Algarve is the southernmost region of Portugal, this region is south of the country and shows all its magnificence to the world. On the sunny coast of the Algarve, Faro and Olhão face, lies the small island of Culatra unknown.

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Beautiful fishing village where the peace is reflected in the lime of their buildings and the sweetness of its people contrasts with the harsh brand of expression that have been carved sea. This island, along with its neighboring Armona and Farol, make calls Barrera, parapet to the ponds inside belonging to the natural reserve of Ria Formosa. (más…)

Athens is a city full of nice nooks and ennobled by the testimony of a unique past. On many downtown streets, the alternative to be surrounded by buildings is irrelevant to turn to the always dominant Acropolis. Well get ready in this virtual tour to learn more about Athens …

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As the visitor approaches the mass of the Acropolis, you also have to find surviving monuments of unique elegance and beauty, such as the Tower of Winds Lysicrates or monument, or between small jewels that are the Byzantine churches XI-XII centuries and the architectural style of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (más…)

Bern is the capital city, is also known as the city of bears. And it’s not because they are at ease in the streets, but because in Bärengraben can see up close and safely. This is a pit where several bears inhabit the romantic side of the river Aar. Being the best time to see them in spring and summer, because that is when they are most active.

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But Bern is of course the bears, medieval architecture, its lakes, natural areas and streets, to date have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The places you can not fail to see are: The Clock of Bern, the Markgasse or the Tower of Prisoners. (más…)

Cultural route:

Distraught is a good time to recreate the view in the Design Museum (Jan Breydelstraat, 5. Which opens its doors Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 and admission is five euros), housed in a XVIII century building rococo facade. There are set furniture and art deco and art nouveau, highlighting the striking wheel Alessi, miniatures based on the top floor. Crossing the beautiful bridge of Beheaded is accessed impressive Castle of the Counts of Flanders. A fortress began in the ninth century, with successive modifications to the twelfth century. Its battlements, and above all the central tower, offering views the city from different angles. A note inside the room with medieval instruments of torture, true testimony of their basement prison. At night, lit, the castle has a magical presence captivating.

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River Walk: (más…)

Air Port in the heart of Belgium, leads us on a tour of its streets, the same port and below the confluence of two rivers. Both the Scheldt (the largest in Belgium) and Lys, its great tributary. The city of Ghent in his past, came to compete with himself in full medieval Paris (between centuries XIII and XV) as the major European metropolis, the commercial importance of these river highways. And its two large springs and Korenlei Graslei, which gave him a genuine maritime atmosphere despite being in the heart of historic Flanders (55 kilometers from the North Sea).

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After his moment of greatest glory and the ever hard journey across the desert of history, (más…)

The cultural heart of the new Berlin for two decades has been an enigma, a puzzle. Today is a lesson in how to deal with an uncomfortable past without deleting it, deny it or mythologized. And it helps the Neues Museum, this houses the Egyptian Museum, with its famous bust of Nefertiti, in addition to the Museum of Prehistory and Primitive Art and the Collection of Classical Antiquities. Architecturally, however eloquent and discreet by British David Chipperfield, has been reborn from its own ruins as the most important museum of the renewed German capital.

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And when the whole Museum Island is completed in 2015, all compete with the Louvre in the race to become the best complex of museums. In addition, the Neues Museum, the urban enclave includes the Pergamon Museum, the Bode-Museum, the Altes Museum and the Alte Nationalgalerie. (más…)

Berlin: tries to forget

Without leaving Berlin, there are numerous monuments erected in memory of the disaster. Although Germany has removed all traces of this dark and shameful chapter of its history erased from the streets and squares throughout nomenclature referring to Nazism, there is a small area on the Berlin Wall, known as the “Topography of Terror”, which houses a series of illustrations that reflect a summary of the atrocities committed on people during the Nazi period. Some illustrations that anticipate what the visitor can be found within the Foundation Center, under the same name, has been built on the site of what once was the headquarters logistics of the Gestapo and the SS and eventually opened in 2010.

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Even today, a checkpoint in the middle of Berlin difference between east and west and if you’re lucky, may even see a soldier standing guard on each side. This is the “Checkpoint Charlie”, reinstalled in the city ten years after the collapse of the wall as a reminder of the critical point at which hundreds risked their lives seeking to flee the GDR. (más…)