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Saturday, 25 June 2011

Venice City

Location: Italy  
Located in the north of Italy is the most beautiful in Italy and qualitative, unique in the world and the capital of the Veneto region. Venice .. Or Venice, as he called the Arabs is a city considered by some the most romantic city in the world .. Venice is a beautiful city built on water and consists of 116 islands and the 416 Bridge Street, 7, and thousands of buildings look like colored in preparation for a theatrical performance.
The city stretches across 118 islands in the swamps of a small Venetian lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. Tmtdallakeh and salt along the shoreline between the mouths of the rivers Po (south) and the Piave (north). The estimated population of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the municipality all of Venezia; and approximately 62000 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico.); And 176.000 in Terraferma (Mainland), mostly in frazione large Mestre and Marghera; live 31 , 000 in the other islands in the lake.
The Republic of Venice was a naval force main during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades, and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as the center is very important for trade (especially silk, grain and spice trade) and art since the thirteenth century until the end of the seventeenth century. Venice is also famous for music, especially music, opera, and ancient and, the most famous children in this area is Antonio Vivaldi.

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Big Ben Clock

Location: London(United Kingdom)
Big Ben's famous in London, began its work June 3, 1859, owing its name to the shortcut name Ibnajamin Hall the British Minister of Works,which oversaw the implementation of the project time and design of tower, and the longer time, which weighs 12.5 tons and are installed in the Tower of London of the most important milestones that tourists keen to visit. the most popular device for measuring time in the world, and is considered one of the most important monuments that tourists keen to visit in Britain.
Has overseen the implementation and design of tower the Minister of Works British Benjamin Hall, Benjamin Hall at the time and what was Benjamin huge body, they call him the nickname Big Ben, has been named in his honor on the bell at the huge and later to include the time itself, and began work time since June 3 in 1859 AD. Known for infinite time accuracy in the measurement of time, and the ticking is a symbol of the Universal Time, and weighs about Jursha thirteen tons, and the length of Akrbhe 9 and 14 feet. There is time in the tower of St. Stephan in the northern part of the parliament building in a circle and Westminster in the British capital, and the clock tower 320 feet tall.
The time has been designed by Edmund Beckett, Edward Dent, manufacture and after his death, Frederick Dent .. Since 1924, started to beat Big Ben across the radio announces the time of «me. Me. CNN» BBC daily. He used a lot of people around the world to hear the ticking before BBC news bulletins. The life time is now about a century and a half-century, given the long life remain the clock in good condition, and can be exposed to snag a sudden every about seven years, and most of the accidents suffered by the simple, only one occurred in 1977, where he stopped time completely from the work The repair took a whole week. And careful maintenance team all the time to keep the pieces that make up the time, as is the historical value, which results in some failures from time to time, and administrators can replace the mechanical parts of an hour with new ones, but they do not do that to the fact that time part of the historical heritage of Britain

Taj Mahal

Location : India
Taj Mahal is an Indian architectural landmark located in Accra, is one of the greatest evidences of art and architecture in the Mughal era.
The shrine was built to commemorate the anniversary of the "Erjohnmd Bannu Bacam" and famous for the title of "Mumtaz Mahal" the wife concubine the Sultan, "Shah Jahan" .. She died in 1631 AD near her husband, during one of the military campaigns.the UNESCO include the building in the list of World Cultural Heritage.
It took twenty years and the recruitment of more than twenty thousand men to build this building unique .. The height of the shrine (main building) 73 m, inscribed with Koranic verses, and some outstanding graphics, which is a reference to study the art of painting in India during the Mughal era.
The shrine stands on a square platform, and on each side of a circular beacon .. To his right was built a small mosque, and to the left stands a building said to him, "the answer" Find the balance (with the mosque) in the general shape of the tomb.
Is access to the shrine after crossing the gardens, located within an area surrounded interspersed with large gate .. Collected other mosques and shrines - the wives of the least fortunate - near the place .. We have commemorative Nasben each of "Mumtaz Mahal" and "Shah Jahan" T. (1666 m) in the octagonal hall, completed by the inscriptions found on them in a neat, and was perforated and inform them curtains and marble inlaid with precious stones.
Does not know exactly the author of this work, but it is likely to be the architect, "Professor Eisa" (from Persian or Turkish origin) to the turkey by Khan, who led the work to build the dome, and "Ranmal", which has planned the gardens.
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Canary Islands

Location : Spain
Is the original home of the Canaries with a beautiful singing so called "Canary Islands" or as they were called in Arabic, "Algeria's Canary," a Spanish group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, located north-west of Western Sahara, a unit of the rule within the Spanish crown.
The Canary Islands consist mainly of four major islands, surrounded by dozens of major small islands scattered around the island of Grand Canary, Tenerife, Palma and the Antherota.
The Canary Islands Special attractions in summer and winter, where the climate is gentle and constant temperature throughout the year, as well as an ideal place to monitor the ark, where it was the control center at an altitude of 2432 meters on the island of La Palma, contains the most important observatories in the world.The island of Grand Canary, which Spaniards call "Gran Canaria" the largest and most extensive in size, with an area of ​​approximately 1532 square kilometers, and is almost circular shape, and height from the surface of water in some areas up to more than two thousand meters.
The resorts are spread along the shores of this island, which turned into a destination for tourism thanks to the external and internal temperatures of the Standing moderation throughout the year, which ranged between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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