Al Hillah, a province in Iraq. It was a city-state during the olden Mesopotamia. Iraq is located at a distance of nearly 85 kilometers in the southern direction of the Baghdad city. The ruins of Babylon have the mud-brick buildings, a mound etc in the debris of the city. This area is situated on the fertile plain of Mesopotamia in between the Euphrates River and the Tigris River in Iraq. The city of Babylon is constructed again. The historical sources informed that Babylon was a small town which was developed in the very start of the third century BC. The town had flourished soon. It got all the required importance as well as political reputation. The city of Babylon had acquired the title of being the holy city by 2300 BC. The Neo-Babylonia Empire started from 612 BC. The Hanging garden of Babylon had acquired  [...] 


Vimanmek Palace, Bangkok
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Vimanmek Palace, Bangkok

The Vimanmek Palace was used as royal palace in early days. It is located in Bangkok in Thailand. It is popularly known as the Vimanmek Mansion Vimanmek Teak Mansion. It is situated in the Dusit Palace compound, close by Dusit Zoo in Dusit district. Built in 1900, Vimanmek Palace was earlier owned by His Majesty King Rama V. He was also having the Munthatu Rattanaroj Residence in Chuthathuj Rachathan which was located at Ko Sichang, Chonburi. He had dismantled the former residence and reassembled it in Dusit Garden. Huge celebrations were held to mark the completion of Vimanmek Palace. The celebrations took place on March 27, 1901. King Rama V used Vimanmek place as his royal residence for nearly five years, awaiting the finishing point of Amphorn Satharn Villa which was in year 1906. From the 1932, Vimanmek Palace was being used only as the  [...] 


Valley Of The Kings, Egypt
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Valley Of The Kings, Egypt

The Valley of the Kings is commonly known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings is a huge deep valley located in Egypt. Hear for nearly a period of 500 years starting from the 16th BC to 11th century BC, various tombs were constructed which were devoted to the kings and powerful upper class of the New Kingdom. New Kingdom consisted of the Eighteenth as well as the Twentieth Dynasties which belonged to the Ancient Egypt. The valley of the kings is located on the western bank of the river Nile directly opposite to the Thebes, the modern day Luxor. It is located at the center of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi has two different valleys to classify the East Valley and the West Valley. In the east you will come across maximum of the royal tombs. In the 2006 a new chamber named KV63 was discovered, and in the year 2008 2 different tomb entrance  [...]