Probably many will agree that London is one of the best cities to visit with children: city of great distances, heavy traffic, with much cement and frenetic activity everywhere. However, London is also the great city of museums, whose showmanship has spoken at length on many occasions.

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Speaking of museums is not necessarily about adult entertainment, and a good example of this is the great Museum of Natural History in London. Opened in 1881 as such after «independence» of the British Museum, features thousands of specimens of all plant and animal species and entomological exhibition, mineralogical and paleontological. (más…)

The mystery of the construction of the pyramids of Egypt

The pyramids of Egypt have fascinated humans for many centuries. At some point in history, long before the advent of Christ, he lost all knowledge of when built, who were the builders and the role they had, certainly surpassing the simple memorial. This information has been recovering with great patience and effort from the nineteenth century, but even today there is much to discover.

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The first large-scale buildings in ancient Egypt have been dated at 2,686 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Khasekhemuwy (2709-2682). Pharaoh of Dynasty II was buried in Abydos, and important temples built brick in Hierakonpolis, a place where they wanted to see the origin of the great Egyptian stone buildings. On the other hand creates the first royal statues, as well as the first tile that identified the owner of the tombs, source of backdoors. (más…)

Today, Vienna shows an unusual arrangement of the monuments the visitor awake: the relatively small center of town (Innere Stadt), clustered around the old cathedral of St. Stephen, is surrounded by a large ring of very broad spaces, full gardens and majestic buildings of the nineteenth century, and beyond this ring is another major monuments of the eighteenth century.

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History:

This particular plane as explained by the massive fortifications that surrounded the old city during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The fortifications were built in the sixteenth century Venetian in patterns, not only consisted of walls, but also bastions, ramps, and a large pit. (más…)

Corto Maltese is the famous ocean created by Hugo Pratt, who through their adventures in comics has traveled around the world. Short is a savvy traveler who knows the secret corners of Venice, Ethiopia, Siberia or the secrets of the desert.

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The character was born in 1887 in La Valetta (Malta) and from an early age he sailed to discover the world. He did his first trip to Egypt and traveled only 13 Manchuria. Corto Maltese is an adventurous use of time and travel is not just as an observer, but always eventually become involved in the events around him. Not a hero, but inevitably, always provides assistance to the weakest. (más…)

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, is perhaps the most famous triumphal arch of which exist today, and the second highest in the world, surpassed only by the arch built in North Korea in 1982 to commemorate the 70th birthday its leader Kim Il-Sung.

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The Parisians called L’Etoile, and revere him as a symbol of French national spirit, is one of the most important sights of Paris. Located in the center they say is the world’s largest roundabout on Place Charles de Gaulle, Place de l’Étoile before, west of the Champs Elysees. The arch honors those who died fighting for France, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars, and since 1920 also houses the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (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.

Photography by Jorge-11

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…)

Cultural tourism in the Canary Islands – Part II

Cultural Tourism: 
In’re on vacation in the Canary Islands, you immerse yourself in its history, and continental role tri rich cultural life. On each island, historic cities, museums, art centers and parks, archaeological and ethnographic transport you to times and different scenarios. Vestiges of life of Aboriginal people and the passage of the conquistadors, the artistic creation of leading and recognized music and film festivals are your guides on this fascinating cultural journey …

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Holiday culture: (más…)