Korean beautiful sights you must visit

Namsan tower
N Seoul Tower is a radio transmitter located in Seoul, South Korea. This building was built in 1969, and opened to the public in 1980, the tower height reaches 236.7 m (777 ft) from the base and at an altitude of 479.7 m (1,574 ft) above sea level. The tower also called Namsan Tower or Tower Seoul alone. However, after the owner of the tower in collaboration with CJ Corporation, the tower is named after the N Seoul Tower (official name CJ Seoul Tower).

Most visitors climb the Namsan cable car to go up, then walk up to the tower. In the tower there is a souvenir shop and a restaurant downstairs. Visitors have to pay when it rises to the top of the tower. There are four observation balcony (on the balcony 4th observation, there is a revolving restaurant, and rotates once for 48 minutes), and also a gift shop and two restaurants on it. Visitors can see almost the entire city of Seoul. Nearby there is also a transmission tower.

Gyeongbok Palace

Gyeongbok Palace is a palace located in northern Seoul (Gangbuk), South Korea. The palace includes from 5 large palace and is the largest built by the Joseon Dynasty.

Gyeongbok Palace was originally erected in 1394 by Jeong Do Jeon, an architect. The palace was destroyed during the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592-1598 and rebuilt during the 1860s with 330 complex of buildings with 5792 rooms. Standing in an area of 410,000 square meters, Gyeongbok Palace is a symbol of royal majesty and the Korean people. After the assassination of Empress Myeongseong by Japanese spy in 1895, King Gojong leave this palace along with other family members and will never return.

In 1911, the Japanese government is being invaded Korea destroy all the buildings except the 10 main buildings, and build the Main Administration Building of Japan to the governor general of Korea in front of the Throne Room Rear garden palace was once used as the residence of the governor-general during the Japanese colonial period. With the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948, President Syngman Rhee to use it as an office and residence. In 1993, after President Kim Young-sam chosen to be president of South Korea, the residence of the Governor-General is destroyed to eliminate the symbol of the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Bulguksa

Bulguksa Temple Bulguk or (佛 國寺; "State Buddha Temple") is the main Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order. Bulguksa is located in Gyeongju, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. This temple is so important because it is the site of historic relics from the days of the Silla kingdom, and save 7 pieces South Korean national treasure. Bulguksa classified as Historic and Scenic Site 1 by the South Korean government. Together with Seokguram, a place of pilgrimage in Tohamsan, Bukguksa became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
called Bulguksa. Bulguk temple was renovated in the early days of the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty. However, during the invasion of Japan in 1592-1598, he was not spared from destruction. Reconstruct done as much as 40 times between 1604 to 1805. The renovation was also done on the Japanese colonial era, but some pieces of the temple treasure reportedly disappeared.

Restoration after World War II and the Korean War in 1966. It was only implemented between 1969 and 1973, the late President Park Chung Hee begin restoration efforts and massive improvements to the structure to be like that today. Parts of the stone pagoda restored to normal shape.

Bulguk Temple at the foot Tohamsan and is currently the main temple to the 11th district of the Jogye Order.

national folk museum of korea

National Folk Museum of Korea is a national museum of South Korea, located within the grounds of the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and uses replicas of historical objects to illustrate the history of the traditional life of the Korean people
The museum was established on 8 November 1945 by the US Government and opened on 25 April 1946 at the City Administration Memorial Hall. When the museum was merged with the National Museum of Korea, its collection of artifacts 4.555 was moved to the latter's Mt Namsan site. In 1975, when the National Museum moved onto the grounds of the Gyeongbokgung Palace, it moved along with it into the Modern Art Museum Building. In 1993 it opened in its present site, which was the former site of the National Museum of Korea. The building's design is based on various historical buildings around South Korea

gate dongdaemun

Dongdaemun Market or Dongdaemun Sijang (동대문 시장) is a market which is situated in the district of Dongdaemun, Seoul, South Korea. The location of Dongdaemun market adjacent to East Great Gate (Dongdaemun) and has long been known as the wholesale and retail markets, especially for garment products . Dongdaemun Market opened in 1905 and has become one of the largest markets in Korea. Dongdaemun Market rose to fame with the nickname as the "Fashion District" for various companies such as Migliore, Doosan Tower, APM began to explore the Dongdaemun and doing business garment. As a result, there are more than 20 pieces mall building that stands in the region. in the vicinity of Dongdaemun market, found many young artists entered the stage to entertain the public and show their talentand there are many tourist attractions that you must visit korea

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fun tourist attractions in Denmark

rosenborg castle

rosenborg castle

fun tourist attractions in Denmark

Rosenborg Castle (Danish: Rosenborg Slot) is a renaissance castle located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The castle was originally built as a country summerhouse in 1606 and is an example of Christian IV's many architectural projects. It was built in the Dutch Renaissance style, typical of Danish buildings during this period, and has been expanded several times, finally evolving into its present condition by the year 1624. Architects Bertel Lange and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger are associated with the structural planning of the castleThe castle was used by Danish regents as a royal residence until around 1710. After the reign of Frederik IV, Rosenborg was used as a royal residence only twice, and both these times were during emergencies. The first time was after Christiansborg Palace burned down in 1794, and the second time was during the British attack on Copenhagen in 1801.
christiansborg palace

christiansborg palace

Christiansborg Palace or Christiansborg Castle (Danish: Christiansborg Slot; pronounced [krɪsdjænsˈbɔːɐ̯ˀ]), on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, is the seat of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget), the Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court. Also, several parts of the palace are used by the monarchy, including the Royal Reception Rooms, the Palace Chapel and the Royal Stables.
The palace is thus the house of Denmark's three supreme powers: the executive power, the legislative power, and the judicial power. It is the only building in the world that houses all three of a country's branches of government. Christiansborg Palace is owned by the Danish state, and is run by the Palaces and Properties Agency.
The present building, the third to be built on the site, is the last in a series of successive castles and palaces constructed on the same site since the erection of the first castle in 1167. Since the early fifteenth century, the various buildings have served as the base of the central administration; until 1794 as the principal residence of the Danish kings and after 1849 as the seat of parliament.

The palace today bears witness to three eras of Danish architecture, as the result of two serious fires. The first fire occurred in 1794 and the second in 1884. The main part of the current palace, finished in 1928, is in the historicist Neo-baroque style. The chapel dates to 1826 and is in a neoclassical style. The showgrounds were built 1738-46, in a baroque style.

den gamle by

den Gamle By in Denmark

The Old Town in Aarhus, Denmark (Danish: Den Gamle By), is an open-air town museum located in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens. It consists of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 townships in all parts of the country. In 1914 the museum opened as the world's first open-air museum of its kind, concentrating on town culture rather than village culture, and to this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside Copenhagen serving some 3.5 million visitors pr. year.

The museum buildings are organized into a small town of chiefly half-timbered structures originally erected between 1550 and the late 19th century in various parts of the country and later moved to Aarhus during the 20th century. In all there are some 27 rooms, chambers or kitchens, 34 workshops, 10 groceries or shops, 5 historical gardens, a post office, a customs office, a school and a theatre.

The town itself is the main attraction but most buildings are open for visitors; rooms are either decorated in the original historical style or organized into larger exhibits of which there are 5 regular with varying themes. There are several groceries, diners and workshops spread throughout the town with museum staff working in the roles of town figures i.e. merchant, blacksmith etc. adding to the illusion of a "living" town.

denmark frederik's church

denmark frederik's church

Frederik's Church (Danish: Frederiks Kirke), popularly known as The Marble Church (Marmorkirken) for its rococo architecture, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Copenhagen, Denmark. The church forms the focal point of the Frederiksstaden district; it is located due west of Amalienborg PalaceThe church was designed by the architect Nicolai Eigtved in 1740 and was along with the rest of Frederiksstaden, a district of Copenhagen, intended to commemorate the 300 years jubilee of the first coronation of a member of the House of Oldenburg.

Frederick's Church has the largest church dome in Scandinavia with a span of 31m. The dome rests on 12 columns. The inspiration was probably St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The foundation stone was set by king Frederick V on October 31, 1749, but the construction was slowed by budget cuts and the death of Eigtved in 1754. In 1770, the original plans for the church were abandoned by Johann Friedrich Struensee. The church was left incomplete and, in spite of several initiatives to complete it, stood as a ruin for nearly 150 years.

In 1874, Andreas Frederik Krieger, Denmark's Finance Minister at the time, sold the ruins of the uncompleted church and the church square to Carl Frederik Tietgen for 100,000 Rigsdaler — none of which was to be paid in cash — on the condition that Tietgen would build a church in a style similar to the original plans and donate it to the state when complete, while in turn he acquired the rights to subdivide neighboring plots for development.

bonbon land

bonbon land

BonBon-Land is a Danish amusement park located in Holme Olstrup in the South of Zealand, about 100km from Copenhagen. This 34-acre park attracts about 450.000 each season. The park is truly wacky in design; humour is widely employed in the design of the rides and the architecture of buildings and in fun items on display such as a peeing ant, farting dog, etc.The history of theme park BonBon-land can be dated back to when the Danish sweets boiler Michael Spangsberg got an idea to produce wacky candy with such funny names as 'mågeklatter', 'hundeprutter' and 'tissebleer'.

From early on the candy became very popular, and children wanted to visit the factory in Holme Olstrup (a small Danish town in the countryside) to see how the cheeky and delicious pieces of candy were made. However, the production of the candy had to fulfil some very strict regulations concerning hygiene, so the factory couldn´t continue to offer visiting tours. As a result, Michael Spangsberg came up with yet another good idea - to open a small Bonbon-land.

In 1992, the theme park opened with a mini candy factory, a cinema, a shop and four small boats, shaped like a duck in a small pond. The park was an immediate success with children and over the years many rides and attractions have been added making Bonbon-Land one of Denmark´s most popular children´s parks (in 2008 it was the eight most popular tourist attraction in Denmark). In 2007, the Spanish-based entertainment company Parques Reunidos purchased the park. In total, Parques Reunidos owns 67 theme parks around the world.

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Singapore with magnificent beauty

sentosa island singapore

This island is one of the locations lay the symbol of Singapore, the Merlion. The total area of Sentosa increasingly growing because Singapore mereklamasikan area with sand imported from the territory of Riau Islands, Indonesia.Sentosa Island is divided into four regions, each of which depicts zones of different entertainment.

Imbiah Lookout: mostly filled by a friendly learning spaces for children such as the Discover of Singapore, a butterfly garden, etc.

Siloso Point: contains some underwater park

Beaches: activities done here as sunbathing and playing with the family on the beach.

Resort World Sentosa: this is the location of a lot of fun entertainment venues one of which is the Universal Studios Singapore.

asian civilizations museum

The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM, Chinese: 亚洲文明博物馆) is an institution which forms a part of the four museums in Singapore, the other three being the other Asian Civilisations Museum at Old Tao Nan School, the National Museum of Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum,It is one of the pioneering museums in the region to specialise in pan-Asian cultures and civilisations. The museum specialises in the material history of China, Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia, from which the diverse ethnic groups of Singapore trace their ancestryThe museum first opened its doors at the Old Tao Nan School building on 22 April 1997 at Armenian Street, with exhibits largely centred on Chinese civilisation. With the restoration of the Empress Place Building, the museum established its new flagship museum there on 2 March 2003, rapidly expanding the collection to other areas of Asia. The Armenian Street branch closed for renovations on 1 January 2006 and reopened on 25 April 2008 as the Peranakan Museum, specialising in Peranakan culture.

On September 16, 2006, the Museum officially launched its new logo with a new slogan The Asian Civilisations Museum — Where Asian Cultures Come Alive!. This new logo reflects the museum's unique location by the historic Singapore River, the source and origin of Singapore multi-cultural society, which the ACM presents in its collection. The brown reflected image also alludes to the museum as a place for reflection, while the vibrant orange is an invigorating colour which represents activity and energy.

buddha tooth relic temple and museum

The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum is a Buddhist temple and museum complex located in the Chinatown district of Singapore"The temple is based on the Tang dynasty architectural style and built to house the tooth relic of the historical Buddha. The ground breaking ceremony was conducted on 13 March 2005. Costing S$62 million and 2 years later, a soft launch was held to coincide with the 2007 Vesak Day celebration. It is claimed that the relic of Buddha from which it gains its name was found in 1980 in a collapsed stupa in Myanmar.

Since opening, the temple has become a popular attraction within Chinatown. Simple vegetarian fare is served in the basement of the temple, though donations are accepted.

art science museum singapura

The Singapore Philatelic Museum (Chinese: 新加坡集邮博物馆) is a museum about the postal history of Singapore and its stamps. The museum, located at 23-B Coleman Street[1] in Singapore, was formerly part of the Anglo-Chinese School, completed in 1906. In the 1970s, the building became the Methodist Book Room until it was restored to become the present museum.

Singapore Philatelic Museum opened on 19 August 1995 to promote interest in and the appreciation of Singapore's history and heritage in philately. Besides the permanent galleries, the theme galleries offer a host of changing exhibitions throughout the year. These include displays from the private collections of renowned philatelists, travelling exhibitions from overseas and themed exhibitions to commemorate new stamp issues. The museum has a stamp shop, and is popular with stamp collectors.

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malaysia with beautiful tourism places

petronas twin towers

The Petronas Towers, or the Petronas Twin Towers (in Malaysia: 'Berkembar Petronas Towers') in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is a pair of twin towers that once the tallest building in the world in 1998-2004, before surpassed by Taipei 101. However, both these towers still the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world in the 20th century. Petronas Twin Towers held the title as the tallest building from 1998 to 2004 in terms of size, from the floor of the main entrance to the upper floor, which is the original height reference used by international organizations Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat since 1969 (three additional height categories were introduced when the tower was almost prepared in 1996, There is an air bridge that connects the two towers on floors 41 and 42, which makes it the highest bridge in dunia.Jembatan two floors is not mounted directly on the main structure, otherwise designed to be dropped into and out tower so as not to fracture due to high winds or seismic plates mobilization. it is also to control the accumulation of excessive pressure that occurs in the middle of the bridge, as if the bridge was built so close and too clogged with tower structures, pressure displacement spread around the bridge that eventually created the phenomenon "depressed bridge", which can cause the bridge to collapse easily. the bridge is located 170 meters (558 ft) from the road surface and the length of 58.4 meters (192 ft), sednagkan weighs 750 tonnes (750,000 kg).

Petronas is also true air bridge reinforced with 2 feet retort that each side in pairs; the length of each of the leg is 51 m Floor 41 and 42 also known as the podium, as the visitors who want a higher floor to have to change elevators here. The bridge is open to all visitors, all visitors who wish to visit the bridge for recreational purposes need to get a ticket and travel fitting. Originally issued ticket is free, but due to maintaining the quality and standards of the bridge and bridge maintenance system landscape seen increasingly high costs, Petronas Twin Tower Bridge management has taken the decision to charge traveling at a reasonable price.

stone caves

Batu Caves (Tamil: பத்து மலை) is a limestone hill that has a series of caves and cave temples in the Gombak district, 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Sungai Batu or Batu River, which flows past the hill. Batu Caves is also the name of the nearby village.

The cave is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside India, and is dedicated to Lord Murugan. It is the focal point of Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia.The limestone forming Batu Caves is said to be around 400 million years old. Some of the cave entrances were used as shelters by the indigenous Temuan people (a tribe of Orang Asli).

As early as 1860, Chinese settlers began excavating guano for fertilising their vegetable patches. However, they became famous only after the limestone hills were recorded by colonial authorities including Daly and Syers as well as American Naturalist, William Hornaday in 1878.

Batu Caves was promoted as a place of worship by K. Thamboosamy Pillai, an Indian trader. He was inspired by the 'vel'-shaped entrance of the main cave and was inspired to dedicate a temple to Lord Murugan within the caves. In 1890, Pillai, who also founded the Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur, installed the murti (consecrated statue) of Sri Murugan Swami in what is today known as the Temple Cave. Since 1892, the Thaipusam festival in the Tamil month of Thai (which falls in late January/early February) has been celebrated there.

islamic arts museum malaysia

The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (Malay: Muzium Kesenian Islam Malaysia) was officially opened on 12 December 1998. The museum is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s tourist belt amidst the lush greenery of Perdana Botanical Gardens and within walking distance to the National Mosque, Bird Park and National Planetarium.

The Islamic Arts Museum has 12 main galleries which is classified according to the types of artefacts spread over level 3 and 4. Level 3 of the museum hosts the Quran and Manuscripts Gallery, the Islamic Architecture Gallery, the India Gallery, the Chinese Gallery, the Ancient Malay World Gallery as well as the reconstructed Ottoman Syrian Room dating back to the 19th Century.Visitors can also proceed upstairs to Level 4 which hosts an display of jewellery, textile, arms and armour, ceramics as well as ancient Islamic glass ware.

culture palace malaysia

The Istana Budaya (literally The Palace of Culture), founded in September 1999, is Malaysia's main venue for all types of theatre including musical theatre, operetta, classical concert and opera from local and international performances. It is located next to the National Art Gallery on Jalan Tun Razak in the heart of Kuala LumpurThe idea of this state-of-the-art theatre began with the proposal in 1964 to establish a cultural centre. The construction work began in 1995 and was completed three years later. It was built at a cost of RM210 million with a theatre floor area of 21,000 m² as part of the 54,400 m² cultural complex. The Istana Budaya was officially opened by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed in 1999.

The Istana Budaya theatre hall Panggung Sari, with its unique design of royal boxes inspired by the windows of the traditional Rumah Melayu or Malay house, can accommodate up to 1,412 audiences at a time. The building is the first theatre in Asia that is equipped with state-of-the-art stage equipment. Istana Budaya is also rated among the ten most sophisticated theatres in the world, and on par with the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Upon completion, the former national theatre, Panggung Negara was relocated to this new building. Istana Budaya is also the residence of the National Theatre Company and the National Symphony Orchestra.

bako national parks

Sarawak's oldest state park was established in 1957, covers an area of 27 square kilometers, and is about 37km from Kuching. The park is renowned for its incredible natural scenery, as well as the uniqueness of habitats, plants and wildlife.

The most significant here is the secluded bays and steep rocky headland with spectacular cliffs, looking towards the South China Sea.

Sea water waves, waves and wind also carve arches and charming sea coral piles at the base of the cliffs, some of which protrudes into the top of the waves like a mighty serpent's head.

This sandstone formation appears orange due to iron patterns on the cliff. On the mainland, waterfalls plunge into the freshwater lake with forest background of silence.

Bako has a variety of plant species and vegetation extraordinary, and it is one of the biggest attractions of this park. In Bako, you can see almost all types of vegetation found in Borneo.

Bako is also inhabited by approximately 275 proboscis monkey (proboscis) are rare, and only found in Borneo. The best time to see wildlife Bako is after dawn and just before dusk, when the animals are active. Bako is also an exciting place for bird watching, as more than 150 species recorded here.

Extensive system of forest roads in Bako consists of 16 color-coded walking trails, which offers a wide selection of walking and hiking. They are fit and adventurous can choose causeway forest full day or overnight in the camp, while those who want to relax can leisurely walk in the woods.and there are many tourist places in Malaysia that you must visit on holiday

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india beautiful sights for you

the building lotus temple

the building lotus temple
The Lotus Temple, located in New Delhi, India, is a Bahá'í House of Worship completed in 1986. Notable for its flowerlike shape, it serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent and has become a prominent attraction in the city. The Lotus Temple has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articlesSince its inauguration to public worship in December 1986, the Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi has, as of late 2001, attracted more than 70 million visitors, making it one of the most visited buildings in the world. Its numbers of visitors during those years surpassed those of the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal. On Hindu celebrative days and holy days, it has drawn as many as 150,000 people in one day.

This House of Worship is generally referred to as the "Lotus Temple". In India, during the Hindu festival Durga Puja, several times a replica of the Lotus Temple has been made as a pandal, a temporary structure set up to venerate the goddess Durga. In Sikkim a permanent replica is of the Hindu Legship Mandir, dedicated to Shiva

Amber city or 'Amber Fort' is located in Amber. Vast city is 4 square kilometers. The distance is 11 kilometers from Jaipur, the land of Rajasthan, India .He became pull ramble main in the area of Jaipur, on top of a hill. This ancient fortress became the capital during the reign of Kachhawa clan of Amber 1037-1727 ad. Senibinanya artistic style, a combination of Hindu and elements Mughal.Terdapat large fort, several series of gates and the central rocky, overlooking Lake Savail, in front of her.

Wall of four levels outside the palace complex of luxury fostered rather than red brick and marble Diwan-e-Aam .While Sheesh Mahal (palace of mirrors) or Jai Mandir, and Niwas Sukh feel the breeze on the water in the cascade palace. Amer Fort is also known as the Palace of Amer.

The palace was inhabited by Maharaja Rajput and their families. At the entrance to the palace lay the fort Ganesh Gate. A temple dedicated to Sila Devi, the goddess cult Chaitanya.

This fort and Jaigarh Fort is located just above the Cheel ka Teela (Hill of Eagles). There is a tunnel under tanah.Terowong this as a way out during the war.

Seramai 5000 visitors per day visit the town ini.Seramai 1.4 million visitors were reported in 2007.

gateway of india mumbai
The Gateway of India is a monument built during the British Raj in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.  It is located on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai and overlooks the Arabian Sea.  The structure is a basalt arch, 26 meters (85 feet) high. It lies at the end of Chhatrapati Shivaji Marg at the water's edge in Mumbai Harbour.  It was a crude jetty used by the fishing community which was later renovated and used as a landing place for British governors and other prominent people. In Earlier times, it would have been the first structure that visitors arriving by boat in Mumbai would have seen.  The Gateway HAS ALSO been Referred to as the Taj Mahal of Mumbai, and is the city's top tourist attraction.

The structure was erected to commemorate the landing of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary at the Apollo Bunder, when they visited India in 1911. Built in the Indo-Saracenic style, the foundation stone for the Gateway of India was laid on 31 March 1911. The final design of George Wittet was sanctioned in 1914 and the construction of the monument was completed in 1924. The Gateway was later the ceremonial entrance to India for the new Viceroys and Governors of Bombay.  It served to allow entry and access to India.

The monument has witnessed three terror attacks from the beginning of the 21st century; twice in 2003 and it was Also the disembarkation point in 2008 when four gunmen attacked the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower.

river Ganges
Ganga is a river in northern India and the Indian government officials and according to a national river Bharat. In Hinduism, the Ganga is also worshiped as dewi.Sungai this is a holy river for the Hindu religion
Ganga (Sanskrit and Hindi: गंगा; Ganga) or Ganges (spelling the west) is the name of a goddess in the Hindu religion that worshiped as the goddess of fertility and cleansing sins with holy water to pour. He is also the Goddess of the holy river Ganges River in India. Goddess Ganga is often portrayed as a beautiful woman who poured the water in the jar. Hindus believe that if bathing in the Ganges at the right time will have forgiveness of sins and allows a person to obtain salvation. Many people believe that the results obtained by bathing in the Ganges at any time. People travel from distant places to immerse the ashes of the remains of their family members into the water of the Ganges; dyeing was believed to be the services to deliver the ashes to heaven. Several places sacred to Hindus lie along the banks of the river Ganges, including Haridwar, Allahabad and Benares.

City Palace, Jaipur, the which includes the Chandra Mahal and Mubarak Mahal palaces and other buildings, is a palace complex in Jaipur, the capital of the Rajasthan state, India. It was the seat of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the head of the Kachwaha Rajput clan. The Chandra Mahal palace now houses a museum but the greatest part of it is still a royal residence. The palace complex, located the northeast of the center of the grid-patterned Jaipur city, incorporates an impressive and vast array of courtyards, gardens and buildings. The palace was built between 1729 and 1732, initially by Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber. He planned and built the outer walls, and later additions were made by successive rulers, continuing up to the 20th century. The credit for the urban layout of the city and its structures is Attributed to two architects namely, Vidyadar Bhattacharya, the chief architect in the royal court and Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, apart from the WHO Sawai himself was a keen architectural enthusiast. The architects Achieved a fusion of the Shilpa Shastra of Indian architecture with Rajput, Mughal and European styles of architecture

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Other tourist attractions in russia beautiful and fascinating

Other tourist attractions in russia beautiful and fascinating

katedral santo basil

Intercession Cathedral Hill (Russian: Собор Покрова что на Рву, Pokrova Sobor na chto RVU, better known as the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed or Saint Basil's Cathedral alone) is a church that has a lot of onion-shaped dome complex in Red Square, Moscow, which is traditionally regarded as a symbol of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia.



Construction of the cathedral was initiated by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1555 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Kazan Khanate. Tsar Fedor Ivanovich in 1588 added a chapel at the east side above the grave of Basil the Blessed (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint is used as the name of this cathedral.




Saint Basil's Cathedral is located on the southeastern tip of the Red Square, (55 ° 45'08.88 "N, 37 ° 37'23.00" E), just across the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. The building is not so great, and consists of nine chapels built with a single foundation. The design of this cathedral following the cone-roofed churches at the same time, especially the Church Increase in Kolomenskoye (1530) and the Church of Saint John the Baptist Beheading Head in Dyakovo (1547).




In a park in front of the cathedral stands a bronze statue to commemorate Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who collects the Russian volunteer forces in the face of the invasion of Poland in the Tribulation in the late 17th century and early 18th century. The statue was originally placed in the middle of Red Square, but the Soviet government felt the statue was blocking the parade, and therefore the statue then moved in front of the cathedral in 1936.




The initial concept of this cathedral is a collection of chapels, each dedicated to every saint whose feast day falls at the time of Tsar win in a battle. However, the construction of a single tower unite these spaces into a cathedral. According to legend, Ivan ordered the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, made blind so he would not build a building that is more beautiful for others.




Lately, there has been speculation that certain elements of the monuments Tamerlane in Samarkand or elements of Qolşärif Mosque in Kazan described in this cathedral because the mosque is the epitome of Khanate of Kazan. However, the original form of the mosque itself is unknown.

red Square

Red Square (Russian: Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad) is a field which is located next to the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. In the vicinity of this field, there is the Soviet Union History Museum, Saint Basil's Cathedral was built in the XIV century with the fall of Kazan, and the Mausoleum of Lenin as the funeral of Vladimir Lenin's body is preserved.

Red Square is a ceremony, celebration and military parade that preceded the Soviet Union and forwarded by the Russian Federation.

The State Tretyakov Gallery

The State Tretyakov Gallery (Russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya; abbreviated ГТГ, GTG) is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.

The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, the which MIGHT later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, sculptures and 9) to the Russian nation. 

The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built in 1902-04 to the south from the Moscow Kremlin. During the 20th century, the gallery expanded to Several neighboring buildings, Including the 17th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi.

The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumental Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich.

In 1977 the Gallery kept a significant part of the George Costakis collection.

In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.

teater bolshoi

The Bolshoi Theatre (Russian: Большой театр, tr. Bol'shoy Teatr; IPA: [bɐlʲʂoj tʲɪatr]) is a historic theater in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bove, the which holds performances of ballet and opera. The theater's original name was the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, while the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theatre (demolished in 1886), was called the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre.
At that time, all Russian theaters were imperial property. Moscow and St. Petersburg call now had only two theaters, one intended for opera and ballet (Reviews These were known as the Bolshoi Theatres), and one for plays (tragedies and comedies). Because opera and ballet were Considered nobler than drama, the opera houses were named "Grand Theatres" ("Bolshoi" is Russian for "large" or "grand") and the drama theaters were called the "Smaller Theatre" ("Maly" is Russian for "small", "lesser", or "little").
The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world. It is by far the world's biggest ballet company, having more than 200 dancers. The theater is the parent company of The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, a world-famous leading school of ballet. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Theatre School in Joinville, Brazil.
The main building of the theater, rebuilt and renovated Several times during its history, is a landmark of Moscow and Russia (its iconic neoclassical facade is depicted on the Russian 100-ruble banknote). On 28 October 2011, the Bolshoi was re-opened after an extensive six-year renovation. An official cost for the renovation is 21 billion rubles ($ 688 million). However, other Russian authorities claimed much more public money were spent. $ 1.1 billion According to Der Spiegel The renovation included restoring acoustics to the original quality (which had been lost during the Soviet era), as well as restoring the original Imperial decor of the Bolshoi. and many other tourist attractions in this beautiful russian

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lake zurich switzerland

Lake Zürich (Swiss German / Alemannic: Zürisee; German: Zürichsee) is a lake in Switzerland, extending Southeast of the city of Zürich. Depending on the context, Lake Zürich or Zürichsee can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Seedamm at Rapperswil, whilst the upstream part of Rapperswil may be called the Obersee or Upper LakeLake Zürich is formed by the LINTH river, the which rises in the glaciers of the Glarus Alps and was diverted by the Escher canal (completed in 1811) into Lake Walen from where its waters are Carried to the east end of Lake Zürich by means of the LINTH canal (completed in 1816). The waters of the Lake of Zürich flow out of the lake at its north-west end, passing through the city of Zürich; however, the outflow is then called the Limmat. The culminating point of the lake's drainage basin is the Todi at 3.614 meters above sea levelNo streams of importance flow into the lake besides the LINTH. The Seedamm, a partially artificial causeway and bridge, crosses a narrow point of the lake carrying a railway line and road from Rapperswil to Pfäffikon. The eastern section of the lake is known as the Obersee, German for "upper lake". West of this dam lie the small islands of Lützelau and Ufenau, where Ulrich von Hutten in 1523 took refuge and Died. Both shores are well Cultivated and fertile. Another touristic destination is the Au peninsula at the village of Au between Wädenswil and Horgen.To the east - separated by Zürichberg-Adlisberg, Forch and Pfannenstiel - are two minor lakes: Greifensee (Lake Greifen) and Pfäffikersee (Lake Pfäffikon). Zimmerberg and the Etzel regions lie to the west.

Fraumunster church





The Fraumünster Church (lit. in English: Women's Minster, but Often wrongly translated to [Our] Lady Minster) in Zurich is built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women which was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard . He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zurich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority. Today, it belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich and is one of the four games churches of Zürich, the other's being the Minster, Prediger and St. Peter's church.In 1045, King Henry III granted the convent the right to hold markets, collect tolls, and mint coins, and Thus Spake Effectively made the Abbess the ruler of the city.Emperor Frederick II granted the abbey Reichsunmittelbarkeit in 1218, Thus making it territorially independent of all authority save that of the Emperor himself, and increasing the political power of the Abbess. The Abbess assigned the mayor, and she frequently delegated the minting of coins to citizens of the city. A famous Abbess during this time of great power was Elisabeth of Wetzikon.However, the political power of the convent slowly waned in the Fourteenth Century, beginning with the establishment of the Zunftordnung (guild laws) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, WHO Also Became the first major independent, ie not assigned by the Abbess.The abbey was dissolved on 30 November 1524 in the course of the Reformation of Huldrych Zwingli, supported by the last Abbess, Katharina von Zimmern.

Grossmunster zurich

The Minster ("great minster") is a Romanesque-style Protestant church in Zurich, Switzerland. It is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the Fraumünster, Predigerkirche and St. Peterskirche). Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich. The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, which was, According to legend, originally commissioned by Charlemagne.Construction of the present structure Commenced around 1100 and it was inaugurated around 1220.

The Minster was a monastery church, vying for precedence with the Fraumünster across the Limmat throughout the Middle Ages. According to legend, the Grossmünster was founded by Charlemagne, Whose horse fell to its knees over the tombs of Felix and Regula, Zürich's patron saints. The legend helps support a claim of seniority over the Fraumünster, which was founded by Louis the German, Charlemagne's grandson. Recent archaeological evidence confirms the presence of a Roman burial ground at the site
The monastery buildings were destroyed in 1898 to the make room for the new Stadthaus. The church building today serves as the parish church for one of the city's 34 reformed parishes. Munsterhof, the town square in front of the Fraumünster, is named after the former abbey. Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster cultivates the traditions of the former convent Nunnery.

Huldrych Zwingli initiated the Swiss-German Reformation in Switzerland from his pastoral office at the Minster, starting in 1520. Zwingli won a series of debates presided over by the magistrate in 1523 roomates Ultimately led local civil authorities to sanction the Severance of the church from the Papacy. The reforms initiated by Zwingli and continued by his successor, Heinrich Bullinger, account for the plain interior of the church. The iconoclastic Reformers removed the organ and religious statuary in 1524. Reviews These changes, accompanied by abandonment of Lent, the replacement of the Mass, disavowal of celibacy, eating meat on fast days, the replacement of the lectionary with a seven-year cycle of the New Testament, a ban on church music, and other significant reforms of make this church one of the most important sites in the history of the Reformation and the birthplace of the Swiss-German Reformation.

Kleine Scheidegg (elevation 2,061 m, 6.762 ft) is a high mountain pass below and between the Eiger and Lauberhorn peaks in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. It connects Grindelwald with Lauterbrunnen. The name means "minor watershed", even though it is actually higher than the neighboring Grosse Scheidegg. Possibly this is the Kleine Scheidegg Because is a watershed between the two arms of the Lütschinen river, while Grosse Scheidegg divides the Lütschinen valleys from Reichenbach.

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Located at Kleine Scheidegg is the Hotel Bellevue des Alpes and the Kleine Scheidegg railway station, the which serves the two rack railways, the Wengernalpbahn (since 1893) and the Jungfraubahn (since 1896). The Wengernalpbahn has two branches: one begins at Grindelwald; the other commences at Lauterbrunnen and climbs to the pass via Wengen. The Jungfraubahn climbs steeply through tunnels inside the Eiger and Mönch mountains up to its terminal at the Jungfraujoch.




villa del Balbianello




The Villa del Balbianello is a villa in the comune of Lenno (province of Como), Italy, overlooking Lake Como. It is located on the tip of a small wooded peninsula on the western shore of the south-west branch of Lake Como, not far from the Isola Comacina and is famous for its elaborate terraced gardens.The villa was built in 1787 on the site of a Franciscan monastery for the Cardinal Angelo Maria Durini. The two towers of the which can be seen in the picture are the Campanili of the convent church. After the cardinal's death in 1796 Giuseppe Arconati Visconti bought the villa and made improvements to its gardens and the loggia.




In the Nineteenth century the villa belonged to the Porro-Lambertenghi family. The writer and patriot Silvio Pellico was a visitor in 1819.




By the early Twentieth Century the buildings had fallen into a state of neglect when an American businessman, Butler Ames, purchased and renovated the villa and its garden. In 1974 it was bought by the explorer Guido Monzino (leader of the first Italian expedition to climb Mount Everest), WHO filled it with rich collections, Including artifacts acquired on his expeditions. Monzino, WHO Died in 1988, left the villa to the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, the National Trust of Italy. Its grounds now form part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani.

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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the defeat of France in the 1871 Franco-Prussian War and the socialist Paris Commune of 1871crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, and an embodiment of conservative moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and sympathetic Christ,The Sacré-Cœur Basilica was designed by Paul Abadie. Construction began in 1875 and was finished in 1914. It was consecrated after the end of World War I in 1919.

The Musée d'Orsay (French pronunciation: ​[myze dɔʁsɛ]) is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939,By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing centre during World War II. It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles, and as a haven for the Renaud–Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt In 1970, permission was granted to demolish the station but Jacques Duhamel, Minister for Cultural Affairs, ruled against plans to build a new hotel in its stead. The station was put on the supplementary list of Historic Monuments and finally listed in 1978. The suggestion to turn the station into a museum came from the Directorate of the Museums of France. The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Centre. The plan was accepted by Georges Pompidou and a study was commissioned in 1974. In 1978, a competition was organized to design the new museum. ACT Architecture, a team of three young architects (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon), were awarded the contract which involved creating 20,000 sq. m. of new floorspace on four floors. The construction work was carried out by Bouygues. In 1981, the Italian architect, Gae Aulenti was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum. Finally in July 1986, the museum was ready to receive its exhibits. It took 6 months to install the 2000 or so paintings, 600 sculptures and other works. The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then-president, François Mitterrand.

katedral chartres

Chartres Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered as one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture,The church was built in 1145, but was destroyed by fire in 1194. The only remaining western part, so that this section has the early gothic style. This church was rebuilt between 1194 and 1220. The total is 117 058 square feet (10 875 m2).




guimet museum

The museum, which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885,[citation needed] was founded by Émile Étienne Guimet, an industrialist. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and many objects relating not merely to the religions of the East but also to those of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. One of its wings, the Panthéon Bouddhique, displays religious artworks,Some of the museum's artifacts were collected from Southeast Asia by French authorities during the colonial period.From December 2006 to April 2007, the museum harboured collections of the Kabul Museum, with archaeological pieces from the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum, and the Indo-Scythian treasure of Tillia Tepe.




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Notre-Dame de la Garde beautiful tourist attractions in France(literally Our Lady of the Guard), is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, France. This Neo-Byzantine church was built by the architect Henri-Jacques Espérandieu on the foundations of an ancient fort located at the highest natural point in Marseille, a 149 m (490 ft) limestone outcrop on the south side of the Old Port. It is a major local landmark and the site of a popular annual pilgrimage every year on Assumption Day, August 15.The basilica was consecrated on June 5, 1864 and replaced a church of the same name built in 1214 and restored in the 15th century. It was built on the foundations of a 16th-century fort built by Francis I of France to resist the 1536 siege of Marseille by the Emperor Charles V. The basilica consists of a lower church, or crypt, in the Romanesque style carved from the rock, as well as an upper church of Neo-Byzantine style decorated with mosaics. A square bell tower of 41 m (135 ft) topped by a belfry of 12.5 m (42 ft) supports a monumental 11.2 m (27 ft) statue of the Madonna and Child, made of copper gilded with gold leaf.The green limestone from the area surrounding Florence used to build the basilica, has been discovered to be sensitive to atmospheric corrosion. An extensive restoration took place from 2001 to 2008, including work on the mosaics that were damaged by candle smoke and the impact of bullets during the Liberation of France at the end of World War II.People from Marseille traditionally see Notre-Dame de la Garde as the guardian and the protector of the city. Local inhabitants commonly refer to it as la bonne mère ("the good mother").

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Capitol USA (English: United Stated Capitol) is the capitol building that is used as an office of the US Congress. The building is located in Washington, DC, at the top of Capitol Hill. Although not located in the middle of the District of Columbia, the Capitol has become a focus in which settlements in the region is divided.Capitol was originally designed by William Thornton. Then Capitol modified by Stephen Hal let, Benjamin Latrobe and then Charles Bulfinch. Dome today and Periwigging Council and Senate wings designed by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenberg, and was prepared under the supervision of Edward Clark.


The statue is located at the top of the dome of this building is the Statue of Liberty (Statue of Freedom).
In 2007, the Capitol building has got sixth place in the list of America's favorite architecture by the American Institute of Architects.

.Falls are massive waterfalls on the Niagara River that are in the line of the international border between the US states of New York with the Canadian province of Ontario. This waterfall is about 17 miles (27 km) north northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Toronto, Ontario.

Niagara is the name of a group of three waterfall. The third waterfall is a waterfall Horseshoe (sometimes referred to as waterfall Canada), waterfall America, and the smaller Bridal Veil waterfall which are separated by an island named Luna Island from the main waterfall.

Although not very high, the Niagara waterfall is very wide and most popular in the world. More than 6 million cubic feet (168,000 m3) of water per minute dropped and this is the most powerful waterfall in North America.

Niagara is also famous for the beautiful rainbow across the middle of the swift waterfall. The natural beauty found around Niagara make millions of people from all over the world visit it every day. Moreover, if not to see the waterfall is the most popular. So, too much foreign exchange flows to these two countries.

Hollywood / hɒliwʊd / is a district in the central region of Los Angeles, California, in the United States.








It is notable for its place as the home of the entertainment industry, Including Several of its historic studios. Its name has come to be a metonymy for the motion picture industry of the United States. Hollywood IS ALSO a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail business district.




Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903.It Officially merged with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent movie industry Began to emerge, Eventually becoming the most dominant and Recognized in the world.

In 1853, one adobe hut Stood in Nopalera (Nopal field), named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains Immediately to the norh.




The name "Hollywood" was coined by HJ Whitley, the "Father of Hollywood". Originally the name "Figwood" was to be used to name the surrounding area due to the number of fig trees. Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre (2.0 km2) EC Hurd ranch and Disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date. Before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurd's wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others.



An alternate derivation for the name comes from the historical on Hollywood, Illinois (now part of Brookfield, IL) and Hollywood, Florida. Mrs. Wilcox was said to have met a woman on a train trip to the East. The woman of toll Mrs. Wilcox about her lovely ranch in Hollywood, Illinois. Mrs. Wilcox was said to be so enamored of the name that she appropriated it for the property she and her husband Harvey were planning in the Cahuenga Valley, as it was then known. Further research yielded that a parcel of land in Illinois was, in fact named Hollywood and was owned by John D. Rockefeller and his wife, Laura. When Reviews their fourth daughter Edith married Harold McCormick, Heir to the farming equipment fortune in 1895, the John D. and Laura Rockefeller gifted the ranch to her. The lower part of the area known as Hollywood was purchased by a Samuel Gross in 1893 WHO subdivided the property for housing and development. Mrs. McCormick donated her parcel of Hollywood to the Cook County Forest Preserve District for development as a zoological garden in 1919 and it is now the Brookfield Zoo. Often this story is repeated as Mrs. Having met Mrs. Wilcox McCormick, but as the Wilcoxes filed the name with the City of Los Angeles in 1887 when Mrs. McCormick was but 15, the woman Mrs. Wilcox met was her mother, Mrs. Rockefeller, WHO owned the property with her husband, John D. Rockefeller.

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, WHO bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon the which is Inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.








Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the American Civil War and the end of slavery. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and Reviews These pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.








The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult,, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World started a drive for donations to complete the project that Attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of Whom Gave less than a dollar. The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

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