Antwerp is one of the most important cities in Belgium, located in the heart of Flanders, cosmopolitan city and one of the largest ports in Europe, famous for its Gothic cathedral. Located on the Scheldt River is a city that always seems to be popular, is also the world diamond center.  Antwerp is also the city where the great artist Peter Paul Rubens developed much of his extraordinary work and lived the last years of his life, the artist is the symbol of the city. Antwerp is one of the most significant university cities of Belgium.  Antwerp is a modern and avant-garde, thanks to the merchants who arrived in the sixteenth century by the Scheldt river, turned into a city with the most important trading port which is maintained until today. (más…)

Fifteen spectacular shrines or perched on the tops of the mountains, are defying gravity. These ancient monastic structures are 15 of the most beautiful monasteries, abbeys and shrines in the world. Below are the following:

Meteora Monastery
Meteora means “suspended in the air” in Greek, and that’s an apt description for these centuries old monasteries on top of 1,200-foot high cliffs of Thessaly the “Stone Forest”, as many as 24 monasteries scattered have been established during the height of the area in the fourteenth century. Today only half a dozen are active. Today, more tourists warriors sweep Ottomans is the main visitors of this stunning area in northern Greece. (más…)