Lyon is the capital of freemasonry and esotericism, a city with an ideal model of night lighting, which has already been adopted by Marrakesh, Havana and St. Petersburg. This commercial, industrial and economic center of the country has been flourishing for more than 500 years, because Lyon and its 2 million inhabitants is considered the…
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How to Get to Naples, Italy
Naples has excellent transport accessibility. The city has its own airport, where flights from Russia regularly arrive. In addition, the place can be reached by trains, buses or ferries from different cities in Italy. Transport Almost all public transport in Naples – buses, trolleybuses, trams, metros and funiculars – is operated by the ANM transport…
How to Get to Skopje, Macedonia
By plane There are no direct flights from Russia to Skopje. From Moscow, in 5 hours and 10 minutes, you can get there first by Aeroflot flight to Belgrade, and from there by Air Serbia. The cheapest option is to fly with Turkish Airlines with a transfer in Istanbul: the journey takes 6 hours and…
Skadar Lake, Montenegro
In 1983, a new national park appeared in Montenegro – the huge freshwater Skadar Lake (Skadarsko jezero), part of which is located on the territory of Albania (and is called Shkoder). This majestic reservoir is very beautiful, rich in fish and inhabited by a huge number of birds. Cozy old villages are spread on its…
Sights of Lake Lipno, Czech Republic
According to HEALTHINCLUDE, Lake Lipno is a reservoir in the South Bohemia region of the Czech Republic. The lake was created in the 1950s and is the largest lake in the country. The area surrounding the lake is an important tourist destination, both in summer and in other months. All kinds of water sports are…
Sights of Munich, Germany
According to HEALTH-BEAUTY-GUIDES, Munich is the capital of the state of Bavaria (Bayern) in the south of Germany. Munich is best known as a traffic hub on the way to winter sports in the Alps and for the Oktoberfest. This annual event is the largest beer festival in the world. In the meantime, this phenomenon…
Logoisk, Belarus
Logoisk. Its surroundings are called “Belarusian Switzerland” for picturesque hills covered with forests. The history of Logoisk has been going on since the 11th century. In the city and its environs, the remains of a citadel of the 11th – 13th centuries, two ancient settlements, the remains of earthen ramparts and ditches, a park and…
Marmaris, Turkey
Life in Marmaris does not stop for a minute in the summer. On the embankment, several kilometers long, you can find a bar or a disco or a restaurant to your liking, they go wall to wall in a row and are all turned towards the sea. In some places, hotels are wedged sideways, but…
What to See in Ukraine
Dragobrat, Zakarpattia region (Ukraine) Ski resort Dragobrat is located in the Ukrainian Carpathians at the foot of Mount Stog at an altitude of 1400 m above sea level. This is the highest mountain base in Ukraine. On the south side, Dragobrat is bordered by the Svidovets ridge, which has the shape of a horseshoe. The…
Ples, Ivanovo Region (Russia)
According to JIBIN123, Plyos stands on the banks of the Volga River in the Ivanovo region. Plyos was first mentioned in the Novgorod chronicle for 1141. Then the Prince of Vladimir Vsevolod the Big Nest founded a guard outpost on the banks of the Volga. However, in the 13th century the city was destroyed by the…
Science and Culture of Belgium
The system of organization of science and education is focused on promoting effective interaction between university centers (there are 22 of them in the country), government departments and production and financial companies. Specialized societies have been created (for example, the Institute for the Support of Scientific Research in Industry and Agriculture), whose activities are funded…
Science and Culture of United Kingdom
The official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Located off the northwest coast of continental Europe. The area is 244.8 thousand km2, the population is 59.8 million people. (July 2002). The official language is English. The capital is London (7.2 million people). Public holiday – Queen’s Birthday (1926) – is…
Russia Economic Conditions
Agriculture and livestock Agriculture encounters severe obstacles in natural conditions, especially in climatic conditions, which make it impossible on almost half of the territory. Only 13% of the surface is suitable for cultivation and of this extension 8% is made up of arable land, 6% of meadows and pastures and about 50% of forests. Moreover,…
Switzerland Climate
Although extended only two degrees in lat. Switzerland shows, given the variety of the relief, a great diversity of climates. Altogether it belongs to the transition area between the countries with an Atlantic climate of central-western Europe and those with a continental climate of Eastern Europe: from the Atlantic comes the winds from the West…
Italy Local Administrations
The framework of the institutions that we can call government is completed with the organization of local administrations, considered from the two points of view of the government administration and that of the self-sufficient territorial bodies. It is true that these are institutions which are part of the administrative organization, but which have a very important…
Greek Arts History Part II
But archaeological science was already beginning to come into contact with what was a pure manifestation of Greek art. Between 1800 and 1803 Lord Elgin stripped the buildings of the Acropolis of Athens, and all the huge booty of marble was transported to London in the British Museum; in this way we get to know…
Greek Arts History Part I
In the studies of the history of Greek art we can distinguish three periods: the first, artistic, which from the beginning of the Renaissance reaches the end of the sixteenth century; the second, doctrinaire or scholar, which includes the seventeenth century and just over the middle of the eighteenth century, the third, scientific, which reaches…
Spain Population and Society
According to trackaah.com, Spain is an ethnically very homogeneous country in which there are nonetheless instances of independence from some historical regions (in particular the Basque Country and Catalonia) which are distinguished for linguistic and cultural reasons. Spain is also a relatively sparsely populated country when compared with the large states of Western Europe, with…
Germany in the Early 21st Century
The effects of the unpopular social reforms launched at the beginning of the 21st century. from the executive led by the Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder made themselves heard in the following years, during the new ‘grand coalition’ government (Große koalition) between the conservatives of the CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, German Christian Democratic Union) and…
Public Law Until the Fall of the Old Polish Republic Part 2
The dynasty of the Jagiellonian extinct in 1572, with the death of Sigismund Augustus, under whose reign the royal union with Lithuania was achieved, the principle of the eligibility of the sovereign was fully consolidated in Poland. All the nobility took part in the election, agreeing to the purpose in large numbers in the vicinity…
Public Law Until the Fall of the Old Polish Republic
It is at the end of the century. X and during the century. XI, that the first rulers of the Piasti dynasty completed the organization of the Polish state, taking as a model the state institutions of Western Europe, based on the state body of the Frankish monarchy. These models served above all as a…
Champagne-Ardenne in France
In the north-east of France is the region called Champagne-Ardenne. This sonorous name refers to the historical landscape of the Champagne and the Ardennes Mountains. Around 1.35 million people live in an area of 25,600 square kilometers. The capital of the Champagne-Ardenne region is Chalons-en-Champagne. The largest and most historically significant city, however, Reims is…
Bauhaus Museum Weimar
Bauhaus Museum Weimar In 2019 Germany will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the legendary arts and crafts school that was originally founded in Weimar. On this occasion, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is opening the new Bauhaus Museum Weimar and a new exhibition on modernism around the turn of the century in the Neues…
Azores, Portugal Landmarks
Ponta Delgada in the Azores The Azores cannot come up with large cities – much of this archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean has a rural character. After all, Ponta Delgada has blossomed into an economic and tourist focus. 65,000 people live here, and the former fishing village got its name from its geographical location on…
Denmark Main Cities
Funen Funen, in Danish Fyn [fy ː n], Denmark’s second largest island, between the Great and Little Belt, 2,985 km 2, 459,600 residents. Funen formed by 2007 Langeland, Ærø, Tåsinge islands and islets, the Office Funen (3,486 km 2, 475,100 residents, capital was Odense), since 2007 part of Funen to South Denmark. Most of the…
Czech Republic Geography
Czech Republic – key data Area: 78,867 km² (of which land: 77,247 km², water: 1,620 km²) Population: 10.2 million (July 2011 estimate, CIA). Composition: Czechs 90.4%, Moravians 3.7%, Slovaks 1.9%, others 4% (2001 census). Population density: 129 people per km² Population growth: -0.12% per year (2011, CIA) Capital: Prague (1.2 million residents, June 2008) Highest…
United Kingdom Immigration Regulations
Immigration / immigration There are no immigration regulations in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for EU citizens, Swiss citizens and citizens of Liechtenstein and Iceland. There is also no obligation to report. Despite Brexit, the provisions will remain unchanged until December 31, 2020. If you are going to stay in the UK…
Venice & Italy Highlights by Train
Take the train and experience some of Italy’s famous and more unknown historical and cultural highlights. From Venice’s canals to Sorrento’s beaches via Pompeii and the world’s tastiest food! Italy’s most exciting cities packed with exciting historical relics, adventures and lots of small trattorias where you eat cicchetti for lunch. Finish with a few days on the stunningly…
Poland Arts: From Neoclassicism to Contemporary Movements
After a period of decline, the last decades of the century. XVII saw a notable revival of the arts. The Palladian style was established in architecture, whose main representative was T. de Gameren (Krasiński palace in Warsaw, Sant’Anna in Krakow). The first half of the eighteenth century experienced a strong influence of German culture, thanks…
Barcelona, Spain Overview
Barcelona – southernmost capital of the north According to Abbreviationfinder, Barcelona is considered to be the southernmost of all capitals of the north and the northernmost of all capitals of the south (Manuel Vázquez Montalbán). The city is an experience for lovers of extravagant architecture, avant-garde designs and high-ranking museums, and at the same time…