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: Finland

By Gabriel Popa | January 26th 2011 | one comment

Finland is a northern European country bordered by Norway (north), Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia (west), Gulf of Finland (south-east) and Baltic Sea (south-west). Finland people are known to be the quietest people in the world but sometimes in [...]

Travel Guides: Czech Republic

By Gabriel Popa | January 25th 2011 | one comment

Czech Republic is a country located in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the west, Poland to the north, Slovakia and Austria to the south east. It is composed of three historical regions - Bohemia, Moravia and a part of Silesia - and the whole surface of it makes up [...]

Travel Guides: Belgium

By Gabriel Popa | January 24th 2011 | no comments

It is often said that Belgium is not a country, but a compromise. Belgium was created in 1830, when the Catholic provinces of the Netherlands which had won its independence, coming under the domination of Spain in the seventeenth century, were detached from the northern [...]

Travel Guides: Portugal

By Gabriel Popa | January 23rd 2011 | 2 comments

Portugal is a country of astonishing beauty and diversity. Here you will find many vacation opportunities that are endless. You can choose sophisticated crowded coastal resorts or you can visit the medieval quarters of historic cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Braga or Coimbra, or if you [...]

Travel Guides: Spain

By Gabriel Popa | January 21st 2011 | no comments

Spain is the land where the golden apples of Hercules grew and also the land which was considered the Heaven on Earth by the Arabs and by the writers George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway Spain was an arena where were the crossroads between history and tragedy of heroic deeds, when toreadors defied [...]

Travel Guides: Slovakia

By Gabriel Popa | January 20th 2011 | no comments

Slovakia is a landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million inhabitants and an area of approximately 49,000 km². The neighboring countries are Ukraine in east, Poland to the north-east, Czech Republic to the north-western, Austria and [...]

Travel Guides: Podgorica

By Gabriel Popa | January 19th 2011 | no comments

Podgorica is the name of a region, but also of a city, being the capital of Montenegro. It is situated in the south side of the country. Podgorica was built on the territory called Birziminium and it was a halt of the caravans in Roman times, even if it is [...]

Travel Guides: San Marino

By Gabriel Popa | January 19th 2011 | no comments

Republic of San Marino is one of the smallest independent countries in Europe and worldwide, an enclave situated in central Italy. San Marino is a republic with a parliament with 60 members, with the Grand General Council General and two heads of state: Reggenti Captains who are in [...]

Travel Guides: Suva

By Gabriel Popa | January 18th 2011 | no comments

Suva is the largest city in the Republic of Fiji and the state capital since 1882. It is also resident of Central Division, one of four divisions of the country. The city is situated on a peninsula in the south-eastern of the island of Viti Levu. At the 1996 census, Suva [...]

Travel Guides: Melbourne

By Gabriel Popa | January 18th 2011 | 2 comments

Melbourne is the capital of the federal state of Victoria, Australia, and is situated on the Yarra River near the Port Phillip Bay. It stretches 70 km from north to south and 50 km from east to west. The number of inhabitants in this area is 3,366,542. Melbourne was founded in 1835 by John [...]

Travel Guides: Sydney

By Gabriel Popa | January 17th 2011 | 2 comments

With a population of 4.5 million inhabitants, the city of Sydney is the largest, oldest and most beautiful city in Australia. Situated on a land in which water joins land in Jackson Bay, Sydney is a natural harbor on the southeastern coast of the continent of Australia. The most [...]

Travel Guides: Australia

By Gabriel Popa | January 17th 2011 | no comments

Australia is the only country that occupies an entire continent, being the largest in Australasia / Oceania. As surface in the world rankings, Australia is ranked sixth. Besides the mainland, Australia comprises several islands, of which the largest is the island state of Tasmania. [...]

Travel Guides: Wellington

By Gabriel Popa | January 16th 2011 | no comments

Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the second urban area of the country and the capital with the largest population of Oceania. It is located in the Wellington region in the southern North Island, near the geographical center of the country. Like many other cities, the capital Wellington urban area extends well beyond a single administrative authority. By Greater Wellington or [...]

Travel Guides: Canberra

By Gabriel Popa | January 16th 2011 | no comments

Canberra is Australia's capital. With a population of 340,000, it is the largest inland city. It is located in the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, 280 km south-west of Sydney and 650 km north-east of Melbourne. The city was chosen as the capital in 1908 following a [...]

Travel Guides: Federated States Of Micronesia

By Gabriel Popa | January 16th 2011 | no comments

Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia) is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean north of Papua New Guinea. The state is a sovereign state in free association with the United States of America. Previously, the territory was part of the territory under the [...]

Travel Guides: Fiji

By Gabriel Popa | January 16th 2011 | 6 comments

Fiji is a republic island in the Pacific Ocean. Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji Islands is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu. The first inhabitants of Fiji arrived from Southeast Asia long before being discovered by [...]

Travel Guides: Kiribati

By Gabriel Popa | January 15th 2011 | one comment

Kiribati is the largest country in Oceania in terms of surface. It occupies an area of about 5,000,000 km² covered by ocean, but the land area is only a small fragment of it, only 811 km², in the form of 32 islets. On these little pieces of land, scattered in the endless ocean, live [...]

Travel Guides: Nauru

By Gabriel Popa | January 15th 2011 | one comment

Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island country in the Micronesian South Pacific territory. The nearest neighbor is Banaba Island in the Republic of Kiribati, 300 km east. Nauru is the smallest island country in the world with an area of only 21 square kilometers, the smallest [...]