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Castel del Monte (Italian: Castle of the Mount) is a 13th century castle situated in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II some time between 1240 and 1250; it has been despoiled of its inter...
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Hadrians Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium - as inferred from text on the Staffordshire Moorlands Patera) is a stone and timber fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emper...
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Pienza, a town and comune in the province of Siena, in the Val dOrcia in Tuscany (central Italy), between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino, is the touchstone of Renaissance urbanism. In 1996, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site, and...
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Carcassonne is a fortified French town in the Aude department, of which it is the prefecture, in the former province of Languedoc. It is separated into the fortified Cité de Carcassonne and the more expansive lower city, the ville basse. The folk etymo...
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Bulguksa is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism in the North Gyeongsang province in South Korea. It is home to seven National treasures of South Korea, including Dabotap and Seokgatap stone pagodas, Cheongun-gyo (Blue Cloud Bridge), and...
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The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, In...
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Ferries to Tunisia: http://ferriestunisia.com/ Tunis (Arabic: تونس, Tūnis) is the (political) capital of both Tunisia and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisias largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds ...
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Venedig ist eine Stadt im Nordosten Italiens an der adriatischen Küste. Sie ist die Hauptstadt der Region Venetien und der Provinz Venedig und trägt den Beinamen La Serenissima („Die Durchlauchtigste). Am 31. Dezember 2010 zählte man 270.884 Einwohner ...
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Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. Salzburgs Old Town (Altstadt) with its world famous baroque architecture is one of the best-preserved city centres north of the Alps, and was listed as a U...