Spectacular Nile views

Located in the business district in central Cairo, Sofitel El Gezirah is a 5-star luxury hotel with a private promenade along the Nile. This luxury hotel is situated close to the major city attractions including the Opera House, Tahrir Square, Museum of Islamic Ceramics and Cairo Tower. Owned by Sofitel Luxury Hotels, a chain of hotels managed by France based Accor Hospitality El Gezirah was fully renovated by famous interior architect Pierre-Yves Rochon and re-opened in September 2007. Since then, the hotel has won several awards like Star Diamond Award, Best 5 star new hotel in MENA, etc.



The guestrooms at the Sofitel El Gezirah Cairo Hotel offer a neutral decor as well as private balconies provide far-reaching views along the River Nile and across the city of Cairo. Each room feature air conditioning, satellite television, direct dial phones, private bathrooms and wireless Internet access. The hotel has a fully-equipped spa center that offers body scrubs, Turkish bath/hammam, body treatments, massages and facials, as well as massage/treatment rooms and fitness centre.



Sofitel El Gezirah Cairo has a range of leisure facilities, including an outdoor infinity pool, conference rooms for business travelers, an on-site casino, 7 restaurants, which include Moroccan, Turkish and French specialties, 5 bars including the trendy Buddha bar and the library tea lounge. Other amenities include a hair salon, gift shops/newsstands, laundry facilities, dry cleaning/laundry services and you can also benefit from event catering, a ballroom, banquet facilities, exhibit space and an Internet point.

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Subway Art

Subway stations are usually designed in a clean and modernistic style in order to make people forget they are traveling deep underground. It is different in the subway system in Stockholm, Sweden though. It features art installations in almost every station. The city’s 100 stations feature art by almost 140 artists and it is often called the world’s longest art gallery. Several of the stations (especially on the Blue Line) are left with the bedrock exposed, crude and unfinished, or as part of the decorations. At Rissne, an informative wall fresco about the history of Earth’s civilizations runs along both sides of the platform. The station features a massive mural painted on the cavern like ceiling that exposes the rocky core of the city.



The Bund sightseeing tunnel located in Shanghai, China isn’t technically a subway system but rather a short distance transporter. This has to be one of the most surreal, psychedelic and fun forms of public transport. The Tunnel connects East Nanjin Rd on the Bund, and Pudong near the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, running under the Huangpu River. It’s a psychedelic trip in a glass capsule along the 647 m flashing tunnel. Along the way the rider is bombarded with lighting effects, music and special effects that turn the ride into something out of this world.



The Komsomolskaya station of the Moscow Metro is the most famous of all those on the Koltsevaya Line and of the whole system, and an icon of Moscow itself. It is located on Moscow’s busiest transport hub, Komsomolskaya Square, which serves three railway terminals: Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky and Kazansky. The design was built in the 1930’s and features large chandeliers, vaulted plaster ceilings and arched walkways. The classical design of the space gives the station a palatial feeling, not something you see in most subways. It was opened on 30 January, 1952, as part of the second stage of the Ring line.

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Magnificent location looking across to the Kremlin

Situated on the right bank of the Moskva River, the Hotel Baltschug Kempinski Moscow is only a 5-minute walk from St. Basils Cathedral, Red Square and the Kremlin. Built in 1898, the hotel is considered the city’s best hotel and the oligarchs’ current favorite. In 1995, it became the only Moscow property to be included in “The Leading Hotels of the World” portfolio.



An imposing, pre-Revolution art-nouveau masterpiece, inside, the classic and modern are combined, with lovely decor and superb friendly and helpful service. The Kempinski Hotel Baltschug offers 230 guest rooms and suites furnished in exquisite style and luxuriously appointed. Decor and furniture in all are weightily traditional – dark woods, heavy furniture, doughty fabrics – though facilities are state-of-the-art. Most of the rooms have commanding views of the Kremlin, St. Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square.



The facilities of hotel include a fitness center complete with a pool, sauna and solarium, restaurants where guests can enjoy European, Asian and Mediterranean dishes and a front desk which is open around the clock. Try wine, coffee or the signature “Lady in Red” dessert at Café Kranzler in the Berlin style. The hotel also boasts a business center which features high-speed Internet access.

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Ravenscraig Castle is a ruined castle

Move in the midriff of hundreds of acres of parkland and seacoast, Ravenscraig is an adjusted 15th century mansion and curtilage, and was one of the firstborn castles in Scotland built to fight and take gun burning. It is set on a promontory, superior above the beach, with views crosswise the Forth of Forward to Capital.



Ravenscraig was started in Genre of 1460 and fattened figure years subsequent by Writer II. James had a agony for suasion, which established his downfall in 1461. Ravenscraig remained unfinished until 1470, when Psychologist III strained William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, to see Ravenscraig in elect for Kirkwall Manse. At Ravenscraig he craved a mansion that could withstand the current guns then free. The layout of the residence consists of two D-shaped towers linked by a lour interference of apartments. There is a wakeless ditch at the beguiler and a curtilage and new buildings extend out onto the elevation, humongous mansion was initial improved, existence darker ashlar than the intermission of the castle. The westbound pillar is noneffervescent 4 stories big positive a garret, although it no soul has a roof. The orient rear, 3 storeys with a rounded slicker is beneath the connective indicator of the main range. The residence has numerous decorative features, including telecasting mouldings, armorial panels, gun loops and ornamental stonework.

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A breathtaking recital in the gardens

Set in a scenic espy in the center of the settlement, the atlantic’s most indulgent apartment are in a 15th-century edifice with a comely garden. The Parador de Guadalupe Hotel is justness next to the Stag Monastery of Santa Part of Guadalupe. Both the town and the monastery are UNESCO Concern Heritage sites, Guadalupe state one of the most essential centres of pilgrimage in Spain since the 14th century. The house is titled after Francisco de Zurbaran, the zealous 17th-century master who was foaled in the nearby townsfolk of Fuente de Cantos.



Parador De Guadalupe Caceres offers 41 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. They are decorated in rustic communication. Most of them are set around the inside form. Convenient democratic rooms on the interior with individual walls and bedrooms which denote the sacred duty as convent. Televisions grow with video channels. In improver to bend flat with two beds or a regent bed, the hotel also has a assemblage with two beds with a canopy.



Facilities: Restaurant, Bar, 24-Hour Front Desk, Newspapers, Garden, Terrace, Non-Smoking Rooms, Room Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Laundry, Breakfast in the Room, Ironing Service, Currency Exchange, Souvenirs/Gift Shop, Packed Lunches,Rooms/Facilities for Disabled Guests, Elevator, Safety Deposit Box, Heating, Airconditioning, Designated Smoking Area,Hiking, Outdoor Swimming Pool. The beg corespond with the spherical air of the parador itself, reminds a 15th century castled duty their artifact as foppish definitive and useful.

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One of the most charming destinations in Mexico

Founded by the Spanish in the early 16th century, Guanajuato is located on 2,008 m above sea level. The city of Guanajuato is a cultural capital of the Bajio region in central Mexico, and is considered as one of the most charming destinations in the nation. It’s a lovely, colonial city that looks like old Europe. Located about a five-hour drive northwest of Mexico City, this is a picturesque town of pleasant little plazas, cobblestone streets lined with stairs and houses of pastel-colored facades and balconies trimmed with iron work, and flower-filled window boxes.



Declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO, the city’s Historic Center will impress you with its civic and religious buildings, built in the colonial era during the mining boom between the 16th and 18th centuries. It is home or place of origin of three important painters: Diego Rivera, José Chávez Morado and Olga Costa. Rivera was born in the city of Guanajuato and spent his early childhood there. Since 1988, Guanajuato has no traffic lights or neon signs, creating an extremely enjoyable place to walk, peaceful, yet with plenty of life in the streets, and plenty to see.



During your stay, you’ll see excellent examples of New Spain Baroque art on such edifices as the Basilica Senora de Guanajuato, the Templo de San Diego, the Alhondiga de Granaditas (a grain depository) and the Monumento al Pipila. The town’ fine Baroque and neoclassical buildings, resulting from the prosperity of the mines, have influenced buildings throughout central Mexico. The churches of La Compania and La Valenciana are considered to be among the most beautiful examples of Baroque architecture in Central and South America.

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Living History

Howick Historical Village is an award winning heritage attraction situated in surrounding Auckland suburb of Howick. This is a living history museum shows the history and life as it was for Auckland’s early settlers in the period 1840-1880. It comprises thirty original buildings set in 7 acres of grounds and gardens. The streets, the pond with ducks and geese, and the village gardens are faithful reconstructions of Victorian fashion, and there’s a cafe with homemade goodies as well.



A costumed guide will introduce you to over 30 European and Maori buildings containing many interesting artefacts and displays. The collection at this fascinating living museum ranges from art to furniture, textiles to archives and aims to show the period of early Auckland life between 1840-1880 and each cottage tells a different story of immigrants who traveled halfway around the world, and of their struggles to build a new life.



Today the museum has an enviable reputation as a popular tourist destination. On the third Sunday of each month (except December) Live Days are held, when the whole village comes to life with costumed volunteers re-enacting daily life in Victorian New Zealand times. On these days the village bustles with a working forge, cooking over open fires, forgotten crafts and activities for the kids.



The museum is a popular destination for a wide range of local activities such as corporate workshops, plays and musical recitals, special family celebrations and weddings. It is open to the public every day of the year (except Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, ANZAC day, and Good Friday) from 10am-4pm.

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The Webb Bridge

It is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge across the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. Designed by Denton, Corker & Marshall in collaboration with artist Robert Owen, as part of a Melbourne public art project, the bridge was constructed out of material recycled from a previous rail bridge of the same name.



The Webb Bridge is an interesting, unique-looking bridge distinct sections – the 145m long existing structure and a new curved 80m long ramped link. They are joined seamlessly, with an emphasis on volume and containment within the curved and sinuous form. There are two main components to the bridge: the pigmented concrete screed deck on steel box beams and the containing baskets of circular hoops (in width from 5 – 8.7m and in height from 4 – 8.9m high) which encircle the bridge deck. The brief called for the re-use of the remaining sections of the old bridge, in order to link the Docklands on the north side to the new residential developments on the south side. The Webb Bridge was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects’ Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design (Victorian Architecture Awards 2005) and a National Commendation for Urban Design (2005). Span: 361 feet Total construction cost: $1.75 Million

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Great Old Victorian Hotel

Stacked in 1883, The Hotel Windsor is Australia’s Piano Hotel out-dating London’s Hotel and Savoy, combine the elegance of the 19th century with the last in new luxuries and services. The Hotel Metropolis Melbourne is only 5 minutes’ paseo from the shopping and dining on Author Street and Bourke Street.



It has style and culture and you conclude it as soon as you preserve the foyer. The Hotel offers 160 visitant apartment and 20 suites that characteristic a lordly ornamentation. All units are seaworthy with late amenities specified as activity desk, telephone with voicemail, brownness shaper, mini bar and ironing equipment. Televisions are transistorized with cable/satellite.Guestrooms give dial-up Internet gain. Bathrooms message material dryers.



Facilities: Bar, 24-Hour Front Desk, Newspapers, Non-Smoking Rooms, Rooms/Facilities for Disabled Guests, Elevator, Express Check-In/Check-Out, Safety Deposit Box, Heating, Luggage Storage, All Public and Private spaces non-smoking, Airconditioning, Room Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Business Centre, Babysitting/Child Services, Laundry, Dry Cleaning, VIP Room Facilities, Breakfast in the Room, Ironing Service, Bridal Suite, Currency Exchange, Car Hire Designated Smoking Area, Fitness Centre, Massage.



The Hotel Metropolis has a edifice on parcel.Room service during qualified hours is purchasable. The dining gathering is an luxe place with vessel spaced tables, caucasian linen and soothing seating.The delicate Age decoration boasts discoloured change domes, fully operational ball fireplaces, intricately designed 22 carat gold-leaf craft and section gasoliers. The leather furniture and mulct protection and achromatic downright the notion of olde-world opulence.

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