About the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Hanging Gardens of Babylon were testimony to the ability of one man to create a botanical oasis of beauty amid bleak desert landscape, against all laws of nature. Find King Nebuchadnezzar gardens as a sign of respect for his wife Simrames that, according to legend, was nice to forests, flowers and home. The gardens and surrounded by an intermediate Laketan the city and a water ditch to repel the invading armies. There remains doubt, however, between historians and archaeologists for the fact that there is this paradise never lost, as the excavation of Babylon did not find an impact believe it.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon one of the seven wonders of the world and was surrounded by a moat of water, which Nebuchadnezzar built the Queen Omiyetia which was eager for home gardens and Media. Was built almost 600 years BC. M. In Babylon in Iraq, the current
In the middle of the desert of Mesopotamia arid, Hanging Gardens of Babylon were testimony to the ability of one man to build an oasis of beauty botanical center blues desert landscape, against all the laws, And there is no doubt in the presence of parks, gardens are not actually hanging, also known as Semiramis hanging gardens.

The word Babylon means in Akkadian (the door of God) and for the outstanding gardens of 8 gates and was Ofajmha Ishtar Gate.

The garden of beauty and scenic splendor entering the fun and pleasure to the human heart when you look at them and planted all kinds of trees, vegetables, fruits and flowers and remain productive throughout the year and because of the trees Last summer and winter, and distributed by the statues of all sizes in all types of garden.

King has been used to build these gardens the prisoners who brought the Jews of the Levant at that time and enable them to work day and night,
There was a large statue of the Iraqi Museum represents this incident
But after the recent war were robbed of this statue is very large which is the first stolen from the Museum.

Find King Nebuchadnezzar gardens as a sign of respect for his wife Simrames that, according to legend, yearned for the forests, flowers and home. The gardens and surrounded by an intermediate Laketan the city and a water ditch to repel the invading armies.

And was named outstanding as they grew on the verandas of the palaces and the royal palace balcony in Babylon around 600 BC

Tourism in Spain

Spain is one of the leading tourist country known worldwide,
And almost the number of visitors nearly double the estimated population of forty million, and tourism is a real industry that provide the country significant income from foreign exchange, accounting for a major source in its general budget, and ahead of their income from other economic activities such as agriculture, industry and trade, despite the excellence of Spain in these areas many of the Member States of the European Union, particularly in the production of vegetables and fruits for export.

Sun, Sea Tourism

Official statistics show that a significant proportion of visitors to Spain is composed of visitors to the tourism sun, the sea, a pattern-based tourism by the hotel and its facilities tourist period along the beaches overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, east and south, the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean in the west and north-west of the Iberian Peninsula .
But the numbers also confirm that cultural tourism based on visiting historical monuments and landmarks that represent the Islamic civilization Andalusian significant part of which has particular importance.

Alhambra Palace

The Alhambra Palace in Granada, the first tourist attraction in terms of number of visitors, as visited by more than 2.2 million tourists annually. This prompted the discovery experts preserved monuments to ask those responsible for a cap on can not exceed the number of visitors who can allow them to visit this historic building is important so as not to cause pollution generated by tourists in the damage of this impact is important, and cause injury, or injury, parts of which were damaged grave, which is what actually happened in black fountain, which have a Osodha from his place to undergo a complete overhaul.

Officials said they intend to return to the place and begin the restoration of the rest of the black, respectively.

The group is the Alhambra Palace, which lies on a plateau overlooking the alloy Granada marvels of engineering that attract tourists the beauty of composition and Baha decorations and inscriptions that adorn the walls and doors and Window. The group consists of ownership of a group of palaces, halls and gardens built in the fourteenth century during the reign of three kings of Bani Nasr are: Ismail I, Yusuf I and Mohammed V.

The series of these deficiencies a unique system in the system of security that protect it, make it a fortress can live in isolation from the surrounding areas, and perhaps this is why it has been resistant to the Christian armies led by Queen Catholic Isabel, that the king Abu Abdullah Little delivered the second of January ( January) in 1492.

Museum of Art

The Prado Museum of Fine Arts in Madrid in second place in terms of visitors, by far, of course, the number of visitors to the Alhambra Palace, as the number of visitors to this museum 1.8 million visitors annually.
The museum is located in the heart of the Spanish capital, and includes a huge number of paintings that barely covers periods of art in Europe, including groups representing periods of Art Flemish, Italian and Spanish, but that stores the museum includes thousands of paintings, which remains in the dark due to the lack of adequate space, although magnitude of the galleries. But the most important of these groups displayed in the form of semi-permanent return to the Spaniards, top artists such as Goya, Villazquit.

Regulated by the Prado Museum on several times a year of specialized exhibitions to display the rare paintings of some artists, or a ceremony to mark certain technical.

The Queen Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, it is recent, and is located just minutes away from the Prado Museum, and can visit card through a common entry between the two museums were to save money on tourists. This museum includes the most important paintings contemporary artists of Spain, who lived during the second half of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century, perhaps for the famous painting Guernica, which Picasso created by the ugliness of the Spanish Civil War of the most important features of this museum.

Comes the Cathedral of the Holy Family created by artist architectural genius GAUDI in Barcelona ranked next to the Reina Sofia museum is visited every year nearly a million and a half million tourists, was launched in the establishment of this cathedral unique in its composition, external and internal, in 1928, has not yet been completed yet finalized.

The building lapedrira,

Impact of architectural works executed by the other fun event at the end of the nineteenth century in the city of Barcelona as well, Vezorh year nearly a million and a half million tourists. And is characterized by a building does not Pedrira form strange covered by the protrusions and curves on all the walls, but Slalmh internal like the caves of the mountainous areas of Anatolia, all designed by Spanish artist, which he accused some people mad, but he left a legacy technically superior to many of the ancient monuments of importance. And turned the city of Barcelona thanks to its open-air museum in the open air

The most important tourist islands:

(Cabrera) and which distinguishes this island as an island free of buildings and hotels, where tourists stay overnight just by camping.

(Balearic Islands) is the largest owner of tourism demand in Spain, a wonderful nature, beaches and marine Bkhovha characterized as they are of a calm atmosphere and is located in the Mediterranean Sea

(Canary) The Canary Islands which are located in the Atlantic, are well-known is the kiss of tourists in summer and winter due to warm atmosphere, and the beauty of beaches make it one of the most important tourist areas in Spain ..

Information about the city of Athens

Athens (Greek Αθήνα = Athens) is the capital of Greece and the largest cities.

The name of the city of Athens Hellenic Goddess of Wisdom.
The population of the city today is about 729.137 people, with its suburbs and surrounding areas
About 3,753,726 million people (Statistics in January 2005).

Athens is located in southern Greece on the plain of Attica, between the rivers and Ilisos Kiviesos, surrounded on three sides clipped the tops of mountains are Himitus (1,026 meters) and Pentelikun (1109 meters), and Barnes (1,413 meters). Overlooking from the fourth on the Gulf of Zaronish connecting the Mediterranean Sea.
A history of the city about 5000 years, to prepare this one of the oldest settlements in Europe. Athens announced in 1985 as the first
The cultural capital of Europe. Was added to the Acropolis in 1987 and the Temple of Daphne in 1990 in Athens to the list
UNESCO World Heritage Site. Held at the Athens Games Oolmbip first in the modern era in 1896 and after
About a century held the 2004 Summer Olympics also be considered.

Athens was built on the rocky hills of the Acropolis. The capital of Attica Consolidated a year ago, 700 BC. M.
The population of Aloionyen. The city at its inception was a mud-brick houses, straw, and its streets are
Paved. The squeeze in the smaller cities of the ancient civilization. Did not exceed an area of a small village.

But it was a State governed in a democratic way by the Council of the Masses (Aliklicia).

He was elected by the people to vote. And were managed by the discussions and decisions are taken by vote. She made art
Theatre and has been staged in the open air. The city is facing the Acropolis, a house of gods over a generation.

About Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is the finest example of Mughal architecture, which combines elements of architectural styles Persian, Hindi and Muslim countries. In 1983, UNESCO has included this parameter in the list of world cultural heritage and considered "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the masterpieces of the World Heritage, which won the admiration of all around the earth." Although the shrine itself of a dome of white marble is the most important characteristic of this effect, the Taj Mahal in fact a complete range of built around the building began in 1632 and was completed in approximately in 1653, has required the construction recruitment of thousands of skilled craftsmen.

Big Ben Clock

Big Ben is at the famous City of London (the capital of fog), the most popular device for measuring time in the world, and is considered one of the most important features of tourists keen to visit in Britain. Has overseen the implementation and design of tower and the Minister of Works, British, Benjamin Hall, then, as Benjamin huge body, were referred to him as Big Ben, has been named in his honor on the bell at large and later to include the time itself, and began work time since June 3, 1859.

Known time accuracy in the measurement of micro-time, is ticking a symbol of the timing of the World, and weighs Jursha about thirteen tons, and the length of Akrbhe 9 and 14 feet. There are hours 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. Time, was designed by Edmund Beckett, Edward Dent, manufacture and after his death, Frederick Dent .. Since in 1924 began beats Big Ben announces the time by the BBC every day. He used a lot of people around the world to hear the ticking before BBC news bulletins.

Statue of Liberty

Frederic Auguste: Frenchman is a sculptor born in 1834 in the city of Colmar Alzasip and completed his education in sculpture and painting in Paris and then visited Egypt and Yemen, where known to the Suez Canal, and returned to his hometown to become a sculptor and the first great work is El General Rap and most famous work is the Statue of Liberty and died on October 4, 1904 at the age of 70 years and when he visited Frederick Egypt that friendship with Ferdinand Delyecebs and had conceived Frederick beacon of light to set up at the entrance of the Suez Canal and made the project twice during the reign of Khedive Ismail, but may be given Patent project from the United States in 1879

Statue of Liberty is the work of art sculptural France has gifted to the United States of America October 28, 1886 as a souvenir to document the relationship between the two countries on the occasion of the centennial of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783 m and has since settled the statue by location overlooking the Bay of New York, New York United States to be in receiving all visitors to the country, whether they are tourists or migrants Fteredrick designed by Bartholdi designed the structure, while structural Gustave Eiffel.

Location and Area:

Stabilize the statue on Liberty Island in the Gulf of New York, where a distance of 600 meters from Jersey City, New Jersey and 2.6 kilometers to the southwest of Manhattan, a total area of 49.000 square meters.

Bust:

Real name of this statue is "freedom lights the world" and is a woman freed from the shackles of tyranny, which was thrown at one of her feet. This lady stuck in her left hand a book engraved with the characters Roman phrase "July 4, 1776" and is the history of American Independence On her head She wears a crown composed of 7 rays of teeth is to symbolize the seven continents in the world.

Based on the base of the statue Osmonip - granite width 47 meters (154 feet) and a length of the foot to the top of the torch 46 meters, while a total length of 93 meters to al Qaeda.

Is access to the island using statements and then the visitors to ascend to the crown top of the statue using the stairs and it Itloa the panoramic scenery of the Gulf of New York and around it.

And the visitor can recognize the history of the statue during a visit of the museum is located at the base of the statue and being boarded by using the elevators.

Fast facts about the statue:

Was the unveiling of the statue on in 1886.

Age: 124 years in 2010.

Total weight: 125 tons.

Height of the statue: 46 meters.

View Rule: 47 meters.

Overall height: 93 meters.

Along the right arm: 12.80 meters.

Showing the face from ear to ear 3.05 meters.

View center: 10.67 meters.

The annual number of visitors in 2004: 3 million.

Date of accession to the World Heritage: 1984.

Information on the Eiffel Tower

Characterized the French capital Paris for the rest of the cities in the world the existence of a marvel of design and construction, "Eiffel Tower", which is one of the most tourist areas which are worth a visit. One of the most distinguishing feature of this tower is a magnificent towering height, which can be tourists, its exciting to see the scenic of the highest peak of up to 1000 feet. The tower has, in addition to the space that enables tourists to see places of Foreign Affairs, two restaurants and a gift shop and post office.

The site "Distinishn 360" website that the famous French tower made of iron block designed by architect Gustave Eiffel in 1889, the tallest building in the world until 1930 when the building surpassed "Chrysler" in New York. After it had completed the construction of the tower for the world of celebrity is not sufficient at the time, but now it is the first symbol in Paris and one of the most important tourist destinations in Europe.

Although it is clear that the tower a tourist, but it has met with considerable criticism, especially by a group of artists in Paris who called it "nothing more than a lamp tragedy of the road." However, these criticisms have been in vain after the silent these views critical of the tower as a result of demand by tourists is surprisingly in 1889, where a record number of visitors to the tower is a large number was two million visitors during this year alone.

Who love nature and describes the tower that affect the flight of birds that fly in the atmosphere of Paris.

Paris

The site "Desccaffr France" website that Ootrelau Rousseau, Chagall, Delaunay and a big fan of the Eiffel tower. In 1909 the tower was dismantled almost entirely to the end of the lease for 20 years, but that the antenna thereto, which was used in the transmission wire at the time was the main reason to retain it.

In spite of the difficulties faced by the establishment of the tower since its inception, but now receive well received locally from all the French, and is regarded as the first symbol that reflects Paris.

And will remain the "Eiffel Tower" in Paris, always and never a miracle in construction and design are worth a visit and watch. No tourists to visit Paris without being seen and enter this strange edifice.

He is currently one of the most visited tourist attractions that tourists from around the world (nearly four million visitors a year).

The structure of the tower of the massive 15 000 pieces of steel, and weighs approximately 7000 tons of, in addition to that required about 50 tons of paint to fat. We have celebrated the capital since the year the centenary of his big celebration ...

And is located on the first floor of the tower's height of 300 meters at an altitude of 57 meters, and the museum audio-visual devoted to the story of its construction, in addition to many photos and documents, and there in the Taig II (which is located at an altitude of 115 meters) a number of restaurants and shops selling souvenirs. The third floor and the last is located at an altitude of 274 meters, and the museum housing the office of architect Eiffel. You can of the floor, when the weather is dry, take a look (view) of Paris and be able to see places located at a distance of 60 km.

In the tower a number of elevators, which enables you to visit the three floors (as opposed to the entry price), but that you can climb for free on foot to board the 1653 class ... There under the tower Bust doctrine of a small engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

It is interesting that the invention of the telegraph and wireless, high tower, Onqmah of the jaw and ending in iron smelting factories ... Vortvall make him an excellent antenna can be used for broadcasting (1918), and video broadcasting TV (1957).

It does not mean the heavy weight of the tower not (thicken), Vthaglh on the ground has exceeded the 4 kg per square centimeter, and has been subjected in the Eighties to the process of weight-loss has a 4 ton. The tower is illuminated internally (within the structure itself) since 1986, and was done before highlighting it from the outside.

Finally, you can visit the Eiffel Tower is located in one of the most beautiful areas of the capital (in the Trocadero) in all days a week from nine o'clock in the morning until midnight (summer). It is nine o'clock in the morning until eleven pm in the rest of the seasons.