Travel Guides: Amazing Barcelona

Posted in: Featured, Travel by Theo Grigore | October 26th 2010 | no comments

Being the second largest city in Spain and having a population which exceeds 1,620,000 inhabitants, Barcelona is certainly one of the most beautiful tourist attractions in Europe. Holding some of the most interesting sights to be seen in the world’s oldest continent, Barcelona is a destination [...]

Travel Guides: Sarajevo

By Gabriel Popa | December 17th 2010 | no comments

Sarajevo is the capital and the largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an estimated population of 400,000 inhabitants (in December 2008). It is also the capital of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Srpska Republic and also the center of the Sarajevo Canton. The city [...]

Travel Guides: Tel Aviv

By Gabriel Popa | December 17th 2010 | 2 comments

Tel Aviv is, after Jerusalem, the largest city in Israel, economic, business and culture center of the country. It is a city with a pace and rhythm of life with many places of entertainment. Here are the main offices of the banks and Israeli newspapers, also half of the large companies and jobs of a quarter of the working population of Israel. In 1909, when it formally came into being, [...]

Travel Guides: Skopje

By Gabriel Popa | December 16th 2010 | 2 comments

Skopje is the capital of Macedonia and is located on the upper side of the river Vardar. In 2000 it had about 600,000 inhabitants. It is the political, economic and cultural center of Macedonia and a major center in metalworking, chemicals, textiles and leather. Industrial development has been [...]

Travel Guides: Brasov Part 2

By Gabriel Popa | December 16th 2010 | no comments

Testimony showed large Neolithic cultures (the famous New Culture, Tei, Schnekenberg) on the territory of Brasov, and then came the Bronze Age discoveries. Not far from Brasov were found gold bars, with the official stamp of Sirmium and the monogram of Christ, issued in the second half [...]

Copenhagen, The Greenest City In The World

By Gabriel Popa | December 15th 2010 | no comments

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark. Its name in Danish, København reminds of its strategic position on the Baltic Sea. Copenhagen is located on the eastern coast of the Sjaelland Island and d’Amager little island, facing the Strait of Øresund. Malmö and [...]

Travel Guides: Brasov

By Gabriel Popa | December 14th 2010 | no comments

Brasov is the capital and largest city of Brasov, Romania. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 284,596 inhabitants, being one of the largest cities in the country (though in declining in the last two decades due to emigration of the Saxons and the reduction in industrial [...]

Travel Guides: Athens

By Gabriel Popa | December 14th 2010 | no comments

Athens is the capital of Greece. Athens had a glorious evolving, especially in ancient Greece, being inhabited by humans since the Bronze Age and governed until around 1000 BC by Ionian kings. The Acropolis in Athens was placed in 1987 on the UNESCO world cultural heritage list. Athens was [...]

Travel Guides: Zagreb

By Gabriel Popa | December 13th 2010 | one comment

Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. The city's population is 973,667 inhabitants (1,609,525 in the metropolitan area). It is situated on the Medvednica Mountain and Sava River at 120 meters altitude. Its favorable geographical location in the south-west of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the [...]

Florence, The Most Desirable Tourist Destination In The World

By Gabriel Popa | December 13th 2010 | no comments

Florence (Firenze in Italian) is the capital of the Italian province Tuscany and Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with a population of 367,569 inhabitants (1.5 million in the metropolitan area). The town lies on the Arno River and it is known for its history and its [...]

Travel Guides: Frankfurt am Main

By Gabriel Popa | December 12th 2010 | no comments

Frankfurt is the largest city in the German federal state of Hessa and the fifth largest city in Germany. It is situated on the river Main and has a population of approximately 670,000 inhabitants. The colloquial name of the city is Frankfurt, but its official name is Frankfurt am [...]

Verona, The City Of Lovers

By Gabriel Popa | December 12th 2010 | no comments

Verona is a city in the Veneto region and is the second area, taking into account the population, of the region and in Triveneto area, its population recording in 2008 a total of 265,245 inhabitants. Verona metropolitan area is 1070.9 km2 and counts a population of about 500,000 [...]

Travel Guides: Bogota

By Gabriel Popa | December 11th 2010 | no comments

Bogota is the capital of Colombia and also the capital of Cundinamarca department. Today it is a city populated by more than 8 million inhabitants in the urban perimeter. In the composition of the urban conglomerate are 20 localities, being the 4th South American urban community, after São [...]

Buenos Aires, The “Paris” Of Latin America

By Gabriel Popa | December 11th 2010 | one comment

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. With a population of about 12 million people in the metropolitan area, Buenos Aires is Argentina's largest city and one of the largest cities in South America. Its population is made up of Argentines of Spanish or Italian descents, but there are [...]

Travel Guides: Ljubljana

By Gabriel Popa | December 10th 2010 | no comments

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and at the same time, the largest city in the country. It is located in the center of the country, part of Inner Carniola, and it is a medium sized city with about 280,000 inhabitants. Ljubljana is considered the center of cultural, scientific, economic, [...]

Travel Guides: Tirana

By Gabriel Popa | December 10th 2010 | no comments

Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. It is located at 41.33 ° N, 19.82 ° E in the district and county with the same name. It had an officially estimated population of 353,400 in 2003, although other estimates, number up to 700,000 inhabitants. Founded in 1614, the city became [...]

Venice, The Most Beautiful City In Europe Part 2

By Gabriel Popa | December 9th 2010 | no comments

Rialto Bridge is the oldest bridge across the Grand Canal and probably best known in the city of Venice. It was built between 1588 and 1591 and was the only way to walk to cross the channel in 1854 when the Bridge Academy was built. Rialto Bridge is 7.5 meters high and covers three ways to go. [...]

Venice, The Most Beautiful City In Europe

By Gabriel Popa | December 9th 2010 | one comment

Venice is the main city of the Veneto region and north-east Italy. Venice currently has 266,181 inhabitants and it is the capital of the province with the same name. The city and the lagoon were declared patrimony of humanity by UNESCO in 1979. The Republic of [...]

Croatia, One Of The Most Beautiful Regions In Europe

By Gabriel Popa | December 8th 2010 | no comments

Croatia is a country in Central Europe between Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It has an exit to the Adriatic Sea. With the capital at Zagreb, Croatia, one of the founding members of Yugoslavia gained its independence in 1991. Croats arrived in Dalmatia and [...]