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16th November 2006
The Clock Museum of Vienna was opened in 1921 in one of Vienna's oldest houses and can boast an interesting collection including early chronometers, sundials and the ?Braters? or ?roaster? clocks, resembling a spit, of the Middle Ages. From the sixteenth ...
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16th November 2006
A kid will love to hunt elephants in an asphalt jungle or even to fly the sky in the Jumping Castle, or splash into sparkling waters from the Dragon Slide. Let the wind carry one's hair while one rides a pony: Vienna, the romantic imperial city of the Hab...
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16th November 2006
Vienna is the music capital of the world. No other city evokes such immediate associations with the great classical composers and the king of waltz. The House of Music was opened in the First District, in 2000 as a museum of the 21st century. The building...
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16th November 2006
The Barcelona football stadium is the 3rd largest football stadium in the World after the stadiums in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City. Barcelona camp nou has a capacity of 110,000 people and on every match practically every seat is taken -such is the pa...
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16th November 2006
Rising from Vienna's old city center, just beyond where the stone walls of the Roman camp once stood, the predominantly Gothic St. Stephan's Cathedral continues to tower over the hearts and minds of the Viennese as it has for some 800 years. Radiating awa...
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16th November 2006
Barcelona loves to indulge in the incredible. From the urban pageant that is Las Ramblas to buildings with no straight lines, the city pushes the limits of style in everything it does, and gets away with it. As the center of the whimsical and daring Moder...
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16th November 2006
One does not sleep in Barcelona. For those who came to seek the sun in Spain, a surprise awaits them - the night. The Spanish night life is one of the most developed in Europe, maybe of the world. At night, the street belongs to night birds who swarm in ...
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16th November 2006
The Main Library on Vienna's inner-city ring road, the G? was built in line with structural principles completely new in Austria's library landscape, a concept known as the ?fractal library?. The so-called college model, consisting of six spatially separa...
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15th November 2006
With palm trees in the breeze on top of two miles of golden sand, it could be Palm Beach or Palma de Mallorca. But it's central Paris, and the Paris Plage project, the manmade beach along the river Seine. Last-minute preparations went on all night, with w...
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15th November 2006
The Arc de Triomf of Barcelona was made as principal entry, in 1888, for the Universal Exhibition, which was located in the park of the Ciudadella. The frieze on the front, created by Josep Reynᳬ represents Barcelona welcoming visitors. The frieze at th...
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15th November 2006
El Monumento de Crist󢡬 Coló® ©s homage to the adventuresome spirit as well as to Christopher Columbus. The design on the column includes the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The monument commemorates Columbus's meeting with the kin...
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15th November 2006
Gasometers or gasholders-huge storage containers for the gas used in heating and cooking-were built in many cities during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, when gas was a commercial byproduct of coal mining, steelmaking, and other industrial process...
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15th November 2006
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is in the heart of the old city on the Carrer Moncada and since its recent expansion now sprawls over a row of five Gothic palaces once - in late medieval times - home to Barcelona's aristocrats.
Picasso though born i...
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15th November 2006
Haute couture means accuracy in lines. ?Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,? says Yves Saint Laurent. The designer is careful to achieve a supreme balance in all his clothes, designs in the secrecy of the ?studio?. I...
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15th November 2006
Many people regard the Vienna Prater as just another fun-fair. But it's much more than that ? it is a Viennese institution, like the coffee houses or the Heuriger commonly known as wine taverns. Its has the Giant Ferris Wheel, the ghost train, go-karts an...
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