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: History Of Macedonia

By Gabriel Popa | December 7th 2010 | no comments

The territories of the Republic of Macedonia have been the southernmost part of Yugoslavia. Current borders were fixed shortly after the Balkan Wars. In 1944, the Anti-Fascist Assembly of National Liberation of Macedonia declared that "the People's Republic of Macedonia" is a [...]

Travel Guides: Budapest

By Gabriel Popa | December 7th 2010 | one comment

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. The city is situated on both banks of the Danube. In the east of the Danube is Pest, which occupies two thirds of the surface and on the west side is Buda, the other third of the city. Budapest has approx. 1.7 million people. Buda neighborhood and the area [...]

Macedonia, A Country Of Lakes And Mountains

By Gabriel Popa | December 6th 2010 | no comments

Macedonia, sometimes called FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) is a country in the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. It shares borders with Serbia to the north, Albania to the west, Greece and Bulgaria to the south east. Skopje is the capital with over 600,000 inhabitants. It has several smaller towns like Bitola, Prilep, Tetovo, Kumanovo, Ohrid, Veles, Stip and [...]

Travel Guides: History Of Belgrade

By Gabriel Popa | December 6th 2010 | no comments

Belgrade is one of the most interesting and attractive cities in the Balkans, despite the devastating wars that have rocked the region. This old town (one of the oldest in Europe), located on the Danube bank and with a population of over 1.7 million, was once a [...]

Travel Guides: Greece Part 2

By Gabriel Popa | December 5th 2010 | one comment

The most visited city in Greece is Athens, of course, the state capital. With a population of 3.3 million people, Athens is the economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural center of Greece. The city has taken a considerable momentum on the road to becoming the biggest business center [...]

Belgrade, One Of The Oldest European Cities

By Gabriel Popa | December 5th 2010 | no comments

Belgrade is the capital and the largest city of Serbia. It is situated at the confluence of the River Sava with the Danube - two international waterways - where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan. Also, the city is located along the European corridors X and VII. With a population of [...]

Travel Guides: Oslo

By Gabriel Popa | December 4th 2010 | no comments

Oslo is the capital and the most populated of commune of Norway. It has a population of 590,041 inhabitants and an area of 426.9 km². With the municipalities of the fylke Akershus forms a metropolitan area inhabited by approximately 1.4 million people. The urban commune and the fylke of Oslo are [...]

Travel Guides: Greece

By Gabriel Popa | December 4th 2010 | 2 comments

Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, member of the North Atlantic Treaty, of the European Union and the euro area. Greece is situated in the Balkan Peninsula, south of Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia and Albania and to the west is Turkey. It has a coastline of 13,676 kilometers from the Aegean, [...]

Travel Guides: History Of Rome

By Gabriel Popa | December 3rd 2010 | no comments

According to the legend, Rome was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus on April 21, 753 BC, and archaeological evidence supports the theory that Rome grew from pastoral settlement on the Palatine Hill, built in the future Roman Forum, and which have the basis for the new city in [...]

Travel Guides: Lima Part 2

By Gabriel Popa | December 3rd 2010 | no comments

Peru is a country located in western South America. To the north it is bordered by Ecuador and Colombia, in east by Brazil and south-east by Bolivia. To the south it is the bordered by Chile and to the west lies the Pacific Ocean. The official name of the state is the Republic of Peru. Peru is a [...]

Travel Guides: Rome

By Gabriel Popa | December 2nd 2010 | no comments

Located on the river Tiber, the city has a long history over the centuries as the capital of the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church and modern Italy. Rome has a population of 2,923,000 people. It is the capital of Lazio Region and the Province of Rome. From Rome you can reach [...]

Travel Guides: History Of Romania

By Gabriel Popa | December 2nd 2010 | no comments

The name "Romania" comes from "Roman", a word derived from Latin “Romanus”. The earliest indication of the existence of the name "Romanian" could be content by the Song of the Nibellungs : "Duke Ramunch from the Wallachian country / with seven hundred fighters running to meet her / as [...]

Travel Guides: Dublin

By Gabriel Popa | November 30th 2010 | no comments

Dublin is the capital and the largest city of Ireland, with a population of 495,781 inhabitants and over 1.1 million in the metropolitan area of Dublin County. The city is situated on the banks of the River Liffey. Dublin English name is said to be derived from the name of the Irish Dubh [...]

Travel Guides: Lima

By Gabriel Popa | November 30th 2010 | one comment

Lima is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Peru and also it is the capital of Lima Province. It is the shopping, industrial, financial and cultural center of the country. The city is located in the valleys of the rivers Chillon, Rimac, Lurin. It is located on the west coast of the [...]

Travel Guides: Romania Part 2

By Gabriel Popa | November 29th 2010 | no comments

Romania has a unique culture due to its distinct geographical and historical evolution. It is fundamentally defined as a meeting point of three regions: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, but it can not be truly included in any one of them. The Romanian identity formed on a substrate [...]

Travel Guides: Moscow

By Gabriel Popa | November 29th 2010 | one comment

Moscow is the capital of Russia, a city of 11.2 million inhabitants, situated on the Moscow River with an area of 878.7 km². The first reference to the city is from 1147, when it was an obscure town in a small province, with a predominantly Finno-Ugric population called Merya. Moscow has [...]

Travel Guides: Romania Part 1

By Gabriel Popa | November 28th 2010 | one comment

Romania is a country located in the south-eastern Central Europe, on the Lower Danube, north of the Balkan Peninsula and the northwestern coast of the Black Sea. On its territory is located all the Danube Delta and the southern and central part of the Carpathian Mountains. It borders Bulgaria [...]

Travel Guides: Krakow Part 2

By Gabriel Popa | November 28th 2010 | 2 comments

Krakow is one of the oldest and largest cities of Poland. In 2005 the city population was 750,000 inhabitants, and the metropolis had over 1 million inhabitants. The historic core of the city is situated on the Vistula River, at the foot of Wawel Hill, in the south, in the region of Small Poland [...]