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#578 : Hiking up to the grave of the Monastery in Petra
Idea #578 – Hiking up to the grave of the Monastery in Petra Deir (from Arabic al-Deir, “the monastery”) is the Petra’s biggest building. Its function is bound in one funeral rite, probably that
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# 210: Climbing to the top of the Eiffel Tower
Idea # 210 – Visiting the Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris. 324 meters high, it was built by Gustave Eiffel for the World Fair of Paris of 1889 and
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#20 : Visiting Manneken Pis
Idée #20 – Spending a Week end in Brussels Brussels, capital of Belgium, cabbage, waffles, birthplace of the Manneken Pis chti, and its Grand Place, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO … The first
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#475 : Visiting the royal Saltworks of Arc en Senans and Salins les Bains
Idea #475 – Visiting the royal Saltworks of Arc en Senans and Salins les Bains The Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains is a rare example of industrial site previous to the XIXth century. It occupies a surface of
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#450 : Visiting the baroque serbian city of Szentendre in Hungary
Idea #450 – Visiting the baroque serbian city of Szentendre in Hungary Szentendre (Saint André) is a Hungarian city of the department of Pest, from a city of Budapest. This picturesque city is considered
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#390 : Discovering the living Chola’s temples
Idea #390 – Discovering the living Chola’s temples The big Chola’s temples constitue an exceptional testimony of the architecture and the policy of the Chola’s empire and the Tamils’ civilization in South India. The
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#506 : Exploring the Ghelati monastery in Koutaïssi
Idea #506 – Exploring the Ghelati monastery in Koutaïssi The city of Koutaïssi is a the second biggest city in Georgia, known for its churches and other cultural buildings. Known historically under the name of Ééa, or
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#468 : Visiting the old city of Aix en Provence in France
Idée#468 – Visiting the old city of Aix en Provence in France Aix-en-Provence is a French municipality, situated in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The city was founded in 122 BC,
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# 258: Visiting Czar Samuel’ city on the edge of Lake Ohrid
Idea # 258 – Visit of the Macedonian city of Ohrid Ohrid is a city of the southwest of the Republic of Macedonia. The city of Ohrid was founded during the Antiquity, and is
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#629 : Strolling in the Tsarist times Samarkand
Idea #629 – Strolling in the Tsarist times Samarkand The historic city of Samarkand, located in a large oasis in the Zeravchan Valley in northeastern Uzbekistan, is considered the crossroads of world cultures, with
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#448 – Exploring the Portuguese City of Mazagão in Morocco
Idea #448 – Exploring the Portuguese City of El Jadida in Morocco El Jadida (in arabic : الجديدة, amazigh : ⵎⴰⵣⴰⴳⵏ), historically called Mazagan, is a coastal city of Morocco, at 96 km from Casablanca. In
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#579 : Following the path of the Pilgrims from the High-Place of the Sacrifice to Petra’s Treasury
Idea #579 – Following the path of the Pilgrims of the High-Place of the Sacrifice to Petra’s Treasury There are several “high-places” in Petra, which are open-air sacrificial sites, dominating the antique city. The
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# 267: Basking on the terraces of the Venetian palaces of Montenegrin captains
Idea # 267 – Visit the village of Perast in Montenegro The village of Perast in Montenegro (in Italian, Perasto) is a charming and peaceful town, situated on the north bank of the Bouches
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#437 : Meeting the King Bluetooth, foundator of the realm of Denmark
Idea #437 : Visiting the tumuli of Jelling Situated in the center of the peninsula of Jutland, Jelling was a royal monument under the reign of Gorm and his son Harald, know Under the nickname ” blue
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#531 : Visiting the german town of Swakopmund en Namibia
Idea #531 – Visiting the german town of Swakopmund en Namibia The first description of the valley of Swakop was mentionned in 1793. The explorer Sebastian van Reenen and the hunter Pieter Pienaar described an
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