Required space for people who are addicted to shopping is the unparalleled street -”Montenapoleone ” and its branches are in the heart of the unique area in the world (covering about 4 acres) for retail sale of most modern goods.
Shopping in this exclusive “Golden Triangle” of windows interspersed with beautiful streets is a paradise for people with deep pockets and purgatory for those who must be limited to window shopping. Tireless activities of the city in fashion, interior design, architecture and food are exposed in this chic neighborhood – from the glossy boutiques of high priests and priestesses of ‘la moda italiana’ to remarkable tea salons of the nineteenth century and gourmet boutiques.
Display window is either extravagant or simplicity itself – in the spirit of Zen. So it is in the shops – all the latest fashion in this city that sets trends and paved roads.

If you are tired of shopping or exhausted from walking around the perfect parking place for your luggage is the Milan hotel “Four Seasons” .It is quiet oasis in the heart of the shopping section of “Montenapoleone“.

Order of nuns who founded this former nunnery in 1450, resided here until the end of the eighteenth century monastery with vaulted gallery was transformed into a first-class hotel of the XXI century – a unique space, simultaneously soothing and luxurious. This means fragments of frescoes exposed, ancient columns and vaulted ceilings, but also exceptional spacious rooms with marble bathrooms and heated floors, praised restaurants and casually elegant lounge (formerly the chapel of the monastery), which attracts locals and hotel guests – as a mirror city and refuge from it.

 

Complete your stylish day with dinner in the lovely restaurant “Aymo and Nadia“, located in one corner of the city. His owners are spouses who have been together since their childhood in a village near Lucca Tuscan and now share the cooking and caring for the garden that provides wonderful fresh and delicious products for the kitchen. Much of the daily changing menu hints at their Tuscan roots, but to dine here is to try Italian cuisine in its purest form and dishes that fill the restaurant with a loyal regular customers.

 

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National Park “Serengeti” was established in 1951 is located in Northern Tanzania, covering a vast area of 14,763 sq. km. Landscape here consists of rolling plains. The relief features of the area are given the name of this place. In the language of mass (local population) Serengeti exactly means “endless plains” .The altitude of this plateau is between 914 and 1829 meters. Safari in the reserve will allow you to watch the annual migration of wild beasts and zebras. If you get here you should hire a balloon with which to explore and enjoy the wonderful scenery.

 

*Close to the park is the ravine Olduvai Gorge, where they found many of the most ancient remains and artifacts associated with human prehistory.
Serengeti National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage List. The park is Seronera area where Professor Bernhard and Michael Gzhimek Gzhimek studied black rhinos.

 

 

*In this untouched Savannah live more than 35 species of mammals. The most attractive here are lions. Leo rarely pursues daytime watchful antelopes, which are able to run much faster than him. He waits until the nightfall .Then one after the other lionesses silently sink into darkness and the surrounding herd. Fearsome screams of frightened men run after animals to where they are expected lionesses. When fishing for zebras and antelopes sufficient lions are fed almost exclusively with them. Predator eats two or three times during the day but is capable of withstanding without food for several weeks. Other residents of the Serengeti are zebras, antelopes, rhinos, hyenas, baboons, elephants and buffalo. Furthermore we live over 500 different species of birds, some of which are not found anywhere in the world already.

 

*Perhaps the biggest attraction for tourists here is the period when the animals migrate away from 800 km for the May dry period. Nearly 2 million mammals embark on a long time to return again in December. Rare and mainly low vegetation does help those who want to monitor the flow of animals extremely easy.

 

 

Tags: National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti, Tanzania

 

Machu Picchu in Peru is 2,300 meters above sea level and 112 km from Cusco, at the foot of the Sacred Valley of the Incas. It is believed that Machu Picchu was part of a large complex of fortresses, which the Incas used to protect against attacks of Indians living in the jungle. The city is divided into four parts. Northwest is located in the area, which was probably used for religious purposes. That there are so called: Sacred Square and Temple of the “three window“, “Sacred Temple“, “Mansion on the priests” .There is also a solar laboratory, which allowed the Incas to determine the seasons and time in the shadows thrown by the sun on the rocks. It is assumed that the largest residential buildings were built in the northeastern part of the complex. The Watchtower along with other buildings located in the southwest. Southeast of the complex were the smallest and most modest buildings built along narrow streets . At the bottom of the terraces the tomb in which during the excavations were found 135 skeletons and 109 of them were identified as female. This leads the researchers to believe that people of Machu Picchu were mostly women who chose Inca and hid in the city, unknown to the Spanish conquerors. The ancient fortress of the Incas was discovered accidentally in 1911 and has since been subject to historical and archaeological interpretations. It continues to stir the curiosity of scientists.

 

American archaeologist Hiram Bingam ancient city discovered during an expedition organized by the prestigious Yale University. There are different hypotheses about the basic functions of the city and how the Incas built it as the area is inaccessible.According to Machu Picchu was the safest refuge of the Incas. Here Manco Inca defeated and his people fled the capital after a siege of Cuzco in 1536 after a failed uprising against the Spanish conquerors of the Incas. The strategic position of Machu Picchu, however, served as the basis for another very popular hypothesis. According to her “castle” served as a security guard and was used by the Incas as a symbol of their dominant position in the Amazon region near Cuzco. This explains much of the scenes depicting clashes between troops of the Inca and ordinary soldiers, called “chunchos” – inhabitants of the jungle. These scenes are depicted on lacquered wooden bowls made by the Incas. For some, however, Machu Picchu was an important religious center.
That is where the Incas could be closest to the gods and even to touch them. Even today no one can solve the mystery how the builders and architects were able to transport to the top of the mountain huge blocks of limestone required for the erection of the city.

 

 

Tags: Amazon, Cusco, Incas, Machu Picchu, Peru

 

Stonehenge is the most famous megalithic monument in the world. It was built around 5000 years ago. Its construction has a religious character and is associated with summer solstice. The ruins of this unique facility are located 130 km. southwest of London-on Salisbury Plain. It existed there before the fall of Troy.

Stonehenge has been examined by dozens of scientists. The joint efforts of historians, archaeologists, geologists, anthropologists, chemists, engineers did not lead to answers to how, when and what was built giant stone on Salisbury Plain. They left these questions without answer. Visitors are curious about the purpose of this monument .There are no inscriptions on them or some kind of clues. There is nothing which will tell something about the origin or at least to give some direction for further research. Stonehenge is so old that even in ancient times its true history has been forgotten. Greek and Roman authors barely mention it. When the Romans came to Britain, Stonehenge was not impressed them. Rome had its beautiful temples and Egypt – the majestic pyramids are in good condition unlike that group, “hewn stone.” Stonehenge is composed of four stone circles. The outer is a vertically placed poles , each of which lies a flat stone, joined with other tables in a circle. Each pillar weighs on average about 25 tons, and the plates are 700 kg. The second round consists of relatively small single stones .Each group consists of two vertical plates, weighing 40 tons, on which is placed in a horizontal slab. By giant stone blocks our distant ancestors built stone piazza, enclosed in a circle. The entire facility is enclosed in a huge earth shaft surrounded by a moat, which has remained until today. And all this carefully and geometrically precise proportion recorded in the area of peaceful landscapes. The researchers found that these stone blocks were delivered to Salisbury 380 km away, where is the nearest quarry (south Wales). Even today, we will need special equipment, healthy eyes overload trucks and platforms, giant cranes and ways to move such weights, and three thousand such things was not.

 

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*Copacabana is an amazing place for a holiday. The beach stretches from Post Dois to the Post Seis and it has at its ends a historic fort .The shoreline is about 4 km long and it is covered by sand. Copacabana Fort was built in 1914 and located in southern ‘Duque de Caxias ‘ was erected in 1779 in the north.

*Originally Copacabana was less inglorious fishing village. By building a luxury hotel Copacabana Palace in 1923, the glory of the neighborhood and azure coastline grew and gradually begins to attract more tourists. Movie stars, royalty and celebrities have stayed at the boutique hotel, thanks to the beach which is world famous. Over the years, the region appeared many new, impressive and modern buildings and hotels, but to this day retains the Copacabana Palace soybeans beauty and tourists do not fail to admire the majestic appearance.

*The beach is undoubtedly a dream destination for summer holidays for millions of people worldwide. Crowds of tourists flock every year in Rio de Janeiro to experience the incredible atmosphere that pours from Copacabana and Ipanema beaches nearby. Both beaches are actually one and only color the pedestrian promenade defined. No less famous is the boulevard Avenida Atlantica, which encircles the coast. Here are concentrated among the best restaurants, including cafes, restaurants, bars and discos. The nightlife is a whole experience and there is hardly equivalent somewhere else in the world.

 

*Copacabana is not only a magnet for summer vacations. Over 2 million tourists from around the world prefer to celebrate Christmas here, dancing barefoot in the sand against the Latin American rhythms. Traditionally, all dressed in white, alcohol and cocktails in unlimited quantities, but when it hits 00:00 the sky fills with thousands of fireworks erupting.

 

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