The third largest city in Spain, home of the paella and host to one of the most impressive futuristic museum complexes across Europe. It is also the home town for Pope Alexander VI or simply Pope Borgia. Once considered disconnected from the sea is now the biggest port on the Western Mediterranean coast and handles 20% of [...]
Built in the 17th century in the beautiful city of Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg is the largest palace in the city. Built with very enticing baroque and rococo interior decoration. The palace was heavily damaged during the World War II but has been since reconstructed. Attached to the palace is a beautiful formal garden and surrounded [...]
Santa Maria de Belém or simply Belém is just at the mouth of the Tagus in Lisbon where all Portuguese discoverers set sail from. Vasco da Gama set sail from here before to open the sea route to India. There are two grand monuments Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Jerónimos Monastery) and the Torre de Belém (Belém Tower) built in a [...]
When I first decided to fly over to Lisbon, I had the impression that it might be one of those cities that I would be bored with after the first day. After landing, I saw a lot of people waiting for their loved ones to come out of the luggage hall. It gave me this [...]
From the beautiful Magic Fountain of Montjuic in Barcelona to the Trick Fountains of Schloss Hellbrunn. The water games played by those trick fountains have been conceived by Markus Sittikus Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. This is a popular tourist attraction during the summer time along with the Palace and its gardens of course. The fountains are referred [...]
Salzburg, or Salt Castle, one of the largest cities in Austria and home to the famous Mozart and Christopher Doppler. It was this city, in its beautiful Alpine setting, that the crew of The Sound of Music filmed their American musical movie in 1965. The movie featured some of the most important landmarks of Salzburg. [...]
Markus Sittikus von Hohenems Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg ordered the building of the beautiful Schloss Hellbrunn (Hellbrunn Palace) and its beautiful gardens. The work on this commenced in 1613 and was completed by 1619. Shcloss Hellbrunn was only meant as a day summer residence for the Prince-Archbishop as he always returned back to Salzburg. The schloss [...]
In the outskirts of the Hungarian capital, Budapest lies the Statue Park. This proved to be one of the popular places to visit for tourists that come across to Budapest from all over the world. Memento Park is not about Communism itself, but the fall of Communism! I won’t talk much about this, the photos [...]
Visiting Barcelona day after day keeps bringing up hidden surprises. There is so much to see that you just can’t possibly cover in just one trip. On a recent trip, among all the other places I have been through in Barcelona, I took some courage into standing in the queue for Casa Batlló. This fine [...]
A performance of Font màgica de Montjuïc (The Magic Fountain of Montjuic) in Barcelona, Spain. It is indeed such a beautiful show that captures the heart. This is my tenth time seeing this and decided to capture this video to share it with you. I think the only words left to be said in the presence [...]
No visit to Sicily is complete without spending a couple of days in Palermo and Siracusa. Here I am posting the last photos from the recent trip I had to Sicilia to complete the set of photos for the time being. More to follow of this beautiful region for sure. Due to the short period [...]
Many are the things that strikes me about Ulm, but my favourite must be because it is home to the Church with the tallest steeple in the world. Ulm, the birth place of Albert Einstein, an economic centre and a beautiful city on the River Danube. Considered an economic centre for all the HQs it [...]
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