Posts Tagged ‘Castle’

Back to the middle Ages in Carcassonne

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

There are many places where it is being revived as part of their past or history. Stroll through its streets, and we get lost in a trip to the past, in times where there were constant struggles over taking or defending a city, full of longing Callejas of dozens of stories of love and betrayal, of struggle for power; and in every nook, every turn in one of the corners, leaving behind little by little the real world to which we belong. (more…)

Versailles, the garden of the Sun

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Jardines de Versailles

Today we are going to put our suitcase in four centuries of French history the most sumptuous, four centuries of beauty and splendor in one of the most visited in Europe. I suppose that these assumptions do not want to miss this tour we are going to make the Palace of Versailles, home of great kings and great revolutions. Ostentatious gardens, architectural styles brought to its highest artistic expression, political turmoil and social unrest palace … A place where history sleeps dressed in luxury between its stones. (more…)

Mount Ararat in the Caucasus

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The Caucasus region has always aroused my curiosity, from romance novels and adventure, something like an inhospitable place, half savage, great wrestlers. Many of the countries that compose it have been under the Russian orbit much of the twentieth century, such as Armenia, a mountainous country that borders Georgia with Azerbaijan and Turkey and Iran and from its capital, Yerevan, you can see the magnificent and mythological Mount Ararat. (more…)

The Taj Mahal: a love song

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Taj Mahal revisited... por jazzpic.

The story turns upon the construction of the Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful that can be counted: the emperor Shah Jahan and his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. It is a love song to a sublime love that will last over time, and kept alive in each of the stones of the temple, each of flowers of the gardens surrounding it, is a love that surrounds you and remains within you, while the eyes of those who admire what we cannot look away this sublime work. And it is this love, this wonderful story that the Taj Mahal has become a symbol throughout the history of humanity, not its unparalleled beauty, but its history. Not perfection, but a deep impression on anyone who causes his heart lies in those tired gardens. (more…)

Samarkand on the Silk Road - Uzbekistan

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Registan por Gusjer.

The Silk Road was one of the roads most legendary in the history of mankind. The term coined by Ferdinand von Richtofen in 1877, Thomas O. Hollmann was the one who placed the entire region into nine zones: the valley of the Wei, the corridor Hexe, the Gobi, the Makler Takla, the mountains of the Pamir Knot, turiana depression, the Iranian plateau, Mesopotamia and the Syrian desert. (more…)

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