Peru is a world leading destination for adventure lovers. In fact, there’s so much to do and the country is so big, it can be difficult to decide where to go in the time you have for traveling. One excellent choice is the Peruvian Amazon.
Ruins reach across centuries to fire the imagination and fuel travel plans. The very best make you feel young, small, and utterly amazed by the architectural chops of the ancients. Among the many amazing ruins that still exist today, a few stand out as the trip of a lifetime.
If you are planning a tour of Europe why not consider the Piedmont region of northern Italy? Depending on your specific interests, this beautiful area might be an ideal vacation spot for you. You can get classic Italian food, and wash it down with fine local wine. Some parts of Piedmont haven’t yet been discovered by tourists. This short article presents Turin, the capital and largest city of the Piedmont. A companion article presents the rest of the Piedmont region.
The Mont-St-Michele in Normandy France forms a tower in the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe. It was at the request of the Archangel Michel chief of the celestial militia that Aubert, Bishop of Avranches built and consecrated a small church on the 16th October 709. In 966 a community of Benedictines settled on the rock at the request of the Duke of Normandy and the pre-Romanesque church was built before the year one thousand.
In 2007, a six-year initiative culminated in a popularity poll aimed to pick seven new wonders of the world from a short list of 200 existing monuments. While many of the places that failed to make the cut are highly desirable destinations, the Acropolis of Athens, Angkor Wat and Eiffel Tower included, the selected seven are rightly found at the top of many a traveler’s bucket list.
Tarragona is a city situated in the south of Catalonia (one of the autonomous communities in the Kingdom of Spain), on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean coast. It is also the largest town 60 miles southwest of Barcelona which you must have heard about. Besides, Tarragona also shares the same name with a Spanish province and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès.
The historic center of Siena, Tuscany has been named is a World Heritage Site. It is one of the most popular Italian tourist destinations. The local Duomo is one of the country’s finest Gothic cathedrals. Its main facade was completed in 1380.
